/ck/ - Food & Cooking

recently actually.

it was a cajun joint, and i REALLY wanted it to be good because i love that kind of food. one of my favorite joints ever is a southern poboy shack.

it was terrible. the server was sweet but didnt know how to wait on a table. she fucked up everything. really. everything. drinks- wrong. sides-wrong. check-wrong.

and the kitchen microwaved everything.
fucking line of nuke scum on my bowl on eouteffee. fuck

i went to ure mom's and she didn't even suck my cock

american in england.
I went to an empty cafe one day and when I got up to the register, the girl was smiling but the second I opened my mouth and my accent got out, instant frown.
I didn't think anything of it till when she brought me my food at the table and literally tossed the plate on table having it bounce/slide nearly breaking.
I took a bite, realized it was shit, and left mainly because of the shitty person

>>5279090
you forgot to wear your 'fuck usa' badge, didn't you?

>>5279090
Try this with me, "Hello, I'm Canadian..."

>>5279090
Yeah well your shirt probably didn't help anything either anon

>>5279116
Nope, fuck that pussy shit. I'm coming in sporting this shirt and a Confederate flag hat.

If they spit in my food, so be it.

>>5279125
we allredy spit in your food, if you wear that shirt we'll piss in your food

A tiny "chineese" place (though the wait staff was white, and from what I heard so was the owner/boss, absent at that time.) Anyway, the two waiters were arguing over something. The girl barely ceased arguing to take my order, and then it only escalated. They got in a shouting row, my food was practically thrown on my table, and they didn't cease shouting throughout my whole meal. I had to wait a good while to get to butt in that I want to pay. The girl didn't even cease arguing with the guy as I was paying the bill. (the food was below average and slightly overpriced too.)

Never returned there though passing it daily, saw it closed down maybe half a year later.

A waiter stole $5 from me thinking he deserved it as his tip when I didn't.

>shit service
>he walks away mid-way through my order
>brings the wrong food
>doesn't apologize, gives some BS about how he can't read his own hand-writing
>never shows up again
>have to ask the girl cleaning the floor for the bill, and pay her instead

I left a penny on the table and wrote a 0 on the credit slip tip line. Turns out he forged that 0 into 5.00.

>>5279269
How is this any different from places with actual Chinese staff?

>>5279125
they'd be clueless about the confederate hat, although the shirt would be handy so that you could be properly identified and frowned at before you open your mouth

Hungry Jacks in some mall in Cairns while on holiday.
>order generic combo
>burger slapped together assymetrically with comical unattentiveness and wrapped as a child would a jam sandwich
>coke spilling out all over the show
>lid barely forced to make contact with brim of cup, let alone contain contents effectively
>chips quite literally thrown into take-away bag in clear view
>squashed by burger
>sauce sachets chucked in aggressively on top
>glorious meal deal
wasn't expecting hilton hotel but really, lol. straya might have pioneered acne ridden teen dining.

>>5279068
Worst service was at a restaurant on the side of the highway in the middle of buttfuck nowhere. I waited 3 hours for pancakes, eggs, and hashbrowns. The only reason I stayed was because I was fucking starving during a long-ass road trip.

>>5279284
That's why I always pay for shitty service in cash, and keep enough dough on me at all times.

>>5279068

> sushi place...
> all you can eat rules are hitler
> can't leave any rice or you get charged
> terrible service
> waitress never came not once
> have to walk and get things right next to her and walk back while she stares
> get 3 rolls for $50 all you can eat, leave 1 piece
> get charged another $17 for roll
> pay, leave no tip
> waitress follows me into parking lot
> WHY NOT TIP YOU HAVE TO LEAVE TIP!
> i explain why.
> runs back inside grabs manager
> both run outside WHY NO TIP YOU MUST TIP

> called the next day reported credit card stolen, got my money back.
> Gotta love Visa

>>5279284
>I left a penny on the table and wrote a 0 on the credit slip tip line. Turns out he forged that 0 into 5.00.

When i do that, I always write "NONE!" cause if someone left me a zero tip i would do the same thing (forge it into a 5 or 10)

>>5279303
hungry jacks is not a restaurant

you could have at least gone to fucking cactus jacks or something

>>5279347
Every time I go to a place like that, all of my dumbass friends want to get the all-you-can-eat, and I always warn them about the soup nazis, but they never listen.

>Denny's
>with the family
>everyone orders
>I get a burger and fries, same as my dad
>everyone gets their order
>not mine
>still don't have it
>family finishes eating
>I still don't have my burger
>we leave
>but the drinks were complementary

Never been to one since.

>>5279357

if you go to a sushi place that has an all you can eat choice, you HAVE to get it.... (well you dont have to) but the point is... those type of places are not going to have high quality fish regardless.

if you order a-la cart you're juts going to spend the same amount of money for a small meal.

When I order all you can eat, I get like 15 orders of nigiri, uni, eel, mussles... soup... calimari.. one fancy roll, and then more nigiri until im full.

I end up stuffed for like $40 bucks after tax and tip.

now, having said that... ive gone to these a lot (midori) but im sick of the quality now. Now I just save up about $90 bucks and go to a REAL sushi place, that has no all you can eat option, and I get what the chef recommends. I end up leaving comfortably snacked, but not full... even "a bit hungry" by American standards.... but I've had a meal I can remember for years.

Little Brother's sushi.... this shit is SOO bomb. Left $120 there last time just for myself.

>>5279364

this is just autism..... why didn't you just let them know they forgot your order? Things like that have happenned to me before... if you order two burgers and they bring one, you're supposed to ask... "what about mine" and then they make it real quick.... not wait until everyone finishes their meal...

autism

>>5279377

That's what I forgot. To tell the waitress she didn't bring my order. I cannot believe I sat there, watching my entire family eat and my father, mother and myself not bring it up to the waitress.

Holy shit anon, where were you on my day of need.

>>5279379

seems like you did.

have you ever heard the expression

> The squeaky wheel gets the oil first?

>>5279380

I am going to pretend you don't have autism and forget this thread exists.

>>5279379

Also, what kind of family do you have that wouldn't even share with you? I would have at least given you some fries if I was your dad. Maybe even a bite of my burger. You deserve it.

Also, I noticed you said
> my entire family eat and my father, mother and myself

So an only child, huh? No siblings? You know, I think that's the core of your problem right there. If you had a brother or sister to keep you in line and offer you some competetion, perhaps you wouldn't sat there moping and starving and got yourself a burger.

Why can't you be stronger, anon?

>>5279372
but sushi is fucking trash anon.

>>5279385

awe, hold on... we're making progress:
>>5279388

>>5279389
> but sushi is fucking trash anon.

lol, fried chicken and doritos muncher detected. you got no taste, man. Sushi is god-tier. real sushi at a good expensive place, that is. If all you tried was some shitty sushi then yeah its fucking trash.

Real sushi melts in your mouth. (pic related)

>>5279388
Calm down Freud

>>5279394
Oh I don't eat doritos or fried chicken. Sushi on the other hand is just popularized by the weaboos and yuppies.

>>5279394
That is sashimi. Sushi is rice. For someone who like a food so much you really don't know anything about it.

>>5279399

> That is sashimi. Sushi is rice. For someone who like a food so much you really don't know anything about it.

lol? wow, are you the same idiot over here?
>>5279397

fucking dumb people up at this hour.

My worst experience was at a Persian restaurant in Leeds. The waitress, despite being polite, kept changing our orders to be more to suitable to "our English tastes".

We wanted something spicy and different and instead she got us beef stew and grilled fish.

>>5279415
Welcome to the future. First it was people getting burned by McDonald's coffee, now it's the waitress changing your order to "protect you from yourself."

We need to stand up against this patronizing attitude.

>>5279415
that's ridiculous! did she tell you she was doing this? how do you know it wasn't just a poor quality restaurant serving bland food?

Twin Peaks. A slightly less shitty Hooters.

The dumb pair of tits forgot our order the first time and had to come back and ask again. Then she brought us a bottle of ketchup that was unopened and struggled to open it while muttering "God damn fucking thing fuck fuck fuck". Then she tripped while carrying our food and dropped it on the floor. "Motherfucker. I'm real sorry." We eventually got the food and it was pretty good. I left $10 as a tip because I knew she'd be fired. To make sure she didn't misinterpret it as oh golly, I'm a great waitress, I left a note on a napkin.

>Dear Ashley,
>Maybe waiting tables isn't for you. If you ever are in need of a new job, call ***-***-**** and ask for Mr. Lyon.

The number was the city zoo and I admit I stole the idea from The Wire.


The next time I went there, I asked about her and she was, indeed, fired.

>>5279347

>WHY NO TIP YOU MUST TIP

fuck america

>>5279415

i am very skeptical about this story

>>5279415
>>5279448
>>5279449

I had the opposite experience. I went to a Thai place and ordered shrimp and noodles.

The lady looked concerned, she said "VERY SPICY! YOU LIKE SPICY?"

I do like spicy. I like things really spicy. I always get extra spicy, and I can snort hot cheeto dust.. and i tend to use a table spoon of habanero sauce on my hot dog.

So I said "yes."
"YOU SURE?"

Anyway not to drag it out but the thing was so hot I litearlly couldn't put it into my mouth. Every single droplet of that sauce on the shrimp burnt like death.

"TOLD YOU"

Although maybe they're bastards and decided to fuck around and just dump a shitload of chili in my shit, to "teach the whiteboy". You never know. Asians are racist as fuck sometimes.

