Restaurant Horror Stories!!!!
 

Ladies, I just HAD to post the WORST restaurant experience that I have ever had. I went to a Chinese restaurant last night for take out. I placed my order, paid, and decided to sit and wait for my food. While I was sitting, a MOUSE ran across the floor!! :eek: :eek: I knew that I had seen a mouse, but I was just thinking to myself, "I KNOW that I didn't just see a mouse!" So, I got up and went outside to call my mother. She told me to just leave the restaurant, but I had paid already so I couldn't just leave.

While I was out on the phone, the guy came out and gave me my food. I thought about just leaving, but in the back of my mind, I knew that I didn't want the food. So I went back in and quietly told the waiter that I had seen a mouse. He grabbed a flashlight and went to look in the area that the mouse had ran. While he was looking, the phone rang and the waiter proceeded to take a phone order. I was like, WTF?? I am HERE and I see a mouse!! How dare you ignore that!! I was really trying not the cause a scene, but he was acting nonchalant while Mighty Mouse had come back out, waved at me, laughed, and ran around.

Some random guy that was just hanging out in the restaurant came over to see what I was talking about. I told him and he saw the mouse. He then said, "Oh. OK," and went and sat back down!! Some goofball waitress had come over and was just standing next to me like she was crazy. I pointed to the mouse, who had then begun to run around the waiting area. She was just smiling and giggling like it was an everyday occurance.:mad: I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone because everyone seemed to not be as worried about the mouse as I was. So I said, "Since you wanna laugh, laugh your @ss to the cash register and give me my money back!" The waiter seemed p.o.ed that I asked for a refund. He hastily handed me my money and I ran up out of there.:mad: Please believe that the Board of Health got a phone call!

Can you believe that?! Has anyone else had a horrible restaurant experience?

I haven't had a 'restaurant' mouse incident but I have had a 'food court' mouse incident.
Me and my girl go to the mall for our lunch break a couple of times a week. Well one time, all of a sudden we see this wave of people getting up and screaming. Turns out a mouse is running around the food court! :o So one of the workers is running around to catch it and then picks it up by the tail and carries it off. Lord knows where he took it! :confused:
Ugh! This just gives me the shakes when I think about it. :eek:
Not to mention this is one of the nicest malls in the area! And people just laughed and kept eating. Um..hello...did you just not see Mickey Mouses little cousin running around by your feet?? Oh hell naw! :rolleyes: Me and my girl were out of there!

The only Chinese restaurant I go to...
 

RD..uhhhhhh this wasn't China Doll was it?

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Re: The only Chinese restaurant I go to...
 

No, it was Mai Tai on Crowder. Where is China Doll? I may have to start going there. Chinese Kitchen is too far. Besides, to me, it's not as great as people claim it to be.

Re: Re: The only Chinese restaurant I go to...
 

If Chinese Kitchen is too far, then China Doll is also. CD is on the WestBank off Manhattan.

Another Chinese restaurant story
 

I remember years ago when my mother sent me to the neighborhood Chinese restaurant to get us some dinner one night. Okay, no problem, since I went there on a regular basis. However, that night turned out to be the last time that I went to that place. As I am standing there waiting for the lady to take my order, something told me to just look into the kitchen. Lo, and behold, what do I see but one of Mickey's family members walking through the kitchen!!! :eek: I said to myself, maybe I was seeing things. It was not my minds playing tricks on me, it was a mouse in the kitchen. I kindly just walked out of the restaurant, found the nearest pay phone and told my mother what happened. Let's just say that we did not have Chinese that evening.

BTW - The restaurant no longer exists - it's been replaced by a bodega. ;)

CTFU
 

Referring to vermin as "Mickey's family members." We're truly creative here on this GC.

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Slightly off topic here but, since there have been so many mouse stories...

We lived in Pennsylvania for a while when I was very young. Knowing that we wouldn't be in the state for long (just there for a temporary job that my dad was doing for his company), my parents decided to rent a townhouse instead of making a costly home purchase.

