/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Always order something expensive or complicated before you leave.

I screen places beforehand with the power of the internet

>>12848678
Of course not. But I've worked in restaurants and have seen people sit down, get served water and a menu, and then just walk out without saying a word a few times. It really must be embarrassing.

i look at the menu displayed outside the restaurant
if they arent displaying a menu theyre probably trash desu

>>12848678
No, even the nicer places I’ve been if the entrees turn out to be $59 or something and you’re feeling stingy, you can just get a few appetizers and a few beers for under $30

>>12848698
I’ve done this a couple times. If I’m trying something on a whim and the menu isn’t jiving I’m not embarrassed to just leave if I haven’t ordered anything

>>12848698
did this at a joe's crab shack cause the music was obnoxious
manlet manager ran out to the parking lot to harass us over it

>entrée
do americans really

>>12848724
>>12848734
Just fucking mention to your server that you're not feeling it or even make up some excuse as to why you can't stay. Just walking out is sketchy as fuck and honestly kind of rude, even if you haven't ordered yet.

yes, because my father was an idiot and couldn't understand the menu posted out in front

>>12848698
>It really must be embarrassing.

With the number of footfall some of these places get I wouldn't be too bothered (as a customer walking out). It's not as though any of the restaurant workers would remember your face anyway.

>early 20 something
>backpacking with friend in Europe
>Rome
>stop into a seafood place
>have a seat to the menu
>plate of pasta 25 euro
>turned 360 and did the dinosaur the fuck over to a kebaberia

>>12848745
I do what I want, wageslave

>>12849024
riding a train between countries and staying in hostels isn't backpacking

>>12848678
More than a couple times, yeah. Don't charge stupid fucking prices for tiny portions or pretentious bullshit. I'm looking at you, California. Yall can suck my "Tuscan" balls.

>>12849059
That's exactly what backpacking is. Maybe you're thinking of hiking or hitchhiking.

>Bordaeux

Kill all Americans

>>12848678
>what will it be sir
>ill have CarlsJr Combo Meal, my good sir
20 minutes later
>was everything to your satisfaction
>It sure was, my good friend
>Will you pay with card or cash this evening? Sir, what are you doing? Why are you taking of you shoes and putting in sneakers? SIR! SIIIIIR! YOU HAVE TO PAY! YOU HAVE TO PAY OR IT COMES FROM MY PAYCHEEEEEECK! SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIR!

>>12848710
This. A respectable restaurant posts their menu and prices outside.

Yes, many times in unfamiliar places whilst travelling. I pay top prices for top food. If I go somewhere and I'm being charged €12 for some hummus and bread I'll simply tell the waiter I won't be ordering, finish whatever I'm drinking, pay and leave.

Imagine not having the confidence to do this.

>>12848678
Often, usually only on casual dining trips though where I misjudge the restaurant based on looks.

>>12848678
Why is it all .99?

>>12848745
its even more rude to follow someone into a parking lot to bitch at them. if someone walks without ordering, let it go. It means the customer isnt having it and confronting them will just spark an argument or worse. Personally, id just ignore someone trying to confront me leaving.

>>12848678
Yes. Pretentious motherfuckers, lots of them.

>>12848745
No one owes you shit and your quality of life would raise significantly if you accepted that.

>>12849227
I'm BoH but work in an open kitchen. I pay attention to what's going on but would never follow someone out unless I saw them try to leave without paying (which has never happened). I do let FoH know when I notice shit like that and I also remember faces; it's just not a good look to sit down and then just skulk out when nobody's looking. I also work at a pretty nice place, so it's not like anyone here would ever be caught dead there.

>>12849235
>not a good look
I dont give a fuck what it looks like. I dont have a facebook account either, is that also "not a good look?". I get drunk at family restaurants and say nigger in public.

no one gives a shit what you waiter monkeys think. go OD on your drugs

>>12848678
I've only done this when the prices were outrageous AND the menu looks downright awful. It's only ever happened to me twice. I'm adventurous and love trying new things, but if it's the same old played out shit and I know of something better around the corner, I don't have a problem politely excusing myself to my server before ordering a drink.

