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
Was standing in line at Wendy's and a gigantic dude walked in. He leans over to his friend, serious as a heart attack, and says, "Triple cheeseburger...that's the biggest they got?"
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In high school I worked at a grocery store. I walked in the break room and saw a 3-bill lady dipping fried chicken in a glass jar of mayonnaise. I was also horrified.
To be fair to her, I bet it tasted pretty good. It's basically just a McChicken without the bun.
My roommate, however, is very into Bar Rescue (he and his boyfriend are actually watching it right now as I type this) so I've seen enough horrible bar situations to feel as though I have experienced at least one.
I'm watching it, too! Today's a marathon.
You wanna be amazed? Go watch the episode done at O'Face Bar in Iowa. It's so bad that Taffer walks out on them. The manager and owners beat up their employees. And then they re-hire the manager a week after who beat up an employee after Taffer fired her.
Watchathon week on Comcast was a Bar Rescue binge watch. Watched every season.
April 19th, 2015 at 11:04 PM ^
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this guy went up to pay the bill at the register, got into a tiff with the cashier and proceeds to knock the Lions Club mints off the check out stand and halfway across the restaurant. Someone from his own table goes flying up to the counter and starts landing haymakers on the mint chucker (he becomes known as the "defender of the mints" to me and my buddy). A fight then breaks out between people at their table. Surrouning diners get hit with food as the tables/chairs get jostled about. These patrons then join the mele and about 25-30 people end up spilling into the parking lot in an all out brawl.
My buddy and I watch in amazement as the entire restaurant (patrons and workers) follow this circus outside and form a ring around the combatants, much like a scene from Lion Heart. We look at each other, quickly finish our food without saying a word and leave out the opposite entry way doors marking the only time in my life I ever pulled the dine and dash.
About 15 years ago I took my three kids to lunch at Taco Bell and the guy in front of me in line was stoned out of his mind (imagine that). He had a $20 dollar bill and was determined to spend each and every nickle on it for lunch leading to an extremely LONG ordering process as he would order stoner-style (give me one cheeeeeeeeseeeeee ennn-chaaaaa-laaaa-daaaaaaaaa), try and figure out how much he had spent and then how much he had left.
In the midst of this a very old lady (prolly in her 80's) came up to the same cashier screaming at him because she was SURE he had short-changed her a quarter. So this 16 year old cashier had stoner-boy trying to figure out how much food he could buy for $20 and a very pissed off geriatic yelling at him over a quarter.
My kids all watched this with wide-eyed wonder as stoner-boy got three HUGE bags of taco-bell and stumbled off to try and eat it and probably decided to never take a job in fast food if they could avoid it.
This past weekend. We decided to test out a northwoods (Wisconsin) bar/restaurant on a whim. We had driven past it many times, and finally succumbed to its mystique. It was a total dive, but that's OK with me. I grew up in rural Michigan, so dive bars hold a special place in my heart.
We had heard they serve pizza, so we asked for a menu. No menu available. They offered thick and thin crust pizza. My kids just wanted cheese pizza (they were getting a bad vibe). No cheese pizza was available - only pepperoni, sausage, or deluxe. That's when it finally hit me - they served frozen pizza. I laughed inside, knowing many fine northwoods establishments serve piping hot frozen pizzas. We gamely ordered a sausage thick crust and a deluxe thin. Best damn frozen pizza I ever had, maybe because I downed it with two icy cold Pabst from the tap.
April 19th, 2015 at 10:27 PM ^
Where, roughly, in Northern Wisconsin?
I've had a similar experience around Minoqua.
April 19th, 2015 at 10:33 PM ^
Not Minocqua. But very close. Greater metro Rhinelander region.
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Something about the BK mask is scary.
Almost as scary as this......thing from the late 90s.
It was a singing, animatronic moon they had at McDonalds and it scared the hell out of me as a small child. I used to scream my head off because the thing was too damn creepy. It didn't last very long.
I'm assuming they got rid of it because it scared the shit out of their Happy Meal customers.
