Lightmage142 · 26-30, M
Aw man sorry to hear that! Yeah it’s always frustrating when that happens! I would have asked them just to reduce the price at that point. Hope your day is getting better! Now you gotta one up them and make your own burger that is ten times better! Anyways have a great night! Stay safe!
Lightmage142 · 26-30, M
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@cherokeepatti Exactly, I cooked with many like that, sloppy food, sloppy plating, this, that, etc.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@NativePortlander1970 sad they don’t give a crap about the way they cook or the presentation. It’s like they are getting paid anyway.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
I once attended a large, semi-formal dinner with somewhere around 100 guests.
The venue tried silver service (basically individual serving). Fine in a major town-centre restaurant designed and staffed to operate that way, but not in a modestly-sized rural hotel. The waiters did their best but it was hopeless. I think you need at least two to each table of six or eight for silver service, and all tables staffed at once, but they could not provide that level.
The management apologised, reduced the bill a lot, and promised better if the organisation returned the following year (but probably accepted it might not). In fact it did go back, with around the same number of diners, and this time the service was very good.
The quality of the food was not in question. That was high for both meals, but when you are still waiting for vegetables to accompany the portion of meat now nearly cold, whole other diners are about ready for their dessert, it spoils the evening for you.
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The leat-value I've had, apart from something from the Mactuckyburgercostalotta outfits on the motorways, was in a rural pub whose previous owners (I think it was a free house) had run it really well.
The new owners, in business some months later than hoped, had made the place about as soul-less as the "M...lotta" motorway services caffs. It seemed no longer a road-side "local" catering for passing trade too: no longer a pool table, skittle-alley (as far as I could tell), dart-board, etc. There were still bits of unfinished work about but at least they had renewed the decrepit toilets. They had only one cask ale on, but that was kept and served well.
Steak-&-ale pie, chips and veg. Can't go wrong. Yes you can.
The pie was quite good but in a ramikin the size of a tea-mug. The chips were spindly, thin things like those motorway-services apologies for chips, and served not on the warm plate but in a stainless-steel teaspoon-drainer so they cooled rapidly. I could not identify the one vegetable: the single scoop of pale-orange mash with little flavour, could have been carrot or parsnip.
Dessert: Tiramisu? Can't go wrong - they'd only buy catering-slabs and cut them into portions. Indeed, they had, and it was quite tasty.... but served on a piece of roofing-slate! Why?
The till receipt bore the company name: www.poshpub.co. Says it all....
Some months later it closed again. It re-opened months on again under new ownership, with a big bright web-site and new name (I wish they'd not do that); but before I could sample it, it too closed rather unexpectedly. Then Covid hit.
It was "For Sale" for very long time, the sale-sign came down but there was no sign of life there for many months; but something's happening there again. I hope the brewery vans I saw there recently were delivering, not simply recovering equipment. I await with interest.....
The venue tried silver service (basically individual serving). Fine in a major town-centre restaurant designed and staffed to operate that way, but not in a modestly-sized rural hotel. The waiters did their best but it was hopeless. I think you need at least two to each table of six or eight for silver service, and all tables staffed at once, but they could not provide that level.
The management apologised, reduced the bill a lot, and promised better if the organisation returned the following year (but probably accepted it might not). In fact it did go back, with around the same number of diners, and this time the service was very good.
The quality of the food was not in question. That was high for both meals, but when you are still waiting for vegetables to accompany the portion of meat now nearly cold, whole other diners are about ready for their dessert, it spoils the evening for you.
.......
The leat-value I've had, apart from something from the Mactuckyburgercostalotta outfits on the motorways, was in a rural pub whose previous owners (I think it was a free house) had run it really well.
The new owners, in business some months later than hoped, had made the place about as soul-less as the "M...lotta" motorway services caffs. It seemed no longer a road-side "local" catering for passing trade too: no longer a pool table, skittle-alley (as far as I could tell), dart-board, etc. There were still bits of unfinished work about but at least they had renewed the decrepit toilets. They had only one cask ale on, but that was kept and served well.
Steak-&-ale pie, chips and veg. Can't go wrong. Yes you can.
The pie was quite good but in a ramikin the size of a tea-mug. The chips were spindly, thin things like those motorway-services apologies for chips, and served not on the warm plate but in a stainless-steel teaspoon-drainer so they cooled rapidly. I could not identify the one vegetable: the single scoop of pale-orange mash with little flavour, could have been carrot or parsnip.
Dessert: Tiramisu? Can't go wrong - they'd only buy catering-slabs and cut them into portions. Indeed, they had, and it was quite tasty.... but served on a piece of roofing-slate! Why?
The till receipt bore the company name: www.poshpub.co. Says it all....
Some months later it closed again. It re-opened months on again under new ownership, with a big bright web-site and new name (I wish they'd not do that); but before I could sample it, it too closed rather unexpectedly. Then Covid hit.
It was "For Sale" for very long time, the sale-sign came down but there was no sign of life there for many months; but something's happening there again. I hope the brewery vans I saw there recently were delivering, not simply recovering equipment. I await with interest.....
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
This is terrible business. I know from reading an article posted on a medical site a few days that some people shouldn’t be consuming undercooked meat…if you are over 65 you don’t have the same defenses as you did when you are younger and it could make you sick enough to be hospitalized. Ground beef is a lot worse than steak because it has dozens or hundreds of different cow meat mixed all together. I don’t blame you for speaking up. They could get sued if you got sick. Someone I know had a girlfriend that lived in Tiajuna and bought chicken at a Walmart store there. She ended up having a miscarriage before it had some type of germ in it that made others sick as well. They paid for her medical & hospital care.
twiigss · M
There's a place we were eating at and the quality just went to nothing. So we stopped going and recently went again. One person got a hair in their food. I don't think we're gonna go back ever again now.
Their meal was comped and then an extra 10% off on the bill was added.
Their meal was comped and then an extra 10% off on the bill was added.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@twiigss yeah I think the covid era so many were on unemployment that they didn’t want to go back to work or they took jobs that paid more and the businesses are scraping for decent cooks these days. I saw that at a local IHOP that we used to like going to. I won’t go back again after the last time. I walked out with no food being brought to me after the others got their food. The waiter told me that they were out of salad. But as I was sitting in the car the boy overheard the waiter and the cook having a heated discussion and the cook asked him why he lied to me. Apparently they did have salad. He looked like a dippy flake anyway.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@twiigss I don’t eat at fast food restaurants at all and very picky about others. I do like a bowl of coconut chicken soup. Last time someone got takeout at one they had put sour soup in the bag instead of coconut chicken soup.. It was so bad that hogs wouldn’t have eaten it. So no more carry outs and it was several miles back there so I didn’t ask for another one.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
Nice Rant. I like my meat well donish so I get it. Clearly Burger Mk 2 was the chefs revenge. To teach you a lesson. Now this is a burger joint. Maybe its a new cook. Maybe he just found out the dishwasher is porking his missus. These things happen.. And you shouldnt lose a good eating hole because of one incident. Maybe a casual enquiry as you order next time to enquire are the cooks welfare and state of mind, before you order??😷
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@Musicman Just remember to be gentle. Service jobs are hard enough and mistakes happen. In the long run it will serve you better to be remembered as the regular customer who cared enough to find out what went wrong, rather than raise a stink..😷
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4meAndyou · F
Sorry. I know some people feel sick if they see blood on their meat. I grew up in a household with those dry as a hockey puck burgers, and didn't know the difference till I grew up.
and did you like the second burger?
@Musicman and did you tip 20%?