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Cubby · 09-02-2003, 07:49 PM

Bad restaurant experiences? I've had lots...but I'll go with just one of the restaurants. The restaurant is now out of business so no sense naming it.

A group of were going to the restaurant before a Canucks game. We made a reservation and got to the restaurant and there was no table available and about a 30-40 minute wait. No good...the manager apologized and gave us a free meal.

My wife and I and another couple decided to go try the place considering we had two free meals. So we go to the place and eat and everything is ok..until we try to use the free meal certificate. Turns out they fired that manager about 2 weeks before. Should NOT have mattered at all if the restaurant was good..but they decided not to honour the free meal. We were rightly pissed off.

I don't know why but we decided to go back to this restaurant a third time (this was over the course of a year or so). The food hadn't been too bad and it was the only restaurant around this area. So we go in. We order. I ordered a burger and got one but on some strange buns. Actually turned out all right. My wife orders a caesar salad. And when she tastes it something doesn't taste right. She goes back to the waiter and asks them and is told..get this...

"The kitchen staff have been told they have to use up what's in the kitchen and they can't go out to get anything else. So they used Mayonnaise on the caesar salad instead of..well Caesar dressing."

Absolutely unbelievable. The waitress came out and gave everyone a round of drinks...My wife never got a replacement meal..and we were talking about the bill when the manager came over and ripped it out of my friend's hand (and I mean actually tore it from his grasp). She then said in a very angry voice.."Here..I hope you're happy!" and proceeded to rip up the check.

It was scary....

09-02-2003, 07:49 PM	#73 (permalink)
Cubby Insane Location: BC, Canada	Bad restaurant experiences? I've had lots...but I'll go with just one of the restaurants. The restaurant is now out of business so no sense naming it. A group of were going to the restaurant before a Canucks game. We made a reservation and got to the restaurant and there was no table available and about a 30-40 minute wait. No good...the manager apologized and gave us a free meal. My wife and I and another couple decided to go try the place considering we had two free meals. So we go to the place and eat and everything is ok..until we try to use the free meal certificate. Turns out they fired that manager about 2 weeks before. Should NOT have mattered at all if the restaurant was good..but they decided not to honour the free meal. We were rightly pissed off. I don't know why but we decided to go back to this restaurant a third time (this was over the course of a year or so). The food hadn't been too bad and it was the only restaurant around this area. So we go in. We order. I ordered a burger and got one but on some strange buns. Actually turned out all right. My wife orders a caesar salad. And when she tastes it something doesn't taste right. She goes back to the waiter and asks them and is told..get this... "The kitchen staff have been told they have to use up what's in the kitchen and they can't go out to get anything else. So they used Mayonnaise on the caesar salad instead of..well Caesar dressing." Absolutely unbelievable. The waitress came out and gave everyone a round of drinks...My wife never got a replacement meal..and we were talking about the bill when the manager came over and ripped it out of my friend's hand (and I mean actually tore it from his grasp). She then said in a very angry voice.."Here..I hope you're happy!" and proceeded to rip up the check. It was scary.... __________________ Don't be irreplaceable - if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted!