Perkins American Food Co. — Restaurant in Red Wing

Went to Perkins. We dressed casual, ya know, swim shorts and tank, we were going swimming directly after. They immediately ignored us. Had to wait 10 mins to be seated, they walked by us repeatedly, counter person ignored us. Then finally, they come to seat us, the waitress shouted at the one seating us, "put them somewhere in green". She placed us at a booth that had food all over the seat, I had to brush it off and she rolled her eyes at me. Then she ignored us for 20 minutes catering to rich prom dress kids with dates. 8 of them. Then finally she took our order. In a very gruff and rude manor. Then the kids left ten minutes later. None of them left a tip. Karma ladies. Don't judge a book by the cover. They favored the well dress, well off looking kids, and ignored us repeatedly. They were constantly hovering around that table offer them refills and asking what they needed. While we waited 30 mins to get our order taken. (There was 4 waitress' running about and three tables active, including us) The reason we know the whole table left no tip? Two waitress' went on a rant as they cleared the table, trash talking the fancy teenagers for not leaving them a tip. We found that very amusing. My inner cranky self wanted to leave them a $1 tip for the subpar service, but we left them a $9 tip. We usually tip better. But, they were just awful. When we were ready to pay, we had to wait another 20 minutes at the counter. All in all, we will not be revisit such a rude establishment. This...

My sister and I went to Perkins in Redwing this morning. It may have been at half capacity or so. Many of the people had their food already. We were goven our drinks.coffee and water. We then sat their for about 45 minutes. In the mean time a waitress had come into the back room where 2 out of 4 tables already had food and the one couple crossed from us stated their food had come cold.I finally got up and asked for a manager and the lady that I asked was the one that seated us stated. I am the manager. I told her we had been waiting 45 minutes and still had not given anyone our order.She stated they were really busy and only had 3 waitresses on staff and that her waitresses were panicking...I said it's not that busy in here..She turned around and walked away.mind you it was maybe half full in there and most people had their food already.She said I will send a waitress to your table.I stated no that's okay we're not staying any longer. I went up to pay for my coffee which was all we had ordered so far. I asked her would you like me to pay for the coffee? She stated no.Thank you for the cup of coffee lady was my thought!! We proceeded to go to Frontenac cafe the Whistle stop. There was one waitress.We got the last open table and she had our order and our food to us in 10 to 15 minutes. Kudos to the Whistle stop...

I respect all people, especially women. I try to treat everyone the way I would want to be treated.

The other day, when I walked into the men’s bathroom, I saw a handwritten sign that said, “Please aim straight.” It looked like it was written by one of the workers. I understand the frustration behind it — they have to clean those restrooms, and that’s not an easy or pleasant job. Honestly, I’m not mad about it. I get where they’re coming from.

That said, I think the message could have been worded a little differently — maybe in a way that still gets the point across without sounding too rude. You don’t usually see something like that in a restaurant bathroom, but again, I do understand why they put it there.

It just made me think — it’s not fair that some people act like they can do whatever they want and leave a mess for others to clean up. Just because it’s someone’s job doesn’t mean they should be treated like that. Everyone should clean up after themselves when they can.

Also, just to mention — my birthday was on July 11th, and it fell on a Wednesday this year. The waitress we had was great — very nice and respectful. It made the experience better, and I...