View Full Version : Restaurant Horror Stories
I always like to read about gross experiences that people have at restaurants. I'll start us off : my brother told me a story one time about this girl he knew that got a chicken sandwich from Wendy's. When she bit into it she got an awful taste of something. She figured it ws bad mayonnaise so she brought it to the counter. There turned out to be a chicken tumor in the patty!
DavidDunn
08-16-2007, 06:12 PM
Holy shit, that's fucking disgusting. Okay, I've got one:
Back around 2004 when the Golden Corral here first opened, my late friend Jim (RIP, man) and his family went to eat there. Of course, this is a 'get whatever the fuck you want' type of restaurant, so Jim's grandson went to the buffet and got some fried chicken. Well, he gets back to the table and takes a bite out of the chicken and gets this weird look on his face. Jim asked him what was wrong, and Cody said that his chicken tasted funny. Jim looked at his plate, and the undercooked chicken was gushing blood. Turns out that in the shipment from the food service, a batch of chicken that hadn't been cooked properly at its previous destination had been thawed, reheated, and put out for patrons to eat. The entire family went insane, the manager was nearby, he came over, looked at the plate, HE STARTED SCREAMING, and he brought two chefs out to confiscate the plate, while he yelled at them. About ten minutes later after the manager heavily apologized, the chefs brought out a mountain of free fried chicken for Cody. The family left the restaurant and never went back.
Uncle Hugo
08-16-2007, 06:48 PM
Ok, I'll tell you guys why I'll never go to McDonalds again.
One night after watching something at the movie house and we we're driving and we decided to stop for some burgers. So I get a Big Mac, it's good and all until I notice a little piece of green cellophane or something. At first I thought it was just a piece of lettuce, but when I picked it out and looked at it, I saw it was the bottom of a condom. I freaked, threw the Mac in the garbage and left, I had to go back to pick up my friends but ever since then, I've never liked going to a fast food place.
Uncle Hoody
08-16-2007, 06:51 PM
Man the only food place I worked at, we were soooo clean it was sickening. You could eat off any point of the place we cleaned so much. It wasn't a sit down place though, just a walk by we serve you and you pay at the register and go. At no point could a customer come in. It mystifies me how some places can be so messed up.
However, I've heard stories about a local pizza place. Ranging from roach leg in the pizza, to them telling people they couldn't deliver because they were out of dough.
When I worked at Burger King in highschool people used to fuck with the food all the time..even the managers:duh:
Shoesalesman
08-16-2007, 11:08 PM
I ordered Chinese food once, bit down on an egg roll and cut my gums on broken glass.
Don't even get me started on chinese food. Do you know how much DNA goes into that food? I refuse to eat the stuff.
Jason's Storm
08-17-2007, 12:16 AM
One time my mom and I went into Panekeokin (sp), were seated, and basically ignored for almost an hour. It took 45 min to get the food, and they weren't too busy. Also went to an Applebee's in minneapolis, we had problems while we were there, but the biggest problem came when I looked at my statement. They padded an extra $3 onto the tip for the shitty service they gave us. I complained and got a $15 giftcard out of it and hopefully someone fired.
I ordered Chinese food once, bit down on an egg roll and cut my gums on broken glass.
Boy you could of had a lawsuit out of that, and got the place shut down. I'm guessing its been a while though.
~JS
The Dark Vampire
08-17-2007, 12:54 AM
I ordered a Vegetarian Pizza once and when it got here I found someone had put ham in it after taking a bite:X:mad:
I hate whenever I find hair in my food. It completely destroys my appetite.
Geddy Peart
08-17-2007, 02:45 AM
Here's a story a friend told me.
He and his girlfriend were having dinner in a nice restaurant when a family (husband, wife, son) were seated at the table next to theirs. My friend told me the son looked around twelve.
While the family was overlooking the menu, the son in a very emotionless tone of voice asks if they can go home because he doesn't feel well. His parents say no because it's a nice restaurant and they just got there. He asks again in the same tone, and his parents again tell him no and that there's nothing wrong with him.
If developes into a full blown arguement between the parents and the kid:
Kid: Can we go home I don't feel good.
Parents: No and there is nothing wrong with you.
The father looses it and commands his son to knock it off and behave accordingly. The family then immediately calms down and goes back to looking at the menu. The parents are obviously embarrassed by what's just happened.