>>5279476
my local thai place has a silver serving tray of spices you add to your baseline curry when it's served if you ask, that shit can make or break your curry's spiciness.
Your just sounds like a dick server

>>5279284
Petty Dumb Waiter Scum.

>>5279068
A couple years ago we were eating out at some chain place (Friday's, Chilis, something like that). The service for the food was kind of slow, but not too terrible. But when it came time to give us our bill, the waiter just disappeared. I waited there for half an hour waiting for our bill, and grabbed two other waiters and asked about it, and it never showed up. So we walked out without paying.

Sushi seems like a huge scam. Fish is not as expensive as you think, and theres little preparation involved. Despite what pretentious documentaries try to teach you, theres not a secret technique that takes years to master to create the perfect folded 10,000 times rice. If you live near the coast you can be making equivalent to restaurant sushi within a week for a fraction of the cost with the right tools.

>>5279401
Are you the fucking retard here? Sushi IS the rice. Look it up. Sashimi is not considered sushi by definition.

Stopped by a Shari's or something similar shortly after dinner rush had died down, ordered a turkey sandwich with mashed potatoes and gravy. Took a good 45 minutes before I ever saw my food. At another table. That had come in after me. Only time I've walked out of a restaurant.

I don't go out to eat that often so I don't have anything more thrilling to share.

I tried a Panara bread once. I decided on their Ham and swiss sandwich. When I was asked what kind of veggies I wanted on it I said just lettuce.

The guy then responded, are you sure just lettuce. At the time I didn't think anything of it and said yes.

Back in the car I open it up, it is a leaf of lettuce between two slices of bread.

I was not amused.

>>5279582
this happened to me recently at wendy's i think

i ordered a bacon cheeseburger with just lettuce

open up my sandwich, it's just 2 beef patties and some brown lettuce. i was not impressed

>>5279591

I thought it was strange at first. I looked at the receipt and it said I was charged for a Ham and Swiss but it was just the lettuce.

>>5279582
> I decided on their Ham and swiss sandwich. When I was asked what kind of veggies I wanted on it I said just lettuce.

Did he ask you
> What kind of veggies do you want on it?

or...
> what do you want on it?

because if you ordered a pizza and asked for "just pepperoni", there's a good chance they'd skip the sauce and cheese.

>>5279543
At least you got fed for free.

>>5279608
Thats not how anything works ever. Usually the only time a restaurant will do that is if you seriously specify it and tell them "I want NOTHING on this besides X. Not even Y or Z."

Why else would he order a HAM and SWISS just to ask for lettuce?

>>5279608

In either scenario, providing a slice of lettuce between two pieces of bread is unacceptable. Same with the pizza.

>>5279135
I always eat at local McDonalds whenever I go oversea, and yes I always do my research t make sure my destinations have them. Who wants to eat your disgusting food anyway?

And if somehow I go to your the places your people come to eat, I'll be wearing >>5279125
and spit in the thing you call food anyway. You should be complaining tho, I tip quite generously regardless of service. It's the American way.
USA USA

>>5279611
>>5279612

I see people ordering lettuce burgers all the time. Many vegetarians do that, they even have a "veggie burger" at in-n-out which is similar...

im just playing devil's advocate though. obviously what kind of retard thinks youre gonna order a ham and cheese and just get lettuce...

>>5279628
I never said it doesn't exist or doesn't happen, its just that if someone orders a cheeseburger and he asks what to put on it, the cheese and meat are GUARANTEED much like the ham and swiss. Unless the worker is literally retarded.

>>5279090

Can any Britbongs comment on why people in England would be rude to Americans for no reason? It's the complete opposite over here.

>>5279639
> Unless the worker is literally retarded.

they are retarded.

Wanna know a story that's happenned to me at least 30 times? THIRTY TIMES.

> order comes to $5.53
> give $10.03
> hands me back the 3 pennies.
> "oh, eso Bibe Bipty Chree."
> I know, i gave you 10.03.
> "oh, pero no need tres Centos"
> I dont want a bunch of change... just two quarters
> O_O
> It's 5.03, right?
> "Jes"
> Okay, im giving you 10.03 so you can give meback $5 instead of $4 and 97 cents.
> O_O "pero, no need... eso you gave me $ten Doll hairs!"
> JUST PUNCH IN THE FUCKING NUMBER
> she still punches $10.00, gives me back $4.47, and looks confused as she takes the three cents...

> every. fucking. time.

> im never ordering whopper witches for five doll hairs ever again.

>>5279655

fucking changed the numbers half way through the story made myself look retarded.

it happenned multiple times...

either i give 10.03 for a 5.03 order or 10.03 for a 5.53 order, the latter one is completely impossible. At least sometimes when its 10:03 they understand.

>picture of bacon cheddar fries in menu shows liquid melted cheese over fries and sprinkle of bacon bits
>actual dish is a bowl of fries with a microwaved Kraft single on top and bacon cut into squares with scissors

>>5279660
It's not a restaurant, but this is what our Sonic Drive-In does.
>Order cheese fries, assuming it will be fries with nacho cheese or something similar
>Order ends up being friends with 2 melted cheese single slices on top

>>5279660
>>5279669
You gotta ask first man. Even if it makes it awkward with the other person, they'll tell you or risk getting it sent back for lying and get into shit.

As an anglo, I've walked into three separate locations of Don Pan bakery in Miami. All three times, I was utterly ignored. I wasn't helped. I might as well have been black in 1950s Mississippi.

I have never had it that bad. And, it's weird. You'd think they were some front, some fake business doing mafia dealings, and actually wish not to have customers.

>>5279642
Maybe she was just a bigot. Maybe would've got the same reaction if she heard a Polish accent

Even if you were British there's a good probability you'd get bad service anyway.

>>5279669

>friends with 2 melted cheese single slices on top

Friends don't let friends melt cheese on top of themselves.

>>5279401
He's right,dumbass.
Sushi means vinegar rice.
I can't believe you couldn't figure that out even with google a couple clicks away

>>5279669
what kind of friends do you have

>>5279707

i know he's right.... but what does that have to do with ANYTHING.

you fucks are so autistic.... i post a picture of sashimi while talking about sushi (completely relevant) and you start fucking telling me to google vinegar rice.

YOURE SMART BRO! youre smart. you both faggots know a little bit of trivia.

come to my thread, why don't you then, share all of your vinegar rice knowledge
>>5279425

>>5279717

> advertising your own flailing threads

dropped

>>5279717
God damn you really are retarded, more so when you get angry.

>>5279717

>insult someone and act like an elitist prick
>in doing so, incorrectly claim that a picture of sashimi is a picture of sushi
>get called out
>WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING

Are you 12, or do you just act like it?

>>5279701
>>5279712
I meant fries
I don't have friends

>>5279642

It's socially acceptable and encouraged to give Americans shit

You see in the UK we have a banter culture much like the Aussies and most people don't get their knickers in a twist about hurt feelings unless they're a 20 year old student

Also Americans are the worst tourists, they're quite entitled, there's less of a focus on manners in the US so when they come to the UK they are perceived as rude.

It's the opposite because UK accents sound good with exceptions (The North) and America does not have real accents

>>5279790
>encouraged to give Americans shit
>less of a focus on manners in the US.... perceived as rude

how is your country such shit?

>>5279793
brits have no manners theyre like cavemen

>>5279799
Did you know Americans don't have dicks? They're like cartoon aliens. Every single one. Fact.

>>5279642
burning, seething jealousy

>>5279793
>>5279799

Said like true Americans, this is why it is a cultural duty to fuck with you for being rude

There's a reason why "Canadians" are perceived as polite

>Implying manners and politeness aren't so in-grained culturally when you get mugged they won't say please and thank you

>>5279790
>You see in the UK we have a banter culture
Nope. This is 100% fabrication used as an excuse to be rude. Brits like to dish it but can't take it, even going so far as to bring in outside parties to try and punish you.

>>5279799
yep bastards are stuck in the middle ages culturally can confirm

so we're all agreed the UK is the most shit tier part of euroland then?

>>5279793
The English are decent people acting like cunts, Americans are wankers feeding you bollocks from behind a shit eating grin.

>>5279833
>decent people acting like cunts
in America, we call that an "oxymoron"

>>5279831
Speaking as an English person living in the best part of England I can completely agree that we are far below proper Europe (meaning western Europe, not Slovenia and Portugal or anywhere). We are kind of like an odd misfit America-Europe halfbreed with an identity crisis.

>>5279836
And that is why America will never have bants.

>>5279845
the UK doesn't have bants
just whiny, petulant children

>>5279814

Americans just can't handle the banter

>>5279790
The average chav has terrible manners. the average redneck, surprisingly, was taught to say please thank you, and hold the door open for ladies.
British aristocracy like on the TV does not represent the majority of modern British people.

>>5279888
Clearly the Brits could not. Y'all cry like babies at the drop of a hat. Really embarrassing to see a middle aged man go whining to my boss because I wouldn't take his childish insults lying down.

