What was your worst restaurant experience?

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This story on Yahoo is disgusting....
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/kentucky-restaurant-shut-down-roadkill-kitchen-160225525.html

I thought this would be an interesting, fun topic.
What was your worst restaurant experience?

Mine? Well sometime back in the late 80's I was on a date with my girlfriend at a Chinese retaurant. One of the things we ordered was chicken friend rice. Well, there were LOTS of dead roaches in the dish that were kinda hidden by the brown color and texture of the fried rice. My girlfriend and I ate some I am sure, we were about 1/4 of the way through the dish before we noticed. I thought I was gonna puke, but didn't.
I made sure I spoke loudly when I pointed this out to the waiter. He actually asked if I wanted another portion.....
 
That story was about a restaurant in Kentucky...roadkill is a staple on any menu there. Right?
Just kidding, LOL. No need for any FABO Kentuckians to jump all over me about this.

Sorry, don't have any bad restaurant stories but do have one about the mess haul of my basic training group at Ft. Polk, Louisiana, back in the very early '70s. And it isn't even about 'roadkill' - even in Louisiana.
Back then during Army basic training, everyone pulled KP duty at least twice. I'm sure many of you have seen the old cartoons about KP being about peeling potatos. This was a state-of-the-art mess hall back then because it had an automatic potato peeling machine. You'd dump in a bunch of potatos out of a burlap bag and the machine would whirl them around inside against a very abrasive coating that would strip the peel off.
Sound good so far? Well, I found out the bags of potatos were stored in a damp area and the bags were infested with roaches. I pointed this out to the cooks and was instructed to just dump everything in the peeler anyway.
What I previously thought was "pepper" in the mashed potatos just may not have been. I never ate mashed potatos again the entire time I was at Ft. Polk.
 
Went to a restaurant in Florida and ordered a steak and fixins. Got the steak and it was boot leather tough, rest of the food with it was way overcooked.

Well after choking it down I wanted some desert, ordered apple pie a la mode. Waitress brings out the pie and ice cream and the pie was cold, I complained to the waitress and told her the pie was supposed to be warm, she said OK and took it back to warm it. She brings my pie back and it was warm and floating in melted ice cream, she had put the pie and ice cream in the microwave and heated both.....:banghead: I had apple pie a la soup.

I complained to management and I got the meal for free as did the rest of the crew.
 
This doesn't seem so bad until you realize it was 8 people, and ANY restaurant should be able to realize the money to be made.

Years back, at the Indy Mopar Nationals (how long ago WAS that??) our group all went to this joint

She took our orders fairly timely, .....no complaint.

But we waited........................................and waited..................and WAITED for our food.

Now when it came, the steaks were OK, but the baked spuds had no butter, no sour cream, no nothing. She throws all the food on the table and must have gone shopping!!!! We had half our steaks eaten before we FINALLY got someone's attention, and .....................waited ................some more for precious LITTLE butter for 8 people, and by this time we'd had the steaks and given up

"uh, dessert? No, we don't think so."

So we put all the water glasses in the middle of the table, and the plate of butter on top of THAT, and stuck 3 or 5 pennies into the butter (Get it?)

To add insult to injury, I was waiting for one of the other guys after I'd payed when two other couples came in. They were waiting to be seated.

I told them "If you want my advice, eat somewhere else." AND THEY DID!!!!!
 
A mother was walkimg her kid to the bathroom and the child crapped in his shorts, it fell on the floor and an employee from the restaurant had to come out and clean it up. This happend right beside my table.....
 
greg said:
A mother was walkimg her kid to the bathroom and the child crapped in his shorts, it fell on the floor and an employee from the restaurant had to come out and clean it up. This happend right beside my table.....
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I grabbed a bite in a small downtown joint one noon, and a woman sent a toddler into the mens room. Pretty soon he comes out crying, his little doo-dad hanging out, and his pants around his knees. "Where's the Mommies" he cried!!

I thought it was funny. "The Mommies" were mortified.
 
My worst restaurant experience? Nothing to do with the food, nothing to do with the service.

A month eating alone in restaurants while we were in Rochester.
 
Sausage gravy and Biscuits at the truck stop in Fairmont, WV. Worst food I've ever been served!
 
One my busy and I were at a restaurant after bar close getting some food, we are sitting in our booth when across the room we hear a sound like someone is pouring soup on the floor.....we both loom over to see this old man just throwing up all over the table, there was so much it was going off the table sides and onto the floor, it looked like someone dumped and entire kettle of chili on the table. You could hear all the waitresses screaming and saying "I'm not going out there!" Weird thing is the poor guy didn't make a sound, he kept puking. This was about 2 am and the guy looked homeless, he was stuffing his face really good before this happened, probably over ate. Never forget that......
 
