Bad Restaurant Experience

[Cheerio]

In 1974 I ate a plate of strawberry pancakes & heavy syrup that had a small but gross, crusty old pancake&syrup leftover spot, including a dead fly, UNDERNEATH the "fresh" pancakes, WHICH I didn't find UNTIL I was almost finished with my "fresh" cakes.

Yum, dirt AND extra protein. Not!

Apparently, it just wasn't the dishwasher's day.

They wanted to give me a complementary new plate of cakes, but I was understandably no longer hungry.

Another time, the same restaurant employed a waitress who left her job just after taking our order. Just quit, didnt say goodbye or even put in the orders of four tables. Since our table made a pretty large order, we sat a good 30 minutes without complaint . Unfortunately there were NO OTHER WAITRESSES in the restaurant during that time, so when we went in back to inquire only the cook, a dishwasher and a manager were there. Oops, they'd been too busy in back to notice no orders were coming thru plus their waitress had quit.

Hungry, that time we left hungry and I think we never went back.

[cheerfulgreek]

^^^ The pancake story was so gross.

I have two stories. One of my coworkers told me a news story about a fast food worker who put his pubic hairs in a rude customer’s food. Apparently, the fast food worker did jail time for it or something? It happened in New York.

And then the same coworker told me she’ll never eat at Taco Bell again because she went to one where they weren’t wearing gloves while making the food.

When I’m in a restaurant, I generally never send my food back if it’s wrong. Even if it’s not what I ordered, I just don’t feel comfortable sending it back because I don’t know what kind of day the server or preparer might be having lol. If it has mayonnaise on it, ewwww! — then I don’t know what I’ll do at that point.

[honeychile]

As a diner, or as a waitress? So many tales....!

[Phrozen Sands]

Originally Posted by honeychile

As a diner, or as a waitress? So many tales....!

Oh snap.. you’ve got both waitress and diner stories? Then you’ve really gotta post. 3-2-1 go! Lol

[navane]

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Looking at this thread, I was somehow reminded of a post I remember allllll the way back from 2008. Tippiechick told us a story about how a waitress snatched a plate of crab legs from her pregnant hands. LOL

Originally Posted by Tippiechick

LOL. When I was pregnant with Max, I was miserably sick with a condition called HG that made me seriously nauseated EVERY moment of the day. The ONLY place I could find relief was this certain Chinese buffet.

I went in there one day between lunch and dinner. It was 3:15. They started dinner at 3:30. I was there for the crab legs and expected to be charged a dinner price since it was 3:30 by the time I was seated and began eating the dinner foods.

Anyway, I had been there about 30 minutes and had one plate of crab legs. I had to eat them slowly to keep them down. I thought the waitress was going to ask me for a refill of my drink, but instead she took the plate that I was ACTUALLY STILL EATING OFF from OUT OF MY HAND. She threw me out saying I was trying to cheat the restaurant by eating dinner at a lunch price.

I tried to explain that I had expected the dinner price, as I was eating dinner foods. But, they said I had to go. I waddled out, but I still won't go to that place anymore.

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...gs#post1746973

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[honeychile]

An amusing one from my childhood:

I was on vacation with my parents, and we went to our first Waffle House. My mother asked the waitress if they served Egg Beaters, to which the young waitress replied, "Oh, no, Ma'am! We put them in the blender like everything else!"

And more recently:

About two years ago, we went out with three other couples to a restaurant in Valparaiso, near the school. It wasn't very crowded. The server was going around the table, asking everyone for their order. When he came to Linda, she described exactly what I was going to order, so when he came to me, I said, "I'll have what she's having!"

i doubt that I'll ever get the chance to say that again!