Restaurant experience’s
josevolution
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I’m sure we can all come up with at least one time where you experienced either a funny event or a shitty event at a restaurant you were eating in or ordered out from , last night I experienced a bad one of these .
I called one of our favorite Sushi restaurant to place an order for me to pick up I placed the order around 6:00 pm from where I work it takes me over 45 minutes to drive home I told them I’d be there at 7:30 to pick up food lo and behold I walk in at 7:30 and they hadn’t even started my order so now I’m not happy in comes a lady to pick her order that was placed around the same time as mine hers wasn’t ready either she was pissed she had just driven from the city so easily an hour drive we talked we both had the same thing happened to us I had to wait another 30 minutes for my order to be ready she had to wait longer , I found this to be unacceptable and when we started eating our food we found it to have been put together in a haste in other words didn’t enjoy it as much ...
I called one of our favorite Sushi restaurant to place an order for me to pick up I placed the order around 6:00 pm from where I work it takes me over 45 minutes to drive home I told them I’d be there at 7:30 to pick up food lo and behold I walk in at 7:30 and they hadn’t even started my order so now I’m not happy in comes a lady to pick her order that was placed around the same time as mine hers wasn’t ready either she was pissed she had just driven from the city so easily an hour drive we talked we both had the same thing happened to us I had to wait another 30 minutes for my order to be ready she had to wait longer , I found this to be unacceptable and when we started eating our food we found it to have been put together in a haste in other words didn’t enjoy it as much ...
jesus greets me looks just like me ....
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I'm going to share a good one.
Went to Atlantic city for a bachelor Party recently. Whenever we go out my friends let me choose the wine.
That night out I look over the wine list and I see under Red Zinfandel one of my favs, Seghesio. It's on.
I order the fillet w the Bearnaise sauce. Awesome fillet. Awesome wine.
A few of my buddies have now added Seghesio to their wine lists.
This was at the Old Homestead steak house.
Enjoy
It was dead in there, maybe 3 or 4 other groups. We were the only group for our waiter that we could tell.
After we placed our order, we never saw our waiter again. We asked other waiters, asked the manager, and kept just getting answers like "the food is on the way, he'll be right here." Before long, employees were avoiding our table like the plaque. We couldn't get anyone to acknowledge us, it was the weirdest thing. We couldn't even get refills on our water and soda. Sat there hungry and thirsty. Eventually we made a big enough scene and got the manager, she apologized, told us our waiter was new and got overwhelmed and had a breakdown and our food will be right. Like I said, there were only about 3 or 4 other groups in the entire restaurant, and we were the only ones he was serving. How was that possible? We saw several tables get seated, ordered, served, eat and leave while we waited for our food.
Still waited and waited. Nothing. Had to flag the manager down again. Ask for water. Ask for food. The manager brought us our food about 5 minutes later. It was cold, and a couple of us didn't get the order right. I think it was about an hour and 20 minutes from when we ordered until we got our food. Shortly after the manager brings us the bill. Not a cent was taken off. I was outraged and said I am not paying this, we waited well over an hour, it was cold and disgusting. It had clearly been ready to serve for a long time and no one was willing to bring it to us while out waiter was having his "meltdown." Not even the manager who was aware of the problem, or the other waiters who we kept asking cared enough to do as little as refill waters. She said "let me see what I can do." This time the manager is gone like 15 minutes, again everyone is avoiding us. I was trying to get up and leave, but we were visiting an older couple who did not feel comfortable doing that. I thought the fact the manager never came back was a sign they didn't expect us to pay. She eventually does come back after 15 minutes, and only gave us half off. I was still pissed.
I tried to just get up and leave, but the older couple refused. We ended up paying the half.
I left zero tip, the older couple left a pretty good one.
The only reason we stayed was we just drove 7 hours to visit this couple who were long friends of my wife's family. We were tired, had 2 small kids, and didn't feel like driving around to find somewhere else, we kept expecting our food any minute. Any number of employees could have served us, instead they let it site there for probably at least 45 minutes and get room temperature before the manager decided to step in (after we've been complaining and already speaking to the manager about it).
