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Horrible restaurant experiences

What's the name of the French restaurant?

What's the name of the Greek Restaurant?



And yes, bag them out on Google Reviews, and make sure it shows up on Google Maps as well. ;)

Urbanspoon is another good site.
 
Wow. That's pretty bad. And I would think that regular customers would show some understanding of how the reservation system works?

I don't have any bad experience stories at hand, but if I remember something I'll post it.


PS: If the refills-lady shows up, it will be hilarious. I thoroughly enjoyed it last time.
 
rdowns said:
Problems with Amazon and merchants and now restaurants. You ever think the problem is you?
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I don't think so.

He's just enjoying his new-found power, as a transplanted Canadian, who no longer has to put-up with bull-**** like this. ;) It's all a new experience. :D

And try the other side of the bed, when you arise tomorrow morning.
 
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Surely said:
^^^^that's a good idea....I probably will email the review to them.



I will most definitely be writing reviews on the various restaurant review websites.

I will be writing two reviews, and both will be honest:

  • one for the French restaurant
  • one for the Greek restaurant

Both will get what they deserve.
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I now wish to know the name of the Greek restaurant, given that I don't know any good ones in LA, and those photos make it look great.
 
Going back and reading that thread again is giving me a headache. Ugh.... the stupidity......

I think she is though down voting everyone who agreed with the OP's experience being horrible......
 
I usually have a really high tolerance for mistakes and things like this. I'm usually a very patient person.... The one thing I don't have tolerance for is the arrogance and non-apologetic "we dont need your business" attitude, that would have pissed me off. I think you handled it very well
 
rdowns said:
Cartwright.

Cartwright, party of four.




Problems with Amazon and merchants and now restaurants. You ever think the problem is you?
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Can't tell if serious.:confused:

But I'll answer as if you were being serious: No, I don't think that the problem is me. I'm a very reasonable person. I went over the incident in my head and tried to see it from other perspectives, but my conclusion is always the same. We weren't treated very nicely, and it was very obvious.

I also can't tell if the Amazon and merchants part is directed at me or at the forum in general (because of a few threads that have popped up recently). If it was directed at me, I can tell you that if I've ever had any problems with any merchants or customer services reps in the past, it's always because the merchant doesn't hold up their end of the bargain. I never expect more than what I pay for or agree to (however, when I do get more, I consider it a nice bonus). If an Amazon shipment doesn't arrive on time, I'm pretty understanding, unless we're talking more than one extra business day (I pay $79/year for Prime, so I would hope that 99% of my shipments actually do arrive in 2 business days). If they don't hold up their end of the bargain, I don't see anything wrong with contacting them and pointing it out. How else will they learn from their mistakes and improve?



Since so many of you have asked, here are the names of the restaurants:

  • The French restaurant is Le Petit Restaurant
  • The Greek restaurant is The Great Greek

Both are located on Ventura blvd. in Sherman Oaks, CA.
 
Surely said:
Can't tell if serious.:confused:

But I'll answer as if you were being serious: No, I don't think that the problem is me. I'm a very reasonable person. I went over the incident in my head and tried to see it from other perspectives, but my conclusion is always the same. We weren't treated very nicely, and it was very obvious.

I also can't tell if the Amazon and merchants part is directed at me or at the forum in general (because of a few threads that have popped up recently). If it was directed at me, I can tell you that if I've ever had any problems with any merchants or customer services reps in the past, it's always because the merchant doesn't hold up their end of the bargain. I never expect more than what I pay for or agree to (however, when I do get more, I consider it a nice bonus). If an Amazon shipment doesn't arrive on time, I'm pretty understanding, unless we're talking more than one extra business day (I pay $79/year for Prime, so I would hope that 99% of my shipments actually do arrive in 2 business days). If they don't hold up their end of the bargain, I don't see anything wrong with contacting them and pointing it out. How else will they learn from their mistakes and improve?



Since so many of you have asked, here are the names of the restaurants:

  • The French restaurant is Le Petit Restaurant
  • The Greek restaurant is The Great Greek
Both are located on Ventura blvd. in Sherman Oaks, CA.
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Lighten up Francis. Maybe I should have used an emoticon. :D
 
Clog the toilet in the restaurants bathroom. If you have to put up with their crap, they should have to put up with yours ;)
 
h1r0ll3r said:
Clog the toilet in the restaurants bathroom. If you have to put up with their crap, they should have to put up with yours ;)
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Haven't posted this in a while. :D


A couple of weeks ago we decided to cruise out to Ryan's Steakhouse for dinner. It was a Wednesday night which means that macaroni and beef was on the hot bar, indeed the only night of the week that it is served. Wednesday night is also kid's night at Ryan's, complete with Dizzy the Clown wandering from table to table entertaining the little bastards.

