The staff and clientele interactions are more interesting than the food here. This is essentially a budget self service steakhouse experience that has clearly been embraced by the neighborhood folks.If ordering a steak dinner, walk in and order with the folks running the grill to tell them the cut, temp and type of potato (baked or fried). As you move forward in a truncated cafeteria line, the person staffing the register asks what you ordered and the dressing for your salad as they take a prepared bowl of lettuce out of a refrigerator and plop on the dressing. They will ask if you'd like a drink which is extra.The food is fine, nothing out of the ordinary. It is a straightforward steak, potato and lettuce filled salad affair that is filling. You can make all of this easily better at home for a lot less money if you want to expend the energy. I ordered my steak medium rare and it was well done. And the people who ordered after me were served first. They call you out to come and get your order by the steak you order. My name was sirloin, for instance. What if there were 5 sirloins? Maybe sirloin 1, then sirloin 2? It was kind of funny to be treated so impersonally but I wasn't offended.The staff will clear your table. Regulars stop in. Your leftover bones are absconded and put in a plastic bag, presumably for dogs, by people stopping by and chatting up the owner.
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