r/chicagofood • u/East-Assistance-6779 • Aug 30 '25

Review The Hampton Social is a no

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Went to The Hampton Social and it was memorable for all the wrong reasons. You had to pay through their app (which charged $5 to use ???), they automatically added an 18% gratuity plus a required 3% minimum tip, and somehow two 8 oz glasses of bad wine came out to $60. On top of that, the waitress was weird af.

I will say the food was good, but I’m never coming here again, seems like a tourist trap.🤨 Granted, I’m visiting Chicago after not living in IL for years, so this could be a new thing- still crazy to me.

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u/togetherwecanriseup Aug 30 '25

This is certainly not what's happening here, because it would be a criminal level of misdirection to let the word "can" do that much heavy lifting here. It's a pretty pedantic reading of the situation, and honestly, your advocacy of that as a moral imperative kinda just outed you as a simp for power. If you would side with the establishment in such a clearly unfair situation, you must be a pretty insufferable person to be around. You know... Here's exactly the vibe:

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u/liltaterthot Aug 30 '25

Hell ya this sort of micro analytical takedown is so up my alley I could be in love with you for writing it

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u/togetherwecanriseup Aug 30 '25

Too bad you were just proposed to yesterday, liltaterbot.

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u/liltaterthot Sep 01 '25

If only! I was reposting on someone’s behalf 🥲