>>12849235
>Not a good look
Why the fuck does anyone owe your shitty restaurant anything. If someone walks out that's their choice, deal with it

>>12849243
>>12849285
Neither of (you) would ever even go to the place I work, which was kind of my point. It's not Applebee's; it's a small mom and pop wine/craft beer place that does non-pretentious, casual farm to fork stuff. We seat a little over 100 people but it's not infrequent that there's $1,000,000 worth of luxury cars parked outside. It's just weird for people to walk out at a place like that.

>>12849295
Non-pretentious Mom and pop "craft beer" place sounds low class so maybe get a better copy editor if you're trying to make it sound upscale. Whether or not some anon would go to your fictional workplace is irrelevant to our posts

Yea. The Mandarin buffet. It's a buffet chain in Ontario.

>>12849304
You're pretty good at moving words around to completely change the description, but I never said it was upscale; it's a casual wine bar in an affluent area. I only brought that up to make the point that most people in the area eat out most nights and generally understand restaurant etiquette. It's not as though they're slighting us by walking out; it's a minor inconvenience for the servers/hostess. All I was saying is that we remember their faces and judge them, as do the regulars. I understand that you can't relate to anything I'm saying, but imagine you're 50 years old and retired and live in a pretty small community and spill your spaghetti.

NIGGS I NEED A QUICK ANSA!!!

I just started a lamb leg roast approx 2kg. Goes in oven with light smothering of olive oil, salt, pepper. Usually I start it on high heat 230C then after 10 mins turn it down. When I put the veggies in under it with an hour to go I add rosemary to the lamb.
Anyhoo I got a phone call and got distracted came back to kitchen 10mins late to turn it down to 160C and olive oil has dripped onto roasting tray and is smoking!! Not smoke your kitchen out smoke but can smell it’s burnt oil alright.
HOW FUCKED AM I???
do I need to throw roast out or do I just forgoe making gravy outa the pan????
Now happily roasting at 160C. No more smell. Am I going to give my family cancer????

>>12849319
For ameribros
230C = 446F
160C = 330F

>>12849319
You shouldn't be roasting anything that high with olive oil unless you blend it with something with a higher smoke point.

>>12849329
Oven was full of smoke. HALP MAY!!!

>>12849330
No shit Sherlock but HAVE I BEEN VISITED BY THE CANCER MEME???

>>12849235
why do you care?
i've gone and sat down at my favorite restaurant that i regular at and skulked out after a few minutes just because it's too loud and busy at that particular time or whatever
not everything is an agenda, sometimes it's just not working out

>>12849330
lmao retard if you mix it with an oil with a higher smoke point all you've done is lowered the smoke point of the high smoke point oil

Did it before. Embarrassing at the time but WAY less embarrassing than paying them hundreds of dollars for food im not even that excited about.

>>12849349
No, it actually raises the smoke point of the lower smoke point oil as well. Why do you think olive oil-canola oil blends exist? Or why people cut butter with oil when they do something like cook a steak?

>>12849342
>because it's too loud and busy at that particular time or whatever
That's a completely different scenario. Nobody cares in that case; all they see is that a table is open.

>>12849295
>Neither of (you) would ever even go to the place I work, which was kind of my point.
>non-pretentious

There is some weird power play going on in this situation to shame people into forking over money. Fuck you if you are one if those people in this thread. You working hard for your massa a wage slave?

>>12849318
>cite the same exact words you used
Anon stop you're "moving words around"!

You "never said it was upscale" yet you intimated it was by trying to brag about the dollar amount of total msrp of the cars in your parking lot. Btw, just because you saw a BMW doesn't mean you have wealthy clientele.

>they're not slighting us; it's a minor inconvenience
Then why are you bitching so much about it. Just admit the customers have done nothing wrong here.