It may seem that the events about to be told have little connection to those two circumstances, but all will be clear in a moment.

We went through the line and placed our orders for the all-you-can-eat hot bar then sat down as far away from the front of the restaurant as possible in order to keep the density of kids down a bit. Then I started my move to the hot bar. Plate after plate of macaroni and beef were consumed that evening, I tell you -- in all, four heaping plates of the pseudo-Italian ambrosia were shoved into my belly. I was sated. Perhaps a bit too much, however.

I had not really been feeling well all day, what with a bit of gas and such. By the time I had eaten four overwhelmed plates of food, I was in real trouble. There was so much pressure on my diaphragm that I was having trouble breathing. At the same time, the downward pressure was building. At first, I thought it was only gas which could have been passed in batches right at the table without too much concern.

Unfortunately, that was not to be. After a minute or so it was clear that I was dealing with explosive diarrhea. It's amazing how grease can make its way through your intestines far faster than the food which spawned the grease to begin with, but I digress...

Entering, I saw two sinks immediately inside the door, two urinals just to the right of the sinks, and two toilet stalls against the back wall. One of them was a handicapped bathroom. Now, normally I would have gone to the handicapped stall since I like to stretch out a bit when I take a good ****, but in this case, the door lock was broken and the only thing I hate worse than my wife telling me to stop cutting my toenails with a pair of diagonal wire cutters is having someone walk in on me while I am taking a ****. I went to the normal stall. In retrospect, I probably should have gone to the large, handicapped stall even though the door would not lock because that bit of time lost in making the stall switch proved to be a bit too long under the circumstances. By the time I had walked into the regular stall, the pressure on my ass was reaching Biblical proportions. I began "The Move."

For those women who may be reading this, let me take a moment to explain "The Move." Men know exactly what their bowels are up to at any given second. And when the time comes to empty the cache, a sequence of physiological events occur that can not be stopped under any circumstances. There is a move men make that involves simultaneously approaching the toilet, beginning the body turn to
position ones ass toward said toilet, hooking ones fingers into ones waistline, and pulling down the pants while beginning the squat at the same time. It is a very fluid motion that, when performed properly, results in the flawless expulsion of **** at the exact same second that ones ass is properly placed on the toilet seat. Done properly, it even
assures that the choad is properly inserted into the front rim of the toilet in the event that the piss stream lets loose at the same time; it is truly a picture of coordination rivaling that of a ballet dancer.

I was about half-way into "The Move" when I looked down at the floor and saw a pile of vomit that had been previously expelled by one of those little bastards attending kids night; it was mounded up in the corner so I did not notice it when I had first walked into the stall. Normally, I would not have been bothered by such a thing, but I had eaten so much and the pressure upward was so intense, that I hit a rarely experienced gag reflex. And once that reflex started, combined with the intense pressure upward caused by the bloated stomach, four plates of macaroni and beef started coming up for a rematch. What happened next was so quick that the exact sequence of events are a bit fuzzy, but I will try to reconstruct them as best I can.

In that moment of impending projectile vomiting, my attention was diverted from the goings-on at the other end. To put a freeze frame on the situation, I was half crouched down to the toilet, pants pulled
down to my knees, with a load of vomit coming up my esophagus. Now, most of you know that vomiting takes precedence over **** no matter what is about to come slamming out of your ass. It is apparently an evolutionary thing since ******** will not kill you, but vomiting takes a presence of mind to accomplish so that you do not aspirate any food into the bronchial tubes and perhaps choke to death. My attention was thus diverted. At that very split second, my ass exploded in what can only be described as a wake...you know, as in a newspaper headline along the lines of "30,000 Killed in Wake of Typhoon Fifi" or something similar. In what seemed to be most suitably measured in cubic feet, an enormous plug of **** the consistency of thick mud with embedded pockets of greasy liquid came flying out of my ass.

