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Whether its based on quality of food, distasteful, rude employees, etc.
My opinion is probably hated, but I went to this place called Bugatti's. The employees had a fake smile, and it just seemed like they hated their job. Not to mention, their menu sucks and you can get much better food at others places.
 
I've never had a terrible experience really, and what happened in the OP doesn't sound like a disaster either. I'm pretty easy going.
 
Professor P. J. Cornucopia's Fantastic Foodmagorium and Great American Steakery. They didn't salute me like they promised in the commercial. I didn't feel like a real man in front of the staff. I demand the FOH show me respect!
 
This local Denny's. Horrible service, it took them 10 minutes to get our drinks and another 20 for the actual food.

The place basically had no people there too.
 
I took a vacation in the US and decided to go to a Taco Bell for lunch, only to find out you don't have Fries Supreme?? What the hell America? I ended up going to some place called Steak 'n Shake or something.
 
jackbugs said:
Can't speak for this GAF guy people keep talking about
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but ive always had great experiences at Dennys only because you can just throw down and be yourself generally speaking. You go to a place where you spend a hundred bucks and get a tiny plate of shitty food? Total bummer. Guess that's my story. Italian place. Just down the road.
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I'm sorry I'm drinking but....wat?
 
jackbugs said:
No need to apologize, so am I. People seemed to be talking about restaurant experiences and Dennys and stuff? Was just saying some probably dumb (though factually accurate) stuff about all of that. And nope, don't do the doobage anymore. Annnnnyyways. My bad.
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....well i'm just gonna keep drinking.



FUCK OLIVE GARDEN.
 
This thread reminds me of this Chinese/Korean place nearby Ft Huachuca called Golden Phoenix:

A Google User reviewed 3 years ago
Overall Poor to fair
My wife was brought something completely different than what she ordered. The staff did not offer to bring us the correct item, even after acknowledging the mistake. What's more, they charged us for the wrong item, even though we didn't eat it! They told my wife, to eat it, and that she could get what she wanted next time. We left laughing, the service was so ridiculously bad that we weren't even able to be angry. We won't be back.
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A Google User reviewed 5 years ago
Overall Poor to fair
On October 21, 2007, I placed a delivery order at 7:01 pm. I was told that my order would be delivered within an hour. I was also quoted a price of $44.00 for my order. After calling two times to inquire about about my order, it was finally delivered at 8:59 pm. In addition to the tardiness of the order, my bill totaled $50.00. When I asked about this difference, I was told they "forgot to add some stuff." Upon viewing my food, I realized the portion were very small. Additionally, the food was cold due to the delivery time. I called to complain and spoke to the manager. Upon stating my complaint regarding delivery time, bill difference, and cold food, he stated, that "I don't dictate his delivery time or portion size." After that rude comment, he proceeded to hang-up on me. This situation could have been resolved with a simple apology. However, after such rude customer service, I felt compelled to file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. I called to inform the manager of my actions. He proceeded to yell at me, stating, "You ain't my only customer. I do alot of business. I don't need your business, and I'll never deliver to your neighborhood again." Think twice before giving your business to this establishment as they clearly don't value their customers.
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A Google User reviewed a year ago
Overall Poor to fair
Food looked like it came out of the Microwave. The people took my order and got my name wrong and after waiting 2 hours for my food i called and asked what was going on and i was told that i never ordered by they did charge my card. 2 1/2 hours after i order i get a call from the delivery boy saying they have my food. I then called and the owner tells me he is a retired 1SG and it was my fault cause he says i gave a fake name. WORST PLACE EVER!.
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After reading those reviews, I want to go eat there just to get some laughs.
 
Cafe Tallulah (NYC). The menu is much less extensive than what's on their website and we sat there for 15 minutes after being seated without anyone taking our drink order or bringing water. Got up and left.
 
There's a restaurant in a small city near me (Festus) called Pogolino's. It features St. Louis style pizza (where I live), but instead of the usual (for St. Louise style pizza) provel cheese, it uses mozzarella. But regardless, it's quite good pizza, and the people who run it are very nice.

So when I see a restaurant opening near me in House Springs, I am delighted to see that it's a new location for Pogolino's, in addition to the original one.

So I order a pizza. On the phone they say they are having a buy one, get one free deal so I say "Cool".

When I get there, they want me to pay for both pizza. "But you said it was buy one get one free on the phone."

