Dinners From Hell

Little Delinquents Ruin Diner’s Meals

Gregg - admin — Tue, 14 May 2013 03:22:50 +0000

My wife and I frequented a family restaurant that had decent food, fast friendly wait staff, and good prices. One Tuesday night while mid way through our entrees, two fairly large women walked in dragging 5 children along behind them. The women promptly proceeded to ignore the children and started talking among themselves while the [...]

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Alley Annoys Diners

Gregg - admin — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:59:07 +0000

About two months ago, my grandmother, mother, sister, and I decided to eat at a chain restaurant in Cape Cod. Boy, that was a mistake. (Note: this was not a fast food restaurant.) We are good friends with the manager and have eaten there countless times before. The hostess was very nice, but the waitress [...]

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Drenched by Drink

Gregg - admin — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:57:50 +0000

Yesterday evening my husband and I went out to a well known restaurant in Tampa, Florida for what we thought would be an uneventful dinner. The restaurant is a wonderful sports grill founded by one of Tampa’s football heroes. Immediately after being seated in a booth, I put my purse beside me and all of [...]

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Dining is a Big Bust at Bob’s

Gregg - admin — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:35:39 +0000

I am not shy to say this is regarding the Bob’s B** B** restaurant in El Cajon, California. This place was an epic disappointment!! To start the hostess/waitress was very short and placed us at a dirty table when the whole restaurant was empty. The “kids menu” was a laminated black and white copy that you [...]

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Diners Charged Dinner Price for Lunch Item

Gregg - admin — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 03:50:41 +0000

A few years back I stopped into a Mexican place for lunch with a friend – my treat. I had just graduated from college and was on a somewhat tight budget and asked my friend to constrain himself to the lunch menu. It was 1:30 pm and they stopped serving lunch at 2:30 pm. After [...]

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Senior Lady Tests Server’s Patience

Gregg - admin — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:39:44 +0000

A bit of a long story, but this woman has stuck in my memory through the years. She truly taught me to be patient as a server. I used to work in a small family run restaurant that depended on regular customers. The same girls worked the same days every week, knew our customers by [...]

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Difficult Diner Scolded by Off-Duty Server

Gregg - admin — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:03:06 +0000

This incident happened about a year ago. I work at a very popular restaurant and tea room. On one of my days off I was passing by and decided to pop in and say hello to my workmates. I was having a chat with my supervisor when I saw one of the waitresses having some trouble [...]

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Busboy’s Bungles

Gregg - admin — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:16:02 +0000

This is a story of one dinner that I ruined and one that could have been ruined by… me. My first job was a busboy/food runner at a fairly upscale restaurant (linen tablecloths, complimentary sorbet between course). Incident #1 (dinner ruined): I was going around changing ashtrays at the tables. I had a tray of [...]

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Bloody Burger Lover

Gregg - admin — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 02:36:12 +0000

First you have to understand that I like bloody, rare burgers. When dining out, if I want a burger I will always ask the server if the place does rare and if not I will order something else. I am also not usually shy about sending something back if it is not cooked right. My [...]

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Hospital Dining Room Staffer Harassed

Gregg - admin — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:36:05 +0000

While I was cleaning up the dining area of the hospital I worked at, there was a pregnant woman and her husband/baby daddy, whatever, sitting in the very back table in a corner. This part of my job is to pick up napkins, push in chairs, make the place look nice before the lunch crowd. [...]

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