Describe the worst meal out ever?

Describe the worst meal out ever?

• notyourmomma 16 years ago
  Tell me about it!
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• borinda 16 years ago said:
  A couple of years ago we had a houseguest whom we took out for dinner. After being seated we waited 1/2 hour for the menues and then another 1/2 hour to get our drinks, which were initially not what we requested. It was extraordinary for us to actually so long sit but with a guest didn't want to generate tension so we just chatted. Eventually our meals came (and I do mean eventually) and the server mentioned a cook had called in at the last minute and so the kitchen was short-staffed. Fortunately our guest loved her dinner but my husband and I were very disappointed with ours. Rather than stay for desserts I suggested we go elsewhere and make an evening of it. On the way out I went to the host and explained we'd not be back because the service was so abysmally slow, the order was botched once and then two of our three entrees were so poor, and that I felt they deserved to know why they'd lost us. He was stunned and said they would definitely be addressing my points the next day during staff meeting. He then rushed to our table and picked up the nearly $100 we'd left as payment, and insisted we take our money back and asked for us to return again and give them another try. He was really lovely but we just haven't been able to convince ourselves to go back when there are so many other really good and enjoyable and reliably so options here.
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• notyourmomma 16 years ago said:
  I'm happy to hear the manager came over and did the right thing. So many times, they don't.
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• chefjeb 16 years ago said:
  Unfortunately, in today's world the manager walks a fine line in comping meals. You must really assess and judge the individual situation. There are screwups that are legitimate and deserve compensation, but sadly too many are scamming. I was consulting for a restaurant and was talking to the owner. This lady eats 3/4 of her meal and then calls the waitress over and shows her a hair in her food. It was a blonde. She was a blonde. It was the length of her hair. There wasn't a blonde cook or waitress in the house. What would you do?
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• borinda 16 years ago said:
  Take a photo of the lady, the hair, the dish, and show her the door!
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• chefjeb 16 years ago said:
  My 7-year-old grandson and I love to do things together on Saturdays. We had gone to the library and some other stuff and he said he was hungry. We don't have a lot of choices in this small town, but the Wendy's was just opening at 10:30. We were the second customers. The first got his hamburger and sat down. We got ours and were unwrapping the burgers when the first guy shouts --"My damn hamburger is raw." I grabbed Thomas' (I had a salad) and sure enough it was a raw patty. Not rare, raw. The manager charged out of his office and confronted the grill cook: "Didn't you cook it so many minutes on one side, flip it and cook it on the other side like I showed you? His response: "Yes, sir, I did, but nobody has ever turned my grill on. " Not his job. Good help is hard to find.
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• tnacndn 16 years ago said:
  OMG.....why didn't he ask someone how to turn the darn thing on? That was a moron grill cook for sure. My daughter worked for a Wendy's for 2 years while she was in high school and she would have been booted right then and there had she ever done anything so stupid. The one here is always good and they have had a 98 restaurant rating for q long time now. My son has put in his application just recently and I just told him about this post and he asked me why they would hire someone that stupid to begin with. LOL
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• krumkake 16 years ago said:
  Worst meal, worst hotel - all in one! We were driving through Kansas on the long trip to Denver...we stopped for the night in a small town (I won't mention the name so as not to offend anyone!) where we saw a Holiday Inn...it was autumn, and that means bird hunting season...our room had dark brown carpeting - for a reason...bird cleaning tables were set up in each room, with nothing to protect the carpeting beneath the tables...let's just say the "aroma" was not pleasant, but there was no place else to go. It was late and we were tired, so we decided to just go eat in the HI restaurant...we should have known better. I ordered a rueben - it was 2 pieces of barely grilled white bread, with a slice of American cheese and ONE THIN SLICE of corned beef from those bags of .88 cent sliced meat packages. John's hamburger smelled very suspicious, and the girls' mac and cheese was ice cold. We didn't bother complaining, just paid the bill after leaving all the food on our plates, walked out to the vending machine and we all had a Snickers bar for supper...best darn Snickers I ever ate!
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• tnacndn 16 years ago said:
  Oh Lordy sally that sounds horrible. The Holiday Inns around here are pretty nice and I used to work in a HI restaurant myself and I know there would not be any food served by me like that. This place sounds like something out of a cheap horror movie. LOL I hope you guys grabbed you another one of those delish Snickers bars and high tailed it out of there at daybreak!!!
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• notyourmomma 16 years ago said:
  Oh, heavens that HI sounds terrible. What a night. I couldn't handle the smell alone.
  But the food. That is horrible. I've had food poisoning and it isn't pretty. (keylime pie that wasn't quite fresh, I ended up dehydrated and hospitalized on IV's as a 10 year old)
  