The son (still showing no emotion) then lifts his water glass as if he's going to make a toast, instead he begins to squeeze. The glass shatters under his grip, shredding his hand in the process. Throughout the entire thing the son never made a grimace or a sound. He just sat there wth the same expression, he'd worn since his family entered the restaurant. His parents was speechless from shock.
Still holding the remains of his water glass in his now bleeding hand (blood was dripping down his arm in multiple streams onto the white table cloth) he asks in the same emotionless voice:
"Now can we go home?"
My friend told me he paid the bill ASAP and left the place in a hurry.
That sounds like a serial killer in the making.
BlakeTyner
08-17-2007, 02:52 AM
Postscript to that story:
Upon arriving at their house, the parents promptly treated the wound and put little Johnny into bed. An hour later, they noticed a chill coming from his room and went to investigate. Little Johnny's room was freezing, sure enough. Johnny then sat up in bed, spun his head in a complete 360, and projectile vomited pea soup at the parents.
(That's how the story ends in my universe. ;))
~Blake
Shoesalesman
08-17-2007, 03:04 AM
Boy you could of had a lawsuit out of that, and got the place shut down. I'm guessing its been a while though.
~JS
The place did get shut down for other health related stuff. And too much time had passed before anything legal could have been done for my incident.
Geddy Peart
08-17-2007, 11:10 PM
That sounds like a serial killer in the making.
That's exactly what I said.
Darth Sinister
08-18-2007, 10:50 PM
I ate at a Golden Coral earlier this year and the food was horrible. While I'm not a salad eater, I saw the salad bar and the lettuce was brown and the onions weren't fresh looking. The shrimp was undercooked and there was no pizza. I've decided not to eat there again.
Then there was the time back in 92, when I ate at Golden Coral and the food was forever in getting to my family it was so crowded. It was about 45 minutes by the time it got to us.
Also, earlier this year, I ate at a Red Lobster and there too, the food was late. And cold no less. I got my meal for free after complaining. Not only that, but I found out that the cooks were gone for the afternoon and the managers were cooking. Apparently, none of them know how to fucking cook.
Violent VictiM
08-19-2007, 01:08 AM
The shrimp was undercooked and there was no pizza. I've decided not to eat there again.
Wow, that made me laugh SO hard.
There's a pizza palce near my house thats absolutley disgusting! There italian grinders have purple meat with veins and shit and rotten, soggy lettuce.
Darth Sinister
08-19-2007, 09:46 PM
Wow, that made me laugh SO hard.
Okay, though you're not supposed to laugh. It's nowhere near as bad, but still, the service in Golden Coral has slipped in the last few years. It was never that bad. Though, there was that one time where my grandfather ate there and got sick that night. I mean really sick. Vomiting and everything.
This one isn't about eating there, but having worked in a local one from years ago. I used to work as a dishwasher in a placed called the Brewery, a bar and grill. So I'm in the back tearing up lettuce for the salad and I look down to see a fucking mouse peek it's head out from between a shelf and a counter where you slice onions, restock the french fries or butter the bread for Texas toast.
I remember there was this gross looking lunch lady in middle school that discouraged me from eating school lunch. That and the cold nacho cheese.
Spade
08-20-2007, 10:13 AM
Some of these stories are making me not want to eat fast food ever again. Glass, tumors, condoms, etc.:eek: .
Denzil
08-20-2007, 11:00 AM
I used to work in a Fast Food place part-time for a few years and the only instance that i witnessed food being messed with was:
The ex-girlfriend of a workmate came in, the guy she dumped wasn't working but his best friend was. She didn't notice the friend. The reason that the relationship ended was because she had cheated on him.
The best friend asked a fellow workmate to check what she was ordered. It had been a hot day in the kitchen so the he decided to take his hand and put it down his pants and soak up some sweat before he started to make the burger. He made the burger then went to wash his hands. He christened it the "Crotch Burger"
Later on it was revealed that he had pulled out a pubic hair and put it on the burger too.
I looked over to see the girl taking a large bite of the burger and i started to feel sick. Started working again and then about 5 minutes later i looked over again and she had finished the whole thing.
That is disgusting! It just goes to show you how immature some people can be.
NETRA
08-23-2007, 04:54 AM
At a movie theater I overheard a guy behind me telling his friend . . .
