/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Almost looks like the cooktop from a sharehouse I lived in for a short while.
>Chinese landlords
Never again.

>>5433667
Was it dirtier or cleaner?

>>5433673
Cleaner, not by too much though, less clutter. Dribbles down the front and the splashing looked the same. Benchtop wasn't filthy like that but was still gross.

>>5433680
How do people live like that, I really don't understand.

>>5433656
>What are some of the worst dining experiences /ck has had at restaurants?
As a kid, a friend of mine and I dine and ditched a couple of times. The first time, it was because we wanted to dine and ditch. We went to Chilis and ran out on a $50 bill. I think our concience made our stomachs hurt later that night, or maybe the people saw it coming and put something in our food. Either way, Karma.

The second, third, fourth, and fifth time were all at the same place and all because of BAD SERVICE.

> norm's diner.
> *shudder*
> worst place ever
> hey do you want a steak and mashed potatoes for $8.99 or whatever?
> out of steak
> out of potatoes
> out of watever
> just $8.99 please for empty plate because fuck you.

I'm exaggerating, but instead of steak and mashed potatoes, i got a piece of shoe leather and spoiled green beans. Bitch-waitress knew it was so bad, that she never came back to our table not once....

And this happenned 4 times. It's not like we kept going back every week or something. It was the Norm's right up the street and like the only diner within 20 miles, and these 4 events happenned over a course of 6 years and out of the 4 times we ever went there.
A perfect 100% losing streak for norms. Fuck norms.

I actually don't have any horror stories. I'm generally a pretty mellow person so I don't make a fuss about stupid shit that can't be helped and are logical. (Busy restaurant, long wait, etc.)

There's an old saying that says, "A person who is nice to you but mean to the waiter is not really a nice person." It's true. My aunt is a straight up drama llama bitch from hell. I HATE going out with her because she's so crotchety.

>>5433705
you'd think you would have learned

>>5433706
> I don't make a fuss about stupid shit

omfg.
> grandma orders Tomato Soupy Pasta (some kind of dish which was basically pasta in tomato soup... looked gross.)
> Me: "what are you doing, Grandma, you hate tomatoes!"
> "yeah, but it looks good on the picture."
> Me: "don't order that"
> "I'm 198231 years old! i'm not going to let some 0.0005 year old tell me what to do!"
> Me: "Ok grandma"
> order comes
> its fucking looks like tomato can exploded in the middle of a shit factory
> Grandma "Servant! SERVANT! I want to send this back! There's far too many tomatoes in this!"
> Waiter: "Miss, that is the Tomato Shit Surprise, it is 99% tomatoes, and 1% shit surprise, what were you expecting?"
> "Well, not so many tomatoes! It's too many! I'm having a heart attack! OOOOOOH!! OOOOH!!! Someone help"
> grandma starts faking some kind of new disease that hasn't been categorized yet, a mix of epilepsy, heart attack, parksinsons, and black ladies in churches....

i mean i can keep going but you get the picture

Not that I'm not used to it but I was once completely forgotten by my waitress.
She brought me water and then it was like I had evaporated from her memory...
I was one of only four people in the restaurant at the time.
Hour and a half later I left....my order was never even taken.

>>5433656
not the waitresses fault at all but here goes

>be me n my dad at country style family owned place
>be stoned
>eating, he says something funny
>start laughing uncontrolably
>laughing so hard i kind of choke trying not to vomit
>start to throw up a bit in my napkin
>hes cracking up, makes me laugh even harder
>start puking while laughing and choking
>everywhere
>literally cover the table with napkins and walk out
>dad leaves $$ instead of going to register to pay
>never return

> go to subway
> only one there
> only one person working
> starts making order
> puts on meat and cheese as two people walk in
> sets my sandwich to the side
> starts on their order
> walk out

one time my sister ordered pancakes at cracker barrel and she poured vinegar all over them because she thought it was maple syrup
seriously who keeps vinegar at the table in a container like that

>>5433752
never seen any vinegar on the tables except when i order pepper sauce with my greens plus when you order pancakes they bring out little jars of syrup with it. you cant miss them your sister is just a stupid cunt who cant do anything but get her nasty gash stuffed properly

>>5433765
it might have been a cracker barrel knock off it was a long time ago
but yeah she is a stupid cunt

>>5433774
Aren't they all

>>5433718
I like you.

>>5433752
Had a similar experience.

>at chinese restaurant
>order some pork
>it's bland as fuck even though I ordered sweet and sour
>decide to try putting some soy sauce on it to give it taste
>take the soy sauce bottle and pour contents on my plate
>it turns out it was red wine vinegar
What the fuck, man? It was a Chinese restaurant and I expected soy sauce. Why would they do this?

>>5433729
LMAO What kind of restaurant was this?

>>5433752
Did she take a bite?

>>5433811
several
my mom didnt believe her so my dad even took a bite

Place called Gustav's here in Vancouver, WA. Literally the worst restaurant experience I can recall in my life. It was just like a nonstop parade of absolute failure. It styles itself as a German-themed place and has generally good reviews, which makes my experience there feel even more bizarre. I don't even want to spend the several minutes it would take to go into elaborate detail, but basically the service was horrible, the food was simply bad, the prices were far too high for the dishes we got, the kitchen was dirt slow, all of our orders managed to get fucked up somehow, and to top it off, the food itself was essentially Applebee's-level stuff hidden behind a really pretentious name and description and then ramped up 75% in price. My meal essentially amounted to two small (and overdone) chicken tenders, badly overcooked bread, and half of a big pretzel that I shared with my wife. Everything was so slow that it took our party of six almost three hours to get through lunch and out the door. Fucking horrible place with no redeeming qualities that I can think of.

