Hey Pandas, What Is One Of Your Worst Experiences At A Restaurant? (Closed)

Seated in a restaurant I was distracted by drips of water that were splashing down onto me. It was coming from the men's urinals which were directly above me. I freaked out.

My husband won a gift card to a new restaurant. So hubby, kids and me went. Sat down and was completely ignored by the wait staff. Sat there for 30 minutes and never saw anyone. No one took our drink order. No one brought us menus.

I went to the front and asked to see the manager. I explained to him what was happening and he promised he would get our waitress right on it. I walked back to my table as another foursome was just sitting down. The waitress runs over and (to them) says 'I'm so sorry you had to wait. What can I get you to drink?' I told her we were the ones that had been waiting and she curled her lip and told me to calm down, she'd get to us.

So, back to the manager. After I sat down she comes over (it has now been 45 minutes since we arrived) and took our drink order. Then, nothing for 20 minutes. When she brings over our drinks, the order was completely wrong and the ice was melted. I told her to redo them. Never saw another drink the rest of the time.

After being there for and hour and a half she comes over and takes our food order...but we still didn't have any menus. She pointed to the specials board and told us to use that. So, back to the manager.

Two and a half hours later we get our food...it's cold and wrong. Manager comes over and tells us he's comping our meal and giving us a gift card to boot. I explained we were here using a gift card and there was no sense in comping the meal or giving us a freebee because there were no circumstances imaginable where we would ever return.

Waitress ended up with a 7 cent tip...that what was left on the card after we used it to pay for the "meal".

The restaurant closed less than a year after it opened.

I was at a simple restaurant in Vilnius and the waitress was really nice to all my male friends but super rude to me (I'm a girl). She would laugh and smile with the guys, but when I spoke she immediately lost her smile and seemed very unhappy that I exist.

While vacationing in Florida we went to the same restaurant for breakfast because the waitress was so rude it was entertaining. One morning a guy I was with got his eggs and they were over easy. He told her he ordered scrambled and she grabbed his fork and ripped up his eggs saying "now their scrambled".
Best horrible service ever.

Granted this is a server perspective BUT….had a family of 5 at a booth. Very sweet, kids were behaved. They order a ton of food & beverages. Everything’s going great! We’re chatting, all that. They get their bill & i run their card. Normal stuff. They gave me a hug on their way out. Said the service & food was great & they couldn’t wait to come & ask for me again. Get to the table. They left $2 on an almost $200 bill. It was less than the tax paid on the food. After i tipped out our busser & hostess i lost money on the check. Please be not only nice to your servers but if you think they did a great job, tip them for it. Especially during these times when most of them were out of work due to closures & are now running on 1/2 staff

Business trip to Lima, hard working technician here and somebody has to do the job...
Anyway, went for a meal in downtown Lima, don´t remember what I had or how it was. But what I do remember, quite vividly in fact, was that after eating I saw the waiters washing the plates and glasses and knifes and forks in the basin where people washed their hands after using the loo, you could see it because the basin was outside of the loo and in the hallway to the restaurant.
Bare with me because it get´s as you could expect.
By next day I was erupting out of both ends. Never in the history of eating out has so much crap come out of so few holes at once.
The hotel I was staying with was great though, I was unable to walk or stand or go to the loo unaided, they kept me hydrated and make sure I was as comfortable as possible and changed the sheets every few hours.
I survived, obviously. On the bright side I have eaten at dodgy places all over the world and never been plagued by anything like it since then.
But it did take me ages to trust a fart

I was at a Woolworth's counter and ordered a hamburger for lunch. When it arrived, the server had carried the plate with two of her fingers cutting into the bun. I refused the order and the manager came over: "Well, it's still edible, ain't it?" I left, and never returned.

This has happened on more than one occasion, and it's grossed me out every time: dirty silverware. And if you think I'm a jerk for using a straw, well, that's because I've seen too many lip marks on my drinking glasses from previous diners. I'd rather eat at home, given a choice, but on the road it's unavoidable.

Also, there was time when my family and I were at a fast food joint that I think I was in some kind of "Karen" setup. The staff behind the counter got our order totally wrong, and when I went up to the counter, the one behind the register had this weird smile on her face like she was expecting me, and a couple of other workers were behind her, holding their phones and watching me with the same weird smiles on their faces, like they were waiting for me. I guess because I'm an overweight, middle-aged white woman, they were hoping to get some good material to post on the internet?

I set the tray on the counter, produced my receipt and calmly and politely asked her to correct the order. She and her coworkers looked disappointed, but they corrected things, and I thanked them politely with a smile and went back to my table. They looked disappointed, even when I gave them a smiley wave and told them to have a nice day as we left.

