For the first time in my life I complained about service at a restaurant...

[Dark Lord Al]

Dude it is the customers right to complain. On my vacation , my wife and I ate at many £100 per head restaurants , there was only 1 of these in which i didn't complain in some way.
So really don't feel bad mate.

Really? Like every place you ate you complained at except one?

Were they all just that bad or are ya a bit of a prick?

The experience was not good enough , for the price they were charging.
and no im not a prick sonny.

[Youngblood]

Dude it is the customers right to complain. On my vacation , my wife and I ate at many £100 per head restaurants , there was only 1 of these in which i didn't complain in some way.
So really don't feel bad mate.

Really? Like every place you ate you complained at except one?

Were they all just that bad or are ya a bit of a prick?

The experience was not good enough , for the price they were charging.
and no im not a prick sonny.

ha well it just seems odd to me that you'd complain in all but one. I mean, all kidding aside I am prob. more to be like CFH and unless the meal was covered in hair or the deal got completly botched i'd likely not say anything. Not saying its right way to be.

Don't you work in the restaurant business or something? Is that why you are more critical? Honestly, I'm just curious, not judging.

[Dark Lord Al]

Really? Like every place you ate you complained at except one?

Were they all just that bad or are ya a bit of a prick?

The experience was not good enough , for the price they were charging.
and no im not a prick sonny.

ha well it just seems odd to me that you'd complain in all but one. I mean, all kidding aside I am prob. more to be like CFH and unless the meal was covered in hair or the deal got completly botched i'd likely not say anything. Not saying its right way to be.

Don't you work in the restaurant business or something? Is that why you are more critical? Honestly, I'm just curious, not judging.

Yes we do have business interests in the restaraunt industry.
Lets just say we have been to restaurants all over the world , and our standards when it comes to food are high indeed.
Its not about the price you pay , for a meal , its the overall experience.
Food can be judged at any level based on the experience.
But for the record i personally don't eat fast food , that would be a total gastric -intestinal - apocalypse ,and a date with the WHITE THUNDERBOX FOR ME.

[Gandalf]

You were right to complain if you found it shoddy. No need to feel bad about it. Incompetence needs to be called out and treated.

[Youngblood]

But for the record i personally don't eat fast food , that would be a total gastric -intestinal - apocalypse ,and a date with the WHITE THUNDERBOX FOR ME.

haha well Im with you there. Yesterday my boss is telling us about the 50% off we get on our food we eat and I laughed, so he asks me, "What's funny?" Not wanting to seem a prick right at the get go I said "oh nothing, sorry" Then he asked me a bit later when I was by myself what that was about, so told him "I appreciate the discount, but a pile of shit is still shit, and taking 50% off the asking price doesn't exactly sweeten the deal. " lol thankfully he has a sence of humor and directed me to some of the "healthier foods" they serve.

[Conrad]

I'm surprised you would complain at so many restaurants Al, I mean that's not very 'British' now is it? Maybe CFH is right...

Seriously though, I've only ever had the balls to complain once in my life. I waited close to 2 hours for a steak at a local pub due to it being so busy. My complaint was born from the fact I'd drank 5 - 6 pints waiting so I felt all brave!

Got a full refund on meal though!

[CGM]

I'll complain about the food if it's off, but only once did I complain to management about the waitress. That was when I'd had a long day on the road, and I pulled into a hotel for the night. The restaurant was empty, but they served me an expensive meal nonetheless. Certainly there was lots of time according to the sign on the door. I guess the waitress was kinda anxious to go home though, cause she ran the vacuum cleaner around and under my table as I was eating my dinner.

[Andre]

We had a thing called split the bill here in the news papers ,you'd collect a few bills and if you turned up with a crew they'd split the bill in half.
HAd some great meals but one night in a so called upper class resteraunt we had a dog of meal. Us lads were about to walk out and turned to see the ladies al yelling and holding the bill up and others in the resteraunt we starting yell abuse too anyway we went back to the counter and the boss was all full of excuses and said it was his cheifs fault. So we all trundeled off into the kitchen and sure enough this bloke in checkered pants is slumped over the bench pissed as a maggot and the dishies are doig all the work

Scene out of Faulty towers ensued with other guests walking out etc , we walked and threw rocks at the place too.
Great night, still gets talked about.













I have another story but you probably wont belive me.
I think I told it here once , about a stay in a hotel in Sorrentto me wife and i won from the local kindergarten raffle.

Was years ago got the kids baby sat, turned up there after reading in the brochure that theres a heated pool ,tennis courts ,pool room,alacarte menue,5 acres of gardens etc etc.

