The Spot Bar & Restaurant — Restaurant in Texas

I wasn’t going to post this, but I’m up at The Spot, waiting for my check. Along with 3 other employees! Shalonda Smith the fact that it’s 6pm on payday and you literally left without paying us! So here’s just a snippet of what’s been going on at The Spot…

This is gonna be a long one but yall need to hear this! Shalonda Smith who “owns” The Spot Bar and Restaurant in Killeen has no clue how to run a successful business. She sits at that bar all day long everyday and gets belligerent drunk. She forces her employees to over serve her, and if they try to tell her no, she will fire them. She treats her customers terribly, and her employees even worse. When she is paranoid or has done something wrong, she deletes the camera footage so she won’t be held responsible. When it comes to pay day, there is always an excuse. Her employees have to beg for their checks (well actually cash because all her checks bounce)!! She picks and chooses who she pays and when. If she thinks you’ve been slacking, she won’t pay you for days, even a week sometimes after payday. When she does pay, she takes money out of your pay for “taxes” and then keeps it for herself. Employees can’t even get a paystub, so how are we able to prove our employment!?

She has recently gone cash only. She is saying that the POS won’t run credit cards and it will “hopefully be fixed soon” when in reality she is wanting to be able to pocket all the cash and not have to wait for the money to be released to her. She constantly claims she has no money for herself, but she constantly has a pocket full of cash. THE BARS CASH, not her own! Her favorite bar is McDermotts in Killeen. She goes everyday, gets wasted and then come to her bar and drinks for the rest of the night. She come back behind the bar and takes everything from the safe. She doesn’t put anything in a deposit bag, she puts it directly into her pocket. No receipts, or sales reports just the cash.

She owes so many vendors money that she has been outsourcing for liqour, beer, and food. In 7/6, during a going away party, we had run out of liqour so she sent a CUSTOMER to the store to buy handles of liqour. She then came back behind the bar and yelled at me for throwing away our liqour bottles that have TABC stickers because she wanted to pour the handles into them so of TABC comes in, they think we got them from our vendor. That is illegal and there is no way I will risk my liscence for her. She also owes $96,000 to the IRS for past taxes because she was audited and they found major discrepancies.

On 7/6/24, she SPIT on a regular customer!! Called her names and then SPIT on her!! She is out of control and needs help! Many people left because of the drama, which means the bar lost money!

I love that bar, the customers, and the employees but I can never work for a human being like that ever again! She is an animal that is so out of control! That business will never be successful with an owner like her. I hope one day she is removed and her son is given control so that he can make that place the place to be again!The Spot Bar &Restaurant LLC Veteran Owned Texas Alcoholic...

I don’t really get this place, the reviews look so different than when I went. I live right by this place and went a few months ago. There was a female bartender that didn’t know how to make anything but jack and coke or pour shots. It seemed like a place just to get wasted not really chill and hang out. We sat at the bar for over 30min before the bartender acknowledged us. It wasn’t that busy and she was just standing at the other side of the bar talking to customers. She seemed annoyed that we didn’t know what we wanted right away while at the same time telling us there wasn’t a drink menu. I’m surprised to see people post food pictures; I didn’t even know they had food since there was no menu anywhere. It was very unwelcoming and dark. There was loud music playing but everyone (mostly men) was just sitting at the bar drinking and not really socializing. I have no desire to go back; however, sometimes I see a lot of cars there when I drive by and wonder how that’s possible because of the experience I had. Maybe they have new bartenders, maybe I was just there on a bad night, maybe I’m not the customer they want in there,...

The bartenders were no where near customer friendly. We sat waiting like we were a bad rash. I asked for Chardonnay the lady had no idea what I was talking about. Then when I told her she gave me the brand and not the actual wine. She gave me moscato and she didn’t know it wasn’t Chardonnay the young African American women seemed agitated that the lady had no idea what to do or what direction to go. If you want to be a bartender pleaser learn the lay of the land. Customers want to communicate with bartenders it’s part of a social setting. Trust me I won’t return for the drinks or bar. They ALL need proper training and they need bartending social skills. I’ve been in this neighborhood since 2009 and when we had NOTHING except houses were cordial and peaceful. We don’t need a bar with employees that make active duty, veterans, and there family members uncomfortable. If you want to be a part of the solution then do it with great employee who want to make a difference and not just...