Complaint Review: McFadden's Restaurant And Saloon

DO NOT fall for McFadden's fake VIP name drawing!

McFadden's has a VIP name drawing online contest on their website, and they do this just to make people feel as if they just won a VIP reserved area, but it's a scam to have the winners get more people in the door.

I received a call from the Marketing Director and was told that my name was picked for opening day VIP reservations. The Director told me that I would be able to invite as many friends as I wanted...."the more the merrier" as she put it. I was also told that I would "drink on the owner" for the first hour, and my friends would receive a first drink voucher, and if I got more them 10 friends in, I would receive FREE DINNER on my next visit.

As a VIP group, we were still asked to stand in the long line, the bar attendants did not know of the VIP reservations, and I had to chase down people in order to get drink vouchers. The person whom gave us drink vouchers handed us 10 when I had 13 people in my group, and said to find him if we needed more. The so-called VIP reservation didn't even include a reserved area. We were just other patron's in this establishment. This was just a scam to get in as many people as they could on opening day. I contacted the Marketing Director several times about my horrible experience, and I have not received a response. If the people at the door didn't even know about the VIP reservations, I wasn't even about to ask about my "FREE DINNER".

Johnny
Peoria, Arizona
U.S.A.