After beating our way through the over grown bush down the pathway got to see a tennis court with ripped net and shit growing all up the sides.Ablack hole in the ground full of black water.
The joint looked worse than faulty towers but just as big. Rooms were bare but ok. dinner came out and the advocardos were so hard you couldnt even get a spoon into them ,the prawns were out of a can this was just for starters! Forget the meal. we go to the pool room,a ripped pool table 6 x4 with a couple of ,cues snapped and a broom stick handle which worked better than the cues.

We took off down the street and bought take away,chocolates,champayne etc and went back to our room and partied out for the night.
when we got back the joints locked up and noone can here us knocking ! So we get a ladder and climb up to the top window thats open and yell in it cause the tv room is there ,so we eventually get let in.

A couple of yuppies turned up and we tryed talking to them but they snobbed us! They were in the room next door to us.
Anyway we made a right mess of the bed, I mean it looked like murder had been committed as it was a miss time on something if you get my drift.
(My misses is so embarresed about it all funny stuff. (the hotel knowing which local kinda we were from etc is more embarresment)
Any way next morning my dopey misses goes for a piss or something and she comes back along the top verandah opens the window and flashes me through the window..Trouble is Im not behind that window Am I . Im behind the next one along . Shes flashed in the yuppies window instead!
Now shes even more embarresed!

It gets funnier, I go down to the breakfast room to see if I can get something nice. the trays are nearly empty and the yuppies are right behind me so I clean up all the trays thining we are getting out this place asap.
so Ive got our eggs and bacon on the trays drinks etc all over to our table and race upstairs to the misses to tell her we got the last of the meal.
as we leaving our room we notice the yuppies room is vacated so we looked at each other smiled ,raced back into our room got the sheets off the bed and changed the whole lot over with their nice looking ones ,then went downstairs and ate our breakfast in front of them while they waited for the non service.

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[AdamGB]

Got know problem with complaining as long as it's STRAIGHT to the manager.

The staff in these places (I should know :-/) are usually stressed and over worked and understaffed. They'll have had unrealistic demands put on them by some out of touch manager who will be giving 1 staff member the amount of work of 2 or more.

The problem is that whether it's so save face to the staff or whether it's because their too stupid to realise it's not the staff 'under performing' (on the minimum wage that they are earning) it's an unrealistic work load causing problems... the manager will probably just wait till the customer has left (after being all friendly, sincere and apologetic) before coming down hard on the staff.

Cunts...

So yeah... fair enough complain but don't take it out on the bored staff who are usually there whilst they're at college for their beer money etc... they pretend to listen to you and then drift off to happy land/think about boobies etc... then they'll probably just take the piss out of you for the rest of the night (good for morale).

Better to take it out on the manager if you want to get pissed at somebody.

[brucelee]

But for the record i personally don't eat fast food , that would be a total gastric -intestinal - apocalypse ,and a date with the WHITE THUNDERBOX FOR ME.

haha well Im with you there. Yesterday my boss is telling us about the 50% off we get on our food we eat and I laughed, so he asks me, "What's funny?" Not wanting to seem a prick right at the get go I said "oh nothing, sorry" Then he asked me a bit later when I was by myself what that was about, so told him "I appreciate the discount, but a pile of shit is still shit, and taking 50% off the asking price doesn't exactly sweeten the deal. " lol thankfully he has a sence of humor and directed me to some of the "healthier foods" they serve.

you're already working at age 14? Pardon my asking but in my place, we hardly accept workers age 14. am I mistaken with your age?

you're also choosy for a regular adolescent. good for you. you don't eat junk foods.

[Gandalf]

I could never work in a restaurant. I would no doubt quit in a day. I have a total hatred of the general public and their wanton stupidity.

And no poor waiter wants to taste the wrath of the customers just because the managment and chefs suck. Yep, call out the manager every time and burn his or her hair off with unadulterated rage. And if that fails go into the kitchen and bash the chef on the head with a frying pan.

[Youngblood]

you're already working at age 14? Pardon my asking but in my place, we hardly accept workers age 14. am I mistaken with your age?

you're also choosy for a regular adolescent. good for you. you don't eat junk foods.

The fact of the matter is, I lied to get the job thinking I had to be older then 14 (I'll soon be 15) as few do hire until 16, and found out on orientation day that isn't true. At 14 you can be hired by law here, but that it is required that they contact ones parents/guardians in such a case and it is then fine.

[AdamGB]

That's not a bad number for a 14 year old mate!

That's my problem, although I've got other stuff happening I've got as much to show for it at the moment as you do!

Not disrepecting you, like I've said that's a great number for a lad your age but if you were on the same rung of the ladder at 22 as a 14 year old despite the ambition and work you've put in over the years you'd no doubt feel the same!

Try not to lose t because you lied about your age etc.
When I was 14 I had nothing and was content with it, but once you've been paid you'll never be happy with nothing again :-/