When you go out to eat you expect a clean restaurant, well cooked food and friendly staff...but sometimes you rarely get one of those things.
It’s Raining Mice!
I was eating at this Peruvian restaurant with my wife when all of a sudden something fell from the ceiling down onto our table. It happened really quickly and so I initially couldn’t make out what it was and so I thought that maybe it was just a paint chip that fell from the ceiling onto our table, and ricocheted onto the floor. But suddenly, my wife looked down and screamed so I looked down on the floor to see a dead mouse right next to her foot. The mouse must have somehow accidentally fallen through some hole in the ceiling onto our table, then upon ricocheting onto the floor, my wife accidentally stepped on it, killing it and squeezing its guts out onto the floor. It was really, really gross.
The part that made me say that I’m never going back to that restaurant again, is that when our waiter noticed the commotion of my screaming wife, he came over, saw the mouse, and non-nonchalantly called over to the busboy who walked over, picked it up with a newspaper and threw it out back into an alley. The waiter then proceeded to ask us how our meal was and if we wanted to look at a dessert menu. He didn’t apologize, ask if we wanted our meal comped, nothing. Then when I complained, he said that having mice is just a part of owing restaurants and that there’s nothing he could do about it. Plus, he blamed my wife for killing the mouse and so it wasn’t his fault that there was a bloody dead mouse on the floor. It was ridiculous. So my wife and I got up and left without paying, and several others sitting next to us did the same Source
Smell Ya Later
Chinese restaurant I used to love. I went to pick up take out one day and the whole restaurant was super humid and smelled strongly like a sour towel.
I figured they had some roof leak issue or something. I saw they closed for a couple weeks, so i thought they were fixing the issue.
I waited another couple months before giving it another shot. It still smelled, but worse. They had done no remodeling or anything. It was time to find a new Chinese place Source
A Rude Encounter
One of my relatives has a prosthetic leg, and it’s uncomfortable for him to stand for a long time, so he asked for a chair to sit in while waiting for a table. 10 minutes later, a waitress came over and said she needed the chair back. He explained his situation, but she snapped “well, I’m sorry, I need it. You’ll have to get up.” He shouted “F— THIS PLACE!” and stormed out Source
For Here Or To Go?
Chinese restaurant. They stored their ‘to go’ containers in the restaurant bathroom Source
And He Sticks The Landing!
Indian buffet. Rats running along a ledge and taking Olympic level dives onto the food.
Right up there with epic food poisoning at Red Lobster Source
Let Me Interrupt Your Game With My Service
Took some of my friends to a local burger place that I loved. We went at 3pm so there were only two other tables with customers besides my friends and I. Our food took roughly 50 minutes to get to our table, which was not cool, but I wasn’t going to make a fuss over it. As I took the much anticipated first bite out of my delicious looking sandwich, I discovered an extremely odd texture. It was the plastic from the cheese. Great. I just ate plastic. Turns out, the cooks were watching the Browns vs Steelers game and must have thought that more important than doing their job Source
He Aims And…Oooo He Misses
I had a lemon thrown at me.
Well the lemon was thrown by a server at another server – his aim was off so it hit me instead.
Thanks Mellow Mushroom Source
It’s Closing Time
Went to a sushi joint for a birthday with about a dozen people. Ordered fat stacks of snacks. Waited over an hour for the main course. I then inquired as to where the piles were. Turns out the kitchen ‘lost the ticket.’
Ended up being after closing time and they refused to make our dinner. They essentially kicked us out with our dick in our hands. Made the birthday girl cry and everything Source
You Shoulda Known
It was a restaurant in Waikiki, the last night of our vacation. The place was crawling with bedbugs. We didn’t know they were bedbugs at the time, didn’t actually figure that out until we were back home and the telltale bites developed. We had to call the hotel, tell them we may have introduced bedbugs to the room. (They freaked out but hey, it was their employee who’d recommended the place.) We had to empty out the freezer to deep freeze everything we couldn’t boil or leave roasting in a black garbage bag on a sunny patio for weeks. We had to put special covers on our mattresses and vacuum and scrub every surface every day. Our house wasn’t infested but it was over a month before we could relax.
When I called the restaurant, the manager said, oh yeah, we have a terrible bed bug infestation, we have an exterminator come once a month, but every place in Waikiki has bedbugs, everybody knows that, you should read the local newspaper.
When we wrote about it on Trip Advisor, the same manager called us to ask us to remove the review. In return, we’d get dinner on the house if we ever returned.
Not only am I not going ever going back to that restaurant, I’m not ever going back to Oahu. F— you, Lulu’s Source
A FOUR Hour Wait!
It literally took almost four hours to get our food- almost an hour to get a seat and 3 after we ordered.. Not busy and not a holiday. Tables were open everywhere. Couldn’t understand what the f— their problem was. And it wasn’t even that good. We should have left but his mom was adamant we try their food. Horrible experience. It’s a restaurant in Ligoneir PASource
A Sour Problem
A dead wasp in the lime pickle Source
Expecting Perfection
Went to the restaurant in my small town with the best reviews. Steaks were $35, sides were $8+. My parents and I went to celebrate, and our total bill was around $150.
The food was s—. All of it. Steaks were bland, tough, and cooked too little/too much. Sides were disgusting and cold. We waited an hour to get our food. Even the complimentary basket of cornbread tasted like it was just a box of Jiffy mix, and they somehow f—ed that up too. We could’ve had a better meal from Outback.
After expressing our dissatisfaction with the food and service, they offered is free desserts, which I accepted because I was still hungry. Dessert was shit too.
Friends and coworkers keep urging me to give that restaurant another chance, but no way. Any restaurant that serves $50 meals gets exactly one shot to impress me. I expect perfection at that price Source
A Casual Afternoon Stroll
The mouse casually strolling through the dining room Source
Avoiding The Problem
I was at a Denny’s in VA beach, as we were being seated a woman was dragging her little boy to the bathroom and he puked in the lobby waiting area. The woman got frustrated and just took the kid back to their table then didn’t tell anyone that happened. While we were seated the staff noticed and just put a chair over it. We ordered drinks, puke still there. We ordered food, puke still there. Food came out, puke still there. We couldn’t eat. We paid, left and haven’t been back to a Denny’s since Source
Plain Unforgivable
Brought me a sandwich with turkey bacon instead of turkey AND bacon. Unforgivable Source