Thursday, March 5, 2009

Land of the Drunks and Home of Bad Service

Yesterday, the Meister took 2 of his colleagues out for lunch to that Mecca of drunk people in Hyderbad - TDS.  The Meister does not know who named the place after the office of the British PM, but it has certainly caught the eyes of the Hyderabadi drunks.  TDS in London is used for the service of people while TDS in Hyderbad has just bad service.  The food was ok, but the staff were not. They were rude and arrogant and behaving as if they are doing us a favour by allowing us to eat there. The Meister guesses that drunk people do not care about service aslong as they have drinks in front of them, but since the Meister isn't a part of that group, it irritated the Meister.  
Moreover, there wasn't even any fingerbowl!!!!! The Special One would have hated it. 

Hence, it was one of the few occassions when the Meister did not give a single rupee as tip. 

The Meister acknowledges, on hindsight, that it was a mistake to go there...so you must be pondering, why did the Meister go there??? Well, it was because Meister's colleague Lady Liesalot, who btw is a champion drinker (she claims that she has quit but as her name suggests who really knows), is in love with that place and bugged him to go there.  She assured the Meister that there won't be any smoking or loud music. Well, smoking wasn't there but unfortunately, loud music was.  Also present was a distinct lack of light. In this day and age, the dimwits who are in charge, still persist in using bulbs to light the place.  Hence, apart from everything else, the place is a hardcore polluter ofthe environment as well.

The Meister is never going back there. 

5 comments:

TO TOUCH THE HORIZON said...

no matter how unsofisticated you call I never give tips...aree they are charging us with service tax...luckily restuarants in kolkata are bit different...the service may be sometimes slow(in certain places)but the waiters are always well mannered.

Invisible said...

i was wondering why you dint give even a single rupee as tip. Well sorry for bugging you to go there.

but i don't lie...there was no smoke..and neither were drunkards there.

And yes, your observation about the bad staff holds true. I never noticed it cos i am drunk whenever i am there.

Runa said...

hahah...I have been thinking about going to eat there for a while now. I think we can stick to our Times Square for a while now

Unknown said...

@ touch: what has sophistication got to do with anything here? the service tax goes to the government and the management, not in the waiter's pocket....if u feel like giving tips give..if u don't then don't...there's no obligations or convention or nothing abt looking cool in front of others

@ wasted: went to times last night also...even my parents liked the place

@invisible: u did lie abt the music

Benny Sumer Yanthan said...

Hey the place is not so bad! :P