fuck off sylver

Yeah, uh... The customer is always right, is pretty much what you have to go by. Even if they're pricks. People don't come to restaurants, only to get attitude from the waiters or something. Sorry, but that's pretty important. Obviously there are exceptions but jesus christ I wouldn't wait 15 minutes for a soup at a half-fast food joint! That's pretty bad!

This one time I went to a fruit drink bar and this dick gave me a smaller size then what I paid for. He wouldn't exchange it, so I threw the drink at him and knocked down everything on the counter and ran away.

 

Yes, if the customer wants to plaster the clerk with Jamba Juice he damn well better be able to.

There is a small town near my cottage that we pass through to get there, and occasionally when we are up at my cottage we head into said small town for a restaurant/greasy spoon/diner meal.

We went in there ten years ago or so (with some family friends, two girls around our age) and we (my family) made their orders. Then the girls made their orders. Their mom ordered vegetable soup to start, and they asked the waitress if the lasagna was a large enough portion for two (like 12 and 14) girls to share. The waitress replied emphatically yes. After about fifteen minutes, the waitress came back to our table and said to us "Fried Egg Sandwich?" and though she was waiting for us to claim it. Unfortunately, none of us had ordered the Fried Egg Sandwich. She repeated herself several times, getting louder and visibly more angry each time. We tried to explain that none of us ordered it, but she wasn't having that. Finally, after about the sixth time she raised her voice, a woman across the restaurant-diner thing called out "I ordered the Fried Egg Sandwich" and the waitress hurried off, giving us a dirty look, like it was our fault.

Flash forward to about ten minutes later, and our food arrives (including my undercooked hot dog). The mom's vegetable soup hasn't arrived, and neither has the lasagna. A couple minutes later, it arrives, cold. It is identical to canned vegetable soup. Like, impossibly similar soup. She eats it begrudgingly. After we're all done our meals and we've been there for close to an hour, the girls' lasagna arrives. It is a tiny metal dish (I would consider it a small portion for one person, never mind two), and it is filled with some badly burned cheesy substance which was probably part of something far more evil and not at all resembling lasagna. We don't eat it, and ask for the bill. The waitress explains incredibly rudely that it was rude of us to not eat the lasagna.

After we leave this horrible restaurant, we realize that they did not give us the "free coke glasses" we were promised for eating there. My brother runs back and gets them for us, and apparently the conversation was a pretty tense one! Needless to say, we never went back there.

As for fast food, I have had mostly OK service. Sometimes it is slow or they give me the wrong thing, but they have always been good about replacing it quickly and without any fuss. I honestly don't think I've ever been treated badly at a McDonalds. Burger King has treated me pretty shitty once or twice, and twice the KFC was out of chicken and Pizza Pizza (a semi-local pizza chain) was out of pizza, but other than those horrible slip-ups I have had good service. Actually, the day Pizza Pizza was out of (acceptable) pizza they offered me some really old, gross looking slices with weird toppings for a *reduced rate*. However, after some quick math, I realized that the *reduced rate* was actually only about fifteen cents cheaper than the regular rate for good slices! That is more quirky than bad service, though.

After reading this topic...I think...I'm going to start...preparing my own food.

Yeah...

hahah

maybe this isnt quite as related, but my housemate has a dog, and our other housemate hates picking up poo (like.. more than the average person). so one day, the poo-fearing housemate had to take the dog for a walk, and it pooed in front of a patio restaurant... so she felt obligated to pick it up.

only when she bent towards it to pick it up, she caught a whiff and puke all over it.....

im pretty sure the entire restaurant finished their mea right then and there.

...I don't see what that has to do with bad service at all.

But anyway, I never had any horrible experiences like drinking worms or eating cockroaches.
Although today, I asked for a Zinger at KFC and I asked them to hold back a bit on the mayonnaise. I specifically STRESSED I wanted mayonnaise but not too much (they usually put enough that it actually makes the bread all soggy and crap). So I grabbed it, took it home, and when I opened it, it had no mayonnaise at all, and the lettuce was more sparse than usual.
Slightly annoying but no biggy.

Actually, it's kind of lame.

At any rate:

After reading this topic...I think...I'm going to start...preparing my own food.

Yeah...

This, very much so. I haven't had as nearly as bad service as any of you guys, aside from the occasional hairy armenian guy who works in McDonalds and sheds all over my food. (It is a good thing I hardly eat there).

I tipped him 9 cents on debit and for the signature, wrote down "NAPKIN"

Hahaha. From the sound of it he probably didn't even understand why you wrote that down.

On the complete opposite tip, me and an ex were at a Chinese restaurant were the service was...too good? It's hard to say if it was good per se. They basically strived constantly to make sure everything was perfect. The waiter waited next to our table, and every time I took a mouthful of my drink he'd come over and refill it from the can. They came around every 5 minutes to make sure everything was okay, and that we were enjoying the food, and if we needed anything else.

There is this Chinese buffet near my house (they're a whole chain actual, Mandarin Restaurants) and whenever we go the service is really ridiculous, especially if it's not busy. You can always tell when they have too many people working, since you'll get two or three people constantly hovering around you refilling drinks and taking away old dishes BEFORE YOU'RE DONE WITH THEM. Like, I had some food on my plate and I leaned back to take a drink and stop stuffing my face for a second and the next thing I know some dude has swooped in and grabbed my plate full of food and tried to take it away. I put my hand over it and I struggle to swallow my drink before he makes off with my meal, so he leaves it. Then from there on out he never took my plates unless they were completely empty, like, bones picked absolutely clean, which is bad on the other end.

But I'd rather have people trying to help me out too much than not at all! In related news I was once in there on some off hours with friends and the table near us had a big group of bitchy, belligerent high school-aged girls who were giving the serving staff a lot of trouble for no reason. They were knocking over drinks and stuff at one point, I think, and refusing to pay. At one point, one of their servers (who was the same guy that had gotten drinks for us when we sat down) stormed past us muttering "stupid fucking bitches god dammit". Then a couple seconds (minutes?) he was back and helping us with a smile on his face. It was kind of a scary transformation!