"My wife and I visited Hickory Tavern for the first time last night. I was a bit surprised that a sports bar was empty on a Saturday night during college football season. We were seated right away by a host, but waited nearly 15 minutes for awaiter/waitress to attend to us. We noticed that out of the entire restaurant, there were only two waitresses working all 8tables that had guests. Along with two waitresses, there was one bartender, and then about 4 guys (waiters? who werejust...standing there. Not working, not checking on guests. They were just standing near a table, on their phones, andoccasionally looking at us and other guests. As we were about to say screw it and leave, a waitress came over to apologize forthe long wait, say there was some confusion in the kitchen, and got out drink order. Then, one of those guys that had justbeen standing there not working appeared with an order of complimentary BBQ nachos and gave them to us. We ate those whilewatching football. Waitress came back 5 minutes later with our waters, and got our food order. After she wrote it down, shewarned us that the kitchen is slow. We noticed our drinks had been sitting at the bar for about 10 minutes before our waitressnoticed and brought them to us. Our food came out at a reasonable time, and it was okay. Our waitress didn 't check on us whileeating our food. We noticed that she wasn 't at any other table either. We finished our food, continued to watch football, andwaited another solid 10 minutes before our waitress asked if we wanted our check. We said yes, and she responded I 'll get thatas soon as I can. Which we would 've understood if she was busy attending other tables...but she wasn 't. She just went back tothe kitchen and disappeared for another 5 10 minutes. During that time, we noticed a party of 4 had come in and had the sameissue as us waited 15 minutes for a waitress to even get their drink order. As they were about to say screw it that one guy(I '"