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Today, Dale and I went to lunch at Tokyo Joe’s at 120th Avenue in Westminster. Dale had a buy one, get one free coupon that was burning a hole in his pocket. Well let’s be honest, Dale will take any and every opportunity to go to Tokyo Joe’s whether he has a coupon or not. I like Tokyo Joe’s, but Dale loves Tokyo Joe’s.  He is what you may called addicted.

Our visit today was a little disappointing though. As always the food was delicious and the staff was friendly, however there were some issues with the restaurant:

• There was no place to sit since every table had dirty, leftover dishes on it
• The clean table we finally found was sticky
• The floors were also sticky
• The place smelled like beer
• The soda machine has spilled soda all around
• The place was completely understaffed
• It took 5 minutes to get someone on the staff to give us a to-go container for our leftovers

Overall, it was not the best lunch experience. I think this was completely the result of not having enough employees during the lunch rush. That was obvious since the guy taking orders at the register would stop and leave people waiting to order to bring food to the tables and even bust other tables.

Sorry Joe’s, but today you were not at your best.  Your mantra is “Great food, great service and great atmosphere” but today you only delivered two out of three.

…keeps me going right now. Hawaii here we come! I am thrilled for 7 days in the sun and sand with Dale.

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…this week has really kicked my ass. I have a few things I want to blog about, but I am really lacking the energy. Hopefully, I will get back into the blogging more this week. Anything you want me to blog about?

Tonight, I helped out my friend Julie and “prettied” up her blog. Check it out at http://lovetheselittlefaces.blogspot.com. I think it turned out pretty good.  I hope so likes it.  What do you think?