>>5279891

I'm English, I think I know about the UK and chavs than you do pal

Chavs aren't real people so they don't count, it's like saying niggers in Detroit represent anyone in America

Now if you don't mind I have to pray to Shariah as is the law in Bongladesh so I don't oppress any Muslims with hate crime

I used to be the road manager for a rock and roll festival vendor. We would work long hours in shitty towns and wouldn't get to eat much during the work day (too hot and just too busy). After we loaded up for the night, if we didn't have a show the next day, we would get a row of cheap hotel rooms and try to find some place open that served food. Usually it was a Denny's or and IHOP or something next to the hote. Well, we had just completed a show headlined by Kid Rock and Papa Roach. We went to the ONLY open restaurant in town at 2 am (Denny's) and sat down with my crew (about eight of us). There was one other table in the restaurant. A large table, 12 people. We ordered drinks and the waitress didn't bring them for 15 minutes. I actually went up to the drink station, grabbed a cup and filled it with my iced tea and sat back down. When we finally got our drinks the waitress was apologetic and explained that both of the night waitresses and the manager were busy servicing a "VIP" table. We didn't care, I just wanted my damn superbird and a bed to rest in. She took our order, another person brought 3 plates out about ten minutes later (fair and fast). I went to the edge of the kitchen to see if anyone's food was up and NO ONE was back there. I walked over to the other table and the whole staff was being entertained by Papa Roach and some of their entourage. The manager saw me and said that section was closed and I had to go back to my table. I told her we were missing food and apologized and disappeared again. Ten minutes later we got the same three orders that came before and I told the manager that the orders were wrong and she argued with me, pointing at the ticket.

>>5279905
>papa roach
who is this?

>>5279790
European living in the US here.
I've noticed that white Americans are by and large more pleasant /to your face/ than Brits are. They have an extremely strong culture of talking shit about each other behind backs and closed doors, though. Those in the foodservice industry in the US are far more pleasant than in the UK. Those running till and passersby are, too. It's almost annoying how pleasant Americans try to be. It's almost as though they want to be perceived as pleasant (being kind to people in public) while not actually being pleasant ("talking shit" behind those same people's backs).

>>5279923
>being this paranoid that normal people are laughing at your mangling of English

Yurup indeed

>>5279923
or maybe they're *actually* pleasant and you're just paranoid.

>>5279905
where is part two? I love stories

>>5279905
I explained that I never got my food and they had just repeated the first part of the ticket. ( NOT separate checks btw) . I asked for my sandwich and the rest of the crew was hungry so they ate what was given to them and when I finally got my sandwich it wasn't even what I ordered. So I sent my crew to the hotel and I sent my order back. I wanted my damn superbird. I was pissed, I told waitress that the order was wrong,I was livid at this point, and she got the manager. I told the manager I was unhappy with the service and when we got the bill I refused to pay for the food we had not eaten that was on the bill. The bill reflected our original orders not what has actually came and TWO of the sandwiches I had ordered. I told her I was not going to pay the bill unless she charged us for what we ate. She told me she would "cal the law": I said "I don't fucking care if you call the cops", I just want to get my sandwich, pay the bill, and go to bed. She says "Ma'am, you ain't gotta curse me,I gonna hold this card until the law gets here-you ain't gonna try to steal from me on my shift" (a what?) I grabbed the card out of her hands and started yelling at her and one of Papa Roach's body guards (?) Came to see what the noise was all about and got in MY face. About that time the police showed up. I got handcuffed and the bodyguard was also cuffed. I explained what happened, one of the other cops took a statement from the manager and one interviewed the bodyguard (there were four cops total) They figured out I wasn't some redneck trying to get out of paying my bill and told the manager to charge me what my crew had actually gotten. She begrudgingly ran my card and I went back to the table to grab my glasses and a cell phone. When I went by the "VIP" area the cops and the dennys crew were all standing around Papa Roach and the lead singer was signing autographs.
fuck gainesville, fuck dennys,fuck papa roach I never did get my superbird

>>5279932
>americans speaking english
Sure boy.

>>5279923
Isn't it better to be nice to someone regardless of how you actually feel about them than to be an insufferable limey cunt to every living creature you come across?

>>5279912
a shitty band, if you know who Kidd Rock is you could infer that by the context. Or, you know, google it

>>5279951

dude.... no offense, i know you were hungry... only place at 2 am....

but fucking seriously? you were mad that these people were having something fun happen to them in their shitty little diner in their shitty little town... they were having a blast

and all you could think about your stupid superbird.

I KNOW I KNOW... they're at work.. blah blah... its their job to blah blah.

If went to a pizza place and i saw puff daddy sitting there with his enterourage.. I would not expect any fucking service...

I would still get angry and handcuffed because of the whole bill issue.. aint nobody gonna take my money. But i would have understood from the perspective of the other people that nobody gave a fuck about your superbird that particular day.

not to mention since you were in the industry too, its not like you're a regular that always comes there at 2 am.

Sounds like you're just butthurt nobody wanted your autograph, "Ma'am"

>>5279932
>>5279937
Haha, trust me when I say I speak better English than most Americans. I've yet to encounter a single American who wasn't surprised when I told them I was from EU. Not. A single. One.

Furthermore, I don't know if they "talk shit" about me but all my neighbours here "talk shit" about the other neighbours to me. Friends here "talk shit" to me about other friends. Coworkers here "talk shit" to me about other coworkers. It's not paranoia: it's reality. And the worst part? Most of them don't even realise that they're doing it. I point it out a few times and they react with genuine surprise that telling me they dislike some third party the two of us have in common and sharing why they do is something I consider to be "talking shit."
And while it's mostly American women who do this, the men are not exempt, either. They do it, too, but to a lesser degree.
It's just something that's part of the culture. And that's not to say it's something not done in my home country (because it is), just the prevalence of incidents here seems much, much higher.

anyone who goes to a restaurant at 2 am is a dick. you deserved the shitty service

>>5279975
If they don't want fucking customers at 2am, they shouldn't be open 24 hours a day, dickwad.

>>5279968

Dude, there's a difference between making an observation and talking shit.

> That bill is quite a character, huh?
> what do you mean?
> oh, the other day he left me a note on my desk instead of just coming up and talking to me. You ever get that?

vs.

> wow, bill is such a passive aggressive little bitch. Instead of just talking to me like a man, he'll leave me these little notes... just fucking TALK TO ME MAN

>>5279990

> If they don't want fucking customers at 2am, they shouldn't be open 24 hours a day, dickwad.

sounds like something a dick would say. Do you also go to sotres 5 minutes before they close and start asking them a bunch of fucking questions?

You're a twat. Sounds like you deserved the bad servce

>>5279968
Sensitive nancy pls. Lying on the internet is silly.

>>5279975
it's a denny's, fuckwit. they get a large portion of their business from drunk people coming in during the middle of the night

>>5279995
No I don't. Funny thing about Denny's...

THEY ARE OPEN 24 HOURS, there is no 5 minutes before closing.

>>5279394
>raw fish

disgusting

Enjoy your meal, Gollum.

>>5279992
Correct. And it's the second one, more often than not.

>>5279998
>sensitive
lolno

>>5279999

nice quads, faggot. Everything else about you is gay though.

It doesn't matter if its dennys - 2 am is dead and you shouldnt expect good service. Especially not with a group of 8. ESPECIALLY not if theres another group of 12 there. and ESPECIALLY not if its fucking Papa Roach.

jesus christ, people. put your entitlement in check for a second and LOOK AROUND! FEEL THE ROOM. Papa Roach is more important than you, by any fucking measure.

A few weeks from now, the employees of that Dennys are gonna be like "oh, remember when Papa roach signed our tits? That was the wildest night ever!"

oh, scratch that, sorry. itll be more like this:

" Hey patty! Do you remember the birdman? The SUPERBIRD MAN? Oh my god! That guy was amazing! he came in at 2 am with a group of retards and demanded we make him a a superbird! He was such an amazing person! I had him sign my tits! IN MELTED CHEESE"

>>5280012
Clearly you are, ya goof.

>>5280009
i said STORES. Is dennys a store? Maybe you didn't order correctly cause you CANT FUCKING READ the menu.

>>5280018
lolno

Pretty sure the worst service I have ever gotten was a Denny's too.

I was in there at 12am after my shift at the hotel.
I waited 20 minutes for my drink, I think I ended up walking into the kitchen to go wtf.

I then order my food, I think I got a grand slam

I waited an hour, no food, again I walked into the kitchen, and had to find someone.

I never paid my bill because they never came back.

Fuck Denny's, next time I saw a Denny's worker at the hotel I refused to do any more favours for them.

I was once asked if i wanted my pork rare. I dunno if it counts as bad service

>>5280019
Are you mental?

>>5280021

how are you not a sensitive nancy? you just tapped an entire novel in Bitchose Code about how you don't like other people to bitch...

Guess what kind of people bitch about others bitching? BITCHES!

>>5280026

are you fucking retarded?

can you read?:

>>5279995
> Do you also go to sotres 5 minutes before they close and start asking them a bunch of fucking questions?
>Do you also go to sotres
> SOTRES

Is denny's a Sotre?? NO

youre so fucking stupid you can't even follow a conversationj that has little arrows pointing to my argument
>spoiler
>> youre retarded

>>5280030
We're talking about restaurants and you bring up fucking stores. And what, the two cannot be compared?

Looks like you're the one who can't follow a conversation.

>>5280033

we're not talking about restaraunts! you fucking moron! that's the point, you dont even know what were' talking about.

We're talking about oblivious retards walking into a restraraunt at 2:00 am and expecting him to give them excemplary service.

So, then I compared that to walking into a store 5 minutes before it closes... and asking them questions.

Cause even though "they're open".... you just dont do that! or if you do.. at least be humble about it.

This retard (not sure which one anymore) went into a dennys and expected his superbird to take priority over a celebrity VIP table... and at 2:00 am.

Thats like me going to a electronics store 5 minutes before they close and getting the guys there to help me out with setting up an entire home theatre system from scratch.

