I am being completely honest when I say that the owners of this establishment have violated a number of labor laws and continue to do so. Trish and Pat are the owners of this establishment and I have never in my career as a server encountered two business owners who have more of a a COMPLETE lack of repect for their employees. They force their employees to sit for hours on end while off the clock when they dont have a table. This is ILLEGAL!! I have witnessed Trish and Pat demean and degrade their employees in every conceiveable manner which in no way could possibly boost employee morale as well as their profits yet they continue to bite the hands that feed them and I have a real difficult time understanding how they manage to remain in business. Go to Harpers sometime and ask your server how they are being treated by the owners. I will guarantee you that you will not get a positive response if your server is being honest. I dont believe that a customer should be punished as a result of the way they are being treated by the management or owners of an establishment though I will tell you that I have singlehandedly witnessed a server inserting a pubic hair into a dish that had been served to a guest at Harpers by a disgruntled employee. This is a disgusting act yet it occurs more often than you could imagine at the restaurants where employees are being undervalued and mistreated. In this economy I am all for supporting local businesses in East Lansing with the exeption of Harpers thanks to Pat and Trish's unjust labor practices.
Pros: hard workers
Cons: Sociopathic owners
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