>We judge them
Oh no! We fear the weighty opinions of the Michelin star rated mom and pop craft beer joints, with servers who are impressed by German car leases and who -wait for it- will remember your face.

Mfw when no one here knows if the smoking oil carcinogen thing is a meme or not.

>>12849354
>Why do you think olive oil-canola oil blends exist?
cost
>Or why people cut butter with oil when they do something like cook a steak?
if it's because they think they're changing the smoke point, then it's because they're retarded

>>12849358
my point is what difference does it make?
you don't know why someone's ditching

>>12849295
Why do you feel like you need to lie on the internet?

>>12849235
why would "remembering faces" matter in this situation?
if they're leaving for the reason you think they're living they're not going to come back
are you going to treat the like shit or call them out if they do come back?
i don't get it

>>12849405
I don't know how much cars cost (it's mostly Mercedes and Teslas, but there's also usually a Ferrari or two, a couple Maserati's, the occasional Rolls Royce, and a bunch of stuff in between) so I just pulled that number out of my ass, but everything else is accurate. How come every time someone on /ck/ says they actually cook at a restaurant the immediate response is, "hurr, you're such an amazing chef flipping burgers at McDonald's!"?

>>12849427
How does it feel to see a newer model Volvo parked at your McDonalds?
God forbid they roll up to the drive through and you truly get to brush elbows with the nations elite class.

>>12849427
People aren't treating you like a fag because you work at a restaurant. They're treating you like a fag because you work at a small mom and pop wine/craft beer place that does non-pretentious, casual farm to fork stuff where you seat a little over 100 people but it's not infrequent that there's $1,000,000 worth of luxury cars parked outside.

>>12848678
Yeah I have, especially if I'm the one expected to pay for it or even expense it. Retarded shit is retarded.
If I'm with a girlfriend we'll both probably look at each other and get up together and walk out. Restaurants in NYC or any city have become pathetic and not worth going to anymore.

>>12849536
One million dollars of so called "luxury cars" really isn't saying much, maybe that's one or two at best.

>>12849243
Based

>>12848678
>walk in
that's a room service menu ding dong

>>12849220
it's a low class place

>>12848678
No because the prices are always displayed outside, even if it's just a bar.

>$6 000 for a burger
brutal

>>12849318
>imagine you're 50 years old and retired and live in a pretty small community and spill your spaghetti.

oh no, boomers might not invite me to the next church group potluck

>>12849583
Uh, if you've less than a hundred covers it adds up

>go to a seafood place because they have happy hour till 6pm with $1 oysters
>just to make sure of the happy hour hours I checked their site and google reviews
>get there, and ask for 10 oysters
>just in case I stop the waitress and ask if the happy hour is still in effect
>"oh, no, sorry, we moved it back to 5pm"
>it's 5:10pm
>"thank you"
And I just walked out.
I'm not fucking paying $2.30 per oyster, fuck that.

>>12848710
my favorite thai place doesnt do this :(

>>12848678
No because in my civilised country is mandatory to have the menu with prices outside the restaurant so that people can be aware of the prices before entering

>>12848710
In my area it's usually the trashy restaurants that have a menu on display in the window. The better places have a few menus to pick up and look through just inside the entrance.

>>12848698
If I were to walk out I wouldn't feel embarrassed. I wouldn't walk out because I cant afford it but I would to avoid getting ripped off. I went to some relatively expensive place once for lunch. I cant remember the name of the dish but it was basically a bowl of rice with chicken and some sort of sauce. It was $30 and it wasnt any better than something you would get at a chain restaurant for $10. I dont know how someone would even have the gall yo charge that. I was expecting it to be good

>>12848745
>sketchy as fuck
I've hated everyone I've met who uses this phrase.
Is it related to drugs or African American vernacular?

>>12849928
No, it's common parlance. It relates to a sketch not being a complete picture.

>>12849024
Rome will rape tourists too stupid to know better, full of thieves and stray cats.

