PT Soda Fountain & Diner — Restaurant in Port Townsend

Horrible! Rude! DO NOT GO HERE. I drove past tonight, the OPEN sign was on, so I offered my kids a treat. They got excited, I turned around, parked, took 4 kids out of the car, and walked up as a visitor from out of town at 7:30 pm with a few tables of people in there. Pulled on the door and it was locked! The sign was now turned OFF! A man at the counter looked right at me and shook his head "no". This place closes at 8 PM! They closed a half hour early and would not let us in to get ice cream for our children??? Make note.... 4 children, 2 adults.... a family of 6 on vacation....during the summer....what do you think we would have spent in there? Lots of $$$$$ for a family like us, even if it's just for ice cream treats! The profit margin on us was going to be great. Bad business attitude. THIS is why small businesses close. Lack of integrity. People like this should not be in business, especially when they get their financial boost in summer from tourists and visitors like us traveling to see family. This used to be one of our traditional stops in Port Townsend but never again. I called after we left to ask what time they closed. The person who answered said "we are already closed for today" (avoiding the actual question). I then asked what the normal hours were and he told me they close at 8, confirming what we found on the web. So I asked "why did you close early tonight?" The reply was "I really don't know. My boss just told me to." So the boss shut down as we were walking across the street? I'm wondering the real reason. Disgusted. They are apparently making too much money to want any of ours again and if you read this, I suggest you reconsider finding them as well. They can't even honor their own hours.... either that or they were motivated to lock us out for...

This was a cute little restaurant; it had decent food, the staff was friendly. There were only 2 people working, an older guy and a girl who didn’t speak much english. They were both super nice and super quick about things, but it wasn’t very clean. The guy was taking orders/serving food and putting the condiments on the burgers (such as lettuce, tomatoes, etc), while the girl mostly stayed in the back and made the orders. The guy would also make drinks, grab the straws and put them in the drink. He would also scoop the ice cream to make the shakes, and he had to stabilize the ice cream as it comes out of the container, so he used his thumb to stabilize it. All of this would have been fine if he wasn’t serving food, taking money, running credit cards, etc, all without washing his hands, not even once. I watched him for about an hour, he must have taken 5 or 6 payments (cash), run 2 or 3 credit cards, done at least 10 refills, picked up stuff off the floor, etc. And he keeps touching his pad to take orders, so that means that the notepad he takes orders with is just full of disgusting things (if he uses it every order without washing his hands, it means it will have days/weeks/months worth of build up). So the guy who went to the bathroom and didn’t wash his hands from 2 weeks ago, then touched his cup to take a drink…. Well the waiter touched that same cup to give a refill to that customer before putting together your burger. If you ate a burger here, you by transitive property, probably also ate a bunch of ass, cock, toilet seats, bathroom handles, etc.

WASH YOUR HANDS WHEN YOU DO ANYTHING WITH FOOD THAT IS GOING TO BE EATEN BY SOMEONE OTHER...

This place hit ALL THE WRONG marks for me. For one this is a 50's American diner that should pride itself on a fun family vibe and experience. The older owner guy walks around acting like he hates America and its music and food. I have went three times with my family and every time the same SUPER down vibe. Secondly everything in the place is "decor" it's not functioning or real or exciting. Three the food is not only bad and cheap frozen food the menu which is very simple lies and lies. I ordered a kids tenders once and then I ordered the adult tenders another time and the adult tenders had LESS chicken than the kids one haha. I asked the same older owner guy who looks like he hates life and he said yes this is adults. $14 for 2 and a half piece of frozen tenders. Fries were extra HAHA. This diner is THE WORST AMERICAN DINER I have ever seen. It is everything wrong with a diner. A Bored lack luster and downright sad staff, food that you can get in any high school cafeteria and high prices and just anyway they can possible ream you is employed. They even charge you for drink refills for standard fountain drinks. I SURE wish someone who actually loved America and its music and culture from back then would buy this place and make it nice. I will never go back. And all THREE of my visits were spread over years....