Whew, a few good ones here so far. C'mon FABO, I KNOW there are more stories to share!

I ate roaches people!

Greg and 66340sedan, you guys had some nasty experiences.
67dart273, you win so far on worst service, geeze!
 
I was 7 years old..told mom and dad i didn't feel good and didn't want to eat...They said i was hungry...sooooo.... halfway thru my Roy Rogers hamburger, I got up and ran for the door - puked right next to some guy biting into his double r bar burger. He just put it down and walked out..... fast forward 10 years - that Roy Rogers was now a Bojangles... I was working there...closing on a Friday night... fellow employee took the pans of hot water form the steam bins and dumped it on the floor to cut the grease....it tsunami'd right into my left shoe causing 2nd and 3rd degree burns.... my skin peeled off with my sock......... Funny thing about it was the ambulance pulls out in front of my brother in his 70 Road Runner - mom and dad didn't hear the phone ring.... I got home the same time my brother did that night... He laughed at being cut off by the ambulance until I told him I was in it..... I could see him out the rear doors of it and they wouldn't flag him down....
 
Lets see,
When I was a teenager I worked at a Long John Silvers for a grand total of 3 days. On day 3 I walked into the walk in fridge to see one of my co-workers "tossing off" into a bucket of fish batter. The guy was creepy anyway, that sealed the deal. I won't go back to LJS. :sign10:
I stopped at a place in a "colorful" part of town once. Got mashed potato's with my dinner that I thought had pepper in them at 1st. then I noticed the cigarette butt.
I don't even want to think about what I ate when I was overseas. The standard for sanitation doesn't exist in some of the places I've been.
 
gunbunny said:
Lets see,
When I was a teenager I worked at a Long John Silvers for a grand total of 3 days. On day 3 I walked into the walk in fridge to see one of my co-workers "tossing off" into a bucket of fish batter. The guy was creepy anyway, that sealed the deal. I won't go back to LJS. :sign10:
I stopped at a place in a "colorful" part of town once. Got mashed potato's with my dinner that I thought had pepper in them at 1st. then I noticed the cigarette butt.
I don't even want to think about what I ate when I was overseas. The standard for sanitation doesn't exist in some of the places I've been.
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First one happened at a rival school after a Basketball game. A few of my teammates, coaches and I were eating the great homecooked food at this small school we played at while the girls played their games. My assistant coach started joking about the slaw being chewy while pulling something out of his mouth...chewed up bubble gum. He didn't think it was so funny when he realized what it was.

Another is from a place set up kinda old fashioned where you walk up to the window and order a burger and fries while you watch them cook through the window. A friend of mine went up to order a burger and a huge roach crawled up on the window screen. When the cook noticed it, he squshed it with the spatula and kept right on flipping burgers like nothing happened. I haven't been there since.

I've also got some friends that were cooks at the local andy's. When I heard what they did to the rude customers' food, I decided I wouldn't be rude to anyone else that was bringing out my food at any restaurant. Until it was time for a tip. Or lack there of.
 
roadrunnerh said:
This story on Yahoo is disgusting....
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/kentucky-restaurant-shut-down-roadkill-kitchen-160225525.html

I thought this would be an interesting, fun topic.
What was your worst restaurant experience?

Mine? Well sometime back in the late 80's I was on a date with my girlfriend at a Chinese retaurant. One of the things we ordered was chicken friend rice. Well, there were LOTS of dead roaches in the dish that were kinda hidden by the brown color and texture of the fried rice. My girlfriend and I ate some I am sure, we were about 1/4 of the way through the dish before we noticed. I thought I was gonna puke, but didn't.
I made sure I spoke loudly when I pointed this out to the waiter. He actually asked if I wanted another portion.....
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Funny, we had the same thing happen to us at a Chinese restaurant but it was soup.

"Oh sorry, I'll get you another bowl"

"No Thanks we're outta here!"
 
seabee said:
Funny, we had the same thing happen to us at a Chinese restaurant but it was soup.

"Oh sorry, I'll get you another bowl"

"No Thanks we're outta here!"
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Isn't that amazing? They actually offer you another portion from the same freakin pot? :vom:

gunbunny, You saw a dude "tossing off" into a bucket of fish batter?
That is too sickening for words. Makes my roach eating experience seem like child's play......
 
