David J.
Yelp
I have just moved back to my hometown of Detroit and I terribly miss the coffee houses that I left behind. I'd go early in the morning with my computer or Windows Phone to use the free wifi. Have a cup of coffee, you know. Relax. Since moving back to Detroit, I realize that "I am not in Kansas anymore." Since I do not have a car, I am faced with having to walk to the Mc Donalds at the corner of Livernois and Grand River Because of the free wifi. This place is horrible: most of the staff is borderline incompetent if not worse. The service is what you would expect in a third world country. And customer service is far below standard. I need a job badly since I have moved bock , but I would rather starve my entire family if my only option was working under such shoddy management and alongside some of these folks. Now, to be fair, there are a couple of individuals there that are exempt from this scathing indictment. I feel horrible that they are surrounded by such incompetence. I was just in there this morning. When I arrived, the place was full of methadone patients. Some were nodding, most were sitting and hanging on the chairs like pigeons. A female employee to whom I had said hello upon my arrival, did not respond though she saw my lips move and heard my words. This same woman approached me an hour later as I sipped my coffee while sending out my resume and told me that I was there over the half an hour limit. She walked by crackheads, heroin addicts and methadone patients who were there before I got there to tell me that I was over the limit. I am clean cut, polite and searching for work, but I supposed that my presence there was more of a disturbance than the presence of the derelicts hanging out. The words customer service to these folks may as well be Chinese. I happened to be in this place for a cup of coffee to go on my way to an interview the other day and a gentleman who had been waiting for a simple order for far too long, left yelling "f@$%in wit' ni@@gas". Now, as an African-American, I found this offensive. This gentleman, himself is Afro-American. I have been to many establishments with terrible service: Black, White, Chinese, etc... I blame the management and a lack of oversight by corporate. Not race. It is unfortunate that the only thing good about this place is the free WIFI. I hope that corporate reads this and cleans up this place. I should not have to be subjected to this kind of idiocy because I do not have a car.