Stuff you hate about resturants

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Had a funny thing happen last night when we went out to eat.

We took my grandparents(on my dad's side) to a Red Robin near here, and we sit down. Less then 5 seconds later, this magician comes by to us, and he says "You guys wanna see some magic?" and my dad said "No thanks" the the guy said "Well how about your children?" and I could see that my dad was getting pissed. The guy said "You wanna see a quarter disapere?" and my dad just said "I'd like to see you disapere" and the guy gave this stunned look and then left. It was funny, but now that I think about it, the guy was doing his job. But we didn't even have menus yet and he just came right over. It just was annoying. It woulda been partially ok if it was while we were waiting for our food but this was totally at the wrong time. The food was great though...

Anyone else get pissed at these things?
 
I have never been to a restaurant with a magician - I find the prospect quite frightening, to be honest.

My partner and I tend to go to reasonably upmarket places, and the one thing that really ticks me off when you go out is uncontrolled, screaming children.

I can handle people taking their children out, but they shouldn't be allowed to run loose through the restaurant.
 
one time we were at cocos and there was a party god it was horrible :mad: .And also one time at dennys the lady spilled hot soup on me and i was really mad i made it seem like it hurt and we got our meal free :D (:
 
Seeing as how I am a Chef, I will be very interested to see where this one leads.

Maybe I should create a thread about "things I hate about diners." Or, "stupid stuff customers do at restauraunts."

But anyway, Maz, I do agree that the guy should have left right away when you dad had said "no thanks."
 
I hate it when you walk in the door and wait to be seated. Everyone stares at you like I have my slong hanging out. Or maybe they just like my new Nike Uptempo's? I don't know! Then, the waitress leads you down the gauntlet of tables and everyone must stop eating and look at you! WHY?! I wish I could just punch out those people and say "Have a nice lunch you mother ****a's."
 
Yea, there was this birthday party behind us, and they were screaming and everything...I totally hate when the staff starts singing and clapping "Happy happy birthiday..." and all that crap...

But I did see a 3 year old or so smack his head on the edge of a table and start crying...I thought "Good, thats what you get for walking around!"
 
Let's hear some complaints ABOUT the restauraunt.

The service was slow, the food was awful, things like that.
Be very detailed if you could.

Sorry Maz, I am not trying to take over your thread, I just find this very interesting!
 
Maz: A magician at a restaurant? That does sound disturbing. But at least it wasn't a clown or mime.

Only thing like that was a juggler at a college madrigal dinner. He wasn't that good and kept it up, although everyone was annoyed, lost one of his juggling balls, which went right into someone's dessert.

Other than that, screaming kids. And, although I've never worked at a restaurant (and hope I never will), how rudely some people decide to treat the waiters/waitresses is fairly irritating.

The worst stuff I've heard is fast food, though, especially from people who've worked at some of these places. The avsolute worst I know though happened around a year ago. Apparantly two guys working at a Burger King were indicted for doing a LOT of horrid things to people's food. (I think one was put in jail for putting oven cleaner on a burger and poisoning someone).
 
A couple times in South Carolina, me and my grandparents ate at a resturant called the Huddle House.:) The service sucked; we had to wait almost a half hour to get served.:eek: Then when we finally got served, the food sucked.:mad: To put a long story short, it sucked big ass!:p
 
The only complaint I have ABOUT a restaurant is a German themed place we used to go to in Sydney (note 'used').

This place is on two levels, right? So my partner and I rock up right on 7 o'clock, the time we booked with our friends about a month ago.

So when we arrive, they ask 'Have you got a booking?'. 'Why yes!' we say, giving the surname of the friend we booked under. This seems to cause a little consternation, but after a brief discussion between a couple of waiters we're shown our table on the ground floor. We're told our friends haven't arrived as yet, which is fine (they're perenially late), so we order a couple of drinks which arrive promptly.

So we're waiting....and waiting. Half an hour passes. We're getting a little concerned. Another quarter of an hour passes. My partner rings our friends' mobile phone - no answer. Starting to get very worried now. We ask the staff if there's been any calls, or perhaps our friends have arrived - pointedly asking if perhaps there's another couple waiting on some friends. There's a brief chat, and we're assured they haven't arrived yet.

Another quarter of an hour passes, and we're starting to get a little pressure to order. I decide enough is enough and go and look around the restaurant - and sure enough, there are our friends, upstairs, equally worried about us.

Turned out there were two bookings for Lee, and this was apparently enough to throw the staff into complete confusion. Despite both couples asking several times if there was another couple waiting on someone, no-one on the staff there twigged - no communication between the floors at all.

If it was some cheap little Chinese restaurant, fine, I could just about wear that - but this place is VERY upmarket and VERY expensive.

That's about the only real gripe I have with restaurant staff - very rare I have any real problems. We tend to eat pretty early though.
 
Very interesting vat_man!

Is this place you speak of the same restauraunt on both floors?
The reason that I ask this is because I used to work in a place that had two levels to it. But the levels were different places but both under the same name. The one dowstairs was the "upscale/fine dining" and the upstairs was the more casual.
This would get the staff and the customers very confused.

But I can see why that made you never go back.
Throught my career, I have almost exclusively worked at "fine dining" places, I find that the training and professionalism displayed by wait staff is very impressive at "fine dining" establishements, but mistakes will always made regardless.

This is an unforturnate experience for you vat_man. I would suggest that you give that place another try if you really enjoyed it that much before this event took place. I'm sure that it's more of a "fluke" than poor service.
 
Originally posted by Dudebusta
i went to the restaraunt where boom works and when i got my beer it smelt like piss :thatsodd:
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Yeah! You actually think that we would have wasted an actual beer on you?

HAHA!! :D
 
Stuff i hate about restaurants? the food, usually.

nothin' better than homemade food.
 
Another one of my big questions in life: How is it that the waiter of waitress comes to check how you're doing and manages to speak to your table when EVERYONE at the table has a mouthful of food?

I also hate to have wait staff lurking and hovering. Be close enough to see if my glass is empty, but far enough away that my wife doesn't have to read my lips, thru your ears, because you're all over us.
The objective here is to get my wife all over me, later. Not to have to wash waitstaffs perfume or cologne off because they were sitting on my shoulder.
 
Originally posted by boombexus
Very interesting vat_man!

Is this place you speak of the same restauraunt on both floors?
The reason that I ask this is because I used to work in a place that had two levels to it. But the levels were different places but both under the same name. The one dowstairs was the "upscale/fine dining" and the upstairs was the more casual.
This would get the staff and the customers very confused.
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No - definitely the same place on both floors - there's only one door.

My partner is a project manager (as is her friend) so the two guys wandered outside to let the women battle it out with the owner. Women who run $10 million software projects don't take crap over this sort of stuff.

They had a pretty poor attitude over the whole thing - and there are too many good alternatives that are cheaper and closer to home.

Actually, near there is a place called the Belgian Beer Cafe - got all my northern European culinary needs covered. Check it out!!

http://www.belgian-beer-cafe.com.au/
 
Originally posted by Gil
Another one of my big questions in life: How is it that the waiter of waitress comes to check how you're doing and manages to speak to your table when EVERYONE at the table has a mouthful of food?
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Boy I wish I could answer that one myself. Maybe I will pose that question to some of my staff.


Be close enough to see if my glass is empty, but far enough away that my wife doesn't have to read my lips, thru your ears, because you're all over us.
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Yep! That's the way it should be.

Hmmm. I'm actually at work right now. I can pose some of these questions to the wait staff.

Hopefull I can return with some reasonable explanations to these mind boggling issues!
 
Originally posted by MazKid
Yea, there was this birthday party behind us, and they were screaming and everything...I totally hate when the staff starts singing and clapping "Happy happy birthiday..." and all that crap...
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I happen to like that, unless it's my birthday.:thatsodd::p Earlier this year, we were out for dinner, and it was my brothers birthday, so my parents told the staff.😈:p After our meal(which I liked, at least not during our meal), the staff comes up, asks my brother to stand up, plop this huge viking helmet on him(the kind with the horns), and sing happy birthday.:eek::p I thought it was funny.:p:D
 
Originally posted by Saleen Man

I happen to like that, unless it's my birthday.:thatsodd::p Earlier this year, we were out for dinner, and it was my brothers birthday, so my parents told the staff.😈:p After our meal(which I liked, at least not during our meal), the staff comes up, asks my brother to stand up, plop this huge viking helmet on him(the kind with the horns), and sing happy birthday.:eek::p I thought it was funny.:p:D
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I'm glad that you had a good experience!
 
No, we are a more upscale place. Upper scale places tend not to do things like that.

We will however do it for special occasions such as a VIP. (Very Important Person)
But it's very rare that we do.
 
We go to a Mexican place in east Sydney called 'Cafe Pacifico' which, particularly on Friday is VERY raucous (you get a lot of work parties there) - but the place is very casual and upbeat and it's part of the fun. Everytime we go there we end up getting smashed on frozen marghiritas (however you spell them). I love that restaurant - always good for a mood lift.
 
Originally posted by Gil
Another one of my big questions in life: How is it that the waiter of waitress comes to check how you're doing and manages to speak to your table when EVERYONE at the table has a mouthful of food?
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Well Gil. I just asked one of the waiters here and he said that it's a lack of attention.
Usually he does appologize for it when he has realized that he's done that.
He say's that sometimes they are just too busy to really notice.
 

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