When you show up for lunch at 11:30 or noon, you can never expect super fast service, but you should at least expect reasonable service. Our trip to Slayton's was a bit disappointing in this department.

We showed up, and the entire dining room was full. It was threatening to rain and nobody was sitting outside, but we decided to go ahead and take one of the picnic tables anyways. Our waitress came and took our drink order, then dissappared. More people kept arriving to eat, and soon, every table outside was taken (hey, we set a trend!).

About 10 minutes after ordering, our drinks arrived, in the hands of a very apologetic waitress. We told her not to worry about it, and proceeded to place our lunch orders.

Time passed.

More time passed. After about half an hour, we noticed some of the other outside tables receiving their food (they had all come after us). We were all hungry and bored, and I made a somewhat irritable comment to the manager as he rushed by our table to deliver someone elses food. He told us our food would be right out.

After another 15 minutes, our food finally arrived. I had ordered a combo beef brisket and sausage sandwich, with beans.

The sandwich was very good. The beans were a little too soupy, but tasted good. It had taken so long to get our food, we were kind of rushed to eat it and get back to the office, so we didn't really have a lot of time to enjoy it.

Slayton's is usually a pretty good place, and the service we got today was the exception, not the rule. Slayton's is a bit pricey for BBQ, in my opinion - especially for desserts. I would have loved to try the cobbler, but the six dollar price tag makes it prohibitively expensive.