ITT: poorfags. Turns out if you work at McDonald's, you can only afford to eat at McDonald's.

>>12849235
>stinky criminal or criminal-adjascent works in a slightly more expensive restaurant and thinks it makes him the cat's pajama's
>still goes home smelling like garbage juice and being a retarded wigger

>>12849295
>my food's too fancy for you fags
Actually, foods and entertainments are usually two realms where people are more likely to punch above their belt, because even though it's more expensive it's usually still within the realm of incidental spending. My parents were scabby spendthrifts but on special occasions they'd head out for a 100-250$ meal.

>>12849928
It’s a nigger phrase that generally means “the situation looks highly suspect and niggery”

>>12849319
good lord, your roast is ruined!

One time, I walked into a restaurant that does dim sum for lunch. I didn't know they only did it during lunch and that at night, the menu switched to hyper expensive Chinese food. I went in there with my girlfriend at the time, we sat down, cracked the menu and just looked at each other and grimaced. We went down the street and did kbbq instead. Pretty embarrassing, those filthy Chinese scowled at us on the way out

>>12848678
only at the airport
anywhere else I look at the menu before leaving the house

>>12849953

>>12849172
to be fair, that label is a famous french winemaker from the famous jewish banking family

>>12849329
sorry I'm still confused by kg

>>12849928
I'm sorry you're too stupid to understand simple phrases.

>>12848678
yes.

>>12849059
Care to elaborate?

>>12849928
yeah I've noticed a lot of degenerates and druggies use it as well. this lines up with it being used by a waitress

>>12849059
Where in that post was a hotel mentioned.

>>12849235
What an absolute faggot.

>>12849295
>Neither of (you) would ever even go to the place I work, which was kind of my point. It's not Applebee's; it's a small mom and pop wine/craft beer place that does non-pretentious, casual farm to fork stuff. We seat a little over 100 people but it's not infrequent that there's $1,000,000 worth of luxury cars parked outside. It's just weird for people to walk out at a place like that.
>non-pretentious
You are an absolute spastic. Kill yourself.

>>12850724
I've heard "sketch as fuck" and "super-sketch" more commonly as a slang variant to "sketchy". "Sketchy" itself is a rather common word, while appending adjectives with "as fuck" is just a modern escalation from "as hell", or "as shite", or "as the devil", etc.
The term "sketchy" is most often used to denote dilapidated neighbourhoods with unsavoury people and no visible police presence, and so you're often more likely to hear the word used in context with these places.
Compare how "ghetto" used to be used to refer to the walled-off shanty-town districts where Jews were permitted to live in, before eventually becoming the self-proclaimed demonym for low-income African-Americans.

>>12850734
don't be a fucking retard
anon1 claimed to be backpacking across europe, which usually means taking trains between hoStels
anon2 got hotheaded and said that isn't real backpacking (probably because he's a fag)

>>12849366
loser BoH waiters BTFO by this post.
10/10.

>>12850754
the one that really pisses me off is "jankey" or however they spell it
I work with women and they use it all the fucking time

>>12849220
To trick you into thinking its $1 less than what is actually is. It doesn't work but everybody does it anyway. Places will also end items in .95 so that it looks cheaper than the .99 items even if the number of dollars is higher.

>>12851466
>It doesn't work
works on my wife
>let's rent this movie it's only $4
>open up google play
>it's $4.99 for SD and $6.99 for HD

>tfw I get embarrassed if I go into a store and dont buy anything because they don't have what I want

>>12849310
>Mandarin offers free meals with proof of citizenship on Canada Day
>Lines are so long people are getting close to heat stroke

Shit was hilarious to see. Windsor, Ont anon here.

What's the average price for hot wings

>>12851466
Yeah, it works. It's easy to get around when you notice it by automatically rounding up in your head whenever you see it, but so many people don't see it that way.

>>12851508
Women fundamentally don't understand money like men do, they don't have to work so they don't care.

