Dinners From Hell

Diner has “The Smells”

Gregg - admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:29:26 +0000

My wife (I’ll call her “Karla”) told me about an odd dining experience she had the other night. After hearing it, I thought that Dinners From Hell would be a good site to share it with. Karla and her 98-year-old mother dined at a well-known Italian-themed U.S. chain restaurant. As they were about to get up from [...]

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First Date, Second Time Around

Gregg - admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:08:25 +0000

In October 2010, I drove 300 miles to spend the weekend with my first love from high school, 26 years later (we had recently reunited after not seeing each other for over 20 years). I met him at the hotel and we left for dinner in his car. We went to a fairly nice chain [...]

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Long Wait for Pizza Delivery

Gregg - admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:38:07 +0000

This experience happened about a week ago when my family decided to order a pizza for dinner. The pizza place was a small deep-dish restaurant that also delivered. We love deep-dish pizza and we knew it would be about 35-45 minutes until it was done. They quoted us a time of about an hour and [...]

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Deluge in the Dining Room

Gregg - admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:26:04 +0000

I was once dining out at an Italian restaurant which I had been to many times before. I was just eating my garlic bread when I heard what sounded like water dripping. I ignored it and carried on eating when I saw water dripping from a crack in the ceiling. Okay no big deal, I’m [...]

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Server with a Snippy Attitude

Gregg - admin — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:56:02 +0000

This was about a week ago in a local mom and pop restaurant (where by the way Hilary Clinton once visited). It was our first time there and we asked the server, “Do you have any Hillary pictures? Her response was, “Just look around.” (With a “duh” expression on her face). We laughed and said [...]

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Shrew at the Juice Station

Gregg - admin — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:32:33 +0000

This incident happened at least 10 years ago. I was in a food court in a local mall with my niece (she was about 6 at the time) for her dance class. After dance class she wanted a frozen fruit juice from the new stand that just went in (not part of a chain). The [...]

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Slow Service and Poor Pizza

Gregg - admin — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:08:40 +0000

About 4 years ago, to celebrate an occasion when I was in primary school, we went to a local pizza restaurant. We had been here several times before and we were satisfied with the service and food. But on this particular night, we were shocked with the service that we were provided with. We had [...]

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Gas Pump Jockey Banished to Dirty Table

Gregg - admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 04:04:47 +0000

This happened back in the 1970s. I was working a summer job as a gas pump jockey on the New York State Thruway (back before self-service.) For the first few days, I went next door to the cafeteria (back before they became fast food outlets) for lunch. Then one day, the cafeteria manager came up [...]

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Ruckus in the Restaurant

Gregg - admin — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:25:12 +0000

I went to a local chain Italian restaurant a few years ago with my sister. This was a restaurant that we frequented about once a month up until this incident. Over the years we had become “friends” with the manager in that he would come over to chat when we were there. What happened was [...]

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Fouled Up Chicken Order

Gregg - admin — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:54:22 +0000

I had a very bad experience at a restaurant last night; it was the second time I had a bad experience there this month. Let me preface last night’s disaster with the original encounter: Two weeks ago, I decided to treat the family to take-out. I was going to pick up some Buffalo chicken fingers [...]

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