Not too long ago there was a thunderstorm in San Diego where it was raining buckets. Luckily we were close to my Daughter and I's favorite old school Chinese place so we decided to grab lunch until the rain stopped. The decor of this place hadn't changed since the 70's, marbled mirrors popcorn ceiling etc.. The roof was leaking everywhere so they had to put us right next to the only other occupied table in the place. Sitting next to us was a priest and two homeless guys. He had taken them to lunch and was propositioning them to come back to his place. "Do you like brandy?........". He has holding one of the guy's hand and rubbing his shoulders etc.. It was so creepy and gross. During their meal one of the homeless guys that was in a wheelchair shat his pants. The smell......Anyways, while the priest took him to the restroom we got our food. I paid our check, gave our food to the remaining guy and we left never to return.
 
Carmen and I spent a couple nights on Pender Island at a fancy resort. The first night we decided to get dinner at the restaurant, which was $$$$$ but thought we would do something special. (Keep in mind, the only other place to eat on this island was a pub which closed the kitchen early). We waited just to get seated close to 20 minutes. We finally were seated, and waited another 20 minutes just for the waiter to come order our drinks. He took our orders, and we ordered our food at the same time, then never brought us our drinks or food. Finally a waitress saw us, so she re took our orders. Then we noticed another couple waiting to be seated. They were finally seated, and we had just gotten our drinks. 15 minutes later they were eating, BEFORE US, and it looked like they were eating what we ordered. I called the waiter over, and freaked out. He hardly apologized, and tried to give some excuse about why they had their food. After 1.5 - 2 hours, we finally had our food. They gave us a complimentary drink to make up for the wait, but didn't offer the meals for free or anything. And they weren't even busy, there was only 4 or 5 other occupied tables.

Carmen and I went to a restaurant in Nicaragua, which was supposed to be good according to Lonely Planet, but obviously had fallen apart. We ordered coffee to start, and when the guy brought the coffee out, the mugs were dark inside. Turned out they had 1/8" of dust in them, and he poured the coffee into them. Carmen's had cobwebs all over the top. Our scrambled eggs were runny and uncooked inside. Our hashbrowns had heart attack written all over them.. soooo greasy inside. The toast was the only thing we could keep down, but the jam was moldy and the butter was full of dead flies. The restaurant itself was totally rundown, and the kitchen looked like a back alley. The worst part was, the guy wasn't from Nicaragua. He was actually from Victoria BC, about 2 hours from where we live! Story was him and his wife ran this place as a hostel/restaurant, but she left him, and it fell apart.
 
gunbunny said:
Yep, you can't un-see stuff like that either. This dude was straight nasty, he was probably in his late 20's then and would hit on the girls that worked there. I didn't stick around long enough to see what else he was capable of. He wasn't a mgr, but he showed up every day, so I guess thats why they kept him.
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wow , nothing i can say here can top the tossing off ....
gives a whole new meaning to Long John Silver


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Certainly not as gross as some of the horror stories, but a little humorous.

Was helping a buddy move in Coquitlam, BC. We decide to grab a bite to eat and stop in at a chain restaurant (cant remember name). Waitress seemed a little ditzy, but polite. We order some pop, and they serve it those colored plastic glasses. After about 10 minutes she brings them out, puts them down and walks away to the server area and just stares at the wall. We laughed that she didn't even take our order, so while he vainly tried to get her attention, i took a sip of my coke, and it tasted like soda water - no syrup. After about 5 minutes she comes to the table, and before we order, I mention that i think the syrup must be empty as my drink has no flavor. She starts telling me it looks fine. I explain it's supposed to be brown - like Coke, so she picks it up, takes a sip, pus it back on the table and tells me it is Coke. After a few minutes, she agrees to replace it, and 10 minutes later shows up with a new one, puts it down and turns to walk away again. I had to almost yell to get her attention, and tell her we haven't actually placed our order. Off she goes, and a few minutes comes back with a pad to write it down. We had to grab her attention after seeing our food sitting at the pickup location getting cold for 5 minutes.

Then waited another 10 for her to figure out the bill. Of course, she charged me for both drinks. We're sitting there laughing for a few minutes, and get up to leave. Of course, she's standing at the till. We stood there for a couple of minutes staring at each other across the counter when she says "Can I help you?" I replied we were looking to have some lunch, and needed a table for three. She replied that a table would be about 5-10 minutes (even though the place was half full). I said, we're in a bit of a rush, and couldn't wait, and we walked out the door.

Grant
 
In 2004 when my son graduated boot camp at Ft Knox, we went up for the weekend and met him on base. We went to a little pizza place there and as we were eating, I see something move on the floor under the booth across from us. It was a MOUSE eating away on a piece of bread. LOL

I pointed it out to my wife and my mother who both suddenly lost their appeitite.

I threw the mouse a small piece of pizza as we got up and left since no one was hungry anymore.

I took a picture of it too. I still have it in my junk at home . LOL
 
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