>>12851508
im sorry for your loss

>>12849195
>putting in sneakers
NUMBER 15

>>12848745
Eat shit, get a real job

>>12851710
I didn't rent it, but offered to check the redbox
>>12851708
true
she """""works"""" part time for 4 hours/week making minimum wage and then immediately blows all she """"""made""""" and more going out for lunch after """"""work"""""

>>12849936
... aka gypsies

>>12852708
THEY HAVE A BEAUTIFUL CULTURE REEE

>>12849966
top kek

Some of you really have zero confidence. Why should I pay too much for something I dont enjoy enough to justify that price? You should always optimize your finances, as long as I didnt eat anything I owe the restaurant nothing.

>>12849928
Like much popular slang, its nigger speak popularized by rap. I hate it all so much. I noticed first when some chick said i was being salty in highschool.

>>12848734

Should have exercised your right as an American citizen and shot his hot-headed ass.

>>12848698
They might not have liked what they say as a walk in customer. If they had a reso that's a whole different story

No but I should have last night when I went to Uncle Julio's but I was there with my boss.

What a ripoff.

>>12848678
In Norway, pizza 130-160kr ($17-$20), sushi was normal priced though :D

>>12849295
>hurr over a million in cars!!!! xD
so like a single super car?
lmao

>>12848678
Yes. I don't give a fuck. Especially after tourists became more common and prices got jacked up and hidden away.

>>12849966
Is that Val Kilmer or Chris Nolan?

>>12848678
yes, all the time. why wouldnt you?

>>12848678
No I'm way to autistic to do that
At best I'll order something cheap like an appetizer and then leave like that was my plan all along.

>>12851466
It absolutely works. They wouldn't all do it otherwise

>>12853612
Yes

>>12853625
because you're supposed to check the menu and prices on your phone before going in

>>12848678
Only once before. My younger brother and I were in this shopping center looking for a place to eat. He insists that we eat at this pricy seafood restaurant, but I didn’t want to because I knew it was certainly above our price range. I’m trying to convince him to go somewhere else, but he stayed stubborn until we sat at the table and got the menu. He was willing to blow the last of his money in order to not be embarrassed, but I again managed to convinced him to dip out.

tldr my brother is retarded when it comes to money

Imagine going to a povvo restaurant that is so cheap it puts prices on the menu and thinking it's expensive jfl

>>12853757
What's povvo? Do you just make stuff up and expect others to believe it and know what you're on about?

>>12853757
>jfl
That's another one. You might want to try using English.

>>12853496
Yeah I heard this before, do you at least have kebab shops there?

>>12853771
>>12853783
Imagine being so American you don't understand basic dialects jfl

>>12848678
Yes, at The Keg. I walked in expecting a beer and bar food place but they were attempting to be some kind of upscale steakhouse. It's called "The Keg" what in the fuck?

>>12853757
Do you use made up stuff like that on a professional resume?

>>12853787
That's not a "dialect" that's bullshit.
Put that on a resume and see how far it gets you.

>>12853787
I don't speak zoomerniggese

>>12848718
If I'm paying $30 for a meal, I want to eat WELL. Not pick through pub-tier tapas with a pint.

>>12853793
>>12853803
it's common terminology here in australia and we rank higher than your povvo country on every quality of life metric

>>12853834
You don't even have guns to shoot the spiders and cane toads with anymore lmao

>>12853841
BODIED

>>12849243
fucking based

>>12849243
Lol reminds me of my friend loudly talking about how jews control the media and talk about destroyong israel at freddys steakburger

>>12848678
It's not so much that "the prices were too high" it more about not being ripped off by assholes, there's a difference. I can afford the prices but in the same breath so to speak I have no reason to want to ripped off by asssholes.

So many of these restaurant types are rip off artists that there's no reason for me to go to one. Even a girlfriend and I would walk out to avoid being ripped off by a scumbucket.

>>12853834
You rank higher than the USA how? In catching salties? GTFO you aussie degenerate.

