Bell Ranch Steakhouse at 801 University Drive East, College Station

Reviews

• Chris Slovacek

  Mar 22, 2018
  ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
  We went for Thanksgiving this year. It was quite a spread. There was more variety than I would have had if I had stayed home. The entire banquet room was full of guests with a large central entree serving station and several other stations for cheese/fruit/salad, deserts, and breads.
  
  I had ham, chicken, a couple of bites of prime rib, some shrimp, and some great crab claws. The green bean casserole wasn't so good (not like home).
  
  The cost was $31.45 per person (there were four of us so $124.80). The automatically added gratuity was 20% ($25.15) but the service didn't quite warrant that much. Tax was a whopping 9.9% ($12.45). Grand total was $163.41 for four of us!
  
  What I don't get is that our server told us that if we paid by credit card, that she would not get the gratuity. And here was a space on the ticket for additional an gratuity. She told us that if we paid with cash, she would get what ever gratuity was on the ticket.
  
  I spoke with someone who looked like a 'manager' and she said that the servers WOULD get the gratuity (but that it would go into a pool that would be distributed).
  
  It really felt that the server was trying to scam us out of an additional tip. But it was condoned by the management since in addition to the automatic tip, there was a place for another tip.
  
  What's up with that?

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