Mario's Italian Café

Very nice, old fashioned Italian restaurant. All your favorite entres and pizza and a bar. Service today was not real attentive. I was running late to meet with friends. By the time I arrived, they had already been served (pizza). After flagging down someone to provide a menu and later flagging down someone again to take my order (chicken parm) and iced tea, My chicken parm was good. The cheese and pepperoni pizza looked good but was too greasy for me. In this area, there are a lot of elderly people. It's far more common for diners to request separate checks than to be presented with a single check for the entire table or group. However, after flagging down someone to ask for the check, the wait person brought a single check. One of the guests requested that the check be split so the wait person took it back. After a while, no check had arrived so we had to flag down someone to check on the check. After a few minutes, the wait person brought 2 checks, one for me and one for the other guests. That was OK and they weren't willing to wait for the wait person to fix it. It was easier to just split it in half. I don't know how many wait staff were there but chances are that they were shortstaffed. Thanks to the host who was able to help expedite things. I'll definitely try it again sometime but I will try some of the other Italian restaurants around in the meantime.