Just trying to put it into perspective for you, but you're literally fucking retarded. You're clueless. I used to go to college with people like you. Your mouth is open right now as you breathe through it, and you never blink. Also, your head kind of stays at a 10 degree slant to the side.

Waiters used to give my mom shit for being a divorced parent back in the day. Ignoring her when she would bring me to a restaurant and such. She always laughed and made a joke of it so my feelings weren't hurt as a little kid, but looking back it was complete shit.

One time we sat at a table in a little homey diner place for probably thirty or forty minutes, and the waitress wouldn't bring us water or look at us. Usually we'd just leave, but this time I think my mom got a bug up her ass about it, so she grabbed some silverware and started singing 'feed me seymour' as we pounded the table. I sang with her. Thought it was awesome and fun at the time to be allowed to make noise in a public place. I didn't get that they were being terrible to my mom at all. We left and laughed in the car and got Burger King.

When I went out with my dad, they always doted on us and called us sweet.

I know someone's going to ask, so it was late '80's rural/suburban America. Shit's pretty different now, I think, but I've lived in cities for the past twenty years so I don't know.

>>5280049

that's sad. Your mom sounds cool. Why did they split up?

>>5280027
like you're doing, bitch?

>>5280046
There is almost no difference in comparisons between a store and restaurant service wise.

So now you're getting all autistic about how we should only be talking about stores.

Denny's is open 24 hours, and caters to late night diners, so they shouldn't completely ignore their other patrons because some shitty band is there.

Would I expect some lazy service, sure.
But the complete lack of? No, I'd be pissed off.

>>5280058
I was a little less than two years old when they split. She's better off without him. He's not a bad dude, but he's a bit of a narcissist and he's been married six more times since then.

Mom's pretty cool. We don't see eye-to-eye about a lot of shit, but I'm always proud of her for being a badass.

>>5280063
lol you're going in during shit hours you're getting shit service even if they're open 24/7

anyone who goes to a restaurant or store right before closing is a retard. your food was most likely fucked with too. entitlement issues go see a psych

>>5280049
wait how the fuck do these people know she's a single parent in the first place? my parents are together and i've gone out to eat with them separately plenty of times in my childhood for whatever reason.

>>5280085
denny's has no closing. it is literally like walking into a 24 hour convenience store and expecting the cashier to ring you out.

because it's during business hours, and the employee is going to be there all night regardless.

>>5280085
So when am I supposed to go to a 24 hour diner. I've been to plenty late at night and never have I had shittier service than a Denny's.

Denny's is 100% grade A bullshit.
It's a wonder it's still in business.

>>5280096
not the point the point is you're a fuckin douche going in there at 2 am and to top it off with a shit load of people too.

>>5279356
We don't have it back home, I just wanted to try it out.
Sorry for not having an informed prejudice for this reason.

>>5280103
So we should never go to a restaurant ever, because it MAY inconvenience people?

Waitress detected

>>5280110
entitlement issues
and no iv never worked in a restaurant

>>5280090

It was the 80's man you see a mom with a kid without a dad she is a stupid deadbeat single mother cunt who is probably a whore aswell

>>5280115
I just expect some form of service when I enter an establishment during business hours.

That's not entitlement

>>5279683

This. I'm an American living in England and I've literally had maybe had just one decent experience in a restaurant out of dozens of time.

>>5280090

>>5280049 here. What he said: >>5280116.
A single woman who ate dinner with her kid was an sinful whore. A single man who ate dinner with his kid was a nice dad taking the kids out so mom could have a night to herself.

It was really batshit crazy. She was turned down for apartment applications and stuff because of that as well, and at that point in time the people just told her why to her face. I think maybe kids of my generation or younger who didn't experience shit like that don't understand what it was like back then. And that was at the time when things were getting better.

>>5280129
For real though, you need to stop letting that person troll you.

>>5280078
six times... god damn. Sounds like that guy is never happy, no offense.

As a Canadian, I feel obligated to say:

Can't we all just get along?

>>5280176
go away canada, grown ups are talking

>>5280013
>>5279995
>>5279964
Nah, I wasn't being unreasonable. I don't let people walk all over me.
You guys sure do have a high tolerance for bullshit. It is unreasonable to expect amazing service, certainly, but bringing food to eight people is not hard. The other table had been there a while, it isn't like twenty separate tickets were coming in at once. Eight orders, no substitutions and all on the same check. It takes about three minutes to scramble some eggs. The Denny's menu is not complicated. Three guys working in the kitchen,two waitress and a manager should be able to handle eight people no problem. There is a third shift, those people came in to work from 12 to 5 so a table coming in 2am is the middle of the shift. You can't be afraid of waitresses.

>>5280185
Ok, sorry. Didn't mean to be rude.

I'll just take my poutine and maple syrup to my igloo.

>>5280220
10/10

god damnit canada why is it so hard to hate you?

>>5280220
TABERNAK FUCKING MERDE FUCKING SEPERATISTE QUEBEC STRONK

DIRTY ANGLAIS PIGS GIBE US MORE MONEY

>>5280191
I have no idea why these people are being such assholes towards you. Especially ignoring the fact that you had been most likely working your ass off and was hungry as fuck.

Papa Roach isn't even big enough of a band to get your panties in a twist about. The staff there had no reason to treat you like they did.

I could get it if Iron Maiden was around but even then you'd at least try and do you goddamn job.

>>5279543
the only time i ever dined n dashed was at buffalo wild wings waited 30-45 min after we were clearly finished never a check or anything waitres walkin right past us. no even busy. finally just fuckin left

>>5279563
right because you know what order to serve each item in and a what temp everything should be at when served and can do it one after another without a fuckup

>>5280306
Adding to my own post

I think it's just one of the new "ck lel i troll u" guys.

There's been an influx of those people in the last half year.

>>5280343
>last half year

maybe you started coming here that recently, but the trolls have been a mainstay for a lot longer than that

>>5280346
Angie doesn't really count.

These guys are different, because this new generation of shitposters manage to get people arguing with them.

Still baffling these guys don't get called out more often.

>>5279415
you mongoloid fuck

I'm Iranian and we don't HAVE spicy foods. Did you come in thinking we have the same cuisine as Indians?

And grilled fish is common, let alone ambiguous "beef stew" which accounts for 75% of our dishes

>>5279956
The short answer is yes.
The long answer is yeeeeeeeeeeeeees.

>>5279956
I don't think the English are insufferable cunts. They're not rude. They just don't really care about going above and beyond or pretending to care how my day went, is all.
The only culture where people are legitimately rude and insufferable to which I've been exposed is Russian/Ukrainian. They're a wholly unpleasant people.

>Go into Denny's in Michigan with my dad from West Virginia.
>Black guy sitting on stool with his legs covering three seats, smoking a cigarette.
>We take a seat at a booth, proceed to wait about 20 minutes to be served.
>During that time waitress alternates between talking to the aformentioned customer and talking on their wall phone, looking to us a few times but not acknowledging us.
>Dad gets angry and goes to the front and demands he be served.
>The rest went well.

My dad said there was some sort of politics going on with Dennys and racism or something like that, but I never looked into it again since we never went back to that place again.

Come to the Berkeley Hotel in Richmond VA and I guarantee you will have the worst service ever. For the next two weeks the computer system will be down so your room and your meal will be totally messed up.
Flip a coin as to if the food will be decent or not.

>be me
>hanging out with friends
>"I'm hungry, shall we ihop?"
>get table at ihop
>waitress comes over takes our drink orders in some weird fucking eastern European accent
>few minutes later we decide on food
>I order some specialty burger and decide to add bacon
>"Well, that already has bacon in the patty. You don't need anymore."
>friends and I look at one another and chuckle like she's joking
>when our food arrives we find out she's changed all our orders to what she thinks we should eat
>bitch has the nerve to ask for a tip when ringing us up
>"You have five other tables to wait on, they'll tip, you don't need anymore"
>me and friends leave laughing
>god times were had by all

>>5280012
What part of the country do you live in anon? The only people who do that where I am from or mexicans and niggers.

>>5279394
Talk shit about fried chicken one more time you weak weeaboo faggot. Fried chicken is amazing.

>>5279780

lol'd

>>5280398
I have met a number of friendly britbongs here in SoCal.
I know a few expats from the UK as well. One fellow became a good friend of mine. My wife dropped me off for jury duty she then went to work. They sent me to another courthouse and I was fucked. I could not get there. This expat guy I will call G offered to give me a ride after I exclaimed FUCK!
We got to talking and have a lot in common. Been friends now for ages. Everyone else didn't bat an eye.
That isn't to say I haven't met you cunt cunty cunts before.

>>5280423
>be me

who else would you be?

>>5279990

this.

>>5279563
>to create the perfect folded 10,000 times rice

Chortled

>>5279464
Fuck greedy asians

>>5280423
>when our food arrives we find out she's changed all our orders to what she thinks we should eat

And you still paid for the food even though it wasn't what you'd ordered?

I just don't understand why most people don't just say fuck it and leave at that point.

>>5280470

not you, you're a faggot

We once waited an almost hour for uncooked chicken sandwhiches, which happened twice in a row. While waiting for the 3rd round, they offered us french fries to eat and then put it on the bill. In the end we never got any food and the store owner came and lectured to us about how he is a business man because he likes to serve customers and that it's not about the money

>>5280480

We were too hungry by that point and we' figured we'd fuck with her after we ate

>>5280477
Why the fuck is it always asians that pull this?

