[Wonder_Woman]

So I don't live in Demopolis, BUT as I have said before...Demopolis is my home, it was for 34 years and I still have lots of family and friends there, so I have the right to call it home. I did go to Demopolis for COTR and I really had a great time EXCEPT for one time that was really bad, not so bad that I let it ruin my trip but bad enough that I want to vent a little. It happened the Sunday evening after COTR, when my family and I (there were 10 people) decided to go out to dinner together. Of course on Sunday there is not too much open but we had heard that Ellis V was open and that it was under new ownership and had been totally redone. We heard that the food was really good and that the service was great. So off to Ellis V it was for us. Ok, so we all get there and we saw that only ONE table was occupied with customers. Other than that the place was empty. Thinking that we will have our food very shortly, we sit down and began to order. Some of our meals came with salads which arrived about 15 minutes after ordering, that was ok since we were talking, cutting up and taking pictures. About 20 minutes later we actually got some rolls. At this time we were beginning to wonder on the food. Finally our food arrived 50 minutes after ordering. I thought my food was OK..thats all just OK. Not great but not bad. One person who ordered Fried Catfish claimed that it was not good at all. He stated that there were some weird tasting spices on the fish. And one person who had ordered spaghetti took three bites and claimed that it was horrible. Now this I wanted to taste of since I was paying for it. IT WAS HORRIBLE!!!!!!! This stuff actually smelled and tasted sour!. The waitress claimed that it had just been made fresh, but that the cook was from some other country and apparently added different spices to it. I told her that it would have been better if he had just went across the street to Food World and bought a jar of Ragu sauce instead. Then came our checks... The waitress had taken the liberty of adding her TIP to all of our checks. She claimed that she does that to any party of 10 or more. Now as I stated earlier there were 10 of us and we did all sit down at the same table but we had split up into 3 separate families. It would have been no different if we had sat at 3 different tables; in fact it was easier for her. ...OK so I looked at my check more closely and I noticed that she had added her TIP onto the TAX... OMG That was it!!! I became FURIOUS!!!!! I have the good fortune of being able to travel all over the US and I have eaten in MANY very extremely nice (4 and 5 star) restaurants sometimes in groups of 20 or more and NEVER NEVER has any waitress/waiter ever added the tip onto the tax. THIS IS WRONG!!! She didn't do anything for that extra money. This was just a sneaky way for her to get a little more tip money. I HONESTLY got the feeling that she thought that we were all too dumb to notice that she tipped the tax. Leaving a tip is my prerogative and is not something I HAVE to do. I ALWAYS leave a tip according to how my service was, and I and not talking about the food but just the service. If my service is great I will leave a generous tip..more than the 15% that she added to our checks and if the service is not that great I will adjust my tip accordingly. So now I get up to go pay and I really wasn't going to say anything until the waitress asked "Was everything ok?" well.....she asked...so I told her. I went so far as to ask to speak to the manager so I could tell him but wouldn't you know it, he was gone for the night. Her excuse for the tip on the tax was...."That is just how we do it here." As for the spaghetti, she finally decided to take it off my check when I told her that I simply refuse to pay for something that was uneatable. And only because she did that did I consent to leave her a tip. BUT I also told her that I will never be in there again and I will not refer the place to anyone. This is one of the reasons that people leave Demopolis and spend their money elsewhere for entertainment and fun. How can any businesses ever make it if this is the way they treat their customers.