I am Chinese from Mainland living in Dallas. I eat at restaurants serving authentic Chinese food at least twice a week. The only times I've been to Kirin Court is during dim sum on the Sundays. Recently, I went for dinner on a Friday night with some friends and experienced perhaps the WORST kind of bad service imaginable in a ""service"" industry. After we had finished our meal (which was rather average), my friends and I split the check in half, handing the waiter TWO credit cards. After a long delay of 10 minutes, he comes back to the table with ONE credit card. We ask him where the other card was and he seemed confused. Yes, they had ""misplaced"" it. With us looking on, the waiter and the manager looked around for it, including in OTHER GUESTS' TABS. After 10 minutes of obviously fruitless searching, we are getting extremely frustrated. I go up to the front and wait for them to find it. Finally, the waiter finds it ON THE FLOOR. A customer's credit card is on the floor. I am obviously not happy that they nearly lost our card and the manager seemed absolutely unphased by this. I make a comment about how riduculous it is that they simply lose someone's credit card and we should be compensated for their error. In hindsight, I merely said it out of frustration. However, the manager's reaction to it made me absolutely LIVID. He said that he was a business, not charity, that we ate the food, meaning service is not a factor, and that I was DRIVING HIM CRAZY. To add the proverbial cherry on top, he proceeded to SLAM our credit cards, receipts, and a pen on the counter, yes, SLAM. The NERVE! I will never again give my business to a restaurant where obviously service is not valued and the customer is never right. There are too many excellent Chinese restaurants around for that sort of behavior to be acceptable. I hope everyone will use this to make a point to Asian business owners; unfortunately, service is a large part of what makes a good meal.
Pros: Tasty Food
Cons: Service especially management
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