>vacation in hollywood
>been in plane for 5+ hours
>hungry as fuck
>try a local place (forgot the name)
>given menus
>no wait staff in sight
>wait about 20 mins
>leave and go to burger king

>>5433830
What did your wife order? Did anyone at all enjoy their food in your party?

I got chased down the street after I didn't tip the waiter.

>>5433859
I forget what she ordered, but no; I was there with my wife and three of her cousins (the 6th member of the party was a 4 year old) and all of them shared my opinion of the place. One of them was almost ready to simply walk out of the place.

Honestly if it'd been just me, I might have wondered if I was just having a shitty day and already inclined to see the worst in the situation, but everyone around me was equally pissed off.

A horribly shitty sandwich shop, not only did it take the better part of an hour to make just 2 subs the bathroom was horrific. Piss, Piss everywhere. Thankfully it closed years ago.

>>5433752
My grandma did something like this, we were at a diner and she poured syrup into her mug because it was in a coffee container. The look on her face as that goopy "coffee" slunk out.

>>5433865
What did they say when they approached you?

>>5433809
It was a diner in a rather small town that I was passing through.
I would have totally understood if the place was packed and there was only that one waitress but that wasn't the case.
Maybe I was being ignored on purpose because I was an out of towner.

>go to sonic
>order food out
>instead any dipping sauce with my fries

i get fucking water and corn starch

what the fuck.

did this ever happen to anyone?

>>5433900
I've been to Sonic probably a dozen times or so and never run into that. I wonder if you had an employee who just didn't give a fuck and wanted to screw with a to-go order for fun.

>>5433656
>Order a lox omelet.
>Fully expect the cold lox to be placed on top of the omelet.
>Lox has been cooked in the omelet. Ceases to be lox and is now just cooked fish.

That was a pretty disappointing lunch I tell you.

>>5433872
Would you ever go back and give them a second chance at redeeming themselves?

>>5433874
Aww, you should have bought it from the owners and turned it around

>go to a taco joint with friends
>doesn't look good but whatever
>take a bite out of a taco
>taco is incredibly chewy
>move aside cheese and cilantro
>no meat, it's all fat

>>5433891
I tipped the guy a few bucks so he'd leave me alone. I've never been back to that restaurant since. My friends still joke about it.

I didn't tip because the service was absolutely terrible, like "didn't get my table's order taken for thirty minutes and the food didn't arrive for another hour" bad.

>>5433936
I'm inclined to say no, not out of spite but because there are so many excellent restaurants between here and Portland. I'd be more interested in trying somewhere else I'd never been than going back to a place I sincerely disliked.

If I was out with friends who wanted to go there specifically though, I might mention my experience but I'd eat there with them if they really wanted to. It's always possible that the place is normally fine and I just happened to catch them on an extremely shitty day.

>>5433830
While I cant voice for his service that night I can say that the quality of the food at both Gustavs and Rheinlanders is nothing like anon describes here. Their food is very well made prepared, and recently they have even updated their menu to be more relevant in todays industry. Pricing is on par with other restaurants in the area of similar quality.

>>5434055
Is it just one restaurant or are there more than one locations?

>>5434055
Original Gustav's guy here; this is the sort of stuff that surprises me. I don't claim that you're wrong at all, rather that literally every review I've seen of the place was generally quite positive. It's like everyone who's ever been there has enjoyed it except for my family. One of my cousins had even been there before and remarked on how it was dramatically worse than she'd seen it before.

It's quite possible my experience was an extreme outlier, but it's the only time I've been there so it's all I have to base it on.

Went to an applebees a while ago. They told me pic was a 9 oz sirloin. Was chill with the manager, she dropped the steak off my bill. Was pressured into leaving a lottery ticket as a joke like a dick though.

once at a local fast food restaurant I didn't get what I ordered so I went back and got what I ordered originally

then I went home and ate it

>>5434067
> Was pressured into leaving a lottery ticket as a joke like a dick though.
wasnt there a shitty tom hanks/meg ryan movie like that.. shes like a waitress and he leaves her the ticket and she wins or something

narcoleptic in detroit? nah that wasnt it

>>5434075
here we are
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110167/

>>5434075
Never seen the movie I think you're talking about, but I guess now I get why they were laughing so much about it.

>>5434067
Ha, what? That looks like it's maybe 3 ounces.

>>5434101
I estimated it to be about 5-6, and I know they have 7oz listed on the menu, but yeah, it was anything but 9ozs. It also didn't look med-rare either, but it was still decent.

>>5434087
movie was:
>>5434081

who is laughing?? "they"??? i thought i defeated them in my last lucid dream...

>>5434118
>>5434101
>>5434067

LOL!! i was like "what is this guy talking about.... those two-foot long fries look delicious with that 9 oz steak... and that four foot long fork? well.. thats just.. WAIT A MINUTE

lol wtf! that fork... is just as big as a steak! that must be like... literally im not kidding like 3.5 oz. Like an 8th. lol

>>5434128
Even worse, i went to Olive Garden a few weeks later and got this steak. It was at least 10oz like the menu said, and way better than Applebees.

>>5434143
yeah, that looks decent. Definitely like four forks long. lol

>>5434143
Honestly, /ck/ loves to rag on it, but I really like Olive Garden. I don't even know why, I just do.

>>5434146
I normally have bad experiences with OG, but that time, it was good. First time my girlfriend tried a wine different than some 6$ a bottle blackberry merlot, lol.

>>5434148
What about Red Lobster?

>>5434152
I like their biscuits but not their food that much. Which is weird because I generally love seafood.

I live on the coast though so I'm probably biased. There's little point in going to Red Lobster when I can go eat razor clams at a local place that were hauled off the beach earlier that morning.