But remember, I was only half-way down on the toilet at that moment. The **** wave was of such force and of just such an angle in relation to the back curve of the toilet seat that it ricocheted off the back of the seat and slammed into the wall at an angle of incidence equal to the angle at which it initially hit the toilet seat. Then I sat down. Recall that when that event occurred, I was already half-way to sitting anyway and had actually reached the point of no return. I have always considered myself as relatively stable gravitationally, but when you get beyond a certain point, you're going down no matter how limber you may be. Needless to say, the **** wave, though of considerable force, was not so sufficient so as to completely glance off the toilet seat and deposit itself on the walls, unlike what you would see when hitting a puddle with a high-pressure water hose; even though you throw water at the puddle, the puddle gets moved and no water is left to re-form a puddle. There was a significant amount of **** remaining on about one third of the seat rim which I had now just collapsed upon. Now, back to the vomit...

While all the ******** was going on, the vomit was still on its way up. By the time I had actually collapsed on the toilet, my mouth had filled up with a goodly portion of the macaroni and beef I had just consumed. OK, so what does the human body instinctively do when vomiting? One bends over. So I bent over. I was still sitting on the toilet, though. Therefore, bending over resulted in me placing my head above my now slightly opened legs, positioned in between my knees and waist. Also directly above my pants which were now pulled down to a point just midway between my knees and my ankles. Oh, did I mention that I was wearing not just pants, but sweat pants with elastic on the ankles. In one mighty push, some three pounds of macaroni and beef, two or three Cokes, and a couple of Big, Fat Yeast Rolls were deposited in my pants...on the inside...with no ready exit at the bottom down by my feet.

In the next several seconds, there were a handful of farts, a couple of turds, and the event ended, yet I was now sitting there with my pants full of vomit, my back covered in **** that had bounced off the toilet, spattered on three ceramic tiled walls to a height of about five feet, and still had enough force to come back at me, covering the back of my shirt with droplets of liquid ****. All while thick **** was spread all over my ass in a ring curiously in the shape of a toilet seat. And there was no ****ing toilet paper.

What could I do but laugh. I must have sounded like a complete maniac to the guy who then wandered into the bathroom. He actually asked if I was OK since I was laughing so hard I must have sounded like I was crying hysterically. I calmed down just enough to ask him if he would get the manager. And told him to have the manager bring some toilet paper. When the manager walked in, he brought the toilet paper with him, but in no way was prepared for what happened next. I simply told him that there was no way I was going to explain what was happening in the stall, but that I needed several wet towels and I needed him to go ask my wife to come help me. I told him where we were sitting and he left. At that point, I think he was probably assuming that I had pissed just a bit in my pants or something similarly benign.

About two minutes later, my wife came into the bathroom not knowing what was wrong and with a certain amount of worry in her voice. I explained to her (still laughing and having trouble getting out words) that I had a slight accident and needed her help. Knowing that I had experienced some close calls in the past, she probably assumed that I had laid down a small turd or something and just needed to bring the car around so we could bolt immediately. Until I asked her, I'm sure she had no idea that she was about to go across the street and purchase me new underwear, new socks, new pants, a new shirt, and (by that time due to considerable leakage around the elastic ankles thingies) new sneakers. And she then started to laugh herself since I was still laughing.

She began to ask for an explanation as to what had happened when I promised her that I would tell her later, but that I just needed to handle damage control for the time being. She left.

The manager then came back in with a half dozen wet towels and a few dry ones. I asked him to also bring a mop and bucket upon which he assured me that they would clean up anything that needed to be cleaned. Without giving him specific details, I explained that what was going on in that stall that night was far in excess of what I would expect anyone to deal with, what with most of the folks working at Ryan's making minimum wage of just slightly above.

At that moment, I think it dawned on him exactly the gravity of the situation. Then that manager went so far above the call of duty that I will be eternally grateful for his actions. He hooked up a hose.
Fortunately, commercial bathrooms are constructed with tile walls and tile floors and have a drain in the middle of the room in order to make clean up easy. Fortunately, I was in a commercial bathroom. He hooked up the hose to the spigot located under the sink as I began cleaning myself up with the wet towels. Just as I was finishing, my wife got back with the new clothes and passed them into the stall, whereupon I stuffed the previously worn clothing into the plastic bag that came from the store, handing the bag to my wife. I finished cleaning myself off and carefully put on my new clothes, still stuck in the stall since I figured that it would be in bad taste to go out of the stall to get redressed in the event I happened to be standing there naked and some little bastard kid walked in. At that point, I had only made a mess; I had not yet committed a felony and intended to keep it that way.

