Memoirs of a 26 year old, oh yeah, and The Cheesecake Factory sucks!

I had my 26th birthday on Sunday. Sunday birthdays are always a little different because usually the whole "party thing" is a little difficult to do with church and all that jazz....fortunately, my family doesn't feel the same way and by 7 o'clock there were literally 25 people in our cramp little apartment. We had quite a blast.

The "real" birthday celebration was suppose to be Saturday night when we went to eat out with all our family, about 18 people in total. I really wanted to eat at the Cheesecake factory, so we decided to head out to Rancho Mirage really early because (and this should have been our first clue) they do not accept reservations. We get out there 2 and half hours before everyone shows up, and we ask how long the wait will be for a party of 15-20. The wait was 30 minutes at the time, so they tell us to come back and put our in our names in about 45 minutes so that the approximate wait will be about when our group was arriving. Easy enough. We come back 45 minutes later, and surprise surprise, the wait has increased to 3 freaking hours! Either the person lied to us or is a complete idiot. Well, with no other options, we put our names in and hoped for the best.

After about 45 minutes, we went back to the Cheesecake Cake Factory to see what our status was. Good news they told us, a lot of the parties were canceling, so we would get in within the hour. This was indeed good news...or so we thought.

The hour passed, and nothing happened. We go in to see what the hold up was, and the person rudely says, “Well we told you the wait was going to be 4 hours!” Two problems, first we were originally told it was going to be 3 hours, and secondly, they then told us we were going to get in within the hour. They didn’t care.

Well, a 4 hour wait would have put us in the restaurant around 10 pm, so we looked for other options. Fortunately, very fortunately, my mom thought ahead of time and put our names in at another restaurant call the Yardhouse. Right when the Cheesecake Factory was looking hopeless, our buzzer for this new place went off and two tables were waiting for us inside. Amazing service, and wonderful food. I have to say that the Yardhouse is one of my new favorite restaurants and I will certainly go there again.