"Dude, when I worked at Taco Bell, there were like these little spiders that used to like make webs in the corners. We used to take them and like put them in the tacos, dude!"
How horrifying is that? You don't even have to have arachnophobia to find the idea of eating spiders rather vulgar.
There's a pizza palce near my house thats absolutley disgusting! There italian grinders have purple meat with veins and shit
That almost made me puke! :eek:
My co-workers and I always used to go to this one place on our lunch break. One day we all ordered chicken salad sandwiches. Anyways, one of my co-workers butted her cigarette in the sandwich and closed it back up. The next day, I went back and ordered a chicken salad sandwich because I liked it so much the previous day, and I bit into the fucking sandwich and there was the goddamned smoke in there. :mad:
NETRA
08-23-2007, 02:21 PM
I bit into the fucking sandwich and there was the goddamned smoke in there.
I don't understand. It the same one your friend had "made" the day before?
The Dark Vampire
08-23-2007, 02:27 PM
I don't understand. It the same one your friend had "made" the day before?
Yeah that's what I got they repackaged the alreay used food.
Not a restaurant but it reminds me of this shop I used to live near the own used to take a few smarties out of every tube (before they had the seal on them) to make an extra tube or 2
I don't understand. It the same one your friend had "made" the day before?
She didn't make the sandwich, we got them from this cafe that wraps sandwiches and sells them like Subway (but they are pre-packaged). She butted her smoke inside it and left the sandwich there on the table. I guess they came and picked it up and re-wrapped it.
Just Jeans
08-26-2007, 03:14 AM
...my brother told me a story one time about this girl he knew that got a chicken sandwich from Wendy's. When she bit into it she got an awful taste of something. She figured it ws bad mayonnaise so she brought it to the counter. There turned out to be a chicken tumor in the patty!
That's one of the oldest restaurant-related urban legends in the world, and it has been debunked (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/tumor.asp). The first time I heard this store -- back when I was in 9th grade (which would have been over seven years ago) it was a McDonald's McChicken with the tumor in it.
It's a nice gross story, but it simply isn't true.
Check out this page (http://www.snopes.com/food/food.asp) on Snopes for a load of various, disgusting, food/restaurant tales.
Don't even get me started on chinese food. Do you know how much DNA goes into that food? I refuse to eat the stuff.
That's another urban legend. It's not the food you should worry about, it's the restaurant you buy it from, whether it's fast food burgers or Chinese food.
Check out the Snopes page on food that I linked above. You'll find that a lot of restaurant horror stories have no basis in reality.
Here's (http://www.snopes.com/food/tainted/grillwire.asp) one that's real, which is about a girl who ingested a piece of wire that fell off of a grill cleaning brush and ended up needing surgery to remove the thing from her body.
Problems like that probably play a part in why none of the McDonald's I've ever worked at have allowed the use of wire brushes on the grill. We always used a flat metal scraper.
NETRA
08-26-2007, 08:02 AM
I guess they came and picked it up and re-wrapped it.
Even if it didn't have a butt, that's just gross. I don't even like it when I see fast food places pick up unused ketchup packets off the tables and put them back into the hopper.
BluTsbunny
09-11-2007, 01:19 AM
Blecccch!!!!!!!!!! :eek: That is soooo gross! Thank God I read this after I ate supper and not before.
I've got one. My parents and I went to a chinese place one day for dinner and my mom got one of those beef on a stick things. This thing looked like a rat on a stick. I hope it wasn't a rat, but it sure as hell looked like one.
Food was horrible too and all of us felt pretty sick afterwards.
Another time, I went to a bar in wisconsin and got some fried cheese curds. Got very ill from them. Almost ill enought to require a stomach pump.
Uncle Hoody
12-19-2007, 08:42 AM
We booked my work Christmas party at a pretty well known restaurant in my region of the state. We had reservations for 30 people. They agreed to it, but couldn't accommodate in the main section, so they set us up in the bar. Wouldn't you know it, the waitress walks right up to one of my coworkers "Can I get you anything?" while we're waiting for people to show up. The coworker says "No I'm fine right now." The waitress says "Well, I need to see your ID then." The girl is 20. She doesn't have her ID because she's wearing a dress, not drinking, and had no intentions of going into a bar. We didn't know until we got there.
So the waitress kicks her out! A major scene ensues, with my boss saying 30 people worth of business is about to walk out. So the waitress relents.