Make It Mac Tonight was not scary you big baby!
put a nice new alternate Uni on old Mac Tonight? That may help.
I was like 4-5 years old.....look at that video.....that thing is still creepy.
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I have no story, but this is an outstanding OT thread. I am incredibly entertained--possibly becuase I'm on the last legs of a 70-hours billed work week--but nonetheless fantastically entertained.
and I ordered like 200 sliders and.... and... I forget the rest of the story.
The Necto on Liberty back then was called Chances Are, and at that time it had two or three floors above the dance floor. I was up on the third level with my GF having a beer, and on the level below us there were a couple of guys sitting at a table right up against the railing overlooking the dance floor. One of the guys was huge and thick, and looked stupid and really hammered as well. The GF and I are just minding our own business listening to the band when without any warning the big guy below us finishes his beer, and then throws the mug—it was a big heavy glass thing—at the band down below. Luckily he didn't hit anybody—a direct hit on somebody's noggin would have opened up a huge gash and probably a fractured skull to boot—but the mug crashed at the feet of the bass player and shards of glass went everywhere. The band missed a beat, and down on the floor many people realized that somebody had thrown the mug from an upper level, including the bouncers.
The bouncers were on high alert already, but then the meathand grabs his buddy's smaller beer glass and throws it down at the band. By that time the bouncers had ID'd the guy, and four of them come up ready for action. Needless to say the guy was not in the mood to go quietly, and it took all four of the bouncers to get the asshole out of there, but not before a few tables and chairs bit the dust. On my way out later I asked one of the bouncers who the guy was, and he said he was an MSU heavyweight wrestler who'd been in town for a match against UM.
I'm picturing this:
but the guy I saw was about three times Robert Carlyle's size.
Sick Boy can't even emote.
April 19th, 2015 at 10:29 PM ^
Some at UMich were actually pretty nice guys, but you wouldn't be surprised to walk into a party and see them chewing on the couch. Definitely a little off .....
Your experience reminded me of mine at Chances Are.
Some nurses can have really weird schedules. In order to get a date with this one nurse I had to go out on a Tuesday night. We went there to go dancing. I looked at the dance floor and saw that there were some girls dancing with girls. That wasn't .......unusual. Then we see guys dancing with guys. Well, ........it is Ann Arbor. We come to the realization that this is gay night. We did do some dancing. My date had the best line. She told me that we should leave when it came time for her to go to the bathroom. I had to go before her. All I can say it was really ...........weird.
I tell a friend at work the next day, my experince last night. He responds "You didn't know that Tuesday night is Gay night? I felt so ........dumb.
Gay night is the best night.
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When I was 5 we went out to eat for my parents' anniversary. I threw up all over the table.
For my friend's 21st birthday we went to Charlie's. It was the night Michigan lost to Louisville in the National Championship game. The line for Insomnia Cookies was longer than the bar. A fight broke out outside and everyone got kicked out. We drank sad beer at our apartment and went to bed.
For my 21st birthday we went to Charley's. It was the night Michigan lost to Louisville in the National Championship game. The line for Insomnia Cookies was longer than the bar. A fight broke out outside and everyone got kicked out. We drank sad beer at our apartment and went to bed.
Another bad one was at the Village Pisco in Manhattan. We got there about 15 min before happy hour ended and quickly ordered drinks, but our waitress was too slow and didn't get them into the computer in time. So our drinks were full price and the waitress and manager refused to give us the happy hour discount despite the fact it was completely their fault. Then I ordered this thing on the menu that had some grand description of sausage and fries with a house sauce. I get my food and its literally 2 microwaved hot dogs, some fries, and ketchup. And it was over $10.
I gotcha. I was 7 or 8 and went with the family to a well-known ice cream place in Traverse City. Its Friday, warm, tourist season. Like the last Friday in June. Threw up right in the middle of the crowd just moments after getting daquiri ice. Absolutely cleared the place out within 90 seconds.
Dad consoled me in the car afterwards by explaining how the owner had just a dozen weekends to make enough money for the rest of the year.