>>12849366
nice post
wageslave service cucks can get fucked

>>12853895
At least Australia tells immigrants to fuck off.

>>12849427
>(it's mostly Mercedes and Teslas, but there's also usually a Ferrari or two, a couple Maserati's, the occasional Rolls Royce, and a bunch of stuff in between)
hahahhHaHhahAhAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA

>>12853898
At least they make them pass some test, we should do that here also.

>>12853898
which country full of low skilled criminals does austrailia border?

>>12853898
Australia really doesn't do that, they'd be accused of racism for preventing annoying niggers and malaysians and other fuckers from infesting their nation.
They no means to take a high ground v the USA.

>>12853904
Indonesia and Philippines

>>12853898
The USA is a lot bigger in population so it's more difficult to see an infestation. Aussie's are infested and don't see it and that's a sad state of affairs.

>>12853915
nope! neither country borders austrailia, and there's over 400 miles of sea between the closest points that's about 8 times the distance between cuba and the us by the way

>>12853935
And? I'm talking legal immigrants too like the fucking Indians and Pakis and chinks

>>12848745
You know you’re probably right. I should just let them know I’m leaving. I usually do but there’s a couple times I just left because I didn’t feel like flagging down a server.

>>12853834
lmao fucking AUSTRALIA? You srs cunt? Not a real country try again next thread

>>12849295
hey faggot
if your restaurant seats 100 and you get 100 honda civics in your cum-guzzling parking lot guess how many $'s worth of "luxury cars" are parked outside.

>>12849928
Blacks don't even use it anymore, or even actual poor wagies. It's just middle class white kids who are embarassed about their relative "privilege" trying to act hard.

>>12853991
0 because none are luxury class cars

>>12854030
BODIED

>>12854030
but they are "luxury cars"
i'm super sure a gourmet mom&pop wine/craft beer burger flipper can tell the difference

>>12848693
Anon here knows the ways

>>12854073
Replying after getting BTFO like that is just bad form anon

>>12848678
>then left before
what did xir mean by this?

>>12849195
did this really sound funny in your head?

>>12849243
dude you're so fucking cool

>>12854299
oh no im real fucking scared of your QUEER post dickhead (NOT)

>>12854648
He is though. Saying nigger in public is so based

>>12853975
To me that seems even ruder to tell a waiter you wont be eating there because prices or you don't like the menu. I've never been a waiter but I've worked customer service and probably would prefer they just go away.

>>12849382
I hope you get cancer for being retarded and annoying.

>>12855856
You can just say ‘sorry I changed my mind’ and leave, you don’t have to give a reason. If you just slink out unnoticed they may think you’re in the restroom or something before they figure out you left.

>>12848678
no

>>12853493
I like their food and don't think the prices are exorbitant but I'll never be back because I had hands-down the worst service of my life there one time in 2014 and I'll never forgetti.

>>12855856
I don't understand why you think that.
The server would undoubtedly prefer to know that you're leaving because of the restaurant and not because something bad happened or because of something they did or said.

If you're poor, why aren't you checking prices before you go?

>>12848678
>Have you ever walked into a resturant, sat down and saw the menu prices were too to accept then left?

Have you ever stayed even though you cant afford it but are too autistic to leave and then get evicted from your home because you couldnt make the rent?

>>12849243
unexpectedly based

>>12849767
Liar

>>12848718
I don't know what kind of restaurants you're going to, but even at most average ones I've been to, a few beers plus tips could easily cost you 30 dollars by themselves.

>>12848678
Back in the day me and the folks went to some place called The Shellhouse in Savannah. The menus didn't even have prices listed. When we find out what the prices were we go up and walked off to somewhere cheaper, maybe Shoney's? They finally have listed prices now, but this was way back in the late 90's, early 00's. Still pretty damned overpriced though.

>>12848678
One look at that, and I figured either Vegas or Strip Club. It's the Palms. And, it's about 3k higher than it getting it at home.

