I had to re-shop the bar/lunch more than once when a man picked up my tab.@sandyf wrote:
I used to do these years ago until one day when I had a late afternoon shop dine in and was the only person in the dining room. The manager came over and plopped himself down to chat with me while I ate. He told me his life story and then later told the msc he knew who the shopper was. There was not much I could do and was banned from any BJ's shop until it went to a new msc years later.
I loved those shops but they disappeared too. Hopefully they will be back when dining is fully back everywhere. The biggest number of their restaurants are in California where dining indoors has been banned for most of the past year.
In Carlsbad?@carlsbadguy wrote:
I used to do the bar shop so often for lunch that the bartender knew my name and we became friends.
Nice. I did that location at lunch one day, got a peach margarita and was so drunk, I had to walk across the street to the mall to walk it off. It's a lovely area though. Can't beat it.@carlsbadguy wrote:
Yes in Carlsbad. He invited me to the beer dinners they had and I would stop in for lunch once in a while on my own and eat at the bar.
How's the food? What do you order? I heard their desserts are great.@sandyf wrote:
I used to do these years ago until one day when I had a late afternoon shop dine in and was the only person in the dining room. The manager came over and plopped himself down to chat with me while I ate. He told me his life story and then later told the msc he knew who the shopper was. There was not much I could do and was banned from any BJ's shop until it went to a new msc years later.
I loved those shops but they disappeared too. Hopefully they will be back when dining is fully back everywhere. The biggest number of their restaurants are in California where dining indoors has been banned for most of the past year.
Yeah, a lot of places seem like that for me: not worth it as an out-of-pocket meal, but a great mystery shop to treat oneself + guest.@sandyf wrote:
Shoptastic, I like it best as a mystery shop. I personally feel their prices are on the high end but they do have great daily specials. Half off all pizza on Monday makes their expensive pizza do able. The Wednesday burger special price is great too. Beer drinkers like the fact that they make their own brews. My favorite is their bottomless soup and salad lunch