Worst experience at a restaurant

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a fat cockroach fell on my shoulder from the ceiling
>at the restaurant I work at
I was carrying a bottle of wine, four waters and three cocktails on a tray at the time
nearly lost my shit
broke the bottle of wine dancing around trying to get it off
manager saw me freaking out and brushed off the roach and killed it
>in front of a table

First couple of times eating at American restaurants of below "dining" standard.

The wait staff chatter incessantly and inanely, left twice without eating before catching on to the fact that it's the norm there.

Years back, a couple of friends and I stopped at an Olive Garden one a weekday evening. The place wasn’t crowded and we got a seat quickly and the waitress took our drink orders and then… didn’t return for about 15mins and when she did, it was _without_ our drinks, so we ordered drinks again and our food and then… she didn’t return for about 15mins. Also, it took them forever to make the food.

Other then that, I’ve never had any hassles in restaurants.

>take gf out for dinner to mcdonalds for date night
>she acts pissy at me the whole time
>won't make conversation, on her phone the whole time
>yell what the fuck do you want from me
>flip the tray of food over
>starting doing the oppa gangnam style dance
>she runs out the door crying
>everyone in the restaurant looks at me
>put on a pair of sunglasses and smirk
>THIS IS HOW I BECAME BARNEY STINSON MOTHERFUCKERS
>pulls out a machine gun and kill everyone

>holds up spork

>be out with my gf
>one of Gordon ramsays restaurant's
>girlfriend is a picky eater and doesn't want anything there
>start arguing
>she's making a huge scene
>head waiter asks us to leave
>he opens the door
>get on the floor
>everybody walk the dinosaur

Not the restaurant's fault but eating with my brother in public is always a bad experience.

He has the need to touch each portion of food on his fork/spoon to his chin before he eats it. It's especially embarrassing in nicer places.

I try to ignore it and when eating in private that's easy since he's done it for as long as I can remember. When in a restaurant after a few minutes other diners start to notice and stare/point him out to others on their table. I try to avoid dining out with him apart from on special family occasions.

>go to restaurant
>remember that i can't eat outside
>go home

Man it sucked.

Didn't happened to me but someone I know

>Just arrived in Mexico
>need to keep money so go in a cheap restaurant
>food is bad
>find a teeth in the food
>wall-ceiling joining is curved
>cockroach keep trying to get to the ceiling but keep falling closer and closer to plate

Also all of the walls were cheap wood wall except for one with "earthquake" written on it in Spanish

-take out gf to local burger king
-she's making a huge scene because they were out of curly fries
-they never had curly fries in the first place
-the story was so frustrating I decide to post it in this horrible thread
-remember my keyboard's meme arrow key is broken

Why made you choose this girl as gf ?

>sit down to eat at generic family restaurant near my house with a friend
>he orders a salad before his meal
>salad comes
>they don't give him silverware
he sat there eating it with his hands and was done before they noticed. happened twice at the same place.

>go out to eat alone
>fifteen minutes in the waitress walks up and smiles at me
>puts an extra large teddy bear in the chair opposite of me and leaves
>can hear the wait staff cackling in the back

You should have left a note when you dined and dashed that the bear would be grabbing the check.

>Things that never happened

Why?

Waiters here are mostly highschool kids and young college students. What can you really expect?

Is it different in yoooorop?

there is such a thing as a professional waiter FYI

and that the bear is paying in bubble money

>HAHA newfag detected
>do you even gre....

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That's some stale pasta, boy-o

>southern texas middle of nowhere trying to get home
>hungry
>some worn down mexican restaurant
>Enter and seat
>Everyone is mexican
>poor family, large bearded men
>waitress doesnt speak english
>she walks away
>children look at me
>man sits down across from me
>"you must leave"
>leave

I'm guessing most of them were illegals so it would be safer for them not to have white dudes come and go.

>there is such a thing as a professional waiter FYI
Why? Who would choose to spend their whole life on something like that?

>at local asian restaurant, picking up takeaway because fuck eating out
>see WT deluxe family consisting of grandmother, fat mother, fat pseudo-biker father and 5 or 6 kids
>two of the kids, one boy one girl, are just running around everywhere, being loud and obnoxious
>landwhale mom waddles over to them and straight up slaps the boy to the ground
>both kids begin to cry, mom waddles back to her seat as entire restaurant is staring at her
>take their license plate as i leave and email CPS when i get home

>I'm guessing most of them were illegals so it would be safer for them not to have white dudes come and go.
That doesn't make sense. Denaro is denaro, no matter who the spender is. Besides, you already saw them so you could have reported them anyway.

More likely they were having a family gathering or a cartel deal or both.

What made him choose that computer as his device?

How special is your brother?

Being this fucking flyover

You need a longer build-up for these antihumor greentext stories.

