I have a friend who works at a local restaurant in town. He got the job about a year ago and has since grown really tired of its repetitiveness.

One day he decided to deep fry some insects that he found in the kitchen (flies and etc) to put into the mix of deep friend shrip.

BLECH.

I will never ever eat in that restaurant.

 

can't remember the last restaurant horror story, but in the Seasonal/Plant section of the Home Depot a big black harry rat ran to my toes and started chewing on it !!

so watch out the next time you're near those wooden crates on the floor in the plant section of Home Depot.. you could be unsuspecting like me, but have open toe shoes on ? Yikes !!!

-simon2000

 

Well, my first job was at an Italian restaurant. A guy came up to me holding his bowl of ceaser salad.

Me: "Is their a problem sir?"
Guy: "May I speak to a manager?"
Me: "We're really busy right now, is there something I can help you with?"
Guy: (shoves the bowl in my face) "Look!"
Me: "Um...."
Guy: "Yea! thats right! I want to speak to a manager now!"

Needless to say, there was HALF a cockroach in his salad. Where did the other HALF go??!?!?

 

mindcore had a really great one about 2 months ago...

I don't have any horror stories except that once, at Red Lobster, my calamari wasn't totally cooked

 

Channel 2 news here in LA did an expose a few years ago on how bad some restaurants are in the area. They showed some pretty dirty kitchens, and even showed a guy picking his nose and handling food.

 

one time at this Chinese restaurant in Oakland Chinatow, we were eating this plate of vegetables and found a bunch of maggots (or other insect larvae) all mixed in. It was gross. So we told the manager and he replaced it and served us a newly cooked dish of the same stuff. However, this plate had little insect larvae in it too. And in both plates, it wasn't like it was just one, there were a whole bunch just all intermixed in there. Later the manager said they must have had a bad shipment of vegetables. Too bad my dad knew the manager...because no one made a big deal, and I htink they should have.

Another time, when I was still very young, I remember my mom buying a head of lettuce (or cabbage, I don't remember). When she got it home and was cleaning it, she found a small dead frog inside the leaves. That was pretty gross too.

 

Worked in 2 chinese restaurants during my high school years - I'd never order fried rice if that restaurant has dine-in service. There are very few of them that I trust ... I know how they operate - the cheap way that is.

 

We ate at a seafood restaurant in Torremolinos, Spain (Costa del Sol) on Christmas, which is my birthday -- my wife and I and a friend we had met on the trip. I told the waiter it was my birthday and he said he would make up special seafood dinners for us: shrimp, crab, lobster, calamares, scallops, and two kinds of fish -- more food than I can eat. The bill comes and he's charging us for 21 meals -- on Christmas. After I tell him where he can stick it, I tell him we will pay for three of the most expensive meals on the menu, that's it. He calls over the manager and they have an animated conversation in Spanish. The waiter says he is going to call the police and I say knock yourself out. We count out the money in pesetas for three meals and walk out. At the door the waiter tells us to go back to our miserable little lives in America. I grab him and shove him up against a wall -- hard. I'm just about to deck him when my wife punches me in the back of the head (it hurt) and we walked out. Down the street a piece of fruit comes flying at us from the direction of the restaurant. I pick it up and throw it back. Then I throw a big rock for good measure. Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday.

 

there was a rumer that in a taco bell in my home town served this lady a 7layer burrito. after she ate it, couple days later, she died. find out that there was a roach inside the burrito that she ate that layed eggs inside her body and it hatched. After that, I try to resist eating at taco bell but I go there anyways because it's sooooo good

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Raptor
[B]We ate at a seafood restaurant in Torremolinos, Spain (Costa del Sol) on Christmas, which is my birthday -- my wife and I and a friend we had met on the trip.