The Newsroom Cafe on "trendy Robertson Blvd." must have thrown the TMZ camera crew out one time because now it's shut down for a variety of heath code violations and instead of a brief mention, TMZ has devoted a good third of their site daily to reporting this rat crap. I've worked in a ton of restaurants and bars over the years and I've only worked in two that were actually clean. Some stories of the things people do to YOUR food would make you....never go out to eat again. Here's YOUR challenge. Tell me the worst restaurant story you have. The worst experience with staff, food, filth..whatever it is. I want to hear it. Oh, man, this should be good!
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I never did anythig to anyone's food..but, I did once make a chicks drink with neglected goldfish water. She was screwing my boy friend though. Was that wrong?
Might have been a teensy bit wrong but it is waay funny!
Neglected goldfish water tainted cocktails is the perfect thing to serve to a boyfriend diddling hussy!
Did you smile like Mona Lisa when you served it?
There has to be a name for that drink!
A "slut slapper"?
A bartender in a restaurant I worked in had a cold. There was a basketball game on and the bar got crowded. One person was making an ass of himself being rude to patrons and servers. My friend had a cold and he promptly dropped a BIG loogie in this guys margarita when he made it. He also used the spill tray to add to this guys drink.
Yeah, that was wrong DD, but it's OK. you were a kid. Here's mine: Family dinner out at Chi-Chi's in Kokomo,IN my daughter got a mexican chicken pizza, she was probably 10 yrs old. She was eating and nudged me and said "Mom, there's a bug in my food"...I was like "It all looks like that, just eat!" LOL! Well, she persisted, I had to take a look. OMFG!!!! When I looked at her pizza there it was, in all it's shining glory! The biggest effing cockroach I have ever seen, right there in her chicken and cheese! So, needless to say, I almost threw up. She really did throw up! So, we reported it and the manager comes over, pulls up a chair and talks real soft to us(trying not to draw attn)about it and says that the chicken sometimes will fall on the floor at the prep plant and it gets scooped back up into the bags to be sent out and delivered to the restaurants! Thats always nice to know! With added cockroaches for protein, I guess! So, we wouldn't think it happened in his kitchen! So, what does he do? he offers to send us more food! Oh hell no! No thank you! He sent her a big plate of fried ice cream and she tried to eat it and couldn't. It was too disgusting to eat anything by then. None of us ate our food, we still had to pay too! about $60!!! We should have walked out but we were stupid and were nice! Don't be nice if that happens to you! Get mad and dont pay! Needless to say...6 months later that Chi-Chis had been bulldozed to the ground. There is now an Outback Steakhouse there, and it's always packed. I think Chi-Chi's went outta biznaz didnt' they? I hope so!
I bartend at a local restaurant. We really don't want the "bar" crowd, we stop serving at nine... yadda, yadda, yadda.... well, one night we got the bar crowd in there and one guy got rowdy. The other bartender was tired of dealing with him, she cut him off and turned him over to me, (thanks alot!) We were trying to get some other customers bills finished so they could leave and this asshole yells all the way down the bar "Hey Warden! Can I have my bill?!" I said just a second, I'll be right there. Stopped what I was doing and got drunk-ass' bill straight. Gave it to him and he went off about how he's not paying tax on alcohol, we're ripping him off...just going ape-shit. I told him we pay tax on alcohol in VA. and that his bill was right. He cussed some more, gave me his money and I brought him his change. He takes a quarter and puts it between the slats on the bar and says "here...this is the stiffest thing you'll have all night!" ...what the hell did he do that for....Everyone else at the bar got quiet and everyone looked at us. I said....I've already told you where the door is, go find it...good night!...He stumbles toward the door and that's when I said...fuck it...ain't happening...I went after this guy out the door with the quarter in my hand and chucked it at his head. It hit him. :)
my worst food experience was the ham'n'cheese from arby's last july that gave me such bad food poisoning i almost had to go to the hospital (i probably should have went but i would've had to crawl down the steps and i couldn't move from the bathroom floor for 2 days)....i couldn't really eat for 2 weeks after that....HORRIBLE and i will never ever EVER eat at an arby's again!!!