I once ate with 2 friends in a restaurants in my home town, my home town is shit though. It was okay all evening, nothing great but we order dessert and I order a creme bruelé. 20 min later eferyone gets their desserts but not mine. They then mention that the place next door usually does the desserts but they are closed atm but that there are no worries. 15 min later when everyone was already finished I get my dessert, the caramel top is like a flappy piece of plastic and it is stonecold. Complained, didn't have to pay for the dessert, got a mcflurry down the road instead.

...

Social worker here. CPS ain't doing shit. It's not that the incident is unimportant; it's that CPS workloads across the country are so insane, it'd be very low priority. The 18 month old with cigarette burns takes precedence.

...

It's not "the" CPS, I just translated it because my local equivalent wouldn't make sense to americans. but yeah, i don't expect anything to happen, i just like knowing i did something right

Someone who wants a career in waiting.
They are, or at least can be, salaried professionals.

Nah, they are too busy taking kids from good parents because the kids liked about being abused to get out of cleaning their room, or because the school didn't like the politics of the parents. (true stories from my state)

In Germany it's 3 years vocational training, with additional training to becomea sommelier possible. My sister did both and worked at places like Michelin-star restaurants and the Hotel Adlon (most famous Hotel in Germany). Since she has vocational training she can more or less choose where she wants to work and gets a higher salary. Of course it isn't something you want to do for all of your life, but it has it's benefits, especially in a cunt like Germany, where having a degree/vocational training/piece of official looking paper, saying that you recieved some form of education/training means everything.

"We were waiting on a BUBBLE!?"

Are your control, c and v keys broken as well?

>go to Applebee's
>be a but drunk and decide to order steak
>didn't realize what a huge mistake it was to order a steak at a place like that
>order medium rare
>comes out well done. Not even a nice well done. Dry as fuck, fatty at fuck, inedible
>waitress disappears for 10 minutes as a sit at table without even attempting to take another bite
>finally, she comes back
>steak is cut into. I tell her the steak is well done, and show her
>she quickly agrees that it is well done and apologizes
>I expect her to offer me another steak, but instead she keeps apologizing and saying how upset she would be if this happened to her
>awkward moment where I just stare at her expecting her to finally offer another meal because I don't want to be the dickhead that demands another meal
>decide to just say fuck it
>tell her I need a new steak
>she says she will quickly check with the manager and see if she can get me a new one
>she is gone for 15 minutes, completely disappeared
>get up and walk the fuck out
>go home and make hamburger helper, falling deeper and deeper into sadness as it gets closer to being done

Sorry for all the typos. I am still drunk for trying to get over that awful experience. Maybe I should fuck off back to al/ck/, kek

>be 17
>waiting tables at tex-mex place
>sunday, 12:00
>20 top, after church crowd, dressed in their sunday best
>lean in to grab something
>holding salsa bowl in other hand
>spill salsa all down the back of grammaw's white dress
>she doesn't notice
>have to break it to her
>do it in the nicest, most sincerely apologetic way that I can
>she throws a fit
>boss offers to pay dry cleaning
>she's cussing
>free dinner for two
>she begrudgingly accepts
>grandson shows up next day with dry cleaning bill
>i ask grandson to please apologize again on my behalf
>"she died last night, so fuck off."
His face and those words haunt me in my dreams. I killed her. With salsa

stay here bro, you need keks now not feels

Fucking up someone's food is worse than murder, it's the ultimate sin

Why would they need the dress drycleaning then?
You got PUNK'D

I do the same thing except my forehead
I don't dine out though

yea was thinking the same lol

My guess was that they had it cleaned prior to her death and wanted to retrieve the dress for sentimental reasons, but didn't want to foot the bill themselves

>"go to Applebee's" done

Could you elaborate on those stories?

>>>/reddit/

>Red Robins
>Don't expect quality because burger joint
>Still expect something edible
>Nope
>After waiting 45 minutes, I'm escorted to the bar
>Sit and order a BBQ chicken sandwich with macaroni
>As I wait I order some drinks
>Continue taking to the bar girl for another thirty minutes before I wonder where the fuck my food is
>Ask her what is going on
>She goes off to check
>Comes back and apologizes saying they didn't even make it yet
>Tell her it's fine but I still want it since I'm hungry as fuck
>Another twenty minutes go by and my food arrives
>Looks like shit -- bread is crushed, macaroni is halfway out of the bowl
>BBQ sauce is cold as ice and fucking everywhere
>Chicken is a dark brown and is visibly on over half its surface
>Kinda buzzed by this point so whatever
>Bite into it
>Fucking RAW inside
>They burned the outside of the chicken and didn't finish cooking it internally
>Not only that but the onion strings were literally dripping grease and cold as hell
>The BBQ sauce cooled everything else off too
>Want to salvage something because I'm fucking starving
>Eat into the macaroni
>It's cold
>Like they made it hours before serving it and just left it out
>Ask to speak with the manager because I'm not paying for this shit
>Nice looking dude comes out and apologizes, offers a replacement and waives the fee completely
>Accept; watch him go back to the kitchen aisle area
>He starts screaming in spanish at the cooks who start screaming back
>Laugh my ass off because I'm getting pretty drunk by this point
>Another thirty minutes go by and I'm getting full off of free fries
>Get my meal to-go and pay for the drinks with a generous tip
>Go home
>Got a guac burger with no mayo as rare as they can make it
>Burger is burnt to shit, unseasoned, and has a glob of mayo in the center
>Call in and complain
>Manager explains they'll "take action" and offers a gift card as compensation
>Next time I go in it's full of white college kids and my food is actually amazing.

