Robert Mendez

"If you don't know exactly what you're looking for, don't go—staff will point to a wall and let you dig and sift. "Can I help?" Means "I can reach that for you" or "I can tell you the price.""

"Not just transmissions! Put this team on your short list of quotes—no one has taken better care of me! Service and price, Patty, Tom and the crew are the best."

"Get the menudo—they do it right!"

"The salad was good (go, bleu cheese!), but the meat on the French Dip was tragically dry and tasteless."

"Really: verify that the bag you pick up is yours. Apparently some people still need to be told that."

"The button on the napkins really does call the waitress..."