>>5434148
I'm from a very, very small town. The Olive Garden I went to is a 90 minute drive and easily the closest one. I've learned to lower my expectations in situations like that so when I get average or above food, I feel impressed.

>>5433656
I went to a new, middle-of-the-road Italian joint that had opened a few months prior in a busy part of town.
When the waitress came over to ask me for my order, I said that I'd take a small Chicken Pesto Pizza and a large Lemonade.
After a few minutes, the waitress quickly dashed by the table and put down my drink. It was a small Coke.
When she dashed by again, I called her over and pointed out the mistake, asking for the lemonade. She came by again and got me a medium Root Beer.
The next time she came by she dropped my Pizza on the floor in front of my table. The management said they would discount my meal and put priority on getting my order out a second time. Given that it had only taken about 15 - 20 minutes for them to get my order through the first time, I was satisfied.

An hour later, she came by again with the Pizza and put it on my table.
It was a large Pepperoni.

When I got the bill, I noticed that they hadn't even taken off the money like they said they would, and then the man at the counter refused to honor the discount promised to me earlier. When I mentioned the shoddy drink service, the man at the register told me I would have to pay for each of them separately since they were differently sized cups.
I ended up having to pay the price of the large pizza as well as that of the 3 drinks with the threat of having the Police called on me if I refused to pay.

To top it all of, the Pizza sucked.

>>5434063
It's probably just that particular Gustav's. I go to the Gustav's in Portland Oregon all the time. The service is great the food i always awesome and the beer is fucking excellent.

>>5434185
Should have just let them call the cops, that is a bunch of bullshit

>>5433729
You waited an hour and a half without being acknowledged? lmfao jesus christ bro take the fedora off. That is hyper-beta. If I walk into a "Please wait to be seated" dining establishment within 60 seconds tops (if they are busy a simple "I'll be right with you" will do) I turn around and go somewhere else.

>>5433740
How about you excuse yourself and step outside you fucking pig.

Rednecks...

>>5434229
Honestly, I agree with you. In retrospect I should have just let them go ahead with it. Odds are that the cops probably would have sided with me.
I was just so sick and tired of the place after all the shit that had gone down that I didn't have the energy to fight out an extra $15 on the bill.

>>5433743
You did the right thing. That shit pisses me the fuck off.

>>5433984
Should have said- "here's your tip, get a real job"

>>5433718
That was wonderful.

>Took gf out to Uno's Chicago Grill a while back
>We're in the mood for wings for an appetizer
>Order a hot dozen
>Waitress tells me they sell their wings by the pound
>She brings out 6, I kid you not, 6 shrimpy ass wings
>$9 and change

Don't eiver order wings from a place that sells them "by the pound" it's a fucking scam to rip you off and what kills me is they still price them as if they were a dozen. A pound of wings ain't shit, any reputable establishment will sell them by the dozen.

>>5433729
This one is on you for not saying anything. Seriously you gotta learn to speak up. What in the hell did you do with one glass of water for 90 minutes?

>>5434185
Did you demand to speak with the manager? Sounds like the place was run by scumbags. Let them call the cops I still wouldn't pay.

>>5433740
your dad is a disgusting person. to not even clean that mess up with you... gross. hope you didnt learn too much shittyness from him.

>>5433743
you dumbass, they do this so they dont have to change gloves or wash hands twice in between making the sandwich for you and then another. its a production line. instead of going to the register and then having to don new gloves for the next people he just does em both and then handles cash at once.

>>5434143
To be honest Olive Garden is my favorite chain restaurant, the food is always delicious and the waiters and waitresses are always nice and attentive.

But for worst restaurant experiences

>Looking for a place to go for my Graduation dinner
>Me and my mom check out this newly opened italian place
>The owners were italian and everything, couldn't be bad right?
>Mum orders salad and its obviously bag salad that you get at walmart
>The lettuce is wilted and everything
>Get stuff off of the small buffet
>The buffet food was cold as hell
>Meatballs tasted like they were frozen
>Refills on water were slow
>Mum goes to pay
>They have trouble at the register
>A day later my mum finds out they over charged her for our meal, so it turns into $75 for pure shit
>She cusses them out and gets her money back for the whole thing.

>>5434255
Except he was there first and he could be in a hurry. The "sandwich artist" needs to finish his order and let him be on with his life before waiting on the patrons who entered while his sandwich was only half done.

>>5433805
i like when people say that. I know it's just a random Anon on the interwebs, but still. Thank you.

>>5434245
you, too. haha

>>5433984
So you let a guy chase you down on the street and hustle you for a few bucks. You got robbed bro. Grow a fucking pair and tell him to go fuck his mother.

>>5434269
This. Dumb fucks are trying to impress some waitress by chasing after her tip and acting tough are likely to get stabbed or shot. All for some dumb cunt's tip.

>>5433830
from the Couve you say?! Maaaah niggaa!

>>5434229
>>5434185
Fun fact:
In my country, restaurants can legally require customers to pay when shit like this happens. Unless the food was prepared in a way that is a danger to your health, you don't actually have any right to get what your pay for.
It was made so, to protect business owners from customers who would order a bunch of shit, and then refuse to pay for any of it, because "The waiter got our order wrong! We still ate it though, lol!".
Needless to say, cases like this rarely happens.

>>5433830
I'm also from Vancouver, WA and I had the same experience at Gustav's, shit was gross.

>>5434322
It... it's not just me?

>>5434291
Pacific Northwest taking over the board.

