Compass Cafe in Weirs Beach — Restaurant in Laconia

Really rough morning for Compass, a place I’ve been to a few times before but won’t be coming back. Came in around 11 with a few family members to have breakfast outside and witnessed a super understaffed and chaotic scene.

What we witnessed and experienced was during and after the long time we waited to be acknowledged properly, spoken to or tended to as customers (which we felt more like intrusions than customers).

Not sure what happened, but having only one waitress, one bartender and one cook (as I learned) resulted in being ignored for a long time, a really angry bartender, and what I overheard was a woman (who I heard works there) who was having breakfast with her mom on her day off pulled onto the floor. It took over 15 minutes to get sat - not because a lack of tables, but because an entire lack in communication from the waitress who kept saying “yup!” after she said she would seat us, then would proceed to clean the bar, the other tables, seat other people, makes drinks at the bar for customers and clean up other customers spills.

You can see what I’m getting at. This young lady was doing the job of a host, waitress, food runner, busser and bartender for every table. The bartender clearly didn’t want to help her and was working at a snails pace, serving those who sat down at the bar who she seemed to like most. Didn’t try to help the waitress at all, and it’s clear she had time to help with simple things to make the waitresses job easier.

We ended up having to order our drinks at the bar after waiting 10 minutes at our table, the food took 45 minutes (fine) but we didn’t get our drinks, and then when we went to pay we were told the card machine went down.

Overall - management, owners - staff appropriately. The people working today seemed miserable, overwhelmed or downright careless. And every customer suffered. Plus that woman who works there who was pulled from her breakfast with her mom...

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