Is it something about their culture?

>>5280489
To make a long story short
They have no souls. South park explains this very well.

To elaborate. Asians come from space, niggers come from monkeys and white people came from god.

Why does /ck/ always have the shittiest threads? It's like you people come to 4chan exclusively to come onto /ck/ and shitpost. Relative to the rest of the site, this board is more 'out there' than /trv/.

>>5280515
Who are you talking too anon?

>>5280470
could be a story where a friend is the main protag. or a third person story

>>5280516
you people

>>5280551
I am only one person anon. I believe you're mistaken.

Went to this tiny chinese restaurant in manchester.

The waitress and some other dude were talking behind the counter. we waited for drinks for 10 minutes, food for an hour, and when food arrived it was greasy as fuck. They forgot to put sweet and sour sauce on sweet and sour chicken somehow.

nothing else special.

>>5280648

>Chinese place in a town near Manchester
>all you can eat buffet
>everything neat, tasty food, good experience
>ask for the check
>wait 20 minutes
>nothing
>girl that was with me got furious
>"LET'S GO WE'VE WAITED LONG ENOUGH FUCK PAYING"
>ask waiter again
>"Oh, yes, sorry sorry"
>wait 20 minutes
>nothing
>girl with me gets furious at me
>go up to the counter
>ask for check once more
>pay up
>whole experience ruined because girl was so fucking angry at me because they didn't give us the check

Egh.

>>5280648
>>5280666
Nice fellow Manc /co/cksuckers.

>>5279642
Maybe because "Hey let's go start a brand new country, oh no the people in this country are rebelling and no longer want to be a part of our nation, oh no this country turns out to be a massive jerk bullying the rest of the world for money and oil"

>>5280666
Maybe she wanted you to show some initiative instead of just sit there once it became clear that no one was coming.

>>5280797

What more was I supposed to do. I asked for the check a couple of times and then went to the counter. I don't fucking run away and not pay my bill just because the waiters were busy or didn't understand my weird accent or something.
BUT WHA'EVA

>>5280806
Forty minutes is a long time to wait, man.

Of course, her ass could have gone over to the counter, too.

You're both annoying.

>>5280810

I don't know, I wasn't too bothered because the first time I asked we were still eating and had our drinks. And we were having a pretty nice time, had a swell talk and it was just neat. Until she exploded into rage.
Maybe I'm too mellow or something oh well

>Swinger's in Los Angeles
>middle of the day (maybe Friday but not sure)
>it's pretty busy
>go there with gf, gf's friend and her bf
>we sit outside for 45 minutes without so much as waters being brought to the table
>"I gotta use the restroom"
>GF: "Anon, ask a waiter to come take our order while you're in there!"
>"Fine"
>finish up, see a middle aged waiter wiping down the counter, decide to uproach him
>"Hey, my friends and I have been waiting outside for like half an hour. If it's not too much trouble, you think we could get some waters?"
>"OH! Waters?! You want some waters!? Why don't you let me do my job and bring you waters when I think you need waters!? Why don't I just drop everything else I'm doing so you can have some waters!?"
>look left. Everyone I know is watching me get chewed out through the window
>sit back down outside
>"What was that, anon? What did he say?"
>"He said he'd be right with us and that we shouldn't bother with a tip."
I hate this fucking city.

>>5279415
Yeah no, perisan and Moroccan food isn't very spicy at all, the main flavours tend to be sweetness, rich meats, and aromatic spices, but not heat. It's actually a lot like traditional (read medieaval) English food.

>>5279790
>Not liking Northern accents

>>5280857
>not immediately finding the manager

>all these shitty employees
I don't know if I'm just lucky or what but I've always been nice to customers and they've always been nice to me back.

>>5279347
>called the next day reported credit card stolen, got my money back.

Niiiiiiiiice. Well played friend, well played.

>>5279399
Yeah technically you are right but in the real world no one gives a shit and it's all just called sushi for simplicity. You should really know that already.

>>5280515
I come on /ck/ just to see the shitstorm that is any thread. It is odd that this board might actually be one of the worst for trolls, but also hilarious.

>>5280857
Holy shit, what a fucking pussy you are. I am actually embarrassed knowing you are a member of humanity.

Also,
>uproach
Are you fucking 12?

>Order a drink
>Waitress never brings it to me
>Remind her when she comes back to take my order
>"K."
>Remind her again when she delivers my appetizer
>"Yup."
>Still no drink as she hands me my entree
>Guess I'm not drinking shit tonight
>Decide to just ask for the bill
>She hands it to me
>She charged me for the drink
>Ask her to remove it
>"Ugh okay whatever dude."

I remained polite throughout this entire interaction. Obviously no tip. Should have asked for a manager, but I just decided not to go back there again.

>>5279923
>Americans are by and large more pleasant /to your face
LOL. No, they're not. Most Americans I've met come across as extremely false and pay compliments repeatedly without any real sincerity. English people are more down to earth and realise that you don;t have to treat every stranger like their you "buddy".

>>5279284
I hope you called the owner and got his ass fired.

>>5279582
I never thought I would laugh on /k/

>>5279582
I never thought I would laugh on /ck/

>>5279582
The guy should've been fired. If you clearly stated a ham and swiss upfront there's no reason for them to just put lettuce in. If you really did for some reason JUST want lettuce and bread you wouldn't have said ham and swiss.

>>5279905
>servicing a "VIP" table
>at a Denny's

I had a hearty laugh, thanks anon.

>go to mcdonalds
>wait 5 mins to be seated
>decide to find a booth on our own then
>wait 15 mins, no waiter comes
>friend has boxing tape in his cargo shorts
>start taping things to table
>crayons, napkins after drawing dicks on them with the crayons, whatever paper we had, pennies
>get the table completely covered in tape before anyone approaches us
>politely asked to leave and never come back

fuck mcdonalds

>>5279905
>>5279951
not sure if this is copypasta or you've told this story before, but i've definitely heard this one before

>>5280242
Nobody's asking for your money. Just leave.

>>5280333
Or you could just not be a moron and look that information up on the internet. It's easily accessible these days and is not some guarded ancient Japanese secret.

>>5281309
what kind of McDonalds has servers?

>>5281270
Guy you're replying to here. No can do, the idiot waiter was the owner's son, it was a family-run business, hence why he could do fuck all and still get away with it. I reported the incident to the credit card company. They wouldn't tell me exactly what they were going to do, but had said they had got similar reports before, so obviously this guy scammed people previously. I ended up getting my $5 back some weeks later. No idea if he still worked there, I never went back.

>>5281396
>the idiot waiter was the owner's son
If I ever did something like that my dad would kick my ass, and I'd deserve it.

>>5281373
He's joking. C'mon anon.

>>5281373
That is the joke.

>>5281401
Yeah, I mean obviously the dad would've found out about it later when he had to do the books and deal with MasterCard's complaint. He probably still didn't fire him though. A few years later the restaurant was involved in some small local scandal because the owner's wife wanted to keep some exotic birds on premises on the patio area and people were upset because it was 110 degrees outside and the birds were fainting but she refused to put them inside. I don't know, the whole family is fucking bizarre.

Forgot this one.

For a friend's birthday, we went out to a very nice pizza place. We got there a little late on a Saturday and it turned out my friend hadn't made reservations because she wasn't sure when we would be able to get there. We got lost on the way there so we ended up being about forty minutes later then we planned, anyway. There were four of us, so we just asked for a table and assumed we'd wait a bit.

They didn't have a waiting area and it was the middle of winter, so we stood awkwardly by the door and tried not to get in anyone's way. For thirty minutes, then an hour, then an hour and a half. It's nearing nine'o'clock now, and the place closes at ten-thirty. Well, this was obviously a bad idea. We try to decide if we should leave.

Four thirty-something blonde women walk in, nicely dyed hair, jewelry, etc., and ask to be seated. We're right there, and we can hear the lady say very clearly 'oh, sorry we didn't make a reservation!' the hostess says 'oh, it's no problem, we have a lot of open space tonight!' and starts to seat them.

I completely lost my shit.

It was the same hostess who had told us to wait, and we were in everyone's way standing around, so it's not like she forgot about us. She actually started to stammer. She said, this is not bullshit, "I didn't realize you were okay with... being seated."

I'm getting kind of mad thinking about it now.

>>5281448
>"I didn't realize you were okay with... being seated."

What does that even mean?

>>5281455
It means I caught her doing something shitty and her mouth farted words without the permission of her brain.

>>5279068
I went to some ramen place that was owned by koreans or chinese. Anyways the girl who was serving us was super unfriendly, never made eye contact and basically slammed down our food and walked away.

There was another time at a chinese restaurant where they had signs around the place saying no smoking but some of their waiters would gather around the bathroom area and smoke there. We didn't have enough chairs and when we asked them to bring some over we had to wait a long time and they seemed really unenthusiastic.

>>5279347
>>5279357
>>5279372

I went to an all-you-can-eat Japanese place in Toronto yesterday and I had a great time. It was a nice, clean place and I ate everything (because I'm not a little faggot who can't eat what he orders) which totaled to like 6 hand rolls, 6 nomal rolls, 2 orders of niguri and 2 scoops of ice cream (red bean and green tea) for $24 in total (including the tax and tip)

The sushi was good too. I had Eel for the first time and it wasn't bad at all.

Did I just luck out?

Went to some restaurant with my grandparents when I was about 12, we were the only customers there. We ordered our drinks, and received them promptly. We then ordered our food. Half an hour later, with no food yet in sight, we asked the wait staff what the deal was. They shrugged and said they didn't know. So we waited another 15 minutes, and when they still hadn't brought the food, we walked out.

