[thabadguy]

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Slightly offtopic, but potentially useful anecdote:

I had a similar experience at Bartolotta at the Wynn. I went there with 3 guy friends of mine. We are all in our 20's, quite well off, and dressed appropriately. But, we don't have the movie-star-son-of-a-sheik-big-balla look by any means.

Anyway, our server at Bartolotta treated us like a couple of teenagers that didn't belong there. The most egregious example is, when we were ordering and I asked for the lobster, he pauses, gives me this look, and says, "Sir, that's a hundred dollars." I was so flabbergasted by this and didn't know how to respond in the moment, so I kind of stammered and was like, "Ummmmm, yeah, uh huh... (And?)"

I (and my friends) really didn't want to make a scene, so we didn't say anything and just left a meager tip (thus probably confirming, in his mind, his suspicion that we were a bunch of cheap teenagers that didn't belong there).

As an aside, the other restaurants at the Wynn that I've been to, I enjoyed immensely - SW Steakhouse, Okada, and the Country Club.

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This kinda [censored] happens too often in the USA because people put up with it.
Last fall, when i got back to the USA, me and my boys went out to have dinner to talk about what every1 had been doing while i was gone, and we go to this really nice steakhouse.
I ask for a bottle of tequila, this is how the conversation goes.
Me : Id like to order a bottle of tequila.
Him : Ok, sure, what kind.
Me : U got Patron Anejo
Him : I dont know
Me : Ok how about you go find out
( I am already not happy cuz if hes gonna ask me what i want he should know if they have it or not)
Him : OK, i guess i can do that
(Comes back ...)
Him : We do have Patron Anejo but it is $200 a bottle, so u might wanna order something else
Me : Get your manager, im not having a condescending [censored] like you serving me.
(I might have been a little over the top, i just had a 19 hour flight)