Urgh. Yesterday's visit to LaGunitas Tap Room/Brewery went horribly, horribly wrong.
The place was completely overwhelmed despite not even being at capacity - and it was early in the day. I am guessing that they knew they were over their head before the day began. For example, they put up a new salad with crab, etc for $14. Total, unmitigated rip-off. It was a side salad with a half ounce of crabmeat and four canned mandarin orange segments. Then they were out of several beers - at the brewery.
Worst of all was that they hired a bunch of hatted, millennial guys for waiters that didn't know how to wait tables and did not care about their customers. 70 minutes for simple food, poorly done. A second beer was 30 minutes. When our waiter came back around and I asked m about it he lied to me and said that the bartenders were backed up evethogh he had just delivered six beers to three tables around us and the bartenders were just not busy. I hate being lied to and the that I tip them well anyway. I just figure waiters like this will blame me if I tip them poorly... As in "that guy was an asshole anyway".
All in all, it was the opposite of my first visit and will probably be my last. I talked the place up a lot after the first visit though. Setting the record straight.