>>5279790

I just don't see how frowning at someone and serving them shit food with shit service is banter. That sounds more like being a dick. Was he supposed to approach the woman and say "Oi you got me you roight cunt, now 'ow bout you lift oop dat skirt 'o yours and give me somthin' I can really munch on" in order to get service rendered by someone with a modicum of professionalism?

>>5279456
i get it

>>5279712

Cheese friends

>>5281448
Not specifically aimed at you, although I find it bizare that you and your friends waited for 1.5 hours before even having the balls to complain about it.

But why do Americans find it acceptable that they have to wait more than 5 minutes to be seated, and then religiously tip their waiters after.

Just fucking leave or call the staff out on it. How much of a weak willed pussy do you have to be to wait 1.5 hours to be seated in a restaurant. You're going here because you want a nice night out and get served good food.

>>5281671
>But why do Americans

Euroshitposting derail alert. Do not reply.

>>5281671
>why do Americans find it acceptable that they have to wait more than 5 minutes to be seated

Because sometimes places are busy? I don't understand why this is confusing. I've been to Red Lobster or Outback before where it was clear every table was filled. We had to wait 40 minutes for one. Just because you show up doesn't meant they start kicking out other diners just so you can be seated within some arbitrary 5 minute time limit.

>>5281588
What place in Toronto is that? Anytime I do AYCN sushi for 20 bucks I break the fucking restaurant.

>>5281734

Kyoto House, nigga

http://www.kyotojapanesehouse.com/

$20 per head is highway robbery, I felt bad eating so much but I was hungover, just for off of the 5 hour bus ride from Montreal and hadn't eaten all day.

>>5281281
>>5281284
You obviously never thought to delete your fucked-up post either.

>>5279394
>Real sushi melts in your mouth. (pic related)
preach my nigga

Not sure how mine compares to everyone else's

>2009
>Senior prom
>A bunch of friends and myself decided to go to dinner and then the prom together
>Go to this fairly nice looking restaurant
>Waiter seems to be a bit slow getting everything out (especially drinks, only got it filled up again once and almost all of us just had water), but I was also understanding cause we had a large group
>Forget what I ordered, but it was delicious
>Time to pay comes up (everyone is just paying for their own stuff)
>Total for me and my date comes out to $41
>Have 3 $20s on me
>Hand the waiter the $60 I had and specifically ask for change
>The guy doesn't come back to our table
>Wait 20 minutes
>Finally ask the hostess where he went
>"Oh he left right after he picked up your checks"
>This nigga just decided he deserved a 50% tip from me for okay at best service ON TOP of the 20% gratuity already included in the bill
>Couldn't do anything about it, left and still had a good time with my friends

Still mad about it thinking back to that god damn waiter, anyone else had a waiter straight up rob them like that?

>>5281879
Damn man, I'd have gone back the next day and hunted him down. Okay not really because I'm too beta, but I sure would want to.

>>5281879

>not telling the manager

M8.

>>5281879
>couldn't do anything about it
They fucking robbed you. I would have called the police if they didn't give you your money back.

>>5281895
I'm pretty sure there is no legal obligation to provide change to customers.

>>5281894
He'd probably look bad in front of his date if he caused a scene.

>>5281900
Yes, actually there is. You give them money and they have to bring you the change. They can't just fucking keep it. They bring you the remainder and you leave a tip, if any, on the table for them to collect later after you leave.

>>5281900
I'm pretty sure you can't just assume the change was the tip and pocket the shit, dumbass.

>>5281900
>I'm pretty sure there is no legal obligation to provide change to customers.

Only if you inform the customer before providing service

>>5281894
We were running late at that point plus I didn't want to look whiny in front of my friends and my date so I just blew it off, but I still remember it and I'm never going back to that place ever again. Thank god I have a debit card these days so I can pay waiters the exact amount I intend to give them.

>>5281671
Hey. Person you were asking here.

It is typical to make reservations on a weekend evening, especially if the restaurant is either very small or very popular, and this one was both.

The layout of this particular place was a little weird. It was a counter where the hostess stood in a small antechamber, the place we had to stand in, which was connected to some stairs leading upstairs to one dining area, and to a small hallways leading to another dining area. In other words, we were standing in the entrance and we couldn't see the seating areas, so I had no idea they weren't full.

I was getting very agitated, but I didn't want to make a scene because it was my friend's birthday, and she is rather shy. If we had had reservations and had been asked to wait, or if I could have seen the rest of the restaurant, I probably would have said something earlier.

As it was, I did get a little aggressive and we magically got seated very soon after-- I wanted to leave something awful, but my friend wanted to stay. Like I said, it still makes me mad. If it hadn't been her birthday I might have been more of a douche about it, but, well, whatever. I'm not going to ruin her birthday more than us having to wait for so long and getting humiliated by the hostess like that right in front of us.

>>5280781
The sun set on your empire. Get over it.

>>5280817
>swell
>neat
She was correct in hating you.

>>5279923
White folks in the US understand that society is a machine and moving parts in contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Also, we have guns.

>>5280145
Be glad you're living there now when there is decent food about. When I was there in the 90's they lined up to lick American ass, but boiled pretty much everything.

>>5282069
Can't we just exchange the basic pleasantries and move on with our lives? I'm pretty sure your time is as valuable as mine (perhaps even more valuable). I solemnly promise I don't say bad things behind your back what with you being an absolute stranger and all.

>>5279790
> americans dont have accents.
hahahahahahahahahahaahaaaaaa...
Oh your serious.. wow ok let me fix this for you.

Most minnesotans have a swetish accent, any one from the south sounds like a bastardized irish accent if it fucked with some bunch of faggot puritons, mostly anythign western MIGHT have the occational accent and I dont mean QUE?! or even the rare but promiment NIHAO!

Now for any one north east coast is another bastardisation of whatever is left of former english accent if it fucked anything from italy.

Also your corect with everyone being fucking rude as fuck unless your booze isnt shit nor is your food then we'll love you forever.

>>5282103
He's talking about Americans from the north midlands, which is widely recognized as the most neutral dialect of English.

When I politely asked for the Wifi password when I ate and the manager told me to fuck off

>>5282103
>swetish

>>5279078
dont kid yourself dumbass. unless you showed up with their pants down and they had no soup hot that soup has been in the chafing dish, no restaurant would waste their time nuking soup. you're like that idiot who said our buiscuis and gravy tasted freeze dried. why the fuck would we put our buiscuits in the walk in, let alone the freezer?

>>5279655
My mother does the same thing as you all the time and it seems to comfuse the shit out of people, I have no idea why.

>>5279123
>>implying its just US
try china and india Matt Groening.
USA may be dicks and have too many people, but we're not even rocking a billion yet.

>>5279923
Jesus fuck, I tend to think of america as pretty in your face actually, guess you'd think you;d gone to the moon if you ever visited japan, they take this kind of thing, gilded it, destroyed the golden rule, and replaced it with it.

>>5279790
>Also Americans are the worst tourists
Its funny because I always ALWAYS hear that English are the worst; loudest, least courteous. It mostly comes from some weird ego thing about being from English and not being like Americans
>America does not have real accents
West, south, east, and nothing all have their own accents. Even some states/cities have their own accents.
I'm replying to a troll post, arent I?

>>5279905
Hah, this sounds like the Denny's down the road from my house that I always go to
Some stockhomes syndrome over here
(I've only been to three Denny's other than the one near me and they've all managed to be worse. Maybe its like a secret trademark.)

>>5282191
Wow I'm pretty tired

>>5281265
I'm like this. But in my defense, whenever I meet someone and they don't want anything from me I tend to immediately act friendly towards them.

I like making more friends and most of the international people I met really liked it (to my face).

Spent 2 years abroad, 1 in Japan, 1 in Lithuania

Holy shit. Do people this fucking stupid exist?
Do people not realize that restaurants have a maximum seating capacity?
Do they then generalize and entire culture based off of waiting for a spot in a restaurant?

>>5281671
You're like the Ark of the Covenant. And inside is an extra fucking chromosome.

>>5279655
Sounds like my Infinite Taco Bell Bean Burrito cheat.

First go to any Taco Ball and order "one meat and cheese burrito. Yes that's without beans, yes that's without rice, yes that's right... no without beans I said, just meat, beef, yes cheese also...".

Next, when you receive your bean burrito, take it back and complain and they will make you a new burrito and let you have the bean burrito for free. When you get your second bean burrito repeat the process as necessary until they run out of beans or you get bored.

>>5279956
no, honesty in preferable

As a well-travelled Britbong, I can perhaps clear up some of the differences in service culture between ourselves and the US. Service here should be discreet and unobtrusive. Your waiter should appear promptly, be polite, and deal with your order. They shouldn't make idle chit chat, they shouldn't pay you complements, they shouldn't be overly friendly. Ideally they don't bother you unless they notice that you need their attention. For us, American service seems like intrusive, false and irritating tip-hunting. For an American, British service can seem a bit cold and unfriendly.

If you really want surly service though, go to Paris.

>>5282056

Why

>>5282031
Alright that's understandable. Wasn't trying to attack you personally. It's nice that you had enough patience to give your friend the best birthday you could. And I agree that the hostess was a tremendous bitch.

The general apathy or unwillingness to take charge in this thread kind of got to me.