The townhouse we moved into was next to a big cornfield, and we used to get fieldmice in the house every now and then. My parents usually just shooed them out the door until, one night, my dad actually had one crawl up his chair and sit on his shoulder while he was watching TV. :eek: After that incident, Mom kept traps out for any uninvited house guests of the rodent variety.

Everytime that someone came to visit, I would invite them in to see our mice... Of course, the standard response to that invitation was, "You have MICE?"... So, me being the informative 4-year-old that I was, I would always reply, "Sure, wanna see the traps we've got for them?"

Mom was mortified but, hey, I was four --- what did I know? I just thought it was cool to have critters running around. :D :D They looked like my hamsters -- I didn't see a problem with it. ;)

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OK. I think that I know where that is. I went there one day for lunch. I work on the Westbank and we went to the buffet for lunch. I live in the East and that's kind of far to ride just for take-out. I used to hear that Jade East and Kim Ahn were good, but then, you never know. Chinese is something that you have to test and rate for yourself.

Okay, this is not a mouse story
 

Why did my old co-workers use to frequent a place that had such a terrible roach problem, that the fellas would literally have to knock roaches off the walls and tables before they could sit down.

They thought it was hilarious. They would always joke about it, but they continued to eat there.

I didn't get it. I don't have roaches in my own kitchen, I'll be damn if I'm about to pay good money to eat in restaurant with roaches in the kitchen, in the waiting area, and in the dining room.

In college, some of my DZ sisters and I met for dinner at one of the local Mexican restaurants. We were right in the middle of dinner when a roach ran across the wall about 6 inches from one of my sisters. :eek:

Never went there again.

Well about 15 of us went to Denny's on saturday afternoon, first this Denny's wasn't in the nicest part of town but it was close to where we were. We had this guy as our waiter he kep t getting out orders confused and when he brought them out almost veryone found hair in there food at different points of the meal and even after sending the food back for a new dish the same thing happened hair was still in the food, we were so grossed out the we decided to leave everyone who had har in there food decided to not pay. After that I have not been back to the Denny's since.

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NOOOOOOO. That's probably Mandarin House. China Doll (no buffet) is closer to the expressway in the shopping center with Universal and Burlington.

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Ok. I know where you are talking about. I havn't been there. The place that I went to was at Manhattan and Lapalco, in a strip mall. I've forgetten the name. I usually go to another restaurant (you guessed it, I don't remember the name!) It is off of Lapalco and Barataria, between Luther's and Walgreens. It's over where Belle Promenade was. They are pretty good.

Roaches and Mice and Rats ... Oh My!!!
 

I have a mouse and a roach story. Neither deal with a restaurant, but I'mma tell them anyway.

First the mouse. One of my best girlfriends is a VERY strange, hippie-type, big time weed smoker (out of a bong and er'thang). So, she's at my apartment one night (I no longer live there) and after we've both partaken of excessive libations, and she of excessive herbal stimulation, we decide to watch a little TV and go to bed. I'm on the phone and I see her sitting in the living room just chillin', but I see she's staring at something and her eyes seem to be following it. After like 3 minutes of this, she finally busts out cracking up and is like, "Dude, the cutest rat just ran under your couch." All nonchalant like. So, I ignore her and charge it to the weed and continue talking on the phone. Please know that this fool begins hunting for the rat (damn y'all calling them mice!) talkin' bout she wants to catch him and set him free :eek:. So, long story short (too late), I finally see the rat about an hour later and was terrified out of my mind. I had a twin bed at the time and my girlfriend is of the larger persuasion, but believe that both of us slept our grown a$$es in a twin bed, with the door closed and locked and moved my desk in front of the door. All this for the smallest, little rat. Comedy, I tell you. My landlord came and put down traps the next day. I moved out about a month later. The breaking point was when I came home one night and half a loaf of my bread was eaten. Mind you I lived alone and I knew I didn't eat it. :eek:

