15x pure horror – horrific restaurant experiences

A sandwich or an eight-course dinner, it doesn’t matter: the restaurant should be neat and clean. And some restaurant owners and chefs make an enormous mess of things. These people saw horrific things in restaurants. Where are the food safety authorities?

Before people take to the barricades for the Dutch hospitality industry: fortunately, things often go very well. And if you have a complaint, it’s better to report it immediately at the restaurant than to whine about it online afterward. But these experiences from America are so bizarre that no friendly complaint or diplomatic feedback can help anymore. If this happens to you, get out of there; there are plenty of restaurants that do have their act together!

Cooling down nicely

‘My mother went to the bathroom in a Chinese restaurant. And saw how the cooked vegetables were being cooled down… in the toilet bowl.’

Smack!

‘I’ve seen a lot of disgusting things. But the worst was a manager slapping a student employee in the face. Because she hadn’t prepared my order correctly. Well: she had forgotten to tell the kitchen not to put any toppings on my hamburger. I left a big tip for her, and I never went back to that restaurant.’

Horror

‘I’ve seen what’s behind the stove in a restaurant. Horror in every way: spoiled meat, vegetables, mold, dead animals, insects and black grease. I still get chills when I think about it. And I can’t find the right words to describe the stench coming from it.’

Runny nose

‘Fast-food restaurant. One of the employees wiped her runny nose on her glove and then continued making the order. I left.’

Little creatures everywhere

‘Does this count? Our school cafeteria was crawling with cockroaches. I don’t know whether they were in the food, but when I think back on it, I understand that it wasn’t very hygienic at all.’

Congratulations!

‘Heard this from a friend: she ordered food and the waitress said: congratulations, when are you due? She wasn’t pregnant.’

Warm sandwich

‘Having dinner at an Italian restaurant with my parents. The waitress brings drinks to our table, holding them in her hands, and a basket of bread, which she clamps under her armpit.’

Sorry, I dropped it

‘The woman who brought us our food put the last plate down in front of my father. A piece of his fish fell from the plate onto the table. She picked it up, put it back on his plate and said: sorry, I dropped the fish. And she walked away. We didn’t say anything, but we should have.’

Another table?

‘My husband and I were dining at a fancy restaurant with four friends. A drunk man at the table behind us vomited all over the table. The waitress asked whether we might want to move to another spot. Let me think… yes! Please!’

Can’t reach it

‘I saw the manager of a McDonald’s standing on the counter, with his shoes on, so he could clean the soda fountain.’

Well-groomed appearance

‘A few years ago, at our favorite breakfast spot, we suddenly heard a strange sound. A strange woman was clipping her nails at a table behind us. And after a while, instead of fresh coffee, we smelled nail polish. Horrible! And the people working there have to clean that up.’

Good eye

‘An elderly man was sitting at the table next to me. He took out his glass eye and cleaned it with a little spit.’

Protein

‘Live maggots in my quiche! I looked at my food and then realized that the top was moving. There goes my appetite!’

Pizza funghi

‘The worst thing I’ve ever seen? I once ate pizza somewhere with moldy salami on it. I got food poisoning and never went back.’

A little ball for the neighbors

‘My husband and I went out for dinner with our three-year-old son. To keep him occupied while we waited, we brought some toys for him. He happily played with his tub of Play Doh, making little balls out of it. The people at the table next to us thought he was so cute! He walked over to their table with a ball of clay and gave it to the man. The man knew what it was, and before we could say anything, he put the ball of clay in his mouth and swallowed it.’

Also read:

• The most bizarre hospitality experiences
• It can get even crazier: staff tell us about even stranger orders
• 10x when the chef is arrogant but the food is lousy

Source: BoredPanda