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Default What's the funniest or worst restaurant experience you'd had so far?


Stan Horwitz wrote:
> In article .com>,
> "Rob" > wrote:
>
> > Irrespective of the location, what's been your funniest or worst
> > restaurant experience/s you've had so far - as in the food and / or
> > service being terrible, or the food and service being fine and very
> > good, but something else amusing occurred.

>
> Several years ago, a few friends and I went into a diner in Philadelphia
> to eat dinner after we saw a movie. As our food was served, a waitress
> brought over a friend's chicken parmasian. This friend was the final
> person at our table to be served. The poor waitress' hand slipped as she
> was about to remove the platter from her serving tray. Instead of
> placing the food in front of my friend, she received her dinner in her
> lap and all over her shirt! Fortunately, my friend was just dressed in
> inexpensive casual attire.
>
> The friend who had the food dumped on her was every bit is beautiful on
> the inside as she is on the outside so she reacted very politely and
> calmly. The look on the face of the waitress was one of horror. The
> waitress could not have been more apologetic. My friend stepped into the
> ladies' restroom, cleaned herself up reasonably well. By the time she
> returned to the table, a fresh plate of food was waiting there for her
> and we had all our meals comped by the management.
>
> We tipped generously, including the dumpee, because the poor waitress
> really did look like she was having a bad day and the restaurant was
> packed at the time.