I am allergic to bananas, really allergic to the extent that I go into anaphylactic shock if I eat any and carry an epi pen.
I was having a meal with friends in a very upmarket restaurant which was great, up until dessert. When ordering I checked with the waiter that my chosen dessert didn’t contain banana, explaining why. He was very quick to say it wasn’t…. I asked him if he would double check with the kitchen. He came back very quickly saying it was banana free. One of my friends ordered the same. When they arrived my friend started hers and told me not to have any. She said it had a strong taste of bananas. I had it swallowed any but had got the spoon to my mouth. Sure enough my lips started tingling and started to swell. I was unsure if I’d had enough to need my epi pen so we decided to take me to a&e to be checked. The restaurant were really shitty with us for wanting to leave straight away, we just wanted to pay the bill and get me seen but the manager was trying to delay us and kept saying that it wasn’t the restaurant’s fault, and trying to stop my friend taking part of the desert into a napkin so that we could have it tested for bananas if necessary. I was kept in hospital over night, but was ok. When I wrote to the restaurant I got a shitty corporate reply saying I couldn’t prove anything… which was untrue as I had had the sample desert tested. They could have killed me but were more concerned that I didn’t go to the press than have any sympathy or apologise.

Went to a Cajun seafood restaurant that I had been to multiple times. We were asked to pay at the time of order. I figured whatever maybe they had a lot of people dining and dashing. However I noticed we were the only table being asked to do this. I was furious and asked to speak with the manager, he said that the wait staff had the ability to make this a requirement if they had concerns someone was not going to pay. I am not one to call out racism on anything and everything. But considering that we are the only black customers in the restaurant and being the only ones asked to do it I took great offense to it. We had been to this restaurant at least 10 times prior and each time our tab had been around $200, and I showed the manager those after pulling up bank statements. But he would not allow us to eat without purchasing our meal first. Needless to say we left and will never return, even though this place has great food. I would rather give my money to a place with horrible food than to one who allows this type of treatment to anyone.

Ok funny story, one time we had a very long layover in an airport and my family and I decided we should grab some food. We head to the restaurant, sit down, had a really nice waitress everything was going well. Towards the end of the meal there's a couple empty plates sitting on the table. Our very kind waitress came to take a few of them away. At the time, my family is in the middle of a conversation and she tires to grab the plates without disturbing us. So she comes up from behind my brother and starts to slide the plate off the table to grab it. My brother, seeing the plate starting move but not seeing the waitress thinks it's about to fall and whips around tp grab it. He ends up slapping the plate out of her hands and it shattered onto the airport floor. The waitress handled it like a pro and we left a huge tip, to this day I still tease my brother about his "spectacular reflexes".

so i was just eating and as i was eating i see one of the employee sweeping then he uses the broom to clean the table.

Once there was a nut in my enchilada. Not a tree nut, but a nut as in “nuts and bolts.” I found it by biting it. It hurt.

Okay, I was with my parents at a restaurant in Disney World, I ordered Mac N cheese, and then after I got food poisoning so..

Once me and my family were at Nandos, and first of all, after we sat down, they took a ridiculous amount of time to notice us and come over and take out order. Then when the food arrived, the server accidentally tipped hot sauce all over the table and directly after, spilled our chips on my mum. They didn't even apologise or anything, just quickly walked away without saying anything.

Waiter perspective, I was serving a girl, she was rude, arrogant, and looked like she hated me. She ordered a $350 meal, had us work 50 minutes longer than closing hours, and tipped 4 DOLLARS! Screw you Olivia Betterton (Girl that tipped $4 only)

I was at a Chinese buffet at Christmas time with a group of friends to exchange gifts. I ask for a refill of coffee. My cup wasn't completely empty yet but needed to be warmed back up. The waitress looked in my cup and said that I had to finish what I had before I could have a refill. REALLY????? I am the one paying for my meal and refills are free. A few minutes later, a clean up guy came to vacuum the floor, not around where we were sitting, but under our table. There was literally nothing on the floor. I never did get my refill of coffee and have never been back since.

My better half took me to a really expensive restaurant on my birthday, supposedly the best place in town. The waiter was very snotty and rude to me, patronizingly explaining why my food choices were all wrong. He didn't treat my partner like that.
I've had far better food at other restaurants. It wasn't even that good, considering what it costs. I just feel bad that my partner spent his hard-earned money on the meal.

Went to Nando’s one day circa 2014-15 and the restaurant smelt absolutely horrid. I shrugged it off, no clue if the smell was just some bad B.O. or something at the restaurant. I ordered my food and while I was waiting I needed to use the bathroom. I found the source of the smell - there was human poop smeared all over the walls and floor. Haven’t been back there since then. :/

I have a few.

1) I forget where we were eating, but basically they made everyone's food at the table but mine, they just forgot to even make mine. Took for ever to get someone's attention, and another 45 minutes just to get my food (it was chicken strips, so it's not like it was an incredibly difficult meal)

2) I'm the server here. I accidentally dumped someone's pizza because apparently our stands can't hold our small pizza and I hadn't been told (it was like my 3rd day there).

3rd) I'm also the server here. Big group with kids comes in, takes up our one seating area that can fit about 12 people. Order a bunch of food and beer (it was seriously maybe 150+, if not more for the total). Kids CONSTANTLY come up to ring the bell for assistance before rumning back to sit down. No tip, and the table was absolutely drowned when they left. Beer and water and ice splashed everywhere, bits of food in the puddles, just disgusting. We had to hurry and clean it during a rush because we obviously couldn't let other customers walk in and see it just sitting there.