Ever walk out of a restaurant?
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Yup, walked in to a Thai place in Newquay, only us there and then two parties turned up one stag one hen, from what we could gather they did not no each other but did not stop the shenanigans. Our starter turned up along with our drinks, ate that and then waited 40 mins for out main, dropped a tenner on the table, nicked off with the limited edition Tiger beer glasses and walked away!
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Dont think so
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Yea I have once.
Away with work an one night the service was great but the next night it was such an issue to have the same pudding. Sticky toffee pudding plus ice cream was offered on the first night but was not on any menu so assumed it was just available on one night. Asked the next night and they said yes I can have it again but not with icecream, asked if I could have ice cream with it and then they said yes (apparently its hard to put ice cream on a plate) came with no ice cream so sent it back and it came with one tiny scoop. Also the toffee sponge was actually spotted dick and was rock hard
That was the final straw tbh, they had already gotten hair into 2 of my colleagues dinners that night and tried to fob them off by saying it wasn't hair when it clearly was as I held it up to the bloke.
Walked out shouting and swearing about how crap the place was and the staff are utter morons. They then tried to charge another persons food bill to my room despite me having my own room they said I had ordered 2 starters 2 main courses and 2 puddings. When I told the person on the counter that it was physically impossible for me to eat them, she did not understand that somehow. Refused to pay anything and just walked out the next day without checking out.
First time I have ever lost it with poor service tbh but the hotel was just simply terrible!
glad I never have to go there again.
Away with work an one night the service was great but the next night it was such an issue to have the same pudding. Sticky toffee pudding plus ice cream was offered on the first night but was not on any menu so assumed it was just available on one night. Asked the next night and they said yes I can have it again but not with icecream, asked if I could have ice cream with it and then they said yes (apparently its hard to put ice cream on a plate) came with no ice cream so sent it back and it came with one tiny scoop. Also the toffee sponge was actually spotted dick and was rock hard
That was the final straw tbh, they had already gotten hair into 2 of my colleagues dinners that night and tried to fob them off by saying it wasn't hair when it clearly was as I held it up to the bloke.
Walked out shouting and swearing about how crap the place was and the staff are utter morons. They then tried to charge another persons food bill to my room despite me having my own room they said I had ordered 2 starters 2 main courses and 2 puddings. When I told the person on the counter that it was physically impossible for me to eat them, she did not understand that somehow. Refused to pay anything and just walked out the next day without checking out.
First time I have ever lost it with poor service tbh but the hotel was just simply terrible!
glad I never have to go there again.
I've done that before - if the service is dire I'll pay for the food I've ordered but that's it...
not actually walked out of a restaurant though would have to be pretty bad in order to do that
Tried to in a proper tourist trap restaurant in Barcelona, worst meal I've ever had in my life. The food was just bits of bone and gristle instead of meat, it was poor quality and looked like it was cooked ages ago, it was even left sat sitting for ten minutes until a waiter bothered to bring it over.
The food was so bad that one friend had to leave and went outside to be sick. We explained our points and agreed to pay for the food we had ate, but not our friend. This ended up in a massive argument for about half an hour and they were going to ring the Police and suddenly didn't speak much English anymore. My friend came back and agreed to pay anyway, so that was that. We stood outside for a while though and warned other people not to go in.
When I got home I noticed that the reviews on Trip Advisor all echoed the same thing. That was five years ago and it still doesn't appear to have changed.
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restau...-Reviews-Genove_1911-Barcelona_Catalonia.html
The food was so bad that one friend had to leave and went outside to be sick. We explained our points and agreed to pay for the food we had ate, but not our friend. This ended up in a massive argument for about half an hour and they were going to ring the Police and suddenly didn't speak much English anymore. My friend came back and agreed to pay anyway, so that was that. We stood outside for a while though and warned other people not to go in.
When I got home I noticed that the reviews on Trip Advisor all echoed the same thing. That was five years ago and it still doesn't appear to have changed.
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restau...-Reviews-Genove_1911-Barcelona_Catalonia.html
I have done it once in my life when I went for a meal with my wife, her sister and a friend.
We ordered drinks which took about 15mins to come and then we ordered our meals. The starters took about half an hour to arrive and then we waited well over an hour for the mains to arrive. During the wait for the mains, the waitresses would avoid us and when we did manage to get their attention they would say that the meals were just being dished up.
The mains never did turn up, at which point we got up and went to the bar that we were leaving and won't be paying for our meals that we'd eaten or the drinks. They insisted that the meals were about to come out but we were having none of it.
We ended up leaving with our meals wrapped in foil to take home and didn't pay. We have never been back since, which is a shame as it used to be a really nice pub/restaurant with a good atmosphere and very good food.
