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Original poster

wibu to vociferously complain about this restaurant until I got a decent meal?

35 replies

RattyRoland · 07/02/2013 21:58

A restaurant I regularly frequent gave appalling service today, so I complained and threw their rubbish food at the wall. To begin with they were slow serving. Then I was given cheese on toast with a cheddar that was too mature for my delicate palate. Next thing I was given vegetables that had been oversteamed - this was a major turning point, I had to inspect each carrot and pea and if it wasn't up to par I tossed it from my tray.

It took several loud complaints and plate banging to get some rice pudding, which skivy that crazy woman forgot to put my raisins in Shock so I flung the spoon at the wall and the bowl at the passing car, who duly ate it all no standards

Wibu to have complained so much and should the man do the catering tomorrow?

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Original poster
RattyRoland · 07/02/2013 21:59

Passing cat not car, crazy lady...

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nickelbabe · 07/02/2013 22:00

are you a toddler at home? Grin

it's funny.

ywnbu if so

TiggerWearsATriteSmile · 07/02/2013 22:01

I'd love to be my toddler too.....

I intend to repay them when I am 98 and senile

hurricanewyn · 07/02/2013 22:04

The man should definitely cater tomorrow.
The woman should be sent to bed in disgrace to eat chocolate & read books to learn the error of her ways.

Boomerwang · 07/02/2013 22:05

Great another one of these threads

maddiemostmerry · 07/02/2013 22:05

Are you Giles Coren?

Original poster
RattyRoland · 07/02/2013 22:07

I agree the woman should go to bed disgrace, I will dine with the man tomorrow.

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Booyhoo · 07/02/2013 22:09
Grin

boomer one of which threads?

McNewPants2013 · 07/02/2013 22:10

OP i think you need to calm down a bit, you know the chef will cook again for you sometime soon.

Original poster
RattyRoland · 07/02/2013 22:11

Maddie, how did you guess?

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FeckOffCup · 07/02/2013 22:22

YANBU at all, in fact the next time your meal is not up to standard you should show your displeasure by chewing up a mouthful of it and then sneezing all over the cook, that'll show 'em.

RiseAndWhine · 07/02/2013 22:22

OP I feel your pain, the dumb waitress at my fave restaurant didn't give me matching cutlery this evening. She then had the audacity to be surprised at my outrage.

I pity the woman. She needs guidance and some lessons in how to serve a decent meal. And the silly old sow forgot to give me ketchup.

I despair of his country, I really do.

MyDarlingClementine · 07/02/2013 22:25

yadnbu

However, you do sound a little entitled.

SirBoobAlot · 07/02/2013 22:30

Of course not. Though surely you should have added in a bit of shrieking about it not being fair and wanting to go to a different restaurant NOW to get your disapproval across more forcefully?

NorksAreMessy · 07/02/2013 22:30

Shocking that a PFB has to endure such shoddy parenting in this day and age.
I recommend a night-long tantrum with some strategic vomiting and a poonami at about 3am.

Insist that you will only drink breast milk from a BLUE cup and that only CUTTED UP pears are acceptable.

Up your game, woman!

NorksAreMessy · 07/02/2013 22:30

Oooh, and none of your DOMESTIC breast milk, insist on IMPORTED.

From Papua New Guinea

Egusta · 07/02/2013 22:33

'poonami'

dying with [exhausted, empathic laughter]

Egusta · 07/02/2013 22:35

*empathetic, ffs.
[gets coat]

NorksAreMessy · 07/02/2013 22:37

Bedtime egusta :)
Night night

RandallPinkFloyd · 07/02/2013 22:39

I feel your pain OP, you just can't get the service these days.

My serf broke my cheese toasty today. Broke it right in front of me! Then started blowing on the molten hot lava bubbling away inside it.

I told her several times that it was broken and therefore unacceptable to my well seasoned 18mo palate but she just looked at me with a bemused expression.

Just because she'd paid some other serf behind a counter to cook it for me does not mean I should have to lower my standards. Broken food my arse.

nickelbabe · 07/02/2013 22:40

my main cgef (the one who makes my milk) had the cheek to leave this evening for gours.

and when I started crying, she didn't come back for a whole 10 minutes! I could have died in that time.
the man underchef kept trying to fob me off with bloody water and roasted dinner!

I needed to sleep and he gives me roasted sodding dinner!

nickelbabe · 07/02/2013 22:42

chef obviously

nickelbabe · 07/02/2013 22:42

frigging hours!

justmuddlingalong · 07/02/2013 22:43

Order weetabix for breakfast-and sneeze!

Pandemoniaa · 07/02/2013 23:56

I don't know how they get away with this appalling service, day in, day out. Only last week I was served the same meal as the night before. I'd liked it very much but how can I keep the staff on their toes if I don't act inconsistently? So rather than eat it I went bright red in the face and threw my spoon right across the room. I would have thrown the bowl too but I didn't like the look I got from the waitress. She then had the cheek to ignore me and it was only by sheer luck that my grandmother arrived at this point. So I was able to shout "Nanny, Nanny. Nanny! Mummy is NORTY! I NOT LIKE this dinner! Take it AWAY!!!!". Some help she was. Blasted woman just laughed and sided with the waitress.