Free meal from Outback for poor service/food

The family is out of town, so I decided to not mess up the kitchen and went to Outback in Lewisville. Sat at the bar, and waited. Bartender having a rousing conversation with some girls and ignoring me. Finally, after five minutes he pays attention. Asks what I want and I say, 'a beer'. He points to the tap. Tries, for some reason to push Shock Top on me, and after four tries with me saying I don't like it, I ask what he has in bottles and he looks at me real funny. I had to ask him four times, 'what do you have in bottles' before he answered, 'well what do you like?"

"just tell me what you have".

"I dunno"

Okay, I ask for a Newcastle and they have it. Good. I order. A filet and lobster tail. After ten minutes the salad comes out and my beer is empty, plus... No bread, or even being asked, "would you like some bread?"

I pull up the stopwatch on my iPhone and start the timer and just wait on eating the salad. I'm totally ignored, and there are maybe twenty patrons in the entire restaurant. Finally, at the 10:00 mark, I lost my patience and added a bit of 'emphasis' when I blurted out, "would it help if I stood up on the bar to get some service?" well, I finally got service, but the whole crew seemed disinterested.

When the main course came out, you'd have thought the lobster tail (split in half) was two medium sized shrimp, it was so small. The butter had so much salt in it that it was inedible.

While I sat there, stewing a little, the manager, who had been oblivious to the goings on of her establishment, non-chalantly walks by and says, "how's your meal?"

So I ask if she wants the fresh from the cow version or the homogenized version.

Needless to say, she comped me (except for the brews).

I'd been to this place at least 50 times over the last ten years and this was the first time I'd ever experienced bad service, so I told her it wasn't necessary and that I just chalked it up to maybe my expectations were out of whack. She insisted, so I let her buy me dinner.

Told the wife, later over a phone call, that some woman bought me dinner tonight. She just asked if I had dessert after the dinner.