i once bartended at a bar that had a horrid cockroach infestation and they had a bug sprayer come in and then wanted us to vac up the dead cockroaches...nope, i wouldn't do it....then this same bar would have us pour cheap vodka in the absolut bottles and told us not to tell!! customers would notice and i told 'em! :) i got mad when the manager wouldn't let 2 'large' girls in the bar, he was screaming "NO FAT CHICKS IN MY BAR" and i just walked out and told him to fuck himself....went to the police and they got shut down---later learned that the bar was part of a coke ring!!!
OMG..I'm loving these stories. More! More!
Okay, I'll tell you one GOOD work story. I was sick of taking crap from the bar crowd so I took a job waitressing in a family cafe. They promptly put me on the late shift serving breakfast to the last call crowds. Sigh. OMG..it was bad. Once I got so mad at a drunken jerk I yelled "You want taost? Here's your fucking toast!" I threw it at his head. He loved it. His friends loved it. The whole crowd cheered. I talked the owner into doing UGLY Saturdays. Signs were posted warnig patrons that after 2 am they got BAD service from MEAN waitress's. We were the most popular joint in town and had huge crowds. "You want coffee?" Point to the pot. "Yer legs broke, asshole?" It was the most fun job ever and I made TONS of money.
Well ..one time my family & I went to Marie Calendars. My sister ordered ..something. It escapes me, but it had lettuce on the side. Well we start eating & my sister yells MY LETTUCE IS MOVING! My mom looks over & theres a freaking catipillar on her lettuce just munching away! Needless to say my parents were pissed. My sister got a new plate of food & it was all free. By then I didn't want my food lol I kept looking under everything to see if there was bugs in my food. I've never gone back after that.
Another time, my mom & I went to a mexican food place & my mom found a big ass long hair in her nachos. Unfortunetely we took the food to go & didnt know until we got home lol Groooosssss.
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I have a nice customer story. I was laid off from work on my birthday, less than a month from Christmas. I'm a single mom with a daughter. Needless to say, I was stressing it big time. I was down to one job at a restaraunt, I'm waiting on a lady who is a regular customer, always nice and friendly, just a good person all the way around. She found out what happened and wrote me a check for $1000.00. I had to go into the back to compose myself. She is a wealthy woman, but the compassion and love she showed me just blew me away. It goes without saying, when she comes in, she gets taken care of!
not a food story but my daughter was getting some pics developed from her camera disc at a CVS. The picture attendant was jamaiican, black as night. He kept asking her if there was any naked pics of her in the pics she was getting. He followed her around asking her!!!! Over and over! She said 'Excuse me!!!?" She never saw another clerk in the store so she told him she just wanted to pay and she left, but not before he stood there looking thru all her pictures 1st before he gave them to her to pay! Making rude comments. There were no nudes so I guess he was pissed! Who knows? So, she was scared to confront him all alone. She went home and got online and complained about him detail for detail. A mgr contacted her by phone to deal with it. They are now playing phone tag. We want the guy fired & deported! This is not finished.
My girlfriend worked at a 1 hour photo place (before digital cameras). She developed a roll with pictures of a bean and cheese taco with a mouse piece in it (part of the head). It was part of a lawsuit from the customer against the fast food Mexican place (not Taco Bell).
anon 8:15: That totally reminds me of "Waitress" the movie. Have you seen that? You gotta if you haven't. DD did an atricle on the writer of the movie, who was also in the movie. She was murdered. It's awful. But in the movie a very good thing happens to Keri Russell. Andy Griffith is her nice but grouchy customer who also happens to own the place she's working at. I won't spoil it for you! I liked your story! Thanks for sharing.
Excellent movie..I loved it.