  Re: the uncooked burger, one wonders about the hiring practices too. But then some places are so desperate for hired help, they'll put up with just about anything. Believe me, we go through new-hires faster than a pig racing for that oreo cookie. Our training classes are thorough and complete and two days on the real job and as we say: "we have a runner" Agents go out to lunch to never return. I'm sure restaurants are facing the same trouble finding qualified dedicated workers. However, serving a raw hamburger is certainly dangerous and quite scary.
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• krumkake 16 years ago said:
  To this day, my daughters have NEVER forgotten the night they saw their father eat a candy bar for dinner...the entire experience was so horrendous, we just wanted to get out of the place as quickly as possible - oh, and the meat wasn't raw, NYM, it was rancid...a smell that is difficult to get out of the nostrils once it's inhaled!!
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• borinda 16 years ago said:
  You made me remember... when we were first married my in-laws nagged and nagged for my husband to take me to a fish restaurant they had been to and loved. Finally he took me and I ordered lobster. On the way home I didn't know what was going to happen but thought one part or another of me was going to explode! Of course when we got home I phoned my doctor who told me it was Sunday night and to just go to the hospital's ER. Off we went. We chose the wrong hospital but I got taken amid the gunshot wounds into an exam room. A nurse tried to draw blood and apparently my veins weren't cooperating so one nurse sat on my arm while another drew it. I let out a very loud screech and called them very rude names at the top of my lungs and to "get the ____ off me". Then they sent me out across the waiting room for another sample to be taken and then the lab did their testing. My poor husband was sheet white at that point having heard my screams.
  Yes, I had a nasty case of food poisoning and was on some anti-toxin medication for a week.
  The next morning I phoned the restaurant and pointed out the meal had been charged and I would be more than happy to call the health department and share the paperwork from the hospital or they could tear up our Amex bill. Oh how they begged me to keep that one quiet!
  We have a household policy now - we select the restaurants, not my in-laws. Food poisoning is vile.
  
  Gee, I just realized that I am sharing with all of you that twice I got us a refund on meals. I really am nice when out and am not thrilled I seem like a crrep who covets freebies!!!
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• notyourmomma 16 years ago said:
  Oh, I agree food poisoning is not fun. The key lime pie was the coup de grace to a weekend from He-double hockey sticks. I'm ten, it is my vacation in Marathon with my Grandma Roberts, Tammy 2 (her Boston Terrier) and Tweetie 3. I'm happy. We're fishing. We're doing jig saw puzzles. I start playing two square with my sister outside the trailer where Grandma lived. I turn real fast to catch the ball and run face first into a hurricane strut and knock myself out cold. Bloody nose, out like a light. G-ma ices my head and watches for signs of a concussion and decides I'm gonna live. Next day instead of a boat ride which might be too much for my throbbing head, we walk to the dock to go fish, I step on a rotten board and my leg goes through the dock up to my thigh. G-ma spent that afternoon, pulling out splinters from every angle from my leg. By this time, Dad has had enough and is going to take us home. He stops at the restaurant and since I've been having such a bad time, let's me have two pieces of lime pie instead dinner. Let's just say I spent the 8 hour drive back to St. Pete hanging out of the car window letting it fly. You have my wholehearted sympathy about eating bad food and the consequences. Don't feel bad about getting it off your charge, they should have never served spoiled food.
  
  
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• krumkake 16 years ago said:
  Oh dear God, between borinda and nym's stories, I'm about to hurl my lunch! I have been fortunate to never have anything worse than a little intestinal "distress" after eating something less than fresh! After your stories, I hope I never run into anything worse than what I've had...Yuk!!! You 2 get the prize for "most disgusting" experiences!
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