"No I didn't."

"Yes you did"

"No I didn't."

So finally I caved in and paid for both pizza. I was hungry, and their pizza was good (the other location's).

Anyway, I get home and the pizza is like the other places, but it's burnt. Rather than being golden, it's brown-ish black. The crust is brownish black.

So I call them up and complain. "It's burnt."

"No, it isn't"

"Yes it is"

"No, it isn't"

"I'm looking at the pizza right here, it's black. It's burnt"

"No it's not."

I thought about driving back over there and showing them, but it's a good 15 miles away and I was tired.

But I never ate there again. Until they changed the name to Madabella's. I thought perhaps they had gone under new management.

This time they didn't trick me into buying another pizza, but it was still burnt. I made them open up the box and show me it (which pizza places should do, even Pizza Hut usually does. Even Ceci's usually does).
 
Pretty much every single chain sit down restaurant. The most egregious was UNO's. The appetizers and pasta tasted like cardboard soaked in grease.
 
Red Robin, unlimited frys my ass. Our server came to see us like once then ignored us for a bigger table. I watched that dick come to that table over and over while we sat there staring at him. I left his ass like a 50 cent tip. All I ask for is some attention, don't let my drink sit empty for 20 mins while you try to score a bigger tip.
 
DiscoJer said:
There's a restaurant in a small city near me (Festus) called Pogolino's. It features St. Louis style pizza (where I live), but instead of the usual (for St. Louise style pizza) provel cheese, it uses mozzarella. But regardless, it's quite good pizza, and the people who run it are very nice.

So when I see a restaurant opening near me in House Springs, I am delighted to see that it's a new location for Pogolino's, in addition to the original one.

So I order a pizza. On the phone they say they are having a buy one, get one free deal so I say "Cool".

When I get there, they want me to pay for both pizza. "But you said it was buy one get one free on the phone."

"No I didn't."

"Yes you did"

"No I didn't."

So finally I caved in and paid for both pizza. I was hungry, and their pizza was good (the other location's).

Anyway, I get home and the pizza is like the other places, but it's burnt. Rather than being golden, it's brown-ish black. The crust is brownish black.

So I call them up and complain. "It's burnt."

"No, it isn't"

"Yes it is"

"No, it isn't"

"I'm looking at the pizza right here, it's black. It's burnt"

"No it's not."

I thought about driving back over there and showing them, but it's a good 15 miles away and I was tired.

But I never ate there again. Until they changed the name to Madabella's. I thought perhaps they had gone under new management.

This time they didn't trick me into buying another pizza, but it was still burnt. I made them open up the box and show me it (which pizza places should do, even Pizza Hut usually does. Even Ceci's usually does).
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Wow. If they pulled that shit on me I would have burned the place down. But I never would have paid for both pizzas in the first place.
 
recently, del taco and arbys have destroyed me twice a piece. more than enough to learn my lesson not to eat there anymore(at least the roast beef at arbys. their chicken sandwiches were pretty good)

and although its been years, the main buffet at circus circus was the most disgusting thing ive ever had the horror of eating at. everything was undercooked, overcooked, or damn near fucking raw.
 
DiscoJer said:
There's a restaurant in a small city near me (Festus) called Pogolino's. It features St. Louis style pizza (where I live), but instead of the usual (for St. Louise style pizza) provel cheese, it uses mozzarella. But regardless, it's quite good pizza, and the people who run it are very nice.

So when I see a restaurant opening near me in House Springs, I am delighted to see that it's a new location for Pogolino's, in addition to the original one.

So I order a pizza. On the phone they say they are having a buy one, get one free deal so I say "Cool".

When I get there, they want me to pay for both pizza. "But you said it was buy one get one free on the phone."

"No I didn't."

"Yes you did"

"No I didn't."

So finally I caved in and paid for both pizza. I was hungry, and their pizza was good (the other location's).

Anyway, I get home and the pizza is like the other places, but it's burnt. Rather than being golden, it's brown-ish black. The crust is brownish black.

So I call them up and complain. "It's burnt."

"No, it isn't"

"Yes it is"

"No, it isn't"

"I'm looking at the pizza right here, it's black. It's burnt"

"No it's not."

I thought about driving back over there and showing them, but it's a good 15 miles away and I was tired.

But I never ate there again. Until they changed the name to Madabella's. I thought perhaps they had gone under new management.

This time they didn't trick me into buying another pizza, but it was still burnt. I made them open up the box and show me it (which pizza places should do, even Pizza Hut usually does. Even Ceci's usually does).
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I always open the box up on the spot when collecting, to make sure they got the toppings alright, before I leave.
 
SquiddyCracker said:
I always open the box up on the spot when collecting, to make sure they got the toppings alright, before I leave.
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Yes, absolutely, and when you get an annoyed look at them just tell them to fuck off.

I swear, pizza places must be stressful to run because every time I call a few places in the area they're short on the phone and act like they don't want your fucking business.
 
I've had an extremely terrible experience at this one Italian restaurant.
Had read up on it, and people were reviewing it quite favourably - saying that the food and customer service was great!

It wasn't:
  • GF ordered a vegetarian entree, marked as vegetarian in the menu but sharing the name with a non-vegetarian option, so she specifically asked for the vegetarian variant. Got one with bacon thrown in.
  • I ordered mussles in white sauce, which was meh, but when it came to my main they had merely scraped off the left-overs from the mussles and served up the main on the same plate - which I knew as I found pieces of mussle shells in my linguini.
  • Their wine (did not specify what wine it was, I really should have left at that point) was awful, and probably just some budget wine they bought in the supermarket.
  • Service was awfully slow.
  • Food was sickening.

Left without a tip.
 
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Trio in Narragansett RI

Waiter acted like I ruined his life when we asked for no lemon in our waters, and then asked for new ones when we got waters that had like 3 wedges in each. (I know it's picky but it's gross and we asked before he brought them).

Food wise she got chicken that looked like it was seared for 30 sec and then served (90% raw). I got ravioli that were literally frozen on the inside. (Really store bought ravioli in an Italian restaurant?)

Waiter was lisping so hard when he was looking down my gf's shirt he literally had to wipe drool from his mouth.

Got up and left after seeing the food was so fucked.
 
Golden Wok - ran out of white rice, forgot that our table existed (amazing restaurant, just one bad experience)
Burger King - food poisoned 3 times in a row
McDonalds - 50% chance of getting my order wrong
 
Haha, one time on my honeymoon in San Francisco we went to some restaurant/bar on the Wharf and I ordered their special of the day which was Dungeoness crab in a garlic/black bean sauce.

When the dish came out I found a long black hair in it. We were eating at the bar so I alerted the bartender who promptly took the dish back to the kitchen to get a new meal made.

10 minutes later my dish comes back out (my wife is pretty much already done with her meal at this point), and happy to have a new dish I start picking through the crab. Motherfucker, there is ANOTHER black hair in my dish (or did they just give me the same dish back?)...I tell the bartender, again, there is a long black hair in my dish. I'm light haired and short and my wife has lighter hair...not jet black.

The bartender is incredulous...he wasn't sure if we were fucking with him or if his kitchen staff is just incompetent. He takes the dish back again and I hear him screaming in the kitchen...he came back and apologized at gave me a beer on the house. WTF? At that point my dinner should have been comped.

I really didn't want to eat there anymore at that point.
 
CrankyJay said:
Haha, one time on my honeymoon in San Francisco we went to some restaurant/bar on the Wharf and I ordered their special of the day which was Dungeoness crab in a garlic/black bean sauce.

When the dish came out I found a long black hair in it. We were eating at the bar so I alerted the bartender who promptly took the dish back to the kitchen to get a new meal made.

10 minutes later my dish comes back out (my wife is pretty much already done with her meal at this point), and happy to have a new dish I start picking through the crab. Motherfucker, there is ANOTHER black hair in my dish (or did they just give me the same dish back?)...I tell the bartender, again, there is a long black hair in my dish. I'm light haired and short and my wife has lighter hair...not jet black.

The bartender is incredulous...he wasn't sure if we were fucking with him or if his kitchen staff is just incompetent. He takes the dish back again and I hear him screaming in the kitchen...he came back and apologized at gave me a beer on the house. WTF? At that point my dinner should have been comped.

I really didn't want to eat there anymore at that point.
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In my experience, and from what waiter friends have told me, they pretty much never make you a new dish unless they've already screwed up an order and already have another one laying around.
Instead, they just try to fix it up as best as they could, and give it back to you.
 