Worked for a big record company exec who once he found out that I wasn't putting out, he turned into an complete evil asshole. Whenever he had meetings in the conference room it was my job to see to it that there were refreshments, tea/coffee/muffins, shit like that. His favorite was a special blended cran/raspberry tea. One meeting with an especially nice group of Ad execs things were going well, until he discovered there was "no fucking cran/raspberry tea on the console. He asked me how stupid could I be, I rushed out of the conference room and into the kitchen to make it. I brought it back sweetened. He took it,drank it and gave me the, "now sit your ass down look" and I did. I had steeped it with my tampon. I quit shortly after, but he gave me an enormous compensation package and sent me flowers every Christmas for years!
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that is brilliant!!!
Several years ago, I was on a "first" date. Before we said goodnight we decided to stop by Denny's for coffee. We're just sitting there making small-talk when suddenly from the open-beam ceiling drops a giant cockroach *PLOP* right into my coffee!
The little fucker swims a few laps 'round my cup before he goes belly-up. I was so grossed out I was speechless. My date, however called the manager over-- who apologized profusely, but quite honestly didn't seem that surprised. (the coffees were "free"... whoopee-do)
The cockroach turned out to be symbolic, as that first date was also our last.
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On a positive note, for those of you who live in the Southern California area and are familiar with the "Polly's Tasty Food & Pies" chain, it's one coffee shop that's about as CLEAN as a restaurant can be.
I managed 3 different stores over a period of 10 years and can certainly attest to the ridiculously high standards of cleanliness and sanitation. In fact, the "back of the house" was probably cleaner than the front!
Pies are tossed into the trash if unsold after 48 hours. (you won't often find that elsewhere-- you listening, Coco's & Marie Calendar's?) If there was even a slight doubt about product freshness, the item was never served. I could go on and on, but you get the idea. It's one very safe eatery.
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MissTia; Maybe the manager didn't want "fat chicks" in his establishment because they obviously weren't his (ahem) "customers". lol...
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Reminds me of the time when I began visiting a new "tanning salon' in town. (hey, I was young & dumb)... It was way off the beaten track but the prices were too good to be true.
After several visits over as many weeks, I began to notice that I was always directed to the same tanning bed behind the same little door. I seldom saw any other customers... Matter of fact, I was the only FEMALE customer, period.
And hey... while I'm at it... the gals that ran the place looked... um, well... heavy make-up, skimpy outfits, super-high platform shoes... (2+2)... if I didn't know better, I'd say they looked like... HOOKERS.
Then comes the day when I stop by and OOPS! They've been closed down. A little extra investigating and I discover they were, you guessed it... running a brothel fronting as a "tanning salon".
man, there is no way to top some of these experiences.
once, my husband and i were eating at a restaurant in salt lake city. the waitress has bandages on her right hand. you could see some of the juices from her sores/ injury or what ever on the outside of her hand. when she delivered our entres, the bandage touched the edge of our plate.
once, when i was waiting tables, a large family with like 4 or 5 kids came in. they proceeded to make an enormous mess. that was no surprise. however, they left an insulin syringe with the needle still on it and a dirty bandaid on the table. i wanted to cry. nasty fucks.
once, an older guy that i had a crush on came in with his girlfriend and were seated at my table. i was so nervous, i dropped a butter knife in his lap and followed that up by spilling a drink on his table.
ok, there is a mexican restaurant up the road from me called cancun. they are all mexican workers, dont really speak much english & some dont speak it at all. they bring the HOT plates right from the oven to your table lined up on their arms! we havent been there in years & i did like the food. once when we were there, the waiter brought all the plates lined up on his arms. well after putting all the plates down, i see open burn sores all over his hands & arms, uncovered! that was so nasty. my plate touched it & who knows if the food touched it in any way. once we were driving by there & i noticed 2 waiters out back by the dumpster. both had their long aprons on & one was standing in the dumpster! he was trying to crush the boxes down to make more room i guess. how disgusting. then he goes in & handles food & customers, tracking in the dumpster garbage with him & lord knows how many insects or rat guts. i told my husband we were never eating there again. we havent been back & it has been about 12 years now. they were closed down for a long time shortly after that & now are open again. they are the main food provider for the hotel right behind them.
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