Then it turns out that for those of us who WERE drinking, the other girl working the bar got NO money off of us. Since we were a 'dinner party' all of that went to the mean waitress's bill.
Even worse, the dummy skipped a good 6 people when taking orders.
Still more, my burrito, and side of guacamole cost me 22 dollars! She charged me 5 bucks for a saucer of guacamole that I put on my burrito everytime I go there, plus 9.95 for the burrito meal, plus 18% gratuity for a large party. She showed me a price break down but I still think I got shafted.
Needless to say, we're not going back there.
Spade
12-19-2007, 09:03 AM
Man that better have been one damn good burrito.
Just Jeans
12-19-2007, 09:51 AM
There is a small restaurant in Ore City that charges $5.00 for a burrito, but it really is worth it. The damn thing is as large around as my forearm, and about nine inches long.
Spade
12-19-2007, 10:50 AM
There is a small restaurant in Ore City that charges $5.00 for a burrito, but it really is worth it. The damn thing is as large around as my forearm, and about nine inches long.
There's a place around here that says they have "Burritos as big as your head". I've never actually been there, but I see the sign every time I go to Boston Market.
Just Jeans
12-19-2007, 12:40 PM
You need to deep freeze one of those bad boys and send it to me. I'd nurse on it for a month. :D
ChoKo
12-19-2007, 03:32 PM
I hate when I'm eating in a restaurant and someone blows their nose at the table. I have a strong stomach, it takes a lot to make me sick but, when someone blows their nose, it just ruins my whole meal and I can't finish eating. My family knows this, so they're usually not the ones doing it. Usually, the culprit is someone a few tables over or across the room. Take that shit to the restroom.
Lance Lives
12-20-2007, 01:30 AM
Once I was in Mcdonalds and I ordered a Big Mac. I took it to my table with my buddies and took a bite. I instantly spit it out and looked at it. The meat was still red and crumbly. I took it to the front and showed them. They apologized and got me another one. You guessed it, it was the same way. I took it back to them and they apologized again and said that the grill was working properly. I got another one and ate it against my better judgement, but hey, I was hungry.
Speck
01-12-2008, 04:43 PM
I don't think I'm eating a Subway again. Every time I go in there, the food is uncovered and there are fruit flies flying around and landing on everything.
I hate when I see flies around food.
Darth Sinister
01-13-2008, 04:51 AM
Once I was in Mcdonalds and I ordered a Big Mac. I took it to my table with my buddies and took a bite. I instantly spit it out and looked at it. The meat was still red and crumbly. I took it to the front and showed them. They apologized and got me another one. You guessed it, it was the same way. I took it back to them and they apologized again and said that the grill was working properly. I got another one and ate it against my better judgement, but hey, I was hungry.
I would've thrown it at them.
J Killer
07-09-2008, 03:01 PM
these are some pretty sick stories i have read. man i probably will never look at fast food the same again. i'm glad i live in new york we've got rules for resteraunts for cap like these.
zombie extra 3
07-14-2008, 10:54 AM
Here's (http://www.snopes.com/food/tainted/grillwire.asp) one that's real, which is about a girl who ingested a piece of wire that fell off of a grill cleaning brush and ended up needing surgery to remove the thing from her body.Another interesting story (http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/bugjuice.asp) that is true is about how red food coloring is actually made from ground up bugs. No lie!
TheShowstoppa
07-16-2008, 07:50 AM
I honestly wish I had something amazing to say... but alas - I work at a restaraunt and I know doing something like spitting in food isn't worth my time nor my job for assholes.
There is one instance though where I was out of high school a year and we were at Applebees not too far from where I live now. Anyway - It took the guy 15 minutes to bring us our drinks and take our order. The food came out cold and he brought 2 drinks so he didn't have to stop by the table anymore. Finally after waiting another 20 minutes for the checks I walked up to the manager and said something. The whole entire bill was comped and as we were walking out, the server met us at the walkway outside and said, "You guys come back and have some more free food on us!"
I was the first one out and it took EVERY single one of the guys that was with me to hold me back to keep from beating his ass. Needless to say, I called, got more free food and got the guy fired. It was completely and totally worth it too. Asshole.
