Restaurant/bar horror stories

I had a friend who was a pizza delivery driver. One regular customer, a cranky old hag, was particularly bitchy about the peppers that come with the pizza. So after dealing with her poor attitude one too many times, said friend takes her peppers out of the jar, goes behind the pizza shack, places some peppers on the ground and unleashes a stream of his own special seasoning on them. He put those peppers in the pizza box and delivered them to the lady. He never heard any complaints so she must've enjoyed them.

 

I went to bite into a roast beef po-boy once and bit into something hard. Thought it might be some bizarre tomato seed anomoly or something, but I pulled it out and it was a stub of a grease pencil. Took it up to the counter and the girl says, "Gee, we wondered where that thing went." Got my money back and left. Never ate at that place again, although I did (and do) eat at the original joint that spawned that place. Bad job of local expansion there. Quality control much better at the original, and it's the best damn roast beef po-boy I've ever had.

 

Two horror stories, non-restaurant division:

1) I'm in the cafeteria at work getting some dinner and I spot a mouse (running around).. keep in mind the cafeteria and the newsroom are on the same floor.

2) This was about 10-15 years ago at work around the holidays. Someone in the composing room (pre-press) had brought in one of those popcorn tins that has the different flavors of popcorn. The thing must've been about half empty when myself and a couple of others from the newsroom had gone down to composing to either check in negatives (or just passing by on our way out the building) and were eating from it when one of the guys from the newsroom takes his hand straight from scratching an itch inside the back of his pants and puts it right into the popcorn tin. Nobody else ate from the tin after that.

 

I think deep down I wanted to see how bad it would get.

 

Had a friend claim for years he took a dump in a fryer at a Black Eye Pea restaurant. Wasn't there to see him "plop" down. Just sort of took his word for it and never ate there.