About a week ago I went to a oyster bar. 13 bucks for a fried oyster and shrimp basket
>3 oysters
>3 medium shrimp
>mound of shitty undercooked steak fries
>the worst kind of fries in the world
>3.50 for a 12 ounce draft that tasted weird

So almost 20 bucks...and they didnt have cocktail sauce, you make your own. That would be such a pain in the ass if they were busy and youve got a crowd of people fumbling with horse raddish, ketchup, lemons, etc.
Im not even someone that complains, im easy to please, but this was shockingly shitty. Every surface was also sticky as fuck, so that was annoying.

"so how was it"
"bad."
"...."
We didnt get waited on, it was counter service so didnt tip at least. Oh and the stupid faggot cashier didnt know what a "pint" is when I asked if the drafts were pints. I should have just walked away right then.

Went to a Johnny Rockets near my house with my cousin. Sat at the bar and ordered chili cheese fries. Immediately noticed that the guy who started to prepare my order wasn't wearing gloves. Noped the fuck out and left.

Im 6'1" with a clean but thick beard, and a dark face plus broad in stature. I dont cause an argument, i just say the most direct thing I can to get my way.

>one time eating hung over mexican food with friends
>waitress seems friendly, a bit spacy
>gets a few minor things wrong, nothing to aend back but still
>just a very mediocre ezperience, but with margaritas so tolerable
>we get done, and we wait.
>we put out cards on the edge of the tabe, and wait
>we tell the busser to please get our waitress, we wait
>we go to the front and wait
>finally, i say loud as shit directly to 3 employees if you dont fucking get my waitress out here or your manager im walking the fuck out
>wait...fuck you than

Walked the fuck out


>Another time when I was at that joint Juniors in Brooklyn
>got like no service while all the black people got great service.
>It made me laugh because those nigs arent going to tip your dumb nig self so go ahead. >Eventually get my order
>attitude to my questions
>slow to bring me my drink
>slow to deliver food
>slow to hring cheesecake
>all this happns while the nigs in sunday suits around us are singing kwanza songs or some shit, looking happy as a nigger with a field full f cotton
>they just stop coming by
>ignore my eye contact
>poor out salt on the floor and fill it with cheesecake
>swatstika in the cherry jam on plate
>Walk the fuck out

>>5434235
That's hyper lame

>>5433718
>that is the Tomato Shit Surprise

>>5434414
I tip my fedora to you, fedora brother.

>>5434414
A clean but thick beard on your neck, right?

I really can't think of a bad restaurant experience that was the restaurant's fault but this did happen to me last week.

>friend and I just got done moving into new apartment
>have no clue what's around but we spot a Chinese buffet and go in
>good service, decent food, and relatively cheap
>large party of Mexicans walk in
>oh boy, here we go
>their children run around screaming
>baby is crying at the top of it's lungs
>kids break a plate and knock tons of shit on the floor
>at one point they actually try changing the baby on the fucking table
>the manager comes over and loudly tells them to go to the bathroom
>Mexicans of course bitch
>leave a good tip for the qt3.14 waitress

I have to say, I'm a chill guy most of the time, but I have to say I came away thoroughly disgusted with the behavior of those people. And again, I hate to be "that guy", but why is it always Mexicans? You know you're in for a bad experience be it a restaurant, grocery store, park, etc, etc. They never do shit about their annoying fucking kids. They're always loud. They're always obnoxious. I had one at my work today get pissed because at me because I couldn't understand her. Sorry lady, but it's not my fault you don't speak the fucking language.

I guess stereotypes exist for a reason.

>>5434414
what the fuck are you trying to say?
Are you stoned or something?

I bought a carbonara in Turkey once and it had gorgonzola. I didn't eat any of it.

>>5434911

Gorgonzola is the tastiest shit though, that doesn't constitute a reason to refuse to eat it.

>>5434075
You're thinking of F Troop

>>5434538
Mexicans aren't the only ones who can't take care of their little shits. My area doesn't have all that many immigrants, if there's a screaming kid odds are it is white or black belonging to some trailer trash mom who just doesn't give a fuck. Seems that lower class people can't control their kids (or even bring them out in public in the first place), and Mexicans tend to be lower class from working for scraps. It is fucking annoying when they expect you to know Spanish.

>>5434935
I didn't eat it because gorgonzola is disgusting.
Do you know why it's called Gorgonzola?
It's because it's the dick cheese from the orcs from Gorgoroth.

>eating at Chili's
>everyone's almost done eating just waiting for the plates to be cleared
>uncle is making everyone laugh
>I'm laughing pretty hard
>all of a sudden throw up right back on plate
>mom yelling at me to stop
>apologize to waitress profusely
>embarrassed beyond all measure
I wish I knew why that happened. I was so embarrassed. It landed all on my plate perfectly though so thankfully there was no mess.

>>5435101
Enjoy being working class

>>5435114
Enjoy eating orc dick cheese and then getting beheaded in the revolution.

>>5435091
>fucking annoying when they expect you to know Spanish.

Yeah man, its not like native english speakers expect everyone else outside their country to speak english or anythin'

>>5435114
>working class!
I dont know whats worse, all the people that make endless fast food threads or you faggots.

>>5435112
Mom's spaghetti?

>>5435112
>no mess

Other than the vomit, of course.

>>5433718
I want to hang out with you. You seem like you would be a barrel of laughs. I think you must be a really chill friend to have.

>>5433900
it wasn't water and cornstarch

>>5433765
you seem to be upset about something, my friend. please take your stupid shit to /r9k/

>>5434414
ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Our campus motorcycle club had a end of the school year party one Saturday night. I didn't really feel like partying so I just had a couple of mixed drinks which meant that I ended up with the task of riding the motorcycles of the drunker members home for them that night.

Toward the end of the party, there was a wine chugging contest. I couldn't believe how much wine some of these guys were chugging.

