{"id":1333,"date":"2011-06-13T13:56:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T13:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2011-06-13T13:56:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T13:56:44","slug":"looking-glass-cafe-wrentham-mass-goes-beyond-affordable-diner-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=1333","title":{"rendered":"Looking Glass Cafe, Wrentham, Mass., Goes Beyond Affordable Diner Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1334\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_1334\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 150px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/P1120140.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1334\" title=\"Looking Glass Cafe, Wrentham MA\" src=\"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/P1120140-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Looking Glass Cafe, Wrentham, Mass. (photo by Eric)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_1334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking Glass Cafe, Wrentham, Mass.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Looking Glass Cafe in Wrentham, Mass., reflects well upon affordable, customer service-oriented diners.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s why: on Sunday, I took a nice drive to have some lunch at the Looking Glass. The problem was, they only served breakfast that day.<\/p>\n<p>Right out of the textbook of &#8220;Great Restaurant Customer Service,&#8221; the waitress said without hesitation, &#8220;We don&#8217;t serve lunch on Sundays, but that&#8217;s OK, we can make you some lunch. It&#8217;s really not a problem at all. Just let me know what you want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The turkey wrap with fresh turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce was absolutely delicious, the atmosphere warm and friendly, and the prices nice &#8212; with menu items under or well under $10.<\/p>\n<p>Folks, this is a sign of a restaurant that clearly cares about its customers. Not only with me at that given moment, but the regulars that I saw come into to dine on some affordable, diner-like food. The staff knows the customers and vice versa. For outsiders like me, I felt like part of the family.  I&#8217;ve made the same Sunday mistake before at other restaurants and sometimes spoken to like some kind of goof ball not knowing the restaurant menu protocol on that day.<\/p>\n<p>The Looking Glass Cafe has my business because sometimes you need something that goes beyond good, affordably-priced food. That, my friends, is good customer service!<\/p>\n<p>It was nice to have a meal at the counter served quickly by a pleasant waitress, hear the conversations going on, return home with a content stomach, and gain hope for a more customer-service oriented world. \u00a0I highly recommend The Looking Glass Cafe as a sunny, friendly breakfast and lunch spot if you&#8217;re in the area&#8211; and just a five minute ride from the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitingnewengland.com\/wrentham_outlets_shopping.html\">Wrentham Outlets<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><em>Looking Glass Cafe<br \/>\n56 South St.<br \/>\nWrentham, MA<br \/>\nTel. (508) 384-2820<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Looking Glass Cafe in Wrentham, Mass., reflects well upon affordable, customer service-oriented diners. Here&#8217;s why: on Sunday, I took a nice drive to have some lunch at the Looking Glass. The problem was, they only served breakfast that day. Right out of the textbook of &#8220;Great Restaurant Customer Service,&#8221; the waitress said without hesitation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[269,275],"tags":[1052,1050,1051],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}