>>5279135
And you feel proud or something, you fucking asshole?
You should eat a helium tank for tainting food you prepare. If you don't want to serve someone, don't fucking serve them.
Don't be a fucking self-destructive asshole and pervert something you do for a living.

>>5282342
He went to a greasy spoon cafe and was shocked that the food wasn't good and that he didn't get good service.

Well no bloody shit.

>>5282342
If you dine somewhere less classy, you get waitstaff less classy, it seems to me. That said, there is no known life of service kind of station in the US, for the most part. You don't think of classes here in that way, so how one behaves as a service worker has to be taught to employees, who are a couple of generations outside of the decade of having servants actually wait on you to that fashion in the household or other exposures to hospitality from your family's station. One of the first things to disappear from major corporations is very involved employee training beyond avoiding lawsuits through discrimination and harassment. You'll be taught how to avoid costing your employer, not how to speak to clients.

>>5282522
Domestic servants haven't really been a thing in the UK since the 1960s. But thinking of oneself in terms of 'class' is still prevalent.

>>5280333
Try and fail until you get it right. If you have basic cooking skills, you'll figure it sooner than later.
There's nothing wrong with fucking up and you even saying so like it's a negative makes me question what the fuck you'd be doing on a cooking board.

>>5280363
>>5280343
No, I genuinely think that those guys are afraid of confrontation. It's ok, it stems from not wanting to be yelled at. A lot of people have that problem. Fortunately, being yelled at isn't fatal.

>>5280363
I haven't been on /ck/ for years. Just recently decided to come back and holy shit I forgot about that cow's existence.

>>5282522

It's not to do with whether a place is classy, or any notions of servants (which you'll find are more common in the states). Employee training is really no different here either. I've been to plenty of shitty restaurants, and I've been to some eye-wateringly expensive ones, on both sides of the pond, and the cultural differences are there at all levels. American service staff, not just in restaurants, are more full on. They ask how you're day has been, complement your attire and menu choices, are all smiley and come over frequently to ask how the food is and if you're having a good time. For someone of British extraction that kind of overattentive service is deeply uncomfortable, we're used to a more discreet kind of service.

>>5282579
I tend to have this problem more when I'm dining in the south. Though they all seem to ask you how things are right after taking a bite of food.

>Friends want to go to a new sports bar that opened up.
>Drink/food specials going on to get new customers.
>sit down with table of 7, all service industry girls. (waitresses, hostesses, and chefs)
>waitress introduces herself, walks away.
>10 minutes pass, where's the waitress?
>see her flirting with a table of 2 guys.
>wait a bit longer, try to signal her over
>nope, still flirting
>suggest going somewhere else, friend really wants to stay
>end up going to the bar and ordering from bar tender while pointing out what waitress is still doing
>bar tender brings us our food/drinks, is super friendly
>waitress still flirting
>time for the check, magically the waitress is back!
>her name on the bill, specials not listed just individual items so twice the price
>fuck no, you get no money, fix my bill!
>all of us pay, leave no tip
>give bar tender cash for being awesome
>ask for manager
>waitress comes up irate that we didn't tip
>manager appears as she's chewing us out
>tell manager everything that happened
>never go back ever again.

>>5279790
very true
Ausfag here and iv'e seen people treat Americans like utter shit, simply for being American.
Once while at some cafe on the coast, I watched an American lady with a young baby in a pram ask for a specific kind of sandwich ( can't remember what it was a few years ago now and the reaction kind of overshadows it )
the woman at the counter gave her the filthiest look and said "we don't that over here you can pick whats there or get out"
- young child was crying and hungry, I'd guess most likely had some kind of allergy

Ex boyfriend is Canadian, got his flag tattooed on his hand to avoid people being shit while he travels.

That American hate isn't just jokes, it's very real.

>>5280481
>>5280470

#fucking #rekt

>>5282158
But you can see the line around the dish where the soup level used to be before water was evaporated out of it. What other device is there in a kitchen that would heat up both the soup and bowl enough to take that much water out of it? Even if you used a spoon to ladle some soup out of the center of the dish, it doesn't create that hard crusty ring that a microwave always does. Its very likely they put the soup out first and it got cold waiting for the other things to cook and they just nuked it.

>>5279790
>sound good
Don't mix factual statements and value judgements. There's a reason to why so many British telemarketing emplyees speak with Scottish accents. Why do you think that is? The companies do quite a bit of market research.
The United States has tons of different accents. You're just used to hearing one specific accent from mass media.

Jesus, you're either a troll or ignorant about your own apparent native languagge.

>>5282679
*language

>>5279372
sheeeit
maybe it's just because I live in hicksville, but it's 15 for a roll and 6 big nigiri

>>5279608
>because if you ordered a pizza and asked for "just pepperoni", there's a good chance they'd skip the sauce and cheese.
that would literally never ever ever happen

ever

>>5280090
bad parents, especially single moms have an air of desperation around them

>>5281671
It's called being beta and being online too much

I suffer from a milder version, but keep strict time tables
>1 minute to be acknowledged, or we leave
>5 minutes from seating to drinks being brought out, or we leave
>20 minutes for entree to arrive, +30 minutes if we get an appetizer or no tip
>2 minutes for refills or no tip
>10 minutes for check to be brought, processed, and finished, or we don't pay

Only had to dine and dash once, because silly girl decided chatting on her phone was more important than grabbing my credit card.

>>5282342
Where did you go that that happens?

>Hi I'm XXX
>What can I get for drinks?
>Are you ready to order, or do you need more time?
>Okay, it'll be right out.
>Here's your food, enjoy!
>Here is the check
>Have a good day!


I have never been anywhere where more than that happens

>>5282733
for the most part this is true

but chain restaurants (chilis, applebees, etc) often have dumb whores serving tables who act overly friendly in a very transparent attempt to get a tip. never a problem at decent restaurants, though, as far as i've seen.

hooters is the fucking worst. what bitch, you think i believe your flirting with me is legitimate? i'm just here to eat wings, watch sports, and maybe look at the occasional nice set of tits. now get me another beer.

>>5279456
fuck you

>3am long night of drinkin' and drugin' with friends
>gf and I leave and go to a Denny's for some food
>we don't expect much, it's 3am at a Denny's in East Texas
>Waitress is about 40, bleach blonde hair and cakeface makeup
>Brings our cokes pretty fast, takes our order pretty fast, everything is going pretty well
>While our food is getting prepared she meanders over to our table and starts chatting
>Fucking loud, thick accent, chews gum with her mouth open
>Starts talking about her ex husband to my gf
>"He was a fuckin' drunk hon, let me tell you. After work he'd drink and drink and drink. He used to beat me ya'know :O"
>Gf is uncomfortable and stoned as hell but trying to be nice
>Waitress keeps talking to her about her ex husband
>"Took me 20 years to find out that martial rape was a thing HA HA"
>Smacks gf on the shoulder and does that weird one handed shoulder rub
>"But I WAS cheaten' on him with his hunting buddy, got knocked up too. Thank God he went to prison before I was showin'."
>Gf excuses herself to the bathroom, I see our food sitting waiting to come over but she's too busy blabbing about stupid shit
>looks over at me with her eyes bugged out smacking her gum
>Gets called over by the Mexican cook
>Brings our food over, gf comes back and sits down.
>We start to eat and she's still fucking standing there
>Keeps telling us her life story I tuned her out and kept my eyes on my plate while my gf stares at her phone and didn't touch her shit.
>gf tells me a friend texted her and suggests we get to go boxes
>waitress packs it up for us, still chatting away like a dumb whore
>Pay with a debit card and don't tip
>She stares at the check for a long time with a scowl
>we fucking book it out
>Laugh and yell about her in the car all the way back to our place. gf admits that she made up the thing about the text to get the hell out of there
>never return

southern hospitality

>>5282767
Jesus Christ how horrifying

>>5279379
What the fuck?

>>5282342
I've eaten here, I thought it was a little rude but was drunk and can't remember. The worst part was sitting with strangers

>>5282767
insane story /b/ro

>>5279068
If you count pizza place as restaurant:

Devitos Pizza in Reykiavik. My plan was to order pizza, then go to grocery and pick it on my way back home. I went in, and the only guy was talking on phone. After like 2min of waiting and that guy still talking and ignoring me, i went for groceries. 40min later i decided to give them one more chance. He was still talking, and when he saw me he hide in back of shop. Never bought pizza at their place since, it was 10 years ago.

>>5282728
>20 minutes for entree to arrive, +30 minutes if we get an appetizer or no tip

That shit has to do with the kitchen, not the server.

I'm only halfway through reading the thread, but I want to add mine before getting back to it.
No one has ever been particularly rude, for which I'm thankful. Mostly just had problems with waiting. The very worst was when I went to Denny's with some of my family after my mom's funeral. It was just me, my two siblings, an uncle and maybe my grandma. Not a huge table. Anyway, we all order, get back to telling stories and whatnot, then the food starts coming out. Everyone's but mine.
The waitress is like, "Okay, enjoy!"
"Uh, what about my sandwich?"
"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry! I'll be right back." She comes back. "Sorry, it'll be right out."
Alright, cool, I'm not starving, everyone else starts to eat. Everyone's almost finished. I finally spot the (lone) waitress.
"Uh, miss, I never got my food."
"OMG, I'M SO SORRY - wait, what did you order?"
My sister answers for me, sounding just as baffled as I felt. The waitress apologizes again, and says she'll have them make it right away. She brings me back a comically large bowl of grapes for the wait. The rest of my family is done, but only my sister and I seem bothered by this shit. Finally, my sandwich comes out. It was pretty good, but I got half of it and my fries to go because hell no, I wasn't spending the rest of my night there. Idk if they charged us for the sandwich because my brother paid...The end.