After the party was over, several of the members went to the local 24 hour restaurant. One of the wine chuggers took a sip of coffee and started puking everywhere. He got the table he was at really good and a number of people at other tables as well.

One of the others grabbed him and put his hands over his mouth and they headed for the door, throwing something like $10 on the register as they went by.

Just as they got to the door, the guy started throwing up again. At the door, there was a line of people including people going their after formal dances in their very best clothes. Remember that the other guy had his hand over the one guys mouth. The vomit went out in a stream through the fingers and got one girl in an expensive gown from head to toe.

After I got everyone's motorcycles home, including the one who had his hands over the others mouth at the diner, I went into the diner, sat down at the counter, and ordered something to eat. One of the waitresses had been in most of my many math classes with me and we friends. I mentioned to her that I heard they had some excitement. She gave me a dirty look and asked me if I had been at that party. When I said yes, she turned around and walked away. It wasn't until about ten years later she would speak to me again.

I remember my grandma took me to her "restaurant" in her retirement community when I was like 10
Literally the only food items they had there were meatloaf and jello, and the meatloaf was so dry that it stuck to the back of my throat
it was traumatic

>>5433927
you are a fucking moron

>>5436293

It should be no surprise when restaurants are avoided by the younger adults, that they are avoiding them for very good reason.

My Rule #1 regarding restaurants: Never eat anywhere where the median age of the customers if over 60. Avoid, if possible, if the median age is over 50. Be suspicious if the median age is over 40.

>>5433927
oh same thing happenned to me... at a sushi place. I saw something like... "tempura roll topped with salmon sushi" and thought the tempura would be fried but the salmon would be raw and cold.

Nope, whole thing was deep fried. Tasted like canned salmon. I hate cooked salmon, i really do.

>>5433718

brilliant

>>5434248
>>5434235
Well, it wasn't like I was just sitting there quietly and waiting for the waitress to come over.
I tried getting her attention multiple times. Every she did take notice she would just tell me, "Hang on a moment."
And disappear into the kitchen.
I don't deny the fact that I should have spoken up more but that doesn't make it any less of an unpleasant experience.

>>5436215
this is such a strange story. i cant put my finger on why.

>>5433830
I never understood why Washington has a Vancouver. Surely shittier and less exciting than the one in BC?

>restaurant with no vegetarian options
>order a baked potato
>potato has bacon bits
wtf

>>5436307
I used to work at a restaurant in a casino. Our made-to-order fast food shit was actually pretty tolerable, but we'd have a daily blue plate special that was basically nasty-ass leftovers from the buffet downstairs.

Guess what all the old people always got and ate without complaint?

>>5436475
>tfw bacon bits are not made with meat
>tfw you made a fool out of yourself in real life and on the internets
>mfw veggietarians are just ignorant cunts who don't get enough attention so they try stupid shit like this

>>5436463
Because George Vancouver was really, really fond of naming things after himself. The American one sprung up first as Fort Vancouver, then he went north and named an island after himself, then he went a little further and founded a town (in Canada this time) and named it Vancouver as well. The American one isn't small by any measure, it just gets overshadowed by Portland being its immediate neighbor. There's actually a Vancouver-to-Vancouver direct train route.

Seriously though, look up George Vancouver if you get bored. He named shit after himself all along the Pacific and even as far out as Australia. I'm pretty sure there's a mountain or something he named (after himself) in New Zealand.

>>5436499
Except it was real bacon, retard

>friends and I want to grab some food before a movie and the only options open to us are typical mall joints
>4 of us want to get Sbarros since it is the least vile thing in this mall
>our 1 friend INSISTS on going to Friendly's, despite all of us knowing that the one universal fact governing all Friendly's is that their service is fucking shit
>we go and it takes us over an hour to get our food despite the restaurant being empty besides a single family where each individual is the size of a small car
>when the food comes out it's cold

Never again.

Did they make the food and then forget about it? Did they even cook it in the first place?

>>5436504
>take a train from Vancouver to Vancouver
>get on train from one side
>get off train on other side
>Welcome to Vancouver

>>5436508
then go to a vegetarian restaurant or ask whats on it before ordering. dont go to an omnivorous restaurant expecting them to placate you

>i wouldnt go to a vegetarian/vegan restaurant and expect them to have meat to serve me

>>5433752
vinegar is a standard condiment in the south for collard greens. Its fucking delicious. Are you union scum?

>>5436616
>Are you union scum?
Do people in the south still think like this?

If so, lol.

>>5436592

On the other hand, many restaurants would be quite happy to sell a vegetarian $1.00 worth of sorry vegetables (a great many restaurants don't have a clue on how to fix vegetables that are worth eating) and charge $12.00 for the plate.

>>5436618
hell yes we do. Its better than the reality of, "industrious north who kicked our ass so badly we've never exited the depression caused by the war." Scum.

>seated at table
>waiter approaches for the first time
>waiter has a problem with the fact that we're both wearing t-shirts with our university's logo on them
>waiter professes his love for rival university
>ask waiter if he attended that rival university
>waiter dropped out of some shitty art school
>get up and leave

go to a supposedly nice place (hey, former military I get mess dress or class a)I wearing chino and open throat buttondown shirt. (sorry sir we have a "loner tie and jacket") not a bum off the street, and I wore it for my friends sake.Ancient hate, I know but hell will freeze over before I return. customer is not always right, I know. ,but bad business practice that's your name 4ven franchises. where i live countless mickey dee restaurants chain motels and fore that matter grocery stores, churches and temples (even mosques kinda out of my knowledge, but not much )You piis them off, your done.

