Thread: More venting, this about restaurants.....

I couldn't eat out anywhere for a long time after watching Waiting simply because I knew it was true. I used to get on to SWMBO for being a difficult patron (don't put this on there, add this, this isn't what I ordered, etc) and on several occasions tried to tell her why she was making a mistake. Her biggest thing was taking off stuff from the order like tomatoes. Then Waiting came out. Now she takes the tomatoes off herself and asks for extras on the side.

I have not been able to eat mexican since watching the episode of kitchen nightmares at a mexican restaurant.

I've only worked in five restaurants in my life always as a waiter; combined table time of about 4 years and all the restaurants in Minnesota.

I never once thought of messing with someone's food. Honestly. The thought of ME getting purposely compromised food has always been so repugnant it goes without saying. If the thought sickens me, why would I do the same to someone else? Crazy logic I guess?

I also never personally witnessed or worked with anyone who told me at any of those restaurants that they altered someone's food other than a bartender telling me that he had allegedly put drops of Visine in patron's drinks that he didn't like and allegedly doing that would give a person explosive diarrhea. I would see the reverse, staff eating untouched food off of people's plates once the plates were brought back to the kitchen.

I did have some high school friends that worked at a pizza chain and they said apparently some of the employees there would spit on pizzas, etc. No offense intended at anyone here, but I had always believed that restaurant staff messing with people's food equated with a lower IQ or some other mild to moderate psychotic tendency.

Chris L

This is scary!
I always tip when I am at restaurants, even do it home in Norway.
But the problem is that I have distinct norwegian accent and since the tip doesn't come before after the meal it means that I risk people spitting or doing worse things to my food.

If I ever find anyone doing that to my food, I will spit the jerk right in the face there and then!!

Originally Posted by ChrisL

a bartender telling me that he had allegedly put drops of Visine in patron's drinks that he didn't like and allegedly doing that would give a person explosive diarrhea.
Chris L

I have seen it in action, and it actually makes you throw up, not the other way around.

Originally Posted by jockeys

I have seen it in action, and it actually makes you throw up, not the other way around.

This is not personal to you, but reading some of your testimonials did make me lose another bit of the little confidence I had left in the good of mankind.

Next time I'm in the US I'll make sure to tell the staff I am a good tipper (which I am), even though I have a f'ed up accent. That was a valuable lesson you handed out there.