Restaurant/bar horror stories

So, we're eating KFC at home one night and my wife bites down on something hard. Spits it out and it's a small, round piece of metal. We drove back to the place and the manager says "Oh yeah, that's one of the clips that hold the plastic bags shut. They get in there sometimes". No money back, no apology, nothing. Amazing.

 

I'm sitting in a restaurant with two friends. One of my buddies is eating the standard sandwich/chips/pickle out of a basket, when he pulls out of his chips pile one lens for a pair of glasses.

We were simultaneously disgusted and laughing our asses off.

No less than 20 seconds after our discovery, a cook from the back walks into the dining area -- with his eyeglass frames missing one lens. He spots my friend holding the lens, comes over, and with a hearty laugh declares, "Oh, that's where that went!" We were speechless.

They didn't offer us anything off the meal. We never went back.

Once, while eating at a Friendly's in New Jersey, I spotted a large rat in the foyer of the restaurant, then immediately went home and called the Department of Health.

 

This thread needs a "Not Safe For Right Before Lunch" warning in the title.

 

Once saw a Ruby Tuesday's (Jackson, Miss.) cook washing his hair in the bathroom sink. I told the manager, and he was appologetic.

 

I had a bug run out of my salad at Houston's in Manhattan Beach once. I caught it in the napkin and quietly had a conversation with the server, trying to be somewhat discreet.

The waiter exclaims, "Oh my God, there was a bug in your salad?!? Sir, I'm so sorry!" He overreacts enough to make Dick York proud. I got a few freebies outta that one.

 

I was at a very high-end restaurant in Cancun several years ago. No, really, there is a very high-end restaurant in Cancun. This was a four- or five-star level place. Very, very nice. it sat out on the water on the "inland" side of the hotel strip. Well, after polishing off a great meal my wife and I and our friends were having a couple of post-dinner drinks when I glanced out the window and saw one of the cooks walk out of the kitchen and down to the water where he bent down and washed his hands.

 

It's Mexico. The fact that he bothered to do that much surely made him the cleanest local there. *Rimshot*

 

A coworker spotted an eyelash in her soup a few months ago. Could have been a nose hair. I saw that freaky rainbow shit on a side of roast beef one time at Subway. Very unpleasant.

 

Standing in line at a Ryan's Steakhouse at the buffet, I saw a 12-year-old boy sneeze into the mashed potatoes. He didn't do it on purpose.
He looked at me, grinned and headed to his seat.

I told one of the kitchen workers and they changed out the pans PDQ.
Still, I'm sure that's not worst bufffet story on record.
I shudder to think about the crap I've unintentionally stuffed down gullet at a buffet.

 

That freaky rainbow shit just comes on precooked hunks of roast beef and corned beet.

It won't hurt you. Promise.

 

I've had free shots all the time.... some alcohol, some to clear up minor ... issues.. thanks for askin...

How many of the free shots did your wife let you have, Red?

 

BigRed -- that is nasty, but it is my understanding that the shot girls usually pay management for the tray of shots in advance. So if she had to use the restroom, she probably felt that it was safer than leaving it outside or even with the bartender (who loses tips to the shot girls).