>>5436632
except thats not the reality at all. though i do love pepper sauce on my greens

>>5436687

Red Robin - gourmet hamburgers... riiight.
worst hamburger ever...
salty, dry, over cooked, limp lettuce, paper thin tomato, all bread that was a sponge of air. It's like Subway opened a hamburger joint.

I never complain but this time I had to. Manager came over and offered $10 coupons on next visit.
"It's ok I dont plan on returning."

>>5437259
I actually like some of what Red Robin offers, but for a place that specializes in gourmet burgers, I find the actual burgers somewhat less than amazing.

Actually, come to think of it, they've removed almost all of my favorite things from their menu over the last few years.

never had a problem with this place until they hired this white trash fatty to be the hostess.
Macaroni Grill
> five of us in our group
>hostess mumbles something
>my mom asks "what did you say?"
> "wooould...yooouuuu... like a boooth or a table?" as sarcastic as fuuuuu
>We still had our meal, I asked for her name
>called corporate office the next day
>got her fired
>confirmed she got fired
>all is well. You dont mess with my mom and get away with it.
I would have caused a scene there, but didnt want to drive to another place to eat or deal with retaliation in my food.

>>5433705
Please watch the movie "Road
side Prophets."

>>5436687
thank you, this post made me feel stoned.

Not my dining experience, but when I was a waiter, this is one of my tables experiences.

>work at upscale chinese restaurant
>busy, I've never seen this place so busy
>got sat a table, one of 7 i have
>supposed to have 3 table section, drugaddict called in, but w/e more money
>large party of fat mexicans
>they order so much food it backs up the restaurant
>manager tells me to let them know there is no way they'll get their food in the next hour
>immediately tell them the moment I know, which is 5min after they ordered. I can tell, there are timers on the Aloha system
>"WHAT? WE'VE BEEN WAITING 30MIN"
>"No you haven't. I'm too busy for this converstaion"
>Leave
>Was the only guy running at work
>My other tables see this and tip me 18-25%. I'm loving it
>Saturn and her 8 moons get their food, finally, and get mad that we dont we don't serve eggrolls with everything
>or fried rice
>or soup
>or free alcohol for making them wait
>or 3 bottles of sriracha for their entire family
>"Ma'am. I'm sorry, but our menu tells you on every page that-"
>"Manager. Now."
>Manager and her start getting into it. She's already eaten 80% of her food.
>They get up and leave, cursing in spanish, calling him and me racial slurs
>Get no tip on a $195 tab, 2 hours of their shit, 1hr wait for another party needing that giant table, and setting our cooks back very far behind

I'd be mad too if I was on a budget and needed rice, egg rolls, soup, 10 entrees, 12 drinks from the bar, and it would cast me $200+. What a shitty time

>>5437341
>large party of fat mexicans
...and this didn't qualify for the mandatory gratuity?

>>5437341
>manager tells me to let them know there is no way they'll get their food in the next hour
Couldn't you just bring stuff out as it's ready?

>five years ago
>be at a fancy asian restaurant
>can't figure out what ethnicity they are
>devolves into general "what is wrong with asia" conversation
>waitress comes by and takes my plate from me while i have a fork in my mouth
>burst into laughter
>same thing happens to my father
>we refuse to pay and get away with it

>>5434185
>open the door
>walk to your car
>everybody scream like a dinosaur

>>5435684
because mexico and spain were ever world superpowers right

>>5437273
looks pretty shitty... but is this the scene you're talking about?
> free food for the poor!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdrGyy-m7BY

>>5437341
>>5437341

i got a wild imagination, but it would be cool if i had a bunch of friends in a drama class, and we organized a flash mob to sit at a seperate table, and when this shit happenned busted out in a musical.... like

> You're NOT THE ONLY ONES!!!
> try to think of others for once....
> la la la la

lol.

>>5437341
Aloha POS is best POS

>>5438398
well, Spain was the largest world superpower for a few hundreds of years. but don't worry we Spaniards don't expect anyone to speak Spanish

>>5438357
>waitress comes by and takes my plate from me while i have a fork in my mouth

One time at Otto's in Houston, I got up to go get some more tea about halfway through my meal. When I got back to my table, it had been cleared. The kitchen was very nice (and a bit amused) about it and made me another full plate of barbecue.

>>5438441
>sailing across a small ocean and raping heathens makes you a superpower

I've usually had a pretty good time at restaurants. I've only ever been forgotten when I'm with a large group, so I really can't complain.

However, I do have one story:
>Be with my dad and my brother
>Go to Fresh Choice (a vegetarian all-you-can-eat place. It was good enough and cheap enough to ignore the lack of meat).
>Have plate of raw vegetables before we're allowed to eat other stuff
>Cucumber
>Fucking love cucumber
>So excited about eating this goddamn cucumber
>Sprinkle salt over it
>Tastes like I didn't put any salt on it
>Put more salt on it
>Still just tastes like cucumber
>Put a little more- enough so I can see the granules
>Tastes... different. Can't place it. Certainly not salty.
>Taste the salt from the salt shaker
>It's mothafucking sugar.
>Some dumbass nigga filled a salt shaker with sugar.
>My dad calls over some workers, explains the situation.
>The workers look blank, take a salt shaker from the next table over, and switches the salt shakers, putting the sugar filled one on the empty table
>My dad looks at them
>They look at my dad
>incredulouslook.jpg
>...Are you going to take that with you?
>"...Well, you have salt now, right?"
>Give up, go back to eating, workers go away.
>The new salt shaker is full of fucking sugar as well.
>Dad gets up, starts taste-testing the salt shakers at other tables
>Like 1/3 of them are sugar
>what the fuck.

