Golden Diner

I have no idea how this place has gotten good reviews. The food, while reasonably priced, is mediocre, but the service is terrible. We stopped in for breakfast this morning due to previous good reviews. The process of getting seated is pretty disorganized and they don't have much of a system setup for a waitlist. After we sat down we waited almost 30 minutes for anyone to say something to us. We had one server take our drink order before another one came along and asked the same thing (apparently they don't talk to each other much). Our food seemed to come out fairly quick, but we were missing some toast that should have come with one of our plates. Again, the food was okay but nothing exceptional. When we finally saw our server again we asked her for the missing toast, which then took another 20 minutes to get to us (toast must be a pretty hard thing for those people). We sat at our table for almost 30 minutes after finishing our meals without our server coming back. I finally had to ask someone who was clearing tables if he could get our check and a take-out box for us. We finally met our server again at the register. It seemed like she was a bit frazzled, so that might have been part of the problem, but this place is pretty small and it's not like she had a lot of people to wait on. She said at the register that she couldn't find our check, which wouldn't have bothered me if I hadn't just waited for so long at the table (if she couldn't find it, she could have just come and spoke with us about it to save all that time). She was good enough to take an item off the tab for our wait, but then she stared at me while I was signing the credit card receipt before she tossed my copy at me and walked away in a very rude manner. I usually tip well and she seemed like she was having a hard day which made me more generous, but after her rude attitude I definitely regret tipping her as well as I did. I understand people can have crappy days, but they didn't appear to be understaffed and our server could have at least tried to make the time to check her tables to see how people's meals were progressing. I definitely do not recommend the Golden Diner.