Johnny Be Bad

Went to Johnny Rockets tonight with the kids. It's usually average, which I'm OK with, given that there's a jukebox on the table. But tonight seriously sucked. There was nobody there. Literally, no other guests from the time we got there at 5:15 until the time we finished our dinner and left. And the staff couldn't have been less interested. Our waitress was barely OK. Hardly smiled until the end. The manager (I think he was the manager) just sat at the counter, never looking up from his papers. Other servers / cooks were just hanging at a back table. And they charged me $.39 for chocolate instead of white milk. For each kid. That's $.78 for 2 squirts of Hershey's syrup. Seriously? I know we're in a recession and all, and traffic is down. Which is exactly why the manager should have taken 2 minutes to stop by our table and say he appreciated our business. Which is why the staff should have been out near the front of the store, where they could greet people walking by (there were plenty) and invite them inside. Which is why they shouldn't be nickel and dime-ing customers. The place was literally empty, except for us, and nobody seemed to care, let alone be doing anything about it. Turns out there's a reason the store was empty - they deserved it.