I hate going anywhere with my dads family, I mean they nitpick like fuck its ridiculous, they'll order something and change literally everything on the order until its something different and then get pissed off if somethings forgotten, not even a kind "hey you left this off" like a really pissy "HEY UH YOU LEFT THIS OFF GO CHANGE IT", I love them to death but I cant eat anywhere with them

Plus they're really stingy with the tip, they tip the absolute bare minimum, and if i try to tip any more than that, they'll actually stop me from leaving money, its crazy

>>5438472

I used to know a high school aged waitress at an IHOP who would fill the various syrup bottles with whatever syrup she had in her hand.

It was funny watching her fill the syrup because she was so clumsy at it. By the end of her shift, she'd have syrup smeared all over her dress and legs. I always wondered if she stuck to the seat when her mother showed up and drove her home.

I eat out a lot, but I don't really have that many stories except this one I'll green text that happened a few weeks ago. I would also like to say that since smart phones became popular, waitresses have become more and more likely to fucking disappear for 15-20 minutes at a time.

>Walk into local Peruvian place
> Ate here once, rotisserie chicken was decent, but prices were high.
>Guy standing behind the counter right by the door chopping meat, does not acknowledge us, walks away
>Wait seriously 10+ minutes at the counter to make a to-go order
>Manager finally shows up to take our order.
>Ask him about the papas huancainas, I really want to try them, but it's 8$ for a side, I ask him if it's enough for two people to split it.
>No
>Right in the middle of me asking him if a side of rice comes with the exorbent price of a whole chicken he fucking turns away from me, grabs a plate of food that has been sitting there since I walked in, and walks away to serve it.
>No "excuse me one moment", nothing, he just fucking walked away from me while I was in the middle of asking him a question.
I turned around and walked out.
What the fuck?

>>5433667
Fucking racist.

>>5438472
I had a coworker make sweet tea in the morning with salt instead of sugar. Good thing hes the one who tasted it first.

Also, last night
>Waffle House
>obvious new employee is cashier
>he is sperging out, super akward
>sets down our silverware and is shaking from the rush and stress from the old black cook giving him constant shit and telling him hes fucking up everything.
Oh god poor guy, oh well I just want a simple order.
>w-what did you want?
I repeat the order like 5 times, it was 2 things off the dollar menu and black coffee
>i can see my food sitting there getting cold
>I ask for it
>uh..u-uh hold on, sorry um
holy shit man
>he gives me my food
>it tastes good, but not very hot

oh also there was this old woman sitting at the counter 2 seats away from me that literally looked like a troll. She kept staring right at me and not moving. She was done eating and just sat in the place the whole time staring at people.
Ive never felt so uncomfortable in a waffle house in my life.

>>5436307
The worst is those steakhouses for old, rich fucks that don't know any better. It's worse than if you went to a shitty chain restaurant somehow but 10x more expensive.

>>5435112
>I wish I knew why that happened.
The answer is the first thing you said in your post. Vomiting is a perfectly natural response to Chili's.

>>5437341
>>Saturn and her 8 moons
>>5437341
/fit/ pls go

>>5433718
Can we be friends?

>>5438424
This post was so gay it gave me aids

>>5433897
I went to a diner once at a small town too.
One table nearby kept giving me looks for like, 10 minutes. It was weird.

>>5438630
They were thinking "He looks like a faggot. I bet he likes firsting. All these young faggots are doing this firsting thing these days. Something to do with assholes, I dunno.

>>5436687
>Ancient hate.

>local diner with pretty good burgers and fries
>enjoying my tasty burger in piece sitting somewhat near the entry door
>raging chimps come in
>this aint murrica where chimps are automatically bad customers but people are bit vary of them regardless
>they eat their shit and ofc blow a shitfit about the price "YOO WAY TO EXPENSIVE WATTEFOK THAT SHIT AINT WORTH DAT TOLD yA SHANIQWAA WE SHOULDA GONE TO MIKKIE DEES!" (not literally like that but close to regardless)
>they go without paying and kid nigga for some stupid reason thinks it's good idea to flip my plate to the floor because fuck if i know why i just wanted to eat my meal in peace though i did watch them like "what the fuck man?"
Atleast the owner was a good guy and gave me small complimentary burger, i said i could've paid a few yoros for it but he declined. Shame our country is leftist as fuck and anything slightly racist is shunned for so the owner couldnt even really call a police because of fear of backlash by muh racism faggots and shit.

>>5438472
Used to work at a place where the 2oz to-go cups of salsa, cocktail sauce, and ketchup got mixed up all the time. I always made sure to clearly label each batch I prepped, but I guess the retards on day shift didn't feel like reading before they stocked the FOH.

Had to remake so many fucking tacos because somebody threw cocktail sauce in the customers bag and the customer used it without thinking twice.

>>5436460
I feel it too, but what is it?

>>5438677
what country is this so I can avoid it?
>stealing food
>trashing the place

yeah if you cant call the cops because hes black, its time for you to leave for greener pastures, friend.

>>5438689
Finland, due to the closy proximity of Sweden it's getting worse there especially because i live on the south coast. North wouldnt be so bad i bet.

>>5438681
I just read it. Its weird because the cadence of occurances in the story I think. Its like the diner is this main hub for all this hilarious shit happening, then suddenly a girl he knows, THEN suddenly she doesnt talk to him for a decade. There is also a wine chugging contest at the /end/ of a party, like how does that even happen just organicly out in public? Other people besides me do shit like this?

>>5438696
it makes me so sad to see these nordic countrys getting flooded with muslims and africans, they were probably really great, friendly places to live before. Im so sorry, I feel for you. Im a white minority where I live too, in a north texas town, mostly mexicans and a few nigs. I hear Montana is still a good place to live though. Good luck to you.