SquiddyCracker said:
In my experience, and from what waiter friends have told me, they pretty much never make you a new dish unless they've already screwed up an order and already have another one laying around.
Instead, they just try to fix it up as best as they could, and give it back to you.
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Ugh, fuck that. I should have walked out at that point. I'm talking about a 16" strand of black hair...they could have even pulled the fucking hair out and said this was a new dish but they didn't even do that...lol
 
CrankyJay said:
Ugh, fuck that. I should have walked out at that point. I'm talking about a 16" strand of black hair...they could have even pulled the fucking hair out and said this was a new dish but they didn't even do that...lol
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Generally speaking, even fast food restaurants are generally more hygenic than regular restaurants - because they produce so many food items that they can easily replace a meal rather than trying to "fix" it up. There's also often stricter health&food inspections as they are high-profile restaurants.
 
SquiddyCracker said:
Generally speaking, even fast food restaurants are generally more hygenic than regular restaurants - because they produce so many food items that they can easily replace a meal rather than trying to "fix" it up. There's also often stricter health&food inspections as they are high-profile restaurants.
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Haha, just looked up my credit card statement from 2007....

DANTE'S SEAFOOD GRILL SAN FRANCISCO CA

Fuck this place.

Just looked them up on YELP!, awful reviews and they're closed. I wonder why.
 
I found hair in a Subway sandwich I was eating. I ended up getting sick within a day. I don't know if the two things were related, but the mental association was there.
 
That's really surprising, because the Wharf is a tourist area and tourist areas usually at least try to put on some decent service. I've been to a couple Wharf restaurants and had good experiences...
 
Worst experience I can remember was years ago at a Buffalo Wild Wings in Lake In The Hills, IL. We had a group of like 5-6. We were seated, then before they took our order they had asked us to move to a booth because they needed the bigger table for a large group. OK, whatever. So they reseat us and take our order... then just forgot about us. Sat there for like 30 minutes with nothing until we call another waitress over and she goes back and doesn't even see our order put in the system. So we give them our order again, food comes out and they're missing one person's food. For our troubles, they took our drinks off the bill (we were all under 21 and not drinking booze). Only time I've ever not left a tip.
 
I wouldn't dare calling it a restaurant, but I was robbed by the staff of a McDonald's in Naples. It was 1am and I was the only customer
 
Went to this place for brunch on a Sunday with my wife. There were only 3 other pairs there. It took them 15 min to come take our drink order. 15 min to get our food order. One of the pairs asked for another order of bacon which I suspect came from my order. We wait another 30 min for our order. And during that time, another 2 pairs had come in and ordered. They both complained about not getting their food and lo and behold they got theirs first. One if them even looked at us and seemed shocked we were still waiting. That was rude as fuck and terribly unprofessional.

I asked for the waiter and said we wanted to pay for our drinks and go. He said it was coming out right now or we could take it home in a bag and all I said was ,'nope'. Kept insisting and apologizing but I stuck with no and they said they'd comp us for the drinks since we didn't even get any food.
 
Subway. But to be honest it was probably those specific employees. There was no queue, so it was obviously going to be fast. But they were just chatting away ignoring me when I was right in front of them, and I had to wait a couple of minutes while they walked around behind the counter chatting and pretending to be doing what, administrative stuff? On top of that the food was shit. Never again.
 
SquiddyCracker said:
Generally speaking, even fast food restaurants are generally more hygenic than regular restaurants - because they produce so many food items that they can easily replace a meal rather than trying to "fix" it up. There's also often stricter health&food inspections as they are high-profile restaurants.
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This is 100% true. For food safety, I would take McDonald's over "random Chinese buffet" any day.
 
Applebees. My wife and I went to dinner there on Halloween. The wait staff were in a variety of costumes. We got to our table, got our water, put in our appetizer order. Then we noticed a waiter at a nearby table. He was dressed in a black body stocking, with blackface paint, a big afro wig, and some bone trinkets. Then we noticed that at the crotch of his bodysuit, he had a stuffed black sock hanging down. We also saw a waitress wearing the female equivalent, with black socks hanging from her chest.

We finished our water and got the fuck out. Haven't patronized Applebee's since.

I guess it shouldn't have been shocking, since we were in Parma, Ohio, the suburb where all the racist white people fled to when Cleveland got too brown for them. They even had an active KKK branch at the time. But yeah, that was our worst restaurant experience. Short of an armed robbery, I'm pretty sure we won't top it.
 
