Tonight I had dinner at the Jade Bistro in Scotia, and it will be the last.

I will preface this with the only positive, which was that the food was good, as it has been each time I have been there. But the positive ends there.

-Waited at the hostess counter for a significant period of time before being even greeted. (Restaurant was pretty empty and during the entire time there, only one pick up order that went out.

• Noticeably long before our server came to the table to ask about drinks or any questions on the menu.

• Had ample time to look around and realize there were no other tables that were not already eating, and only 3 in total at all.

• Got waters, our drinks were finished.... no server at the table. Eye contact made with server, who was leaning against the hostess stand, nothing.

I joked that I was about to get up and just go get the pitcher of water off the wait staff's service tray and serve us myself.... and then we waited... and waited. I finally did in fact go get the pitcher and refill our waters myself, all while our server just stood there doing nothing. Don't confuse this with "nothing" like chatting with someone or doing something at the hostess area... literal nothing. Leaning on the counter.

A different woman brought our food.

• Server started to walk in our direction, saw food on the table, just turned around and back to the leaning. We were about half way through eating and he started walking our direction. (Maybe to ask how our food was? Nope.) He walked to the server station, 3 feet away from us, had no interaction with us, and walked away.

We finished our meal and I joked that I may need to get my own box. It wasn't however very funny, when that is indeed what I needed to do. I got up, went to the server station, got my own to-go box and a bag and bagged the rest of my meal to go.

As our empty plates were moved across the table our server finally made an appearance... to drop off the bill.

I have worked in food service, and I am fully familiar with how hard of work it can be, and what is required of the staff, as well as how reliant server wages are on tips. However, those tips are for actually doing your job. This on the other hand was possibly the least attentive version of showing up at a restaurant and calling yourself a server I've ever experienced. My friend was reluctant but I adamantly said we were not leaving a tip. The fact is, he didn't do even the basic level of his job.

We paid the bill in cash and left. This could have ended the night chalking it up to a bad server and we would have still come back.

BUT, once outside we were followed out by the man who was our server and in front of other customers who were also leaving he yelled to us "the tip is not included in the bill." My friend responded that he was aware of that, and that the man had not done his job. He stated that we got our own water, someone else brought our food, and I even got my own box and bag from their service station.

At this point the man yelled "So no tip?"

Luckily this server was yelling this to people who were calm and also not drinking or that confrontation could have gone very differently for him. My friend said that if he had done his job we would have tipped, and well at that, but he didn't. He didn't do his job.

Other times that either of us have been there it has been good service but this was just unacceptable.

Complete lack of basic service - unacceptable.

Following a customer to the parking lot and then confronting them about not tipping? Even worse.

Confronting a customer in the parking lot, and yelling to them in front of other customers about not tipping? Unprofessional and absolutely unacceptable.

To top it off, clearly this man was so oblivious to how incompetent he had been at his job, that at no point offered an apology of any kind for bad service - shocking. And also, a pretty solid indicator that this is the level of apathy he brings to his job regularly.

No thanks Jade Bistro, we won't be coming back.