Tacos & Tequila Cantina — Restaurant in East Naples

Hi guys! OK so my name is Roberto. I am a former employee. Here is my true story. So help me God. I got sick on Monday February sixth 2017. I sucked it up and besides I hoped it wouldn't amount to much...Who wants to get sick!!? So Tuesday comes and it's getting worse. I told the cook at North location ,Adam I considered calling in that morning because I felt terrible. On Wednesday I show up to work and a few hours later I develop diarrhea, and as Im coming out of the employee bathroom I read on the government posters the guidelines of government violations , diahreaa being a main one. I immediately tell Adam the kitchen cook and he does not respond and I am ashamed to say I should have walked out after telling him I had the sickness while pointing to the poster. I knew if walked out I would be fired. I painfully coughed and kept running to the bathroom. It's on their cameras. I tried to get dismissed early on Wednesday but the cook wouldn't let me go. I missed the bus to go home and I called in to the evening shift at the southern location. So I went across the street to whole foods and gladly started drinking some red wine and plenty of water. I was so happy even though I kept running to the bathroom which is all the way to the front! This lasted for an hour I went across the street to catch the bus but still had thirty united so I went to Tacos and Tequila feeling much better. I decided to drink one more drink which I have a receipt for. The manager from the south store whom I had called in to was there and came over and asked why I was drinking a drink at the bar and I informed him why and the circumstances. He said OK , I understand. The next day I show up to work 30 minutes early and I work till 1 and was on my way to go to the south location to work my second shift at 3 . The cook Adam tells me that I sorry but Aldo says I have to let you go because you were at the restaurant last night after you called in. I had already explained to this cook that my wife is a nurse and a med student and advised me on what the best course of action was since tacos and tequila doesn't offer health insurance and I had limited funds. I say ok. On Friday I arrived at the southern location to collect my check and I see the owner Aldo and his wife and I ask him why he fired me. And he says because you were at the restaurant after you called in. I was in shock and told him of my sickness and government violation to which his wife said:" well you shouldn't have been there I'd you had diarrhea" and I said to her your cook said I couldn't leave. I am asking the city of Naples to forgive me for not walking out . I washed my hands thoroughly as I have to eat there to. Please do humanity a favor and boycott Aldo's, and Tacos and Tequila. Most of the people who work there are awesome, amazing and sweet and they will find other employment. May the God of Israel give all of...

We arrived at 11:30am. Website says they open at 11. This was my first time here. I really wanted to love this place. The ambiance and decor are nice. They have outdoor seating with fans, nice music. Our server was nice. The experience started out good, so I was hopeful. First thing that went wrong was that they had no salsa for the chips! How does a mexican themed restaurant not have salsa????? 30 minutes after opening? I know not how such a thing happens. They could have walked to the Publix in the same plaza and bought some salsa. The server said they had no salsa and asked "would you like some guac instead"? So I said sure, that's fine. The chips arrived and were plentiful and crisp. The guac was actually good. So I thought things were going well. If my meal would have consisted of chips and guac, maybe I would be giving a different review. I ordered fajitas (steak and chicken), my companion ordered enchiladas. So out come our orders after about 20 mins. Food looked good. The enchilada platter was somewhat small I did not ask my companion her opinion on her platter. Then came the let down... my fajitas were completely, 100% tasteless! No salt, no seasoning, no nothing. They had absolutely no taste at all. The steak was stiff, hard to chew, easy to choke on. The chicken was dry. The rice and beans were also tasteless. There was no salt or pepper on the outdoor tables, and after the meal came out, we did not see much of any staff that would assist with bringing the almighty salt. So I ate 1/2 of my meal and proceeded to ask for a to go box to bring the other 1/2 home, where maybe I can add salt and eat the rest. I asked for the check and to my surprise (or not) voila! they charged me for the guac. Oh yes! The same one THEY had offered in replacement of the missing salsa! I said nothing. I am not about to make a scene over 7 bucks worth of guac. At least that guac was good. So I paid my bill, and yes, I tipped the server more than 20% and left, never to return. I assume most of the great reviews for the this place stem from their drinks which I cannot speak about. Maybe once under the influence of alcohol the food magically acquires taste? I will leave that for future patrons to discover. For me food is food and it should have seasoning and some sort of tasty taste. I recommend this place for someone with no taste buds or for folks with a low sodium, no...

6 of us came to eat at 8:30pm a few weeks ago. Took us over 15 minutes to receive service and After our waiter (Franklin) spilled my beer behind me onto an elderly couples chair I was not given my second drink until 30 minutes later(nor was it comp for the wait) after receiving my 2nd drink. We expected the food to be on its way soon because we placed the order with the drinks (having had such a long waiting period before our server finally acknowledged us) and yet the food did not come out until about 10 pm..(surprisingly all 6 of us were not mad just ready to eat) when all the food arrived there were 5 dishes yet 6 of us ordered… the waiter handed everyone their dish except my self and when he was done he didn’t even acknowledge that my spot was empty he just says “everyone good?”. I told Franklin that I was missing my order completely and he looked at me with a blank expression as if he forgot what I ordered. (At this point in time the elderly couples tables meals were comp and for whatever reason the manager also went and talked to a completely other table that wasn’t even part of this) Franklin went to the kitchen and didn’t come back for another 10 minutes once he did, he is showing me a completely different persons order off his tablet asking if that’s mine… I repeated my order back to him and it finally smacked him in the face, he went back to the kitchen and about another 5-10 minutes later I asked if I could just get my food To go because my whole party has already finished… to his response I get “it is already” LIKE HE WAS ALREADY PLANNING ON GETTING ME TO GO… 3 OTHER PEOPLE AT THAT TABLE WERE SERVERS AND I WORK IN THE SERVICE DEPARTMENT MYSELF… THIS IS NOT!!! HOW YOU TREAT CUSTOMERS I WISH I COULD LEAVE LESS THAN A 1 STAR AND LESS THAN A $0 TIP DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME WITH FRANKLIN HE DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO SERVE AND THE BALD MANAGER THAT WORKS THERE IS LUCKY I DIDN’T SEE HIM AT THE END OF THE NIGHT… Never will I recommend anyone here to eat due to bad management and bad...