Blinco's Inc Sport's Rstrnt

Blinco's Inc Sport's Pub. I go there on Moday nights for the Chipotle BBQ wings. Best heat and flavor around. Way better than Linewood Grill. Service is attentive and the wings are $.35 ea every night before 6PM and all night Mondays. Best wings. Not too excited about the rest of the menu. I've had a few other plates. But for wings and beer, this is the place to go in Raleigh.…

Managenent. Blincos use to be one of my favorite places to go to watch sports games and eat great food. Lately I have noticed alot of staff turnover and lack of service. After talking to other patrons and servers, I learned that management is that biggest problem. Not scheduling properly when needed at busy times. Servers needing a manager and they can't be found. I have managed and owned a restaurant and i know a manager plays a huge role with service and customer relations. Recently while there my food got messed up. The manager blamed the server for it, instead of fixing problem. Things happen in a restaurant .beyond a servers control(kitchen cooks, the bar etc) Not to say servers dont mess up as well. I just dont feel this place works as a team to please the customers. If it was my place I would clean house, keep the ones that truly care about customers and service and fire the ones that only half do their jobs and want to cover their ass!!…

Staff tries but needs training and experience. First time here, was with a group of about 20. We reserved a room for 6 but a few people from another group were still watching a game in that same room where their team was behind by about 30 points. Poor planning by Blinco's, manager admitted they usually double book.

Our group had to wait almost two hours for the other group to vacate the room we had already booked. This is totally unacceptable and really stupid business practice as the other group had long past stopped ordering anything. Blinco's could have provided some appetizers or drinks for our group in consideration - they eventually did a little while before we got to the room - a single pitcher for 20 people and only after I suggested it. Pretty clueless.

It didn't get much better. Staff tried but they did not have enough people to assist and it took at least another 45 minutes to take our orders. On top of it all, they still charged the mandatory 20% group gratuity!! How pathetic can you get?…