Now my nasty roach story. Picture this. I'm in my hometown visiting for Christmas and decide to check out Rush Hour at the dollar show. I already knew the theater was not up to par, but hey, it's a dollar, so what should I expect? Welllllllllllllllllllll, we get into the theater and not 5 minutes after the movie starts, I feel something crawling on my arm. I dismiss it as a fly, mosquito, ...... something. You know after the movie starts, it takes a minute for your eyes to adjust to the light and when they did, y'all why was the theater INFESTED with roaches??? I'm talkin' bout all over the seats in front of us, a few on the screen.... I mean they were EVERYWHERE!!! I was sick to my stomach. We left the theater immediately and I went straight home to take a shower and wash my hair. Just triflin', I tell ya!

LOL
 

Chinese Kitchen is GOOd. It just kills me how many folks try to pack themselves in there!


But my experience was at this little place where everyone from miles around come to eat a good burger...........Well first of all it's in the hood so you don't want to be waiting for your food very long (BTW it's a take out place, you don't go in and dine) But one day i went to place an order @ the window and right next to the ground meat table was the owner's wife CHANGING A DIAPER !!!

I was like WTF????????? Never again!

My mother refuses to set foot in IHOP ever again. She proceeded to put salt and pepper on a sandwich she ordered. Upon opening the sandwich, there was a cockroach sitting in the middle of the lettuce just as nice as you please.

I refuse to enter a Friendly's ever again. I ordered a strawberry milkshake and proceeded to drink it. Well, you know that when you drink it through a straw, the strawberries tend to clog up the straw, so I picked up the straw w/ the strawberry attached and attempted to eat the strawberry. Well, attached to the strawberry as it is coming out of the shake is a long blond hair! I called the waiter and showed him so he could take it away. He accused me of 'planting' the hair; mind you my kinky African hair was about 1 inch long at the time and I was dining with my husband whos hair is similar. The manager removed the shake from the meal and gave me a discount on the rest. I have not even entertained the idea of entering one of the many restaurants since this happened in 1992.

Re: Roaches and Mice and Rats ... Oh My!!!
 

OMG!!! *regurgitation*

librasoul<----would NEVER sleep again if this happened!!!!

Was this the Denny's on romig road or arlington?

What is up with the Chinese resturants?
 

When I was still in school, my roomate and I decided to grab some chinese for dinner. We were standing by the register trying to decide what to order. One of the workers asked the lady behind the register to toss him a towel to wipe of a table. She tossed, and he missed it, but it wrapped around his shoe. He proceeded to unwrap it from his foot and wipe down the tables.



I also have and IHOP incident. My sands and I were out of town, and IHOP was the only place open. We had bad service the entire time. But when we were at the register paying our bills (we could see into the kitchen). We saw the manager grab some eggs with his bare hands, taking them from one plate, putting them on another one, and served them. We made sure we told the table the food when to what happend.

It just makes you wanna shy away from eating out.

And don't get me started on food carry-in's at work.......folks just have different ideas about cleanliness.

There is a Chinese Restaurant in the area that used to get a lot of business in the mid-nineties. Well a friend of mine went to eat there and became sick that same night. She became so sick that her mother decided to take her to the hospital. *This is where it gets crazy* The doctor did whatever he had to do and determined that her illness was caused by bacteria in some food that she ate. Not just any bacteria though, bacteria that is found in HUMAN FECES!!! They traced it back to the Chinese restaurant when several other people got sick. I don't even want to think how bacteria from freakin-human feces got in her food.



I got a townhouse with a friend of mine about a year and a half ago. It was in College Park, GA and next to a really big field. One day I came home from work at about 11-11:15 and went to walk up the stairs to my room. As I am walking up the stairs a RAT(not a mouse, a big poodle looking rat) is chilling at eye level at the top of the stairs and looking at me. I did a nice 180 degree turn, went back down the stairs, and went for my bat. I got my bat rolled up the stairs and the rat ran into my roommates room. I flushed it out and it ran back downstairs. I tried to find it down there(why? I don't know) but couldn't. Eventually(a day or two later) it was caught in a rat trap and killed. It turned out that the management removed a dryer from the unit before we moved in and it never dawned on them to cover the vent that gave vermin a nice little path into our crib. Needless to say we did not live there long.