No one is dry cleaning on sunday breh

Why would you freak out because one is one your shoulder? Roaches don't bite or anything.

I call bullshit on that. If it has more then 4 legs and is on me im freaking out

LMFAO

>table of 4
>small regional Italian chain
>host sits us outside
>wait 15 minutes for service
>another 15 for waters/some of our drinks
>order while we have him there
>5 minutes later, bread/oil/vinegar shows up
>stale as fuck
>want to complain, but no waiter in sight
>have to get up and head into the restaurant to get noticed, waiter says he's too busy to head outside all the time
>get fresh bread maybe 10 minutes before mains come out
>three dishes are cold as fuck
>one 'fresh' off the heating lamps
>nobody eats, go inside to flag down waiter
>"sorry, kitchen fucked up"
>brings us our pastas in a couple minutes, MICROWAVED
>complained, got manager out and asked what the fuck
>dude bends over backwards, comps almost everything
>go there two weeks later, ask if waiter was in because I was a friend, dude got fired a few days prior for smoking joints in the alley

I'm an easy-going guy. But I usually get a little upset when black people dine at the same restaurant.

>Working in Moree, Ausfailia
>Stop at Golden Fleece roadhouse for a meal
>Decrepit waitress delivers burgers
>As she turns to go a roach is climbing up he back of her dress

>14 years old
>Eating at a fancy Italian trattoria in Paddington, Sydney
>Courtyard dining
>starts spitting rain
>Waiters rush to pull out the rain covers
>one of them fumbles the brass fob on the end of the pull cord
>it swings across half the fucking restaurant and nails me in the eye

>Getting a kebab in Granville, Sydney
>See a Lebanese kid get shot in the legs by a bunch of Lebbo muslim gangsters

But the worst?

>work for well-known Australian chef Matt Moran
>zero guidance or training
>get asked to make a particular sauce
>no recipe
>make it the way I've made it 100 times before
>get fired because I didn't follow the recipe
>Almost lose my rental home due to loss of job

Fuck that guy, he just stayed up in his office all the time and only ever came down to schmooze with bigwigs and get handjobs from the glitterati.

Never did any cooking and only ran the pass for maybe an hour a night.

She was dead the whole time and they wanted a free dry cleaning!

Lol, all those coked up cunts are the same. I worked for Collin fasnidge and he would be a cunt just for the sake of it. The best part is how now they're all complaining on social media they can't get anyone to work for them.

you nearly died you retard.

In Sydney or in Ireland?

Have met a few people in the culinary world both as customer and staff member.

George Calombaris is an arrogant cunt. If he wasn't literally five foot tall he'd have been beaten into humility by now. Kids with glasses, braces, wheelchairs; retards and stunted midgets all get a free pass. I'll let you decide which categories apply.

Anthony Musarra is probably Australia's most underrated chef, and he's a cool guy to work for too.

Fassnidge I've heard isn't just LARPing as a cunt because it's expected of him. He's genuinely a cunt.

obsessed

>tfw you fell for that pasta way back in the day

>being this autism

somebody grew up in the suburbs

I have similar experiences at one in my town I like
>go to the place with my family and my white blue eye blonde hair father(I'm mixed but Mexicans always treat me like I'm white)
>everyone in the fucking restraunt gives us ugly looks like we killed someone or something
>waitress only comes to our table to take the order and give us the food while everyone around us gets constant service

You need to stop watching Everybody Loves Raymond man. It's getting to you

No Mexicans just really hate white people.

actually, all my keys are broken

fuck CPS

there is literally nor figuratively nothing wrong with hamburger helper

Everyone with a fully functional brain hates white people.

Because proffesionnal waiters can be extremely well paid and respected in my country. I knew a girl who made 200+ euros a night from just tips.

