SNOWMOBILERS ARE NOT WELCOME HERE PER THE OWNER OF THIS RESTAURANT: Owner said tell all your snowmobile friends that they are not welcome here. So here is a recent review: I have never posted or spoke Ill of any business before in my life, but I am holding up my end of a conversation with the owner of Jessie's supper club in Mountain View NY last night.
Back story: I called Tuesday and made reservations for 10 snowmobilers to eat dinner for Friday. A family of 5 with 3 young kids, myself, my girlfriend and two other fellow snowmobile friends. The owner told me due to COVID that he could only seat 8 together but he was willing to give us two tables. By the end of the conversation due to being a couple days out we decided on booking one table for 8 people and once Friday came closer if we still had a party of 10 he said just to call him and he would make sure we had two tables and would be accommodated. After a couple days went by and all 10 were still able to attend (you never know riding with ski doo owners of their sled will be running come the end of the week) I attempted to call the business exactly 8 times during business hours over the course of 3 days and could not receive an answer.
The main event: So Friday comes along and we head to Mountain View for dinner. We arrive and are seated by a very nice and polite waitress and I politely asked her if their phones have been down as I have not been able to reach them this week. She was unsure.
So we order our beverages and are waiting on two straggler ski doo owners who are 15 minutes behind. The two others show up and the waitress seats them at a table next to us as our 8 person table was full. All was well, the waitress gave these two menus and drinks, we all ordered our food and about 15 minutes pass and the owner comes out with a very bad attitude and says he will not be serving our other two food due to not being on the reservation. I very politely introduced myself as the gentlemen on the phone who made the reservations and reminded him of our conversation. I explained I had been calling all week trying to make the proper accommodations with no answer. His response was that I did not call his business or he would have answered. So I showed him my call log of the 8 times I attempted to call and his response was "well you should get a new phone then because your phone is shit." Mind you I have a new iPhone. So I very politely tell the owner that if he is not going to feed our whole party that we will respectfully leave and find food elsewhere.
The fireworks: This gentlemen absolutely went off and told us he would not be feeding our 2 other folks so I asked him for our bill so that I could pay for our order and we could leave. I politely told this gentlemen I have been coming to this establishment for the better part of 15 years and that I will not be doing business with him in the future. The owner stated that he bought this business to support snowmobiling and that "we need him... he does not need us snowmobilers." I respectfully said no worries let's just square up the bill and we will leave so he can open this large table for another group. Upon departure the owner told me "make sure to tell all your friends and snowmobilers not to come back because they all are just like you." I respectfully ignored his comment and began to pack up and leave. Mind you this business was maybe 15-20% capacity at the moment. The tables surrounding us began talking to us in disgust on how he spoke to me and treated us. One table told us they saw him do the exact same thing to a group an hour before us who showed up a couple minutes late. All in all we left, we ate a good meal at the trailside and were seated next to the group who was kicked out of Jessie's before us.
I am posting this to inform all my fellow colleagues and snowmobilers of how this establishment reacted. I am also holding up my end of the deal to tell all friends and snowmobilers that we all act the same and are not welcomed. read more