Dinners From Hell

Typhoon Troubles Customer

Gregg - admin — Fri, 25 May 2012 21:40:11 +0000

While traveling through Southeast Asia, I spent a few weeks in the Philippines. One day it was raining (caused by a typhoon). There wasn’t much to do, so I packed my Macbook Pro and went to a restaurant to use their free WiFi. I ordered a Coke and started to browse the internet. The rain [...]

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Manager is a Slacker

Gregg - admin — Sun, 06 May 2012 22:38:24 +0000

I currently work as the fry cook at a high volume beer and wings joint in Atlanta. Been there almost exactly one year, and will be leaving in one week. Here’s why… Management sucks. My last job as cashier at a fast casual South African restaurant, where the manager and prep cook would frequently bang [...]

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Customer Scalded by Coffee

Gregg - admin — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:33:41 +0000

I was working as a waitress at a hotel restaurant. It was my first job so I didn’t have much experience and the restaurant was always woefully understaffed. People would just call in 5 minutes before their shift started and cancel or simply not turn up – and for some reason the managers never fired [...]

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Ruckus at the Pancake Restaurant

Gregg - admin — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 02:06:36 +0000

Many years ago my parents and I went to a popular pancake chain for dinner. This particular location was known for its poor service, but nothing like this one night. We were seated by a very disgruntled waitress, who took our drink orders and stormed to the kitchen. There was only one other table with [...]

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Children Served Cocktails

Gregg - admin — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:11:29 +0000

The last job I held waiting tables was at a neighborhood restaurant chain that catered to families and tried to liven up their bar area at night for the adult crowd. I tended bar at least one night a week and waited tables or expedited the rest of the time. One day, my friend “Lacy” [...]

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Lewd Mr. Matt

Gregg - admin — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 03:23:27 +0000

My first job was working at what is still one of my favorite fast food restaurants, specializing in chicken. The schedule was perfect and the benefits of free meals on break definitely appealed to me as a 16-year-old. I was quickly moved from a fry station to drive-thru based on my customer skills and speed. [...]

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Carry-Out Order Turns into an Ordeal

Gregg - admin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:37:06 +0000

Last summer, just around the corner from where I work, a new pizza place opened up. They are a smaller, local chain and I wanted to check out what they had to offer. One day after seeing their Wednesday special posted on the sign by the road, “Two Medium 1-Topping Pizzas – $10.00″ I thought, [...]

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Missing Pizza Dismays Diners

Gregg - admin — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:40:16 +0000

We had some friends over one night to play board games and didn’t want to make anything, so we figured the best option was to order some pizza (before we played the board games, of course!). We ordered from a well-known pizza chain in Western Canada, one that we’ve ordered from numerous times before and [...]

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Restaurant Rips Off Customers with Overcharges

Gregg - admin — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:26:56 +0000

I had my 30th birthday in November 2000 and arranged to go out for a meal with friends and colleagues. We booked an Italian restaurant I had been to before and liked. There were 21 of us. The starters were fine, the main courses were fine. Service was very slow, but we were a big [...]

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Teens Get Chilly Treatment

Gregg - admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:31:08 +0000

It was a Sunday afternoon a few years ago and my teenaged sister and my teenaged self were dining out with a huge group of friends at a pretty popular sit down restaurant. This was after a weekend teen camp and my sister and I had pitched in for gas and such for the trip [...]

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