Lenny wrote on 07-23-2011

Manager/owner was extremely rude

I took my girlfriend to Merla Mae's last night for her birthday, and was surprised to see my buddy's face on the Merla Mae menu sign (his vocal quartet performs there regularly). So I took a picture of the menu to show to my friend later (the guy on the menu), and suddenly one of the service windows flew open and a woman (presumably the owner) started yelling at me. It went like this: "Hey, what are you doing?!" "Just taking a picture." "Of what?" "Your sign. Is there something wrong with taking pictures?" "Yes, delete it right now. Why are you taking pictures? What were you taking pictures of?" "My buddy's face is on your sign." "Delete it right now!" "Okay." I then showed her the screen as I deleted it. Then without a word she angrily slammed the window shut. I really did not want to give this business any of my money, but I also didn't want to let my girlfriend down, so I gave her money to get us two ice creams I agree that a business owner presumably has the right to ban photos on their premises (even though I could have technically gone out into the public plaza parking lot and took pictures), however I think the owner was extremely rude in the way she went about this. If my bad review stops even one person from going, I'm happy with that.