Lion & Firkin.

Absolutely terrible.
Ants in the drinks, food poisoning, terrible waitress and the meat was rare as fuck.
Good job, good job.
 
Wife and I wanted seafood bad. It's late, only places within driving distance are Red Lobster and Joe's Crab Shack. FUCK.

Went to Red Lobster, haven't been there in years. Server was nice, biscuits were great, ordered some new special with several kinds of shrimp (stuffed/scampi/etc.) and broiled tilapia. They bring it to our table and it's three piles of gross shit with shrimp sticking out. Stuffed shrimp tastes like soap. Straight up soap. Scampi is undercooked and way too buttery. Tilapia is spongy and bland, clearly frozen for a while. Even baked potatoes are soggy and gross.

Waitress comes over, we want to send food back. She doesn't seem surprised, says ok. Manager comes over, 40-something year old string bean skinny woman with a haircut like Guile. I tell her the food was horrific, she seems upset beneath her condescending grin. Offers to get us grilled tilapia since we "didn't like the texture". Figure why not, shrimp thing's a new special, cook might've fucked it up, this fish might be better,

Grilled tilapia arrives, it's scored like it was mashed in a waffle iron, tastes like bacon, exact same spongy texture and aftertaste that is the result of a long time in a freezer. Tell waitress we're done, she takes food back, manager comes back. Tell manager fish was bad again and why, looks me straight in the eye and asks "Well...have you ever HAD tilapia before?"

Left without paying, went home sick with a stomach ache. Never going back again.
 
There's some pizza place right inside the doors of City Walk in Universal Studios (FL). We sat inside to eat there and god it was awful. It was so awful that I sent the entire $40 meal or whatever back after just a few bites. I was on the "I'm getting a migraine from hunger" level as well.

edit: "Pastamore"
 
DarkFlow said:
Red Robin, unlimited frys my ass. Our server came to see us like once then ignored us for a bigger table. I watched that dick come to that table over and over while we sat there staring at him. I left his ass like a 50 cent tip. All I ask for is some attention, don't let my drink sit empty for 20 mins while you try to score a bigger tip.
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There was a time at my local RR where I got up and filled my own goddamn drinks. They weren't even busy. The manager just watched me do it like he'd seen it a thousand times. Never went back to that one.
 
CrankyJay said:
Ugh, fuck that. I should have walked out at that point. I'm talking about a 16" strand of black hair...they could have even pulled the fucking hair out and said this was a new dish but they didn't even do that...lol
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That's disgusting. The restaurant I work for never does that. We have a reputation of super fast food and service, but not remaking a dish is just nasty if something is wrong with it. Someone touched it, it doesn't go back to BOH.

My worst restaurant experience was at a place called Sushi Tango in Uptown in Minneapolis. We were sat on patio, waited for 10 minutes watching people trickle in and out. My friend gets up and asks the host stand to send our server, only to find out they don't have anyone on patio. So...we were reseated inside and proceeded to wait another 10 minutes before a server dropped us water without a word and ran off. 15 minutes go by as we watch her serve only the Asian tables, and I get up to ask the hostess if we might perchance get our order taken...5 minutes later she comes over and, without an apology, asks "what do you want tonight?" Excuse me?! I wanted service and food, being hungry and all. So we decide this is hilarious enough to stick around for, so we order and 30 minutes later our food begins to come out of the kitchen. In another 15 minutes, we start getting our sushi. We decided it was all fun and laughs but we should still let a manager know, so it took another 10 minutes to see a manager. Guess what he tells us...? "We're busy, and you ate." Not a comp, not an apology. Never coming back, not even under duress.
 
I went to a restaurant once and under the name on the outside it said "Pasta. Pizza. Risotto." I was really in the mood for a pizza, so I went inside and wait about ten minutes before someone took my order. I ordered one of the pizzas, and the waiter said, "we're out of pizza."

OUT OF PIZZA. AT A PLACE THAT HAD PIZZA ON THE DAMN SIGN.
 
mac said:
Professor P. J. Cornucopia's Fantastic Foodmagorium and Great American Steakery. They didn't salute me like they promised in the commercial. I didn't feel like a real man in front of the staff. I demand the FOH show me respect!
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LOL
 
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