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Rob wrote:
Irrespective of the location, what have been your worst or funniest restaurant experiences you've had so far - as in the food and service both being extremely terrible, or being very good, but something else occurred. I worked with a complete clown for awhile. Drained the deepfat frier of HOT oil into plastic, which started to melt poured in water which steam up and splattered the oil about. Had his chef's hat sucked up in to the fan while cleaning the vent and ruined the fan...we couldn't use the griddle all day. Put fake maple syrup instead of oil in the deepfat frier and customers complained of sticky frenchfries. Etc. |
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Irrespective of the location, what have been your worst or funniest
restaurant experiences you've had so far - as in the food and service both being extremely terrible, or being very good, but something else occurred. |
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There was the time my husband and I tried a quaint little restaurant near
our home we'd passed by for years. We came right after they had closed after lunch to get ready for dinner. They hadn't locked the door and we didn't know. The gal was SO friendly and said come on in and sit. We said that was OK we'd come back. She insisted we stay so we did. She gave us menus and went into the kitchen. Arguing commenced in the kitchen. We couldn't hear what it was about. She came out with a smile on her face with our waters. She was just as friendly as can be. She went back to the kitchen and the heated arguing between her and the man started again. Four letter words a flying, loud yelling, it was so boisterous we though maybe knives could start flying. We started to get up to leave as she came back out... smiling again. We said we didn't want to cause any problems and she insisted we stay and took our orders. She went back into the kitchen... again heated arguing, cuss words a flying, both party's holding their own in the arguement. By now it was comical and my husband and I started thinking we were on Candid Camera or something. Out she came with our food. It was great. There was some more minor arguing, and they took our money and we left. We never went back, but we chuckle about it every now and then. Lynne "Rob" wrote in message oups.com... Irrespective of the location, what have been your worst or funniest restaurant experiences you've had so far - as in the food and service both being extremely terrible, or being very good, but something else occurred. |
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"Rob" wrote: Irrespective of the location, what have been your worst or funniest restaurant experiences you've had so far - as in the food and service both being extremely terrible, or being very good, but something else occurred. How about just plain strange? We went to Death Valley, once, in August. *Nobody* goes to Death Valley, especially camping, and in a car with no air conditioning, that time of year. We were just passing through. We slept on top of our sleeping bags. We went to the visitor's center in the morning, and then headed out of there. I had made a huge thing of lemonade, with ice. We drank the whole thing. We got out of the valley, and it cooled down a little bit. It was lunch time, so we stopped in Panamint at a little restaurant. It was completely deserted. There appeared to be one employee, and he was bored to tears. We didn't get menus, so we asked for them. He said just forget about it, order whatever we wanted. We weren't too comfortable about that, and ordered really simple stuff, like a BLT and a hamburger. He looked disappointed. It was good, and dirt cheap. -- Dan Abel Petaluma, California, USA |
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Rob wrote:
Irrespective of the location, what have been your worst or funniest restaurant experiences you've had so far - as in the food and service both being extremely terrible, or being very good, but something else occurred. Mine was in a local Chinese restaurant. There was an argument going on in the kitchen. It started off with some yelling and screaming and got progressively louder until there was the sound of pots and pans being thrown around. The matron of the restaurant went in and yelled and screamed at the kitchen staff. Things were quiet for a few minutes, but then it started up again. The old Mama went in and yelled and screamed and things got quiet. Then it started up a third time. Luckily, we were finished our meal and got out. |
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Rob wrote:
Irrespective of the location, what have been your worst or funniest restaurant experiences you've had so far - as in the food and service both being extremely terrible, or being very good, but something else occurred. This was only a good time, but I thought it was pretty cool. A couple years ago my ex's family brought everyone down to disney world for a week. For the most part we all went our separate ways during the week, but on the last day we all had dinner together at the buffet restaurant at the wilderness lodge place at animal kingdom (i forget what it was called). My ex has a number of food issues, no meat, no sugar, no starch, most fresh veggies are out. She was having a hard time at the buffet finding things she could eat. She began asking what was in various dishes so she could pick things that would not make her sick. Finally, the chef came out to talk to her and told her to sit down, he'd put something together for her. She protested, knowing that her issues were her own. he said "look at my uniform! It's clean! I hate that, I'm here to cook" She sat down and he proceeded to bring her appetizers, salad, soup, entree and dessert all one after the other. The presentation was beyond spectacular, it was beautiful, and the food was some of the best I'd ever eaten. -- ..:Heather:. www.velvet-c.com |
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Rob wrote:
Irrespective of the location, what have been your worst or funniest restaurant experiences you've had so far - as in the food and service both being extremely terrible, or being very good, but something else occurred. I don't want people throwing rolls at me. I'd also like to have my order taken within 10 minutes of sitting down after the drinks have been delivered. Jill |
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oh also, once David and I were in chinatown in chicago and we stopped for a
late lunch, it was probably after two. The restaurant we chose had hours posted and they were definitely open (lots of places closed between lunch and dinner). We went in and at first we were unsure if they wanted us there but they brought menus and water so we ordered. David ordered the watercress and bean curd. The first thing they brought him was some sort of steamed iceberg lettuce with sauce. He explained that this was not what he orderd and tried to reorder. The next thing she brought him was a plate of sauteed watercress with garlic. No sauce, no bean curd. we decided to just let it go and he had some of my food. As he was eating he found the rubber band that held the bunch of watercress together. They hadn't even bothered to unbind it before cooking. They spent the entire meal glaring at us from their table as they were trying to eat. I felt bad that we had messed up their schedule but I figure they got their revenge in their surly attitudes and all was even in the world. -- ..:Heather:. www.velvet-c.com |
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The Bubbo wrote:
..:Heather:. www.velvet-c.com Great blog (or whatever) You have a way with words. TFM® |
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TFM® wrote:
The Bubbo wrote: .:Heather:. www.velvet-c.com Great blog (or whatever) You have a way with words. TFM® thanks, I appreciate that. -- ..:Heather:. www.velvet-c.com |
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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 21:42:15 -0500, Dave Smith
wrote: Rob wrote: Irrespective of the location, what have been your worst or funniest restaurant experiences you've had so far - as in the food and service both being extremely terrible, or being very good, but something else occurred. Mine was in a local Chinese restaurant. There was an argument going on in the kitchen. It started off with some yelling and screaming and got progressively louder until there was the sound of pots and pans being thrown around. The matron of the restaurant went in and yelled and screamed at the kitchen staff. Things were quiet for a few minutes, but then it started up again. The old Mama went in and yelled and screamed and things got quiet. Then it started up a third time. Luckily, we were finished our meal and got out. Our experience was also in a small local Chinese restaurant. About three years ago, my wife and I had just moved to Sacramento from San Jose and we missed our favorite Chinese restaurants in the Bay Area. Near our home, we noticed a small Chinese restaurant in a strip mall. The prices were fairly cheap. We went in and ordered the normal things, (hot and sour soup, kung pao chicken, vegetables etc.). The food came and it was quite greasy. The vegetables were limp and mushy and not good at all. Neither one of us finished our food. We just paid for the meal and left, not intending to ever return. About a week later I was reading the local newspaper. There was a story about that local Chinese restaurant being shut down by the health department. It seems the owners were getting their vegetables from the large chain supermarket in the same mall. What's wrong with that you ask? Nothing if they had purchased them, but they were observed by the health department investigators digging them out of the supermarket trash behind the store. Yuk!!!! -Rusty, Sacramento, CA |
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In article .com, rt800
@joinme.com says... Irrespective of the location, what have been your worst or funniest restaurant experiences you've had so far - as in the food and service both being extremely terrible, or being very good, but something else occurred. Our neighbours took us out for a thank-you dinner recently (they'd had a dog attack, lots of killed and maimed sheep, he had to go away and we helped his partner cope with the carnage) - anyway, they took us to the recently renovated and renamed 'Copthorne' hotel & restaurant near by. Talk about pre-****ing-tentious. Oh, it was all made up very swish, a reception with uniformed receptionists who checked the bookings (for an empty restaurant) .... the waiter came across like a 17 year old schoolgirl with no previous waiting experience. /flute "Not a problem!" /flute off every time somebody addressed her - by mid evening this got extremely annoying. Orders for drinks that didn't arrive without asking several times -- in an empty restaurant, in which one other party had arrived meanwhile. The food was not bad, I'll give them that, my eye fillet was tender and the sauce was marvellous, but NO side dishes included with that (you gotta be kidding) so you had to order potatoes extra, vegetables extra, salad extra "Not a problem!" "Not a problem!" "Not a problem!" groan. Magnifying glass extra, did I mention you could well've done with a magnifying glass. Nor for the check, though, the figures on that were very large indeed. I'm just glad I didn't have to foot the bill, I would've 'spat the dummy' as the saying here goes ... all packaging and little content. -P. -- ========================================= firstname dot lastname at gmail fullstop com |
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Rob wrote:
Irrespective of the location, what have been your worst or funniest restaurant experiences you've had so far - as in the food and service both being extremely terrible, or being very good, but something else occurred. I have one which occurred while *working* at a restaurant. First of all, don't attempt to fool someone if you don't know how things work at the back of the house. Drink glasses (excepting bar glasses) go into the commercial dishwasher rack open side down. So don't you dare try to tell me there's a screw in your iced tea when gravity and the freshly washed glasses says there's no way a screw got into your glass. She demanded to speak to the manager, wanted her meal comp'd. He told her the same thing I did... sorry lady, there was no screw in the glass when the iced tea was brought to the table. Even if the dishwasher was falling apart (which it wasn't), screws don't fall UP. Jill |
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On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 05:55:01 -0600, "jmcquown"
wrote: Rob wrote: Irrespective of the location, what have been your worst or funniest restaurant experiences you've had so far - as in the food and service both being extremely terrible, or being very good, but something else occurred. I have one which occurred while *working* at a restaurant. First of all, don't attempt to fool someone if you don't know how things work at the back of the house. Drink glasses (excepting bar glasses) go into the commercial dishwasher rack open side down. So don't you dare try to tell me there's a screw in your iced tea when gravity and the freshly washed glasses says there's no way a screw got into your glass. She demanded to speak to the manager, wanted her meal comp'd. He told her the same thing I did... sorry lady, there was no screw in the glass when the iced tea was brought to the table. Even if the dishwasher was falling apart (which it wasn't), screws don't fall UP. Jill Once at a Farrells Ice Cream parlor, during a birtday party, my sister was served a Coke with a baby roach doing the backstroke among the floating ice cubes. Needless to say that killed the party right there. They took the Coke off the bill but charged our parents for everything else. The place closed about a year after that. I wonder why? Rusty |
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On 2005-11-26, Rusty wrote:
Once at a Farrells Ice Cream parlor, during a birtday party, my sister was served a Coke with a baby roach doing the backstroke among the floating ice cubes. Needless to say that killed the party right there. Once at a Farrell's Ice Cream parlor, during a birthday party, ....my mother and brother decided at the very last moment to not lunch there and walked back to their car to go elsewhere. A few moments later a F86 Sabrejet crashed into it killing 22 people. True story. nb |
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