Glory Days Diner — Restaurant in Greenwich

Its funny how the hospitality industry works and how "one little thing" can ruin a whole experience

While on a day trip with my husband we decided to look for a dinner where we could have a nice american breakfast: pancakes, waffles, some eggs and sausage, coffee... the usual.

So, we looked for options near where we were in Port Chester and decided to give this place a try, because it looked very nice on the pictures, it had pretty good reviews and its menu had exactly what were looking for.

The place was pretty neat, looked very nice and clean, the young girl who welcomed us and took us to our table was very nice and our waiter, whose name we cant remember, was super efficient!

The prices were very good, the service was really quick.

The food was perfect: I had a belgian waffle with syrup, scrambled eggs, bacon, cream cheese and a cup of hot chocolate - my husband had pancakes with scrambled eggs and sausages - we really enjoyed our breakfast.

Regarding the dining experience - the only part I disliked (obviously) was the fact that my glass of water had marks of red lipstick and I wasnt wearing any...

My review would have stayed there - this long 😂

EXCEPT while on our way out, there was this slightly old woman (not sure if she was a host, manager or owner) with the young female host who had initally welcomed us - and she was saying bye to diners on their way out - and while I thought "oh wow how nice of them" and said "Thanks for all, have a good day!" after she had said bye to the family in front of us, she literally immediately shut her mouth and just gave me a look literally from head to toe with the most bitter face, as if we were maybe leaving without paying and as if she was giving us the Mean Girls "you can't sit with us" stare 😂

Considering we were not in bermudas or flip flops, we left a 20% or 25% tip, we literally had our breakfast and left right away, didnt even complain about the glass of water with a mark of lipstick, because - hey, that could happen... 🙄 I'm going to have to say I believe I experienced there discrimination for the first time? Her look was so rude and out of place - I just smiled in disbelief, because what was wrong with her face? Has this lady heard about the power of word of mouth...? Does she really think she can be this rude and people won't say a thing? 😂

Anyway: a boo for her 👎🏻 Great dining experience - wouldn't return just because of this 🫠

I have never left a negative review like this one - not a fan of spreading negativity... simply thought it was important to share, for...

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The food was awesome. It was some of the best home sytle meal I've had. The server was great. Great attitude and checked in on us often. The manager, that was where the atmosphere went downhill. He walked past our end booth and ran into it fairly hard. Enough to jolt my seat a bit. I am sure that it hurt his hip. He said nothing and kept going back to his seat. There were very few people there with nobody behind us, and he kept staring in our direction. When my wife was returning from the washroom after dinner, he jumped up and met her in the isle way and stopped abruptly less than a foot away, put his arms out to each side, as to hold himself up, so the she could not pass and then proceed to talk to one of the servers over the top of my wife's head for about 40 seconds. After 20 seconds, my wife was clearly getting uncomfortable. Just as I started to scoot over to get up, he turned around without saying, "Excuses me" or anything to my wife, and went back to his seat. The dude was very creepy and very rude. We promptly left. I was angry because of this guys behavior, and my wife was clearly upset and very uncomfortable with a complete stranger pinning her in like that. It ruined the whole evening for us. Again, the server was great, and the food was amazing. But the manager was...