What's the worse restaurant you've ever been to?

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The KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN at Jane & Finch, in that plaza across the street from Jane & Finch Mall. These rude people work there and their service is the worst of any fast food place I ever been to. One time I went inside and these 3 black females were talking to each other. They saw me enter and continued talking and joking. I stood there for a full 2 minutes and then said "Is somebody working here?". One of them said "Yes, why you ask?". At that moment my anger started to kick in. I said "Well I'm standing here and nobody attends me". She walks up to me and asks me what I want. I asked for a mixed vegetable salad she said "We don't sell em' anymore". I asked for a macaroni salad and it's literally frozen stiff, I mean blocks of ice. I asked for some chicken and they gave me this gross raw chicken, waaay undercooked. These idiots don't bother to take their salads out of the freezer and leave them thaw a little, also you won't get service until you call them to the cashier desk, they are always talking and horseplaying in the back room. I have gotten bad service 4 times in this dump, the orders take LONG time to come out, I wonder how that franchise survives, I'm amazed people have not reported this KFC to head office for their incompetence.

[Montecore]

One time I went inside and these 3 black females were talking to each other. I have gotten bad service 4 times in this dump,

yet you keep going back .....

[Vishalca]

The worst restaurant I have ever been to is Smitty's Red Deer. We were there for breakfast, and not only did the waitress mess up our order completely, she did it twice! Amazing how that could happen.

[me!]

it was at some chinese dim sum place where the waitress was going to serve us some mango pudding from a big tray, and it wouldn't slide off the tray, so she was going to use the pen perched on her ear to slide it off.

ah gross, ewe.

[batcave]

McDonald's is picking up the trend towards healthy eating with salads and stuff. Don't know if it's real or marketing so far, but as public opinion goes, so will go their menus.

Salads are a step in the right direction for McDs, however, I'm sure salad sales are a very small fraction of their income. I find they are more hype and marketing than anything else.

For example, on their website under corporate news releases, http://mcdonalds.ca/en/news/canadian.aspx?Page=5 one can find the following news relase:

Sept 4, 2002 - McDonald's Canada Announces Commitment to Reduce Trans Fatty Acids/Saturated Fats in Its Cooking Oil,

"September 3, 2002 (Toronto, ON) – McDonald's Canada today announced a commitment to reduce trans fatty acids (TFAs) and saturated fats with the introduction of enhanced vegetable cooking oil in its restaurants. The announcement was made in conjunction with a similar U.S. announcement also made today. The Canadian company has been working with the U.S. on a similar reduction program and has established an aggressive timeline, with a goal of full implementation in all Canadian restaurants in early 2003. This industry leading step is part of a global TFA reduction plan in all McDonald's restaurants around the world...

While McDs in the US (and around the world?) are eliminating trans and saturated fats, today, an order of large fries in Canada still has 12g of saturated and 2g of trans fats. The saturated means that they are fried in animal (beef?) fat.

I just checked McD's USA site, it's not much better. A serving of large fries has 5g of saturated and 6g of trans fats. I think this has changed over the last few years because fries in the USA used to have 0g of saturated fats. Can anyone confirm this?

[gordholio]

McDonald's is EVIL!!

With all due respect, I think this thread is about real restaurants.

[aquariaguy]

Ah..i went to boston pizza a few times. Now i'm scared!

I think pizza places are pretty dirty. They use their hands and sometimes do cash too.

I'm really scared about complaining BEFORE i get my food, because i don't want to get any "special sauce" or other "special" ingredients. Especially at chinese places, if you ask them to re-cook the food, i'd be freekin scared. I don't think there's a point of asking restaurants to re-cook the foods, because you will asking for naughty stuff done to your food.

[UrbanPoet]

Ah..i went to boston pizza a few times. Now i'm scared!

I think pizza places are pretty dirty. They use their hands and sometimes do cash too.

I'm really scared about complaining BEFORE i get my food, because i don't want to get any "special sauce" or other "special" ingredients. Especially at chinese places, if you ask them to re-cook the food, i'd be freekin scared. I don't think there's a point of asking restaurants to re-cook the foods, because you will asking for naughty stuff done to your food.

1 time... my friend ordered a drink from the food court at china town centre.
The people got the ice by chipping off the frost in the fridge. she looked inside and saw.

[kilarney]

Thats why you shouldn't eat at China Town centre. remember the health inspectors closing that place last year? I'm not saying that you should avoid chinatown, just be careful where you eat.

[henryh]

Thai Palace in Gastown, Vancouver.

More details here from this thread.

The tom yum soup tasted like it came out of an instant mix package. It was also extremely salty and lacking in ingredients.

Also, they didn't bring us an item that we ordered but we were billed for it. When I tried to resolve that, the waiter thought I was lying. He had the nerve to tell me he was sure we had eaten it.

[NLI10D]

i went to salad king with a bunch of friends. ordered what i usually order, (Sea Queen 10+ chillies) anyhow, my order never came, even though I repeatedly ask the server where my food was *at this time i was still calm*. i told my friends to go on ahead and eat since i eat quickly anyhow and always finish before them. they ate slowly but you could only pro-long eating a meal for so long. i was shaking my head when they finished and said that its ok i'll just grab something from somewhere else *at this time i was more than annoyed*. at this point i decided to go out and smoke to calm my nerves and i came back to give my share of the bill because i ordered beer which i got and finished. to everyone's surprise, my meal was in the bill. i turned a couple of shades of red, i went to talk to the server and manager. i would have been well within reason to start screaming but i took the high road and talked to them with a hint of controlled anger in my voice. they told me that it was an oversight, and i told them that me not getting my food is a BIG-HUGE oversight, me being charged for the food that i did not get is wrong. I still go back there to eat, but i dont go to the same server, i ask for a different one.

[Kevin T]

La Terrace - Banquet Hall

I would have enjoyed McDonalds 5x more than what I have at La Terrace.

Service was pretty good though.

[Zephyrus]

That reminds me...the absolute worst food on the planet is Boston Pizza.

Co-signed.

I used to work there so I've seen it first-hand.

[kilarney]

I really dont get the picture about Boston Pizza, whats wrong about it. I know some of the foods are bad. But I need the big picture