>Waiting for evening train, little over an hour
>Burger joint, handmade patties and home-baked buns sound good
>Gaggle of semi ok chicks manning the counter.
>Order burger and fries
>After 45 minutes of giggling and chatting i finally get my burger
>Lukewarm, and... Iceberg lettuce but hey It smells good.
>Fries are... encrusted in salt, I mean, absolutely covered, the bottom of their tray has 1/4 inch of salt.
>Set them aside and try the burger
>Halfway though, feel a tickle in back of my throat.
>Clear plastic from the salad wrapper.
>Tickling continues, feels like a hair...
>Pull over a foot of hair from my mouth, still pulling it out of my throat.

>>5433656
>2008 summer with a group of friends
>decide to eat in pizzeria
>go in, no other customers
>waiter comes 5 mins later asks for our order
>we ask for the menu
>'we dont have one'
>wait what arent you like a restaurant
>yeah but the customers design their own pizza as in they tell what they want on it
>oh okay id like one with bacon chicken breast corn onion and mozzarella
>'we might be out of a few of those'
>okay which one
>we have bacon and some cheese
>well okay id like one then i guess its cheaper as well right?
>no they are the same price
>yeah okay whatever idgaf
>friends order the same as they dont have shit here
>i look around, the furniture looks rekt
>an hour passes, we are starving like etiops
>waiter carries them one by one
>i ask for salt and ketchup
>mfw they are out of salt and ketchup but yeah okay whatever
>mfw pizza smells like semen
>even tasted like preserved jizz from the cold war
>we almost puke, leave without paying

captcha: origines gastro

>>5438735
It's not as bad as i made it sound and thankfully rightwing is on the rise and they try to be sensible even though they get called racist bigots often by the libertards. It's mostly just americanized ghettoniggers and gypsies that abuse the current leftist apologist government and the more sensible immigrants hate those two groups too because they give them a bad reputation.

>>5438777
>asking for ketchup and salt
>on a pizzeria for pizza
What are you some kind of monster?
>knows the taste of old semen
faggot

Sounds like shitty pizzeria anyway though.

>>5433743
He was doing as directed I'd know I worked there, that's just you being a dick man.

>Order eggs over easy
>Receive eggs over hard

> goes abroad
> orders spaghetti for whatever reason
> its in a bowl of half cut pasta with water in tomato sauce
never ordering that dish again, also no spoon

>>5438535
lacist*

>called in to work at 4a.m.
>wake up at 2:30 to get a decent breakfast
>head to Denny's
>best thing available at three in the morning shut up
>bunch of loud drunk on the opposite end of the restaurant
>enjoying my cup of shitty coffee
>notice volume of drunks has picked up
>menu flies by my head
>turn around and see two drunk-as-fuck club sluts in a shouting match
>manager pulls them apart before it comes to blows
>half the drunks get up and walk out on their bill
>as they leave, the manager is calling the police and one of the women in the fight calls him racist
>both she and the manager were white

sometimes it's not the restaurant's fault things are shitty

>>5440429
>not having the pleasure of a runny yolk

>>5438446
wtf are u retarded?
there's an ENTIRE FUCKING CONTINENT that speaks spanish. and you underestimate the logistics involved in 'sailing across a small ocean and raping heathens'.

>>5440570
>Portuguese and Spanish are the same language

>>5440522
>mfw i read it in his voice

>>5440494
its always like that too. I was at a hooka bar with a girl, this was years ago, was casually drinking and having a smoke. Hipsters everywhere. Suddenly we have to leave, my gf and her brother suddenly tell me we have to leave and take some weird "drunk" chick with us.

>arrive at dennys
>weird chick is crawling all over the car
>she proceeds to lovingly kiss my gf in the dennys parking lot
>o-...ok
>shes trying to unbutton my shirt on the way in
jesus christ
um, we just need coffee all around
"hehe she shouldnt have taken those bars and x"
what
>she is on xanax and fucking mdma
>she starts walking around dennys and talking to people
>she drinks other people drinks
>we dont get kicked out because shes a girl and not loud somehow
>keeps crawling into my lap like a cat
>i just wanted some grits and scrambled eggs goddamn
>drop weird chick off at a hotel she says shes staying at
how old are you anyway?
"15"
>mfw I actually was stunned
>mfw my 18 year old gf was making out with a 15 year old girl
>I was 24 at the time
fuckin people at dennys and I happen to be one of them

>>5440580
bmhjkjkjjljjkjhnmmn,n,
ok so besides one country. fuck

>>5434239
you are aware you have these things called legs that could transport you to your car? they don't get locked down until you pay.

i'm saying walk out and don't pay.

>>5434413
I honestly dont give a shit about gloves, as long as the place is clean. Most good restaurants dont use gloves, since they slow down the cooks, leave latex dust on the food, and make the cooks hands sweat like fuck. If the kitchen isnt visible, check the bathroom. If they cant be fucked to keep that clean, the kitchen is probably worse. A good restaurant keeps everything clean enough not to need gloves.

>>5440585
damn, bro... you're such a lame ass. That sounds like a typical fun night.... couple bars, couple mollies... good times.

And how did you not enjoy the make out session? And why were you freaking out? you werent the one on mdma..

I would have been just like this. I mean... Literally I would have turned into the guy from madmen, as I sip that cup (which would be a white dennys cup and not congac) and i would have that exact face.

Life is GOOD man. You can still lick the 15 year old's saliva off your girlfriend's lips.. what are you waiting for maan!
> mfw i actually was stunned
oh brother...

>>5438735
maine is almost pure white, and its just like texas, if you replace flatland with forests, and mexicans with hillbillies

>tfw this is where Deliverance would really take place