Graziano’s Italian Restaurant

1 Reviews on “Graziano’s Italian Restaurant”

• Ktorres3

  Owner shut down restaurant because we asked for more elbow room at the table (when place was dead due to blizzard)!. I WILL NEVER GO BACK HERE AGAIN! Basically the owner started cursing and flipping out and decided to close the restaurant on us… all because we wanted to have more elbow-space at the table (we asked to have another table moved to ours) when the entire restaurant only had TWO people in it, due to the blizzard.Last night we decided to go to Graziano’s for my mom’s birthday. It was the beginning of the blizzard, but the restaurant was still open – although there was only one other table inside the dining room. My mom, step-dad, and myself met my sister and brother-in-law there. We were slightly cramped at the small table because we had brought a bottle of wine and birthday gifts. Since the restaurant was dead because no one wanted to come out with the blizzard, we politely asked the waitress if we could move another table over, so we weren’t so squished. She hesitated and explained that normally this is something that could never be done, but since it was such a slow night she figured she could give us this one time deal. We were very appreciative and completely understanding, and explained that we would never ask to take away a table during a busy night. About 2 minutes later, the waitress returns and tells us she has to move the table back because she just got reamed out by the owner for moving over a small table (which we later found out was her brother). We all thought she was joking, and my sister thought we were on a hidden camera show! But no, she wasn’t joking at all, and kept apologizing. The hostess and another waitress came over to apologize as well, because they could see that we were in shock over something so small as moving a table – especially when the place was so slow. My mother asked to speak to the owner, and he refused to speak to us. Instead he sent out the hostess with the birthday cake my sister brought in. [The owner knew that we were there for a special occasion and still didn’t care.] After the cake was brought out, all we heard was yelling and screaming coming from the kitchen, and then he started cursing too (Who the f*** do they think they are? This is my f****** restaurant! and more). That was when all five of us decided to get up and leave, when we heard the other waitress say that he decided to shut down the restaurant for tonight (it was 5:30pm btw). As we headed out the door in disgust of his manner, all the waitresses and the hostess kept apologizing to us. As we got in our car we saw that the lights in the restaurant were shut off…… there was still two people in there! I’ve working in the restaurant industry for over 10 years and I have never seen anything as ridiculous as this before. Sure, they might have great food, and great wait staff….. but NONE of us will ever return there because of how the owner, Marcello, treats his family, wait staff, and CUSTOMERS!Please share with anyone you know who goes there!

  April 27, 2015, 11:25 pm

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