Now that I think about it - my friend did tell me a story on Friday about a guy he worked with down in TN that jacked off into a to go container and saved it for the asshole he was going to meet eventually that day. When the guy came in, he put the semen into his mashed potatoes and stirred it up. He found it so funny he was dumb enough to tell the kitchen manager when he said the potatoes tasted funny. The kitchen manager immediately fired the guy on the spot and said he would likely be brought up on criminal charges.
Speck
03-14-2010, 04:54 PM
Lately, my girlfriend and I have had the worst luck when it comes to restaurants. We've been to Chili's twice in the past couple of months. Both times the silverware still had food remnants on them, the tables were still dirty, and the last time we saw a roach run across the floor. She voiced her concerns to the manager, and he let us eat for free. Fotunately, my girlfriend is the type if she doesn't like something, she's going to let people know about it.
We were at a local cajun restaurant the other night, and again, food remnants were found on the silverware.
Every time we eat at a fast food place, we end up having to wait about 15 minutes because they have to prepare something or ran out of food. I can't count how many times we've had our order screwed up.
Hair in food is pretty common.
I think we've only had one instance where the service was good, the food was good, and the place was clean. That was at the local Texas Roadhouse.
We've almost given up on going out to eat. It's just not worth it.
God of Thunder
03-23-2010, 02:41 AM
I honestly wish I had something amazing to say... but alas - I work at a restaraunt and I know doing something like spitting in food isn't worth my time nor my job for assholes.
There is one instance though where I was out of high school a year and we were at Applebees not too far from where I live now. Anyway - It took the guy 15 minutes to bring us our drinks and take our order. The food came out cold and he brought 2 drinks so he didn't have to stop by the table anymore. Finally after waiting another 20 minutes for the checks I walked up to the manager and said something. The whole entire bill was comped and as we were walking out, the server met us at the walkway outside and said, "You guys come back and have some more free food on us!"
I was the first one out and it took EVERY single one of the guys that was with me to hold me back to keep from beating his ass. Needless to say, I called, got more free food and got the guy fired. It was completely and totally worth it too. Asshole.
Now that I think about it - my friend did tell me a story on Friday about a guy he worked with down in TN that jacked off into a to go container and saved it for the asshole he was going to meet eventually that day. When the guy came in, he put the semen into his mashed potatoes and stirred it up. He found it so funny he was dumb enough to tell the kitchen manager when he said the potatoes tasted funny. The kitchen manager immediately fired the guy on the spot and said he would likely be brought up on criminal charges.
:eek:
Ha ha ha, what a douche.... that other asshole sounds like a real dick as well. What fucking nerve some people have.
Autobotsdie
05-20-2010, 01:52 AM
I have 3 good ones
This first one happened about 6 months ago when we ordered pizza from Dominos. Not only did it take over an hour to get the house but the cheesy bread was undercooked and almost looked like raw dough.
Second one happened at Denny's a few years back. We were just about to order when I saw a mouse take off acroos the dining room floor. When I said something to the waitress about it she gave me this look of "Oh well". The people behind us heard what I said and got up and walekd out just as there food was getting to the table.
Third one happened at Logans Road House. I had ordered a haburger with mayo on it and from where I was sitting I could see into the kitchen. After a few minutes I looked into the kitchen in time to see one of the cooks put mayo one a hamburger and then lick the knife. After I saw that I told the waitress I nevermind abdout the order wanted my check because I just got paged for work and never went back.
God of Thunder
05-30-2010, 05:24 PM
I have 3 good ones
This first one happened about 6 months ago when we ordered pizza from Dominos. Not only did it take over an hour to get the house but the cheesy bread was undercooked and almost looked like raw dough.
Second one happened at Denny's a few years back. We were just about to order when I saw a mouse take off acroos the dining room floor. When I said something to the waitress about it she gave me this look of "Oh well". The people behind us heard what I said and got up and walekd out just as there food was getting to the table.
Third one happened at Logans Road House. I had ordered a haburger with mayo on it and from where I was sitting I could see into the kitchen. After a few minutes I looked into the kitchen in time to see one of the cooks put mayo one a hamburger and then lick the knife. After I saw that I told the waitress I nevermind abdout the order wanted my check because I just got paged for work and never went back.
Second one is totally unacceptable.... third, he coulda been using different knives, but that's still pretty damned unprofessional.
vBulletin® v3.8.2, Copyright ©2000-2012, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.