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Ohmygod. I am always so ANAL about where I will and will not eat Chinese food.. seems like something is always going wrong. I know a place around this way got closed a few years back because they found out they were serving CAT. :o

My boyfriend and I went to this Chinese restaraunt and while this man was fixing our food, he just started sneezing....he didn't cover his mouth, nose, or anything...he didn't even turn his head. Of course, I had a fit! I guess his manager or whomever it was made him leave. Then a few minutes later, I look in the back again and another cook is fixing his contact in his eye.When he got finished, he just continued to prepare the food without washing hand the first!! I was just like "Oh, it's time to go!!!"


Anther time, about 6 of us went to Applebee's and our waitress just simply forgot about us. We didn't get any refills and she never came back to our table not even to bring us the food (someone else brought it). We saw her standing at the bar talking to one of the other employees so I asked another waitress if she could get her for us....she just looked at us and never came over. So of course, me and my big mouth asked to see the manager...I explained to him what was going on and he apologized and got everything that we needed. When she finally brought us our checks, myself and the other females at the table went to the ladies room and our boyfriends paid. When we got back, there was of course a question of how much to tip the her. I just said put some money down and let's go. When we got outside, my boyfriend told me that when we were in the restroom, she came over to the table and said sorry she wasn't very attentive, but she didn't see any reason why she should be because she heard that we don't tip!!!!!!!!!! First of all, who is "we"??? Of course, myself and her manager had a very legnthy conversation, and I haven't seen her there since!

Carrows in Las Vegas.....
 

Ok...this is for anyone going to Las Vegas (sorors & non-sorors)...DO NOT go to Carrow's--I think that's the correct name. It is located right on the strip....It's on the same side of the street as the New York New York hotel...but, it's a ways down from there...My sis & I went there & the waiters were either rude or weird....our waiter was rude....when we told him we wanted Sprite, he said "Ok, water it is"...we laughed, thinking he was making a funny...How 'bout this fool brought us WATER! Then, when I ordered Sprite again, it had black stuff floating in it....We thought it was just us or just our waiter...but, then we overheard this girl at another table saying to her waiter "Is this your FIRST day?" It took fifty years for our food to come...and, then it WASN'T good!! It was just a really bad vibe in there altogether! I don't remember if it was dirty in there or not, but am afraid to try to think that hard back on the whole ordeal....

I cannot believe this BS
 

This shhh happened at my OWN restaurant. Today before I started my shift I ordered some chicken fingers and fries. I saw a kitchen worker fooling around with raw chicken. My intuition told me to stick around and see if washes his hands. Not only he didn't wash his hand the low-down country ghetto triflin' nasty a$$ wench grabbed my fries and chicken with his bare hands that just touched the RAW chicken. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Well I got desperate one day and decided to go to McDonalds for a quick lunch....my "chicken" nuggets tasted like plastic and as I took a sip of my soda I noticed a large bug stuck on the underside of the lid of the cup...:mad: Ugh I felt like throwing up! Needless to say I took it back and got my two dollars back..:rolleyes:

It's like this....
 

If the person uses the restroom and does not wash his/her hands the bacteria can transfer to your food. YUK.

I would hope somebody didn't actually poop in her food.

(can ya'll tell I have a baby now? I said "poop") :)

Okay
 

For those of you that notice rodents in establishments, call the health department. Even though they might not do anything, that chit is atleast documented...

Although I have had numerous restaurant incidences, this particular one is by far the best that happened to my family and me.

WARNING: THIS DESCRIPTION CONTAINS VULGARITY. THIS DESCRIPTION IS RATED PG-13 AND MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR SOME WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT

Ironically, this incident happened at a Chinese restaurant...

My family and I went to this restaurant to have this wonderful dinner. The food there is rather good, so we did not have food issues. The Maitre D came to her podium and sat us down in a booth: my mom and dad, my brother and me. I guess I was still in college or I just graduated. Anyhow, our booth was next to this huge round 6 person table. They were having some sort of celebration and were in the middle of their meal. Then the waiter came by and served us water and asked for our order for drinks and appetizers. When he was gone, we were sitting there, and suddenly, my dad starts squeezing his nose as if he smelled something. My mom asks him what's going on and he says that somebody just "farted" (he says it just like that):rolleyes:. And my brother and I say, what? And he repeats it and says, "can't you hear it!!!":eek:. So we listen and sure enough, some guy, right next to us in the big table is "passing gas"... My brother and I just fall out laughing...

So, my mom is gonna call herself telling the waiter, that barely speaks English, that this guy is passing gas!!!:eek: My mom (sometimes I think she's clueless), repeatedly tells the waiter, the guy next to us is P-A-S-S-I-N-G G-A-S, then my dad chimes in "HE'S FARTIN'" :p then Maitre D steps in and thinks she knows what were saying and talks to him in Chinese, but they have this confused look on their faces trying to unrelentlessly understand :confused:. By this time, my brother and I have hit the floor, 'cuz the whole dayum thang is too funny to us...

Anyhow, we had gotten our food by this time, and my dad was getting angrier and angrier. My mom thought this guy just didn't know he was "pootin'" all over the place... I dunno if we ate our food. But by the end of our meal, I had left the table to use the restroom. I guess, while I was gone, my dad belted out, "SIR, YOU HAVE RUINED OUR DINNER!!!" :mad: and when I got back, it was all quiet and folks were lookin' at us... We just left. Then the poor guy came to our car as we were leaving and told us, that he had just had surgery (of what I dunno :confused: ) and offered to buy us dinner. My dad, felt sooo bad, but WTF?!!? The dude was "pootin'" smelly ones!!!

But this whole incident was sheer comedy for my brother and I... And that's a story we'll never forget...

years ago, my friends and i were in mcdonald's, late one night. my friend ordered a big mac w/out something or other, so it had to be "specially" made. while waiting, i'm looking around and saw the guy who was preparing the big mac, pick his nose and continue preparing it, like that ish was cool. mind you, he didn't pick at his nose, his finger was all up in his nose.

i'm standing there, like wtf. so, i tell my friend, what happened, but she either didn't believe me or was just as nasty as him, because she wound up eating that big mac.

and... she wonders why booga became her nickname.

:eek: :eek: GROSS!! :eek: :eek:

TTT

I haven't had any recently. I try to stay away from some places now. Of course one of my friends suggested we eat at the Chinese restaurant that I wrote about one night. I had to tell my HORROR story all over again. Needless tosay, I am sure their business hasn't been the same.

Boy am I glad somebody started this post!!!!!!
 

I got 3 stories ta tell!!!

1) The first one happened at...you guessed it, a CHINESE place!! (Am I the only one who sees a PATTERN here :eek: ?)

Anywho...my mom, two of my aunts and myself were at the "Win China Buffet (on Devine street, next to Bi-Lo) here in Columbia, SC. We get to eating, you know everything was all good. Next thing you know, I see my mom out of the corner of my eye spitting her food out back into her plate. She says, "Oh my God, let's get out of here...LOOK at my brocolli!" D@m if it wasn't the biggest, hairiest caterpillar on the stem of the brocolli that she was about to put in her mouth. At this point, one of my aunts goes to tell the nearest waiter. She whispered the problem in his ear and he has the nerve to say out loud, "Go find you waiter, I not you waiter". She announced to the restaurant, "Don't eat the brocolli, it has worms on it". We left and half of the place left with us. We were disgusted but we laughed all the way home. :)

2) Next....a friend of mine ordered a triple cheese burger from McDonalds (on Broad River Road). He starts eating and realizes that something rubbery is on the sandwich, because he can't bite through it. How 'bout, he took the sandwich apart and discovered a CONDOM :confused: . WTF

3) Then....a friend of mine ordered a burger from Sonic (on Decker Blvd.). She took her bun off to put ketchup on it and discovered a fly on the lettuce. YUCK


Stories like this are the reasons why I prefer to enjoy my own cooking in the comfort of my home. I like the fact that now, WLTX, a local television station now airs the "Restaurant Report Card" on the news. They show the best and worst grades of restaurants which have been reported by the health department inspectors. On the news website, they post all of the grades. I view them every week. I needs to know what was found in the kitchens of some of these nasty places!!!!!
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You see, I try not to discriminate, but they are getting out of control in their restaurants...

