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What's the best way to address bad service at a restaurant?

Posted on 11/29/22 at 3:40 pm
Posted by Flashback
reading the chicken bones
Member since Apr 2008
8342 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 3:40 pm
A) complain to management

B) piss on the bathroom floor instead of the urinal
Posted by tigeralum06
Member since Oct 2007
2789 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 3:41 pm to
Cross it off my list for eternity.
Posted by Galactic Inquisitor
An Incredibly Distant Star
Member since Dec 2013
15292 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 3:41 pm to
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What's the best way to address bad service at a restaurant?


Tip accordingly and remember it the next time you decide to eat out.

Boru is possibly the only restaurant I've marked completely off my list because of poor service. The first time, I wrote it off as a bad day for the staff. The second time, I wrote off Boru.

ETA - I forgot about the Popeyes on Jones Creek Road. Wrote them off in the late 90s and never looking back.
This post was edited on 11/29/22 at 3:46 pm
Posted by HempHead
Big Sky Country
Member since Mar 2011
55518 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 3:41 pm to
Mark it as a loss and deal with it.
Posted by calcotron
Member since Nov 2007
8314 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 3:41 pm to
Your lazy waitress isn't the one who has to clean the bathroom floor.
Posted by Breauxsif
Member since May 2012
22290 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 3:41 pm to
Tell us more, what happened?
Posted by TigersSEC2010
Warren, Michigan
Member since Jan 2010
37373 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 3:42 pm to
Don't return.
Posted by dbeck
Member since Nov 2014
29453 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 3:43 pm to
Wait in the parking lot for their shift to end and then beat the christ out of them.
Posted by TheFonz
Somewhere in Louisiana
Member since Jul 2016
20474 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 3:43 pm to
Leave a penny tip.
Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
Member since Dec 2010
53123 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 3:43 pm to
You can tell who’s never worked at a restaurant before by who complains in these threads

Show a little respect
Posted by Galactic Inquisitor
An Incredibly Distant Star
Member since Dec 2013
15292 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 3:45 pm to
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B) piss on the bathroom floor instead of the urinal


Real "alphas" never pee in the urinal.
Posted by HoboDickCheese
The overpass
Member since Sep 2020
9379 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 3:45 pm to
Posted by Clyde Tipton
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2007
38777 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 3:45 pm to
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What's the best way to address bad service at a restaurant?


Start refilling my own beer until they get the hint.
Posted by ShermanTxTiger
Broussard, La
Member since Oct 2007
10906 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 3:45 pm to
I pay a 15% tip and write a short note. I tell them the service was bad but I always leave a minimum tip. "You get the minimum based on your performance".

I figure the bad waiters won't care but the coachable ones will hopefully get the message. Giving No tip just allows them to dismiss me as an ahole (which I am).
Posted by Ghost of Colby
Alberta, overlooking B.C.
Member since Jan 2009
11308 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 3:46 pm to
Most restaurant owners and managers appreciate any type of civil and helpful feedback.

They can’t address problems unless they are made aware of them. Unfortunately, most complaints they hear are from the usual suspects, and are rarely legitimate.
This post was edited on 11/29/22 at 3:47 pm
Posted by JetsetNuggs
Member since Jun 2014
13986 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 3:46 pm to
Just eat it (literally and figuratively) without running the server down, leave, and decide to go back or not at a later date
Posted by Frac the world
The Centennial State
Member since Oct 2014
16936 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 3:47 pm to
Put it in the manager’s arse
Posted by sleepytime
Member since Feb 2014
3589 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 3:47 pm to
That depends on how good the food is. People put up with an awful lot of BS at Popeyes because the chicken is so dang good.
Posted by Eric Nies Grind Time
Atlanta GA - ITP
Member since Sep 2012
24937 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 3:47 pm to
If the food is really good I will put up with the bad service. If it's not, I will just never go back.
Posted by Wabbit7
Member since Aug 2018
1139 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 3:48 pm to
Flip the table and fight the manager
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