McCormick & Schmick's is an adequate chain restaurant that clearly is a carbon copy of others located around the country.  The food is decent, but formulaic.  If you can get the wait staff to break from the script, they are usually quite friendly and eager to please.  As with many large \"upscale\" chain restaurants, butter seems to be the ingredient that is frequently overdone.  McCormick & Schmick's is no different.  They offer a 50% discount on lunches to employees of the South Side Works, and if I didn't benefit from that, I would never pay their normal prices for the food you get.