Incredible Dave's-Caution

Just thought I would throw out a red flag regarding behaviors unbecoming adults around young children, and public vulgar behaviors at Incredible Dave's.

The past two days I have had to enter Incredible Dave's because our youngest son (16) thought he might like to get a job there. (half of his school is employed there). While there I have heard stories about how intoxicated patrons are "hitting" on the young girls who work the inflatable's and games. Intoxicated folks are also getting into the inflatables,( with small children) and using the "rides" as well after leaving the bar area.

The other warning is their parking lot, last night as I walked past an occupied vehicle which was getting ready to leave the lot.... a young woman screamed out (in my direction) f****** whore, you are a f***** whore!
Stunned, by this behavior, of course I just kept walking towards the entrance of "Dave's", not wanting to know how it could turn out if I turn around and said something (which I certainly wanted to).

Upon entrance, I looked for "Dave" ,he is not hard to find, he wears black and white, and the rest wear yellow.
The young girl at reception pointed and told me "that's the boss", he had walked away for a minute,and so I told her and another young man what happened, and they told me that they have heard other stories of vulgarity and rude behaviors outside.
Keep in mind, they have only been open a little over a week.
Caught Dave's attention, explained what happened, and he asked "why do you think they did that"? ( as though I might have asked for trouble), I was shocked, and responded with a few ideas as to why, umm ,let's see , Alcohol, ignorance, stupidity, etc. The minute I said alcohol he got defensive and told me that his bar business is no different than that of O'Charlies (that was his example).
I can almost be sure that bar patrons at O'Charlies will not come and do something like sit at your table and start eating your fries, or call you names after as they exit the building . They may hit on the hostess though.
To me that is not a responsible answer, because if his business is not different than that of chain restaurants with bars, there will be trouble... look at Friday's.
Served someone alcohol to beyond the beyonds, enough for a person to get in their car and kill my friends nephew and his girlfriend as they drove home from a peaceful night together.

I dismissed him and his speech, looked for my son and got ready to head out the door, it was about 8:30.
As I was leaving, Dave was leaving for the evening too. To take his (who looked to be about seven) his daughter home!
Nice.

The place looks like it could be a lot of fun, and there were folks there enjoying themselves.
I would just proceed with caution, because people are precious, and we would not want them to get hurt while having fun.

In all fairness, that can happen anywhere. I knew the person involved and I believe he had visited 2 places that night....a restaurant on Shelbyville Road as well. Mr Gatti's serves beer....do they have any issues there? I don't know- I used to take my kids there when they were little and never saw bad behavior. I think you can add alcohol to any mix, anywhere and someone will get out of line. Ky Kingdom has its share of that.

As an outsider, I see it as people runnig a bar without experience. If there is that much of a challenge, hire security. The bottom line is to protect yourself and your patrons. It sounds like the customers are not acting responsibly, therfore the establishment should pick up the slack. It is ashame that a place like that would need security, but if you are going to serve alcohol, you need to be cautious.

Serving alcoholic beverages to intoxicated people is illegal. As is allowing intoxicated people on the premises. The premises also include the parking lot.

A call to the ABC is in order if it is much of a problem. Doesn't take many complaints before they can start causing a place a lot of problems. Enough complaints and the police will usually respond by checking drivers leaving. A real deterrent.

Not to add insult to injury, but this place scares me.


http://forums.kentuckianamoms.com/viewtopic.php?t=2641

By the way, drove past today...... packed, packed packed!

From an outside perspective of not having been there yet... it seems like Incredible Dave's can't decide on whether it wants to be a "family" place, or an adult place. Maybe it's an issue with perception on the part of the patrons. I dunno. But it seems like that's something management has some hand in as well... or at least it should have.

Arrived at Incredible Dave's last night at 6 p.m. with a group (Grandpa, Grandma, Mom and 3-year old). Grandson played for 30 minutes (and loved it!--great concept). We (the hungry adults) convinced him to get a quick bite to eat, after which we promised he could continue playing. We were seated at approximately 6:35. Were not served drinks until 6:55, after which our server would return every 15-20 minutes to ask whether we needed anything else, only to wander off and never return with the requested items. She was only assigned a few tables, so there was no apparent reason for her disappearances, and others were also looking around, obviously not pleased with the service. (Another server also came over and apologized for our wait.) Our assigned server was also generally unaware of which parties had been waiting the longest, as 3 groups who came after us were (eventually)served before we were. At 7:40, I sought out a manager, and he promised to "get right on it". Our food came out about 10 minutes later, well after the 3-year old (looking at the bright lights and activity) was able to tolerate sitting and eating. The food was adequate at best, and (after another wait), we finally were able to pay our bill (with no concession or apology for our wait)at 8:15. Our grandson then left upset, because he didn't get to play much at all after dinner. This is a great concept, but we will not go there again. It is a shame, because we also noticed that--while they appear to be well-staffed-- there was not much supervision in the play area, several kids (with parents) were playing in areas (which require wrist bands access) without the bands (with staff looking on and not saying anything), and, in one instance, a parent (who was obviously too large) was allowed to climb up and go down the blow-up slide with a child who was obviously too young. I would also have to agree with the comments about family vs. adult. It may be possible to be both, but not within the system we observed. It's a shame--a great concept that will probably eventually fail because of the obvious things.

This place sounds like a total trainwreck. I might go over one night just to watch.

[Robin Garr]

This place sounds like a total trainwreck. I might go over one night just to watch.

For even more related yuks, see Kevin Gibson's LEO/LHB review of Dave's, and the 15-post thread that follows ...

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I thought streaking went out in the 70's. My 10 year old nephew loves that place, btw.

Professional, well-trained management -- executive, as well as operational -- doesn't permit this type of nonsense to occur at the restaurant....had something like this occurred at the FSR chain in which I worked several years ago -- seriously, people would have lost jobs almost on the spot.....and the recoil would have been felt at the corporate level regarding the quality of training and professionalism that's instilled into the ops staff....