Bruce B.
Yelp
I'm done with Finley's. DONE! The service at this place has only gotten worse and worse this year, but last Saturday took the cake when I nearly lost my shit after our waiter decided to start dumping drinks out onto the ground in the courtyard directly behind my wife, splashing her with liquid and mud. Why the hell he's doing this on the ground in the courtyard instead of inside a sink somewhere, I do not know. All of that alcohol can't be good for those oak trees. It was just a careless and rude maneuver, and it sent me over the edge with this place. I didn't want to come back here, anyway, based on my prior experiences this past year (read my other review of Finley's for those details).
Immediately after the drink splashing incident, we got up to leave - my wife's attempt to get me out of there before I really lost my cool - but not soon enough, because the waiter reappeared and I let him have it verbally, demanding he explain himself as to why he's dumping drinks on the ground and splashing people with them.
The waiter's response? He tried to laugh it off, so when I asked why he thought the situation was so funny, he then tried to turn it around on me - as if I were the problem - stating that I was the one who came in with a bad attitude and that I should be the one to apologize to my wife for being in such a pissy mood. Maybe he was partly right on the account that I was in a mood, but I wasn't really sour until I saw they had once again jacked up the prices on nearly everything on the menu. $17.59 for a smash burger?! $20 for ten chicken wings?! Really?
In the end, the waiter threatened to call the cops on me. Yep. I'm not sure what he was planning to tell the cops, exactly. It wasn't like I ever got in his face or physically threatened him in any way. I guess maybe he could tell the police, "This man chewed me out for repeatedly splashing his wife with drinks, and he's scary to me, officer, please arrest him!"
We left, and it will be forever, never to return. So fuck you, Finley! Never met you in person, but you just lost two of your most loyal customers. Good going. But you know who will be visiting you soon? The WCCHD. And I can only hope you laugh at them like your waiter laughed at me.