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2) Next....a friend of mine ordered a triple cheese burger from McDonalds (on Broad River Road). He starts eating and realizes that something rubbery is on the sandwich, because he can't bite through it. How 'bout, he took the sandwich apart and discovered a CONDOM :confused: . WTF

It wasn't....used.... was it? I feel the nausea coming....

I think ALL cities should have something like this!

Two Chinese Food Stories:

In college, there was this Chinese Restaraunt who served food for really really cheap prices. I always got it delivered and I always got the chicken wings. Those were usually okay, but I decided to get Cashew chicken one night. When I got it, it looked and tasted JUST like soul food with hardly any cashews in it. I was like, what is this??? A week later, I happened to be shopping and I finally saw the restaraunt I had been ordering my food from. It was no bigger than the size of a closet and it looked tow-up! I'm sorry, but I just don't trust places if they don't look good enough to my standards. I never ordered anything else from there.

I found another Chinese Restaraunt and ordered sesame seed chicken. I bit into it and came across something hard. It was like grisel or something chewy but not edible. So I spit it out and kept eating, thinking no big deal. I bit into ANOTHER piece of grisel. then another...then another. About half of my food had "grisel" in it. And chicken is not supposed to have that much damn grisel. I couldn't finish. I haven't eaten Chinese food for a while since.

I was on the turnpike and had stopped after a few hours to get something to eat. I went to McDonald's, placed my order and this guy walks out from the back while mopping his way to the front and puts my food in the bag :(

I told politely told him that I didn't want the food after he was just mopping and didn't wash his hands. No gloves- just bare hands. He said, "oh, I can make you another order" while walking right over to the food to do it again! He STILL didn't wash his hands. :mad: I asked for a refund.

I went next door to get a slice of pizza instead. While walking to the exit I passed right by McDonald's...he picked up his mop and began to clean the floors again as I walked pass shaking my head.

This is what takes the cake - He was the manager!!!! :(

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It wasn't....used.... was it? I feel the nausea coming....

It was unrolled, so it may have been used. The person who is believed to have put the condom on the burger was fired, but there were no criminal charges or anything filed.

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First off...HEY fellow Columbianite!!!

Anyway, GIRL...I am RELIGIOUSLY in front of the TV on Thursday's to see the RRC on WLTX. You would be surprised at some of the places on there that get borderline grades! :eek: I don't know if you are like me, but it doesn't impress me when someone gets like a 'C' on a surprise inspection, and then they go back the next week and have an "A"...shoulda done it right the first time! :rolleys: My girls and I will quickly do an about-face if there is anything less than an "A" on the door.

Did you know that the AppleBee's on Broad River had a "C" one week we went to eat there? :eek: Chile!!!! **shaking head**

2 stories....

I stopped off at a Checkers one afternoon after work and soon realized I had very little cash on me, so I order a burger, small fries and a cup of water. When I got to the window the little wench told me their water was not working! :eek: I'm like "Well how are you washing your hands???" She had the nerve to say "Oh, my hands are clean!" Needless to say, I got my money back and called the health department the next day!!
Open Letter to resturants: If you have no water, close for the day!!

Another time I stopped at a Wendy's late at night. I'm sitting at the window waiting for my food when I see this chick sweeping. She finishes sweeping, picks up the trash, then proceeds to pick up a cup, dip it in the ice (with no scooper) to fix my dirink. When I called her on it, she tried to get a attitude with me. Little heifer...

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Thank GOD i was not eating when I read this. That is DISGUSTING!!