The weirdest part was when we were dealing with the bill, the waiter finally comes out, the biggest smile on his face, super good mood, asks if everything is okay and how dinner was. He definitely went to the bathroom and took something.
Weirdest restaurant experience I've ever had.
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That sucks. It drives me nuts when you're at a sports bar type place and they don't have the right games on. Especially when it's for a local team. I shouldn't have to ask someone to turn on the Bulls or Blackhawks game when I'm out at a bar. And then half the the time when you ask someone to put a game on it they don't have a clue how to do it and it takes forever for someone to figure it out.
I don’t know if this falls into the same realm . ..
Years ago, I was out with a group of co-workers, the table kept getting longer and longer. It was not so much a restaurant setting but more of a drinking/appetizer event. As more co-workers arrived, we moved tables to our group.
There was one waitress assigned to our group, regardless of how large the group became. If she were overwhelmed, I could understand. But that wasn’t even it. She was not attentive to the group at all. I remember thinking, what is wrong with this young woman, there are 25 people here, do you have any idea what the least bit of effort, attention, means to your tip?
I also thought, well maybe she’s new, or maybe she’s seen this before and been burned.
It’s all about work ethic. In my mind,
I was the most
conscientious food preparer Taco Bell ever had, the most responsible stock person Kmart ever had. It’s about taking pride
in your job, whatever that job may be.
Pride in a job well done is self-respect 101. It's been a long time since my Taco Bell/KMart days but I still carry that ethic with me today. And it's served me well.
When it was slow, we’d go get baked in the walk-in and play football in the parking lot.
The tough part was remembering someone’s drive-thru order until getting back inside to the register.
Good times at Taco Bell. Sammy Davis Jr. came through the drive-thru and got pissed when I sang “Mr. Bojangles” at him. Also, I learned that “a whole shitload” is seven. Someone ordered a whole shitload of tacos, and when I asked them to clarify exactly how much a whole shitload would be, they told me seven.
Bring back the green sauce!!!
not the whole meal, the salad. fuck you lone star steakhouse.
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Just last weekend we waited over an hour for pizza, but at least they were nice about it and only charged us for the drinks without us even complaining.
I called the waiter over and pointed at my plate. When he saw the slug he turned ashen, said something along the lines of "oh my god!", and whisked the plate away. He came back a few minutes later, somewhat more composed, and apologized. He also said "there's no charge for the dessert, of course". I laughed at him and said "you've got to do better than that". He went away again, came back, and said "we'll give you the wine for free".
It was kind of an expensive bottle of wine, so I went with that. I still believe they should have comped the meal.
And thank goodness that I didn't find half a slug.
Arkansas steamer bean....
If I was on dish duty, those were the cleanest goddamn dishes anyone has ever seen.
Myself and a co-worker were traveling from PA to AZ. I had mentioned to him that The Big Texan steakhouse restaurant is on the way in Amarillo and that we should stop there to eat. All I talked about for two days was eating a nice big piece of Prime Rib with some fresh horse radish!
We arrive around dinner time, the place is busy but not packed, we checked out the 72oz steak on display, that is a lotta meat!
So we get seated and I don't even look at a menu because I know what I am ordering!
Waitress asks "what'll ya have?"
Me "The biggest prime rib you've got!"
"Oh sorry sir but we ran out of prime rib."
The look of happiness has now vanished and replaced with my mouth agape...
My buddy pipes in "all he did was talk about that prime rib for two damn days. He's beside himself, look at him!"
The waitress says she will bring me a wonderful fillet that will be even better than the prime rib.
OK!
I ask for medium. It comes back raw. Literally raw. I cut into it and it was red and bloody. Maybe on the grill for 5 seconds.
The waitress sends it back and the manager comes with a fresh off the grill steak 20 minutes later.
"here you go sir, sorry about that!"
I cut into this steak and same thing, raw...I ask the manager "that looks raw to me, what do you think?"
"That's raw sir I am sorry! I'll be right back"
Another 10 minutes goes by and then he is back with a nice medium done steak. It was just ok...
Bill comes and there is nothing, as in ZERO, deducted from the bill.
No free soda.
No free desert.
Nadda...
Do not eat at the Big Texan in Amarillo.
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