Oprah Effect: TABLE fifty-two And The Case Of The Missing Gift Certificates

TABLE fifty-two, Oprah’s-personal-chef Art Smith’s new haute Southern comfort restaurant on the Gold Coast (in German, that would have all been one word), was plugged on Springer the other day. Actually, that would have made for a much better story! No, so Smith was on Tuesday’s Oprah, and since then, half the country has gone guano crazy for the restaurant. According to Kevin Pang, reservation lines are “swamped” and dinner is booked “full through mid-November.”

Well, there’s more than one way to skin a cat (how did we ever let that into our lexicon?); yesterday, “Terri” wrote into MenuPages about her frustrating experience trying to get a gift certificate to TABLE:


After seeing this new rest on Oprah’s show, all I wanted to do was buy a gift certificate and got so much flack I don’t want it anymore. The girl on the phone had an attitude and was adamant about everything. If you are not prepared after being seen on Oprah that is your BIG PROBLEM. How could you not have gift certificates available yet? How could you not have a fax machine? Someone did not think this through and since when is a money order not good money? I always think that people like Art who is wonderful and recommened by Oprah has to live up to OPRAH“S standards and this was not of that nature. I am upset because all I did was want to buy my nephew a gift cert for his 40th birthday, you know somwthing special, well that girl took that nice idea out of my head. THIS WAS HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE

TABLE fifty-two, Oprah’s-personal-chef Art Smith’s new haute Southern comfort restaurant on the Gold Coast (in German, that would have all been one word), was plugged on Springer the other day. Actually, that would have made for a much better story! No, so Smith was on Tuesday’s Oprah, and since then, half the country has gone guano crazy for the restaurant. According to Kevin Pang, reservation lines are “swamped” and dinner is booked “full through mid-November.”

Well, there’s more than one way to skin a cat (how did we ever let that into our lexicon?); yesterday, “Terri” wrote into MenuPages about her frustrating experience trying to get a gift certificate to TABLE:

TABLE fifty-two (52) [MenuPages]
TABLE fifty-two (52) [Official Site]

First bite revisited: Art Smith’s Table Fifty-Two [The Stew]

[Photo: it’s worth a shot!]

p.s. we did a Google image search for “table fifty-two” gift certificate, and the results were truly shocking.

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Oprah Effect: TABLE fifty-two And The Case Of The Missing Gift Certificates