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# Omelets whip eatery into frenzy
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/omelets-whip-eatery-into-frenzy-editor/
- Published: 2006-08-11T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T21:09:43.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Main St, #archive-import

*By Carol Patek Santa Monica*

I read your Buzz’in column in Mondays paper and find the variety of situations amusing and sometimes hard to believe. Well, I finally feel that I can contribute to the weird experiences in Santa Monica. Not to be too specific about a restaurant on Main Street known for their omelets and Clucker Club Card, I recently got a good clucking right out the door from the their female manager on behalf of the male owner. Two months ago, I ordered an omelet at their counter seating, not booth seating, and after waiting 26 minutes, decided to leave payment for the coffee and walk out. I was the only patron at the counter and felt that 26 minutes was too long to wait for my breakfast order.

Two weeks later, I returned with a friend for breakfast and was admonished for my “discourteous” departure from the previous visit by the restaurant's hostess. I was astonished that I received a tongue-lashing and not an apology. The hostess said that I should have told someone that I waited so long. I told her that had the waiter been present, I would have had my food and not an excuse for the delay. She said that she would wait on my friend and me, but that I was wrong and not to do it again. We ordered. Food came. Food was fine. We paid. We tipped. We chalked it up as an establishment having a bad day.

One month went by and my friend and I returned for breakfast. Again, we were the only two people at the counter. We had only been chatting for a minute or so when the same female manager/hostess comes up to us and says that I owe $11 from the time that I left and that is per the owner. She said that if I do not pay that amount, I am no longer welcomed at that establishment. Can you say stunned? Whatever happened to people skills and manners? My friend and I left and sauntered down to another Main Street establishment. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 11, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/081106.pdf?ref=smdp.com)