>>5279078
>fast food eating place
>restaurant

>>5279090
>cafe
>restaurant

>>5279269
>eatery
>restaurant

>>5279303
>fast food
>restuarant

>>5279340
>diner
>restaurant

>>5279347
>place
>restaurant

>>5279364
>fast food
>restaurant

>>5279372
>place
>restaurant

fuck off to /b/ you retards

>>5281900
What?
Of course there is.
If you knowingly take more than you were owed for your service, that's theft.

>>5282891

While the delay may originate in the kitchen (or elsewhere, for that matter) it's still the server's job to keep the customers notified. I wouldn't be upset if the waitron came back to inform us that the kitchen was backed up and it might take a little while longer to get our food. That's acceptable. Encountering a long delay but not notifying me about it is the server's fault.

>>5282899

>>5281617
lol

>>5282899

res·tau·rant [res-ter-uhnt, -tuh-rahnt, -trahnt]
noun
an establishment where meals are served to customers.

This is the worst fucking thread I've ever seen on /ck/

>>5279808
This.

Bonglanders all suffer from crippling inferiority complex. Britain is the manlet of the modern world.

>>5279476
Thai food if its made as "spicy for Thai" is really spicy.
We had Thai restaurant here, and they served beef salad, after this shit i was sweating and my mouth was burning until i drank some cola.

If you are not sure never order "spicy for real or for thai", ask for "tourist spicy" instead.

Also if they have some pickled vegetables in honey or sugar, this is sign their spicy is really spicy. It is meant to kill that spicy aftertaste feel.

>>5282896
Also, I lied, I have had ONE rude waiter. Incidentally, at that same Denny's, which happened to be my dad's side of the family's HQ.

Anywho, it was about 3 AM, just got done closing at Taco Bell for the first time, so my coworker and I decided to pick up our other coworker and go to Denny's. We were the only people there, and after we ordered, the two waiters decided to come and bullshit with us for a bit. Turns out one of them went to high school with the coworker we picked up, so that was neat. He was a blond and the other guy was a dark haired guy, Italian descent, probably. We were all having fun, kidding each other while we eat. The dark haired guy got a little more quiet, eventually leaving to take care of a new customer. Eventually, the blond waiter left, and the dark haired one came back. Out of nowhere, he started, I think it's called, psychoanalyzing Kate, the one we picked up.
"Let me guess, you're a lesbian because your dad abused you and now you blah blah blah bullshit nonsense assumptions blah blah..." Turns out she had been drinking beforehand, so she starts to argue, but, like, jokingly, even though she's clearly pretty offended.
So I said, "Okay, let me analyze you: you're a rude Italian piece of shit."
His expression went dark. "What the FUCK did you just say to me?"
"Cuppa da balls, motherfucker!"
"Man, FUCK THIS, I don't have to TAKE THIS SHIT." He stormed off and the blond guy came back with our check.
"Does he normally do that shit?" "Eh, he's kind of a dick honestly..."
Alrighty then. I felt a little bad, still. On our way to the front to pay the bill, I spotted him talking to a cook and say, "Sorry, man, didn't mean to offend you." "FUCK YOU, I don't need your apology."
He must have actually been the manager on duty, because no one tried to reprimand him or anything.
Anyway, I tipped the blond guy and he later started sending creepy sexual texts to Kate about high school and her making him hard as a diamond lol

>>5279476

>Thai person says that it's fucking spicy
>I can take it I sometimes use a drop of tabasco to spice up my food! (^:
>surprised that it's fucking spicy

Jeebus, dude.

>>5279068

it wasn't the worst but it was the most recent

>go out with friends for coffee
>we all order
>waitress brings out the drinks
>has somehow spilled an insane amount of my latte into the saucer
>she doesn't even mention it

I asked her to take it back and bring me another one and asked her if she could not spill the next one so much, she didn't like that

>>5279116

>implying Canadians aren't just as bad, if not worse tourists

they are like Americans, but more stuck up and pretentious usually

>>5279380

gets the grease

>>5279394

even cheap shitty sushi is still good most of the time

>>5279456
>>Dear Ashley,
>>Maybe waiting tables isn't for you. If you ever are in need of a new job, call ***-***-**** and ask for Mr. Lyon.

>>5279476

2spicy4u m8, clearly you don't love spicy

>BUT I USE A DOLLOP OF SPICY SAUCE AND EAT HOT CHEETOS

>not addingactual jalapeno/habaneros as a topping
>not knowing "thai spicy" is retarded spicy that nobody should try

>>5279543
>>5280327


you could have gone to counter and paid as you left tho, just saying

>>5279895
>Really embarrassing to see a middle aged man go whining to my boss because I wouldn't take his childish insults lying down.

dont just leave us hanging, greentext that shit

>>5282941
One local thai place has a 1-7 scale (which isn't explicitly mentioned it's just something people gradually learn after eating there enough or word of mouth. Generally if you ask for spicy you'll get a 2, very spicy 3, extra spicy 4, 5-7 are thai spicy.

It sounds convoluted but it's actually pretty simple in practice. It's to avoid people ordering extra spicy (maybe being used to bland thai places that are easy on the spice) and getting something that's too much.

>>5279975

but Denny's is 24 hours though, they advertise themselves as 24 hours, it's one of their biggest selling points.

>>5280025

maybe they thought you wanted to live dangerously?

>>5280046
>We're talking about oblivious retards walking into a restraraunt at 2:00 am and expecting him to give them excemplary service.

but regular restaurants aren't even open at 2am. But Denny's is open 24 hours, if anything it'd be incredibly quiet at 2am, compared to dinner rush.

And I think they just wanted normal competent service, like you'd expect at any store, fast food place or diner.

Why are you so rabidly angry over this?

>thats like me going to a electronics store 5 minutes before they close and getting the guys there to help me out with setting up an entire home theatre system from scratch.

no it isn't at all, I think it's reasonable to go into a place that is open, which isn't "five minutes from closing" and expect the people working there to give you the basic level of service


>celebrity VIP table

they definitely don't exist at Denny's though, what seems far more likely is that the staff were starstruck (no idea why anyone would be starstruck by Papa Roach but whatever) and wanted to get autographs and shit, so they ignored the other customers

>>5280049
>Waiters used to give my mom shit for being a divorced parent back in the day

really? holy shit as if that could happen, like what they were all "look at that fucking divorcee what a jezebel fucking not serving HER, I'M GETTING THE PASTOR, NO DELILAH IN THIS RESTAURANT"

that blows my fucking mind, sorry that happened to your mother

>>5280085
>anyone who goes to a restaurant or store right before closing is a retard.

why do you keep trying to use this example, Denny's is 24 hours.

also "hurr its a shit time you deserve shit service" is like saying if you pull into a 24 hour full service gas station at 3am that its ok if they pour gas all over your interior and set your car on fire

>>5280306
>I could get it if Iron Maiden was around but even then you'd at least try and do you goddamn job.

Iron Maiden would probably be bros to everyone if they hit up a Denny's I mean they are filthy rich guys that still tour because they just love it so much

>>5280382

>mfw I get this reference

>>5279608
>because if you ordered a pizza and asked for "just pepperoni", there's a good chance they'd skip the sauce and cheese.
gr9 b9 m9

>>5283065
Yeah they look chill as fuck from what I've seen.

Going to another one of their concerts soon, can't get enough of those shows.

>>5282970
yeah but we give them a bye because their foreign policy is less offensive. if the US had stuck to isolationism everyone probably wouldn't hate them so much, although we might just complain about them not helping out in the wars instead

test

>>5279301
Do you really think britfags don't know about the american civil war?

>>5279357
It seems to be an Asian thing.

>Be in Taiwan
>coworker wants to go out to lunch with a bunch of us for his last day at work
>we go to a pizza place
>US$15 approx for AYCE
>well, ok
>pizza place eventually brings out slices
>one slice per person
>tiny slices
>weird toppings
>egg on pizza?
>potato on pizza?
>can we get anything else?
NOPE.jpg
>one slice every ten minutes
>we all leave disappointed

Never went back. The place closed and remodeled a couple of months later, but since it looks like it's probably the same owners, fuck them.

>Taiwan again
>Haven't eaten all day, starving
>go to a pizza place
>waitress tells me the only thing they have is AYCE
>well, ok
>ten minutes later, nothing has come out
>I get up, walk out, never go back again

I hope that place closes too.

>>5280046
>not sure if retarded or genuinely retarded.

>>5280103
No, the point is, the restaurant pays its employees to work when they are on-shift at 2am, and therefore they should wait tables instead of hanging out in the back with some famous dude who dropped in.

>>5280116
You must have lived in a different 1980s America from the one I lived in. Never had a problem like that in the Chicago area.

>>5280220
Sceak pls go

>>5281373
>Clearly has never been to one of the upscale, classy McDonald's outside the ghetto

>>5281879
Had a stripper try to do that during a friend's bachelor party. Gave her a $20 so she would give my friend a lapdance, she said she'd be right back, next thing I see she is dressed in street clothes and getting ready to leave.

I told the club owner, she chewed the bitch out and fired her. How lame do you have to be to lose a job as a stripper?

Oh well. We all told the dumb bastard not to get married, six months later he's crying over how miserable his life is, at 12 months he threw his wife out, and at 18 he was divorced.