When I finished getting dressed, I picked up the hose and cleaned up the entire stall, washing down the remains toward the drain in the center of the room. I put down the hose and walked out of the bathroom. I had intended to go to the manager and thank him for all he had done, but when I walked out, three of the management staff were there to greet me with a standing ovation. I started laughing so hard that I thought I was going to throw up again, but managed to scurry out to the car where my wife was now waiting to pick me up by the front door. The upshot of all this is that I strongly recommend eating dinner at Ryan's Steak House. They have, by far, the nicest management staff of any restaurant in which I have eaten.
 
I haven't had a really bad restaurant experience in recent memory, but some good friends of mine had quite the experience: they told their waitress before ordering anything that they wanted separate checks for a table of four. At the end of dinner, she came back with the check (with an 18% gratuity added) and a calculator, and said "here, you figure it out."
 
Awful, I've had similar experiences and it's frustrating. What's just as bad is when they seat you and your waiter/waitress never shows up. We sat for 15 minutes recently at a restaurant and I went back to the host and asked where my waiter was. He went to look for him, came back and said he couldn't find him so another waiter came and took our order. About 10 minutes later it appeared as if the missing waiter had returned and took the tables around us.

If I were you I'd call the owner of that restaurant and tell him what happened.
 
Surely said:
Since so many of you have asked, here are the names of the restaurants:

  • The French restaurant is Le Petit Restaurant
  • The Greek restaurant is The Great Greek

Both are located on Ventura blvd. in Sherman Oaks, CA.
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I think I may have suddenly had a horrible experience at Le Petit as well. Perhaps I should share it with the world. :p
 
I don't mind too much if a restaurant (or just about any business) makes a mistake. As long as it's not a pattern. However, if and when they do, it's the way the handle it that makes all the difference. Do they acknowledge that they goofed and work to re-earn your trust and respect or is this just an day at the office for them.

The ones that handle it right get my repeat business and recommendation.. those that don't won't see me, my money, or recommendation.

Switching this to the positive. (If I may - Surely: I will delete if you think this is off topic.) Last year my wife's work meant she had to spend a couple of nights in Vancouver, at the Fairmont Pacific Rim. It's a fancy-shmancy place ... When she checked in she was told the room was not yet ready, even though it should have been. Someone from the desk walked us over to the bar and told us to please make ourselves comfortable and that drinks were on the house. OK.. that's nice. After 10 or 15 minutes someone from the desk came over, told us that our room was ready... well, that actually they had upgraded us because the room we had booked was not yet ready. Did we mind?

No, we didn't!

So they screwed up on the room... they more than made it right. I screw up, so I don't expect others to be perfect. But I do expect them to make it right. As I try to do in my business....
 
There is a diner in Bayonne, NJ on Broadway near the Bayonne Bridge that has THE MOST horrible waitress. My Mom and I went there for lunch. We ordered and when the food was served the waitress poured half of my chocolate milkshake and DRANK it. Then she ate a handful of my Mother's fries off her plate. Needless to say we walked out and told the manager what happened and we refused to pay. He called the waitress over to ask her what happened and she had a "choclate milkshake" mustashe dried on her upper lip and she was STILL licking the salt off her hand that she got when she ate a handful of my Mom's fries. The manager gave us a coupon to come back and have the next meal completely paid by the diner. We NEVER went back!
 
I think you're going to end up on some TV show. That had to be a joke.

'Bmac said:
There is a diner in Bayonne, NJ on Broadway near the Bayonne Bridge that has THE MOST horrible waitress. My Mom and I went there for lunch. We ordered and when the food was served the waitress poured half of my chocolate milkshake and DRANK it. Then she ate a handful of my Mother's fries off her plate. Needless to say we walked out and told the manager what happened and we refused to pay. He called the waitress over to ask her what happened and she had a "choclate milkshake" mustashe dried on her upper lip and she was STILL licking the salt off her hand that she got when she ate a handful of my Mom's fries. The manager gave us a coupon to come back and have the next meal completely paid by the diner. We NEVER went back!
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rdowns said:
Haven't posted this in a while. :D

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