>>12848678
Once, usually i look up the menu first since im more worried about the food being what i want than the cost. But once, went into a place with my roomie- the prices were insane, place didnt look especially ritzy and looking around the portions were god awful.

>>12855925
Being rich leant mean you can’t get ripped off

>>12848693
Anyone who doesn’t do this a retarded boomer

>>12855973
No. What a ridiculous assertion, by the way. As if there's something inherently classy about having a paper menu taped to the window.

>>12856452
Boomers typically demand to know exactly what they’re in for before going to a restaurant, which is why they love chains. Based cool zoomers try a place on a whim and disappear in a cloud of vape exhaust if they’re not feeling it.

>>12856300
There are some restaurants that still do that, usually hoity toit ones. The guy will get the menu with the prices listed, the hot chick guest will get the menu without prices listed.

I think it's some old tradition that the one who makes the reservation gets the menu with the prices listed and no prices are listed on other's menu. That's polite though, if I'm hosting someone or other people they should be able to order without thinking of the prices of menu items.

>>12848678
Not because of just the high prices but also the waitresses being cunts (not taking the order even though they were literally not doing anything)

>>12848745
Yeah, I've decided to leave, but let me wait ten minutes on my server so I can tell them I'm leaving. The fuck is wrong with you?

>>12848678
are we all going to ignore the $14 for a canned tuna sandwich? I went to a a steak place, ordered a rib eye got served a sirloin. Weighed my options, tell the waiter and get into a discussion of "how do you know its a sirloin and not a ribeye?" as well as make a fool out of myself to the people I am with and then they'd do god knows what to whatever food they would try to replace the sirloin with, or don't say nothing, enjoy my sirloin. I did the latter, enjoyed my sirloin, and then complained to the website about it.

Later on, the manager of the restaurant actually calls my phone number which I stupidly left on the website when filling a complaint, and tries to get me to come for a free meal, as if, he doesn't understand the complaint
>why didn't you say something about it??
its a mid level chain, on a slow week day during the day, yeah let me just complain so you can fuck with my food, after explaining to him my concerns he said he understood my position and I told him I don't want the free meal anyways, the complaint was specifically so that whoever needs to know would know, that isn't a simple mistake, someone was either stealing product, or purposely serving the wrong product in order to save money, which again, makes the entire restaurant even more sketchy.

>>12848678
>Have you ever walked into a restaurant, sat down and saw the menu prices were too high to accept then left before?
Sure, a couple of times, and/or the reason was that I didn't see much on the menu I wanted to eat at that moment at that time, irregardless of prices. Maybe I wanted something smaller, for instance. I might be looking to sit down while traveling, just to cool down, get off the feet, use a nice clean bathroom or just be hydrated. I might not want to eat a full meal if I have plans later. Or, I might be overwhelmed by some bar stench or sudden hint of mildew or mold or something I'm like, oh hell no, I'm outta here.

Usually, though, I check a menu outside on the storefront, or quick research online, like if i am walking by, or simply ask the maitre'd before sitting down if I may peek at a menu first. Decision made, then I sit down. Don't be afraid to ask for half portion of something, or if you can order an appetizer as your main, or simply a side salad and a baked potato. Do what you want. Sometimes you can enjoy a drink and a dessert and a nice waterfront view. If they're not busy, they don't care.

>>12857340
>some bar stench or sudden hint of mildew or mold or something
another great sign is flies, if you see even just one, it is not a good sign.

I just walk out backwards and they don’t suspect a thing. Never fails.

Sometimes, I think I'm poor but they I see shit like this and realise I'm merely a cheapskate/skinflint/parsimonious Jew.

>>12848678
The family stayed at a 5-star hotel in Toronto once because the family was friends with a travel agent. A piece of toast at the restaurant was around $8 or $10. We walked out.