We ordered drinks which took about 15mins to come and then we ordered our meals. The starters took about half an hour to arrive and then we waited well over an hour for the mains to arrive. During the wait for the mains, the waitresses would avoid us and when we did manage to get their attention they would say that the meals were just being dished up.
The mains never did turn up, at which point we got up and went to the bar that we were leaving and won't be paying for our meals that we'd eaten or the drinks. They insisted that the meals were about to come out but we were having none of it.
We ended up leaving with our meals wrapped in foil to take home and didn't pay. We have never been back since, which is a shame as it used to be a really nice pub/restaurant with a good atmosphere and very good food.
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Somehow I find this one of the weirdest posts on OCUK I have read in a long time. First of it is "eaten" not "ate" and who the hell has never eaten in a restaurant before?
My wife and I got barred from a pub in Devizes because we refused to pay for our Coca-Cola as it wasn't real coca-cola and tasted like 6 year old sodastream. It sounds petty but my wife is fussy and I specifically asked before ordering. The rest of the meal was below mediocre but I did pay for that.
only once on a train in the restaurant carriage. It was about to split the train in two and we'd been waiting 10 minutes for the bill, so we scurried off and hid in our cabin until our train was off to Rome and the restaurant was off to Venice (or wherever).
So a group of colleagues from Ireland are over for work and there staying in Leighton Buzzard my town, they had never been here before.
No problems for a decent Curry round here I say which we all wanted after a few beers in the local.
We go to my regular curry house which is relativly quiet for whatever evening it was. Get seated right at the back by some open fire door (i could tell it was starting to go bad).
Asked if we wanted popadoms and ordered about 12 (was 6 of us) took them a while and they then came and asked if we wanted drinks. Easy 6 cobras. This curry house had it on tap.
About 15 mins later they come over with some warm Brothers toffee apple cider bottles and say they are out of all beer. We took them and took one sip. I looked at them all and said we need to go all agreed. Went and told the man we were leaving and he tried to charge us for the toffee apple ciders he bought over to us (open but new) I told him a few words and we left.
Couldn't believe it, I had been here probably 20 times before with the mrs, friends, family and so on and always been great. Never been back since.
We went to another curry house and had popodoms again. It became the joke that I am the popodom man lol.
No problems for a decent Curry round here I say which we all wanted after a few beers in the local.
We go to my regular curry house which is relativly quiet for whatever evening it was. Get seated right at the back by some open fire door (i could tell it was starting to go bad).
Asked if we wanted popadoms and ordered about 12 (was 6 of us) took them a while and they then came and asked if we wanted drinks. Easy 6 cobras. This curry house had it on tap.
About 15 mins later they come over with some warm Brothers toffee apple cider bottles and say they are out of all beer. We took them and took one sip. I looked at them all and said we need to go all agreed. Went and told the man we were leaving and he tried to charge us for the toffee apple ciders he bought over to us (open but new) I told him a few words and we left.
Couldn't believe it, I had been here probably 20 times before with the mrs, friends, family and so on and always been great. Never been back since.
We went to another curry house and had popodoms again. It became the joke that I am the popodom man lol.
Once. I asked for a replacement bill without a 20% service charge added. This was in the UK I should add and the service certainly wasn't worthy of a £100 tip. The waiter threw a proper tantrum, he claimed that it was company policy and he couldn't get me another bill, even threatened to call the police at one point! It caused such a scene and I could tell that my wife was embarrassed so we just got up and walked out. Someone followed us outside talking on a mobile phone and took down my license plate but I never heard anything more.
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No, but if I am impressed I tip without asking and if I am not I simply don't and don't go back. I have noticed in my fav restaurant (Frankie and Bennies, Plymouth (New York Burger is my once a month treat)), sometimes the waitress will serve me all through my meal, then come payment time a higher ranked one comes to take it and asks for a tip... in which case I pay, don't tip, and go and find the "real" waitress and tip her instead (they are all waitress', no waiters).
I really hate the forced-tip they do in the USA and some British establishments try and force a 15% tip also, I have walked out at that point.
I really hate the forced-tip they do in the USA and some British establishments try and force a 15% tip also, I have walked out at that point.
Is it though? I don't mind paying for the priviledge of being able to have a nice conversation, sitting down with a drink, whilst my food is prepared, cooked, I am waited on and then it is all washed up by someone else.
May I ask what food you do eat, where do you buy it from? Please don't say McDonalds?
Good on you.
I hate it when a restaurant adds a service charge to the bill without asking, it just puts the customer in an awkward position.
If they do it I either end up getting it taken off and put my own tip on or just won't tip at all due to being annoyed by the service charge! Funny really as I would tip if they left it for me to decide.