Danny Ray's Food & Spirits — Restaurant in Lakewood

When the food was excellent and the wait staff was on top of their game, you might wonder why I’m giving them two stars.

It has to do with the rudeness and aggressiveness of the owner, and namesake, Danny. Even after he covered our meal, but it was the attitude he did it with.

This would of been five stars if it wasn’t for his attitude and one star if the people working for him weren’t so nice, attentive and the food was anything less than stellar.

I had the Country skillet and a cup of coffee that stayed constantly filled.

We didn’t know he was the owner at first. He walked by our table after we’d been done eating for 10min and said “can you please leave soon,” and I’m pretty sure after that he mumbled, “we need to turn over this table to make money.”

We had been there about an hour, had finished our food but were spending a little extra time. My friend had an appointment that didn’t start for another 30min. I hadn’t seen her in a couple months because of our busy schedules. We chose this because of it’s good ratings and it’s location in between my home and my friends new home.

It’s a typical family diner, just like the photos look. Very homely ambience.

I have been a business owner and understand making money. I haven’t run a restaurant, so I’m not sure how fast tables need to turn over. I can tell you that the first time he said this, there were at least 3 tables that were open with no one sitting at them.

After about another 15min his rudeness stepped up to the next level. He stopped at the table and started with, “I don’t want to be rude, but I need you to leave. I need to make money and you are taking up this table.”

My response was, “this is our first time at your restaurant and you are being rude. We probably would of come back except for this experience.”

He then basically said, “fine.” Grabbed our bill. Threw it at the cashiers and said, “they don’t have to pay.” Went back to us and said “now please leave.” Then he stormed away.

We got up, went to the cash register and paid our full tips. The wait staff still deserves to be paid, as it’s not their fault and they did a great job. There suddenly was a line of people behind us leaving as well, I’m not sure if it was from this outburst, a few tables finished at the same time or a little of both.

I had my suspicions it was the owner who did this, but the cashiers confirmed it when we asked who that was.

For someone who is worried about money, it’s unfortunate that not only did he lose our receipts for a table that took 90min, lost our future business and gets a bad review.

Denver has many amazing breakfast options and unfortunately we won’t be returning...

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