OT: Worst restaurant/bar experiences, stories?
Piggybacking off of my thread from the other day on wild shit at sporting events, what are some crazy bar or restaurtant stories?
whether it's douchey service, fights or anything else. You have a story, I want to hear it.
mine: was at a Red Lobster once and a guy had a meltdown because they got his order wrong and he threw his plate of shrimp scampi against the wall, sending customers screaming/running while he continued to throw things. Police were called and he was arrested due to resisting arrest when he was trying to fight a bartender.
DISCUSS
This happened before the days of camcorders on cell phones, but man do I wish I had one. Id be a millionaire because i'd put it on youtube and it would be getting millions of views.
DISCUSS man throwing his plate of shrimp scampi.
Yep. My wife gets them from the store sometimes. I'm not sure which one (Sam's Club, Meijer or Kroger most likely).
Eating at Red Slobster is what it is - not a good experience.
I'm here all week - thx
Was in the exact same restaurant...told the waitress "I want a rubber band sandwich and make it snappy"
Drive carefuily everybody...and don't forget to tip your server.
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Jeez. I honestly don't think their food is THAT bad.
Went in without reservations on a busy night, they offered us table service in the bar area. Fine, no problem, my wife had been a waitress in her youth, we understand. But what they did was get the hostess girl to wait our table, or at least tried to; she was obviously pissed off to the extreme that she should have to wait a table, and proceeded to do whatever she could to ignore, abuse, disdain etc., we couldn't even get served water. Eventually I asked for the manager and politely expressed my desire to apologise to the young lady for inconveniencing her. We declined having our meal comped, but it remains the only time in 30+ years I have ever not tipped a server.
April 19th, 2015 at 10:49 PM ^
Shaw's is excellent - both the one in Chicago and in Schaumberg. The wife and I always eat there when we're out that way.
April 20th, 2015 at 12:54 AM ^
when we lived in Chicago- it was right across from our athletic club. Any restaurant can have an off night or be very busy, but this girl was way beyond anything we had ever experienced.
April 19th, 2015 at 11:59 PM ^
I haven't ever had bad service at Shaw's, but I find it to be a little overrated for the price. With so many good seafood restaurants in Chicago I usually go elsewhere
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Some waitress switched my Folgers Crystals with another ordinary national brand.
April 20th, 2015 at 12:03 AM ^
AS. GOD. AS. MY. WITNESS!!!!!
That wasn't an ordinary national brand. It was Columbian Decaffinated Coffee Crystals.
What are they finding?
honorable mention: I was at a Hoosters in Daytona and this guy felt up a waitress twice and she slapped him the second time.
"Hoosters" in Daytona. Totally different restaurant, probably.
Nah it was Hooters, I just screwed up.
i resent that comment. I met my wife at Hooters. She was a bartender.
I think the "classy" comment was directed specifically at the Daytona Hooters. It is a special place.
We have a new place in our area called Twin Peaks. It is what you would expect.
I always chuckle at the thought of the guy who insists that the reason he wants to take his wife and kids to Hooters is because he "just really likes their food."
The only way that story is a "worst restaurant/bar experience" story is if you're that guy. So... you felt up a waitress twice at a Hooters?
Well, he did say he met his wife there...
Yeh I know its only fast food, but watching the empolyees behind the counter argue and insult each other was really awkward. Couple that with slow service and cold food and I haven't been back to a BK in over five years now.
since the stories can go on, and on, and on. but how about one that is from ann arbor where i wasn't technically in the story. 'we' were out eating at the brown jug late one night. one table didn't have enough $ and decided to do a 'dine and dash'. well the manager somehow figured that out and when that particular table was on the way out they were confronted by an ann arbor cop. one of our football player buddies (no names here, but he was a lineman) panicked and without saying a word hit the cop on the button and dropped him on the spot. reminscent of caddy shack, they all quickly walked away leaving the cop.....
It isn't so much noteworthy as it is mystifying, and it wasn't an actual sit-in dinner but instead me ordering takeout. The Texas Roadhouse in Taylor - if you catch them on a night when they have people who can do things in parallel - has OK service. This was not such a night.
I called in a takeout order - or tried to do so - and heard "Texas Roadhouse, please hold". Click. I called again - same words, but this time actual hold music - for 10 minutes. I hung up and called again, figuring I had been forgotten. I assume the phone there has caller ID because now I get a frustrated, "WHAT??" from someone who can't be more than 18 perhaps.
I explain that I want to place an order, so they graciously let me do this and I give my last name - "Cook" - and they tell me 15 minutes. It takes 10 to drive there, so I leave after I call basically. I tell them I am here for a takeout order and I give them the name and they have no idea who I am.
"What did you order?"
I tell them what I ordered. Apparently, I am "Michaels" somehow, but as I could describe the order in graphic detail, I somehow get it - 15 minutes after my arrival. As was about to pay, I stopped and I asked to talk to the manager and I described my experience and managed to get my meal for 50% off, paying only for the entrees.
April 20th, 2015 at 11:47 AM ^
This reminds me of the Seinfeld episode, "The Chinese Restaurant". Particularly, where the host calls out "Cartwright". George later goes up to find out when they'll be seated, and the host says he already called them. Jerry: Who's Cartwright? George: Apparently, I am.
At least you got your food.
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"Have you ever heard the expression 'the customer is always right'?"
"That's not our policy, sir."
Classic.
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