I have never in my life seen shit like this happen. Every time I've eaten alone at a restaurant, the waiter/waitress came, said hello, got my order, came back with the food and fucked off. At most I've been asked if I had just arrived in town due to having a suitcase with me.

Don't worry, he'll post it on /r/greentext

Yes, his name is Bobo.

Killing her softly with salsaaaa
Spilling the whole bowl with her fingers
Killing her softly
It's true

Lol! Yes and I bet she rented a 12000m2 flat overlooking a piazza for only 100 euros too... yet she was always broke, asking you to pay for her drinks...

I was seated next to a black person once.

I have a similar story. Was at a TGI Friday on a weekday (we went for lunch). Only people there we me and my two friends, and a single couple. Someone came around and took our drink order, no one came back around for nearly an hour or so after that, and we got up and left.

you're reddit is showing

Oh yeah, he's genuinely a shit person. He'd openly hit on waitresses and try to fuck anything as soon as his wife was out of earshot. He'd steal from his staff, then fire them. He tryed to steal one of my knives, well I guess he succeeded seeming he got the knife, but made sure to take twice as much from him.

I also met Matt once, I went and did a few days at Aria when I was a first year apprentice cause my head chef was friends with him. After lunch service he came downstairs and said goodbye, everyone said "bye chef" except the third year who said "cya mate", and matt fucking lost his shit. "I'm not your fucking mate! Do I go out getting pissed and laughing at your fart jokes, why the fuck would you call me mate, I pay you to do a job etc etc", But I suppose too much coke and being that self obsessed will do that too you. The funny thing is that third year was a fucking tank, he was prolly 6"4 and was super fit and grew up in some rough country town. The kids name was Casper I think.

>School trip to Western Europe
>In Salzburg Austria
>Tour guide takes us to some restaurant in old town
>Balding 30 something year old waiter is literally the biggest dick I've ever had serve me.
>Just a passive aggressive, rude cunt
>We open a window because it's fucking hot in the room where we were seated.
>When he sees the window he starts bitching angrily at us for opening it for some reason.
>Get served Schnitzel
>Dry and extremely underwhelming

they are filthy and disgusting

I ran into my ex girlfriend from high school. She was married and had a kid on the way.

>getting dinner at pub with gf
>she orders chicken parm, but asks for light sauce, since she's not a fan of red sauces, but still likes it as part of the dish
>food comes out, sauce is light on the cutlet, but the pasta is swimming in it
>gf asks if maybe she could get some fresh pasta, because she does not like it tossed in sauce
>waitress insists on taking whole plate back
>wait 20 minutes, by this time I am long done eating
>her food finally comes out
>chicken is raw
>they've now had to throw out two meals and my gf gives up and leaves without eating.
Nothing worse than having your fat girlfriend go hungry. Had to bring her to burger joint afterwards.

>was 13th birthday or something
>always was the quiet type who never wanted any attention
>birthday party with family is at medieval themed restaurant
>you know, the ones where waiters are obnoxious failed acting majors
>won't leave me the fuck alone
>loud as fuck family finds this extremely amusing
>goes on for the whole evening

>user just walks into someone's house and tries to order food

Topkek

Found the virgin

Nigger, eating out alone with a good book and a cold beer is one of the most relaxing things you could possibly do. If you feel like you're being judged, it's not because eating out alone is inherently awkward, it's because you're a massive fucking autist.

I love going to restaurants alone. I usually bring my tablet to read. It's great and they treat you a lot better for some reason.

should've challenged them all to duels

Went to a 5* and the server added the wine flight to my bill, when we didn't order it. Everything else was great.

Went to a mediocre asian food place (upscale for the size of the town I was in I suppose) and my girl's pad thai was grossly undercooked. Told the server, and the kid didn't remove it from the tab. 0% tip on over 100$ bill between two couples. I would have paid the same amount with a 20% tip so no skin off my back, but he should have known to remove or compensate in some way.

Besides that I have mostly pleasant experiences. I tip between 0-100% depending on service.

Take it easy guy

>tipping 100%
nigga wat

Sure, did it at a bar on KC I stumbled into on thanksgiving. I was there for a wedding, and those poor fucks were working a dead night on a holiday that's about family. I got my very attentive server to bum some smokes off a cook, and they dealt with my drunk ass for like 3 hours so 100%. Good service and circumstances, so they made out that night.

No regrets. No regrets walking out of places when the food takes too long either. No regrets tipping 0% for when the service has been shit.

I've worked around some damn fine chefs, and I can say only the insecure ones are just assholes for no reason. It's one thing to watch everybody like a hawk and provide stern guidance when necessary, in fact I'd rather work for a no-nonsense chef who doesn't feel the need to be everybody's buddy than a lazy unknowledgeable one. But this idea that you're not in charge of your crew unless you're yelling at them for no reason is absolutely retarded.