>>12857339
I hate the whole "come in for a free meal" kind of thing. Yes, I get that most people don't complain in person, and why they do or don't want it fixed on the spot. But, I'm not usually going back if it's two strikes.
If I wanted the issue fixed because I love the restaurant and don't want them to piss off anyone else? Then, I would go talk to someone in an aside and kind of manner about my expectations. I refuse most offers. You can be wasting your effort a good deal of the time, and the more mid-tier a place is, the more fraud they face and project onto you. Customer training is kind of a forgotten art anyway.

I'm done with the smear them online approach, though. If I don't have anything nice to say online, my time is more worth just letting it go.. I did a webform to Panera corporate comments once about how quickly bad their new location had become since new management, wet dressed overlogged soggy old salad greens, wilted sketchy toppings, unclean everywhere from bathrooms to unrefilled coffee canisters, dirty tops of sandwiches where really grubby gloves got mayo and stuff on top making everything a mess to eat, long lines, no eye contact, and really just a complete turnaround. They had only been open a year and in a very rich and demanding part of town with tons of competition. The next morning at 6:30am, waking me up, my cellphone rang with that asshole manager himself and the regional boss of some sort 3-way calling (with who else on the line, possibly too), and I got very aggressive "come in so I can see you" kind of offers that were just veiled angry threats disguised as apologetic free food offers. I don't need free food. If I was concerned about my budget, I wouldn't eat out wherever I eat all of the time, let alone get $5 coffees or $15 soup and sandwich combos. Whatever. Why they didn't surprise visit that location and do their own walkthrough to assess a report, address the issues, inspect, fix, etc, I have no idea.

>>12857350
Good tip.

>>12857395
>Why they didn't surprise visit that location and do their own walkthrough to assess a report, address the issues, inspect, fix, etc, I have no idea.

This is the thing about corporations anymore, they don't actually take the time to deal with complaints, they just email the store with the complaint and say "deal with it", except if they were remotely capable of dealing with it, they wouldn't have had the complaint to begin with. Amazing that panera bread people would get so pissy lol, like... it's just a coffee shop, ridiculous

reminds of the factory i work at, we make cars, some people there think its a good idea to use forbidden materials to weld cars with, they are told each and every time by the corporate office when they're going to get audited.

>>12848678
Once, ages ago. These days, I can just google the menu and check first.

>>12849928
I have literally only ever seen white kids say it.

My family did this last time we went to Japan 77. We already knew they were going downhill and only raised their prices, but we went anyway. The place was completely empty at like 5:30 on a Thursday. We sat down and saw the prices had been jacked up by another $5, putting it at about $50 per person. My dad had us get up and leave within 5 minutes of sitting down. The hostess chased after us and yelled "Wah happen???"

That stuck with me for a while. I hate to see businesses fail, especially restaurants, even if they are unfit.

>>12854572
>>12849195
I laffed after I figured out what the idiot was trying to say

>>12848745
THIS IS AMERICA! I DO WHAT I WANT!

>>12849961
Serves you right, you uncultured white devil flyover. Dim sum is essentially Chinese brunch. No place serves dim sum at night, ever. What are you, stupid?

>>12849243
Based and fucking Redpilled!

>>12857849
i wonder where these kids are now.

>>12848678
No, but I have sat down, ordered food and then walked out after eating because I thought the prices were too high.

>>12858130
working in a warehouse in Arkansas

>>12857443
Some places deserve to fail, given that they sucked as much as you wrote it was probably a money laundering front.

>>12858874
Yet another clinton money laundering scheme, it's Arkansas afterall.

>>12849295
>there's $1,000,000 worth of luxury cars parked outside
Okay so like one entry level hypercar? *sigh*

>>12848678
Yeah
3dollar tacos are for suckers

>>12849243
Cringe and not true.

ITT: ragey cagey argues about how much the "hemi" in his "four on the floor" costs

Day of the coral reef soon

>>12848745
What about the time me and my girlfriend got seated and sat there for 10 minutes and nobody came to take our order or get us drinks and when we got to leave they tried to stop me at the door as if I was stealing and I pushed them to the side and proceeded to leave