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Frick you Joe's Crab Shack (kinda long)

Posted on 2/6/11 at 7:41 pm
Posted by JBM210
Member since Dec 2010
3192 posts
Posted on 2/6/11 at 7:41 pm
Was drug to the one in Baton Rouge Friday night for my girlfriend's best friends daughter birthday. By far the worst meal experience of my life. Got there at 6:45. Table of 13. Three retirees,four kids ranging from 15 to 19. Rest middle aged. Place was cold as could be due to all the windows(although they had shades that several of the tables decided to draw down to help the temperature). I ordered someonion strings for an appetizer. Everybody else at the table were too busy running their mouths to hear the waitress ask for starters. Twenty minutes passes and my strings come. Waitress finally takes orders for entrees. My strings dissappear because everybody is starving by now. About this time some servers begin dragging tables around right behind us, trying to fit a table of 5 together. This table begins conversation loud enough for people in the parking lot to hear. Thirty minutes later we still haven't received entrees. I turn around and look through the resturant and see our waitress dancing on the "dance floor" along with some of her co-workers. This expalains why my Panko Shrimp with New Cheesy potatoes arrives at my table cold. By this time everyone is griping. My girlfriend ordered Mahi-Mahi and got Salmon instead. Everyone begins eating. I look up and see one of the 18yr old girls at the table, eating her Grilled Chicken Ceasar salad with damn fingers! Not just a bite, but like half the damn thing. A few minutes later, I see the 16 yr old birthday girl picking the corn kernals off of the cob with her fingers! Oh yeah--the cheesy new potatoes that I had were just new potatoes quartered with cheddar soup poured over them. Thankfully the grandma brought a homeade red velvet cake. I had 2pieces. Two hours and fifteen minutes later I was out of there. Never, ever, ever go back.
Posted by Walt OReilly
Poplarville, MS
Member since Oct 2005
124694 posts
Posted on 2/6/11 at 7:48 pm to
should never have gone there to begin with
Posted by offshoreangler
713, Texas
Member since Jun 2008
22526 posts
Posted on 2/6/11 at 7:50 pm to
This thread will bring the lulz
Posted by whitelightin18
District of Columbia
Member since Nov 2007
767 posts
Posted on 2/6/11 at 7:51 pm to
Let me guess. You're from either Livingston or Ascension parish...
Posted by fillmoregandt
OTM
Member since Nov 2009
14368 posts
Posted on 2/6/11 at 7:52 pm to
quote:

should never have gone there to begin with
Posted by Lexo
LaPlace
Member since May 2008
3436 posts
Posted on 2/6/11 at 7:52 pm to
I hate going to a restaurant with a large party. I've been with 8 that wasn't too bad, but, was all adults who didn't insist on breaking down check to the 13th percentage point.
Posted by tigerfoot
Alexandria
Member since Sep 2006
60617 posts
Posted on 2/6/11 at 8:02 pm to
quote:

I look up and see one of the 18yr old girls at the table, eating her Grilled Chicken Ceasar salad with damn fingers! Not just a bite, but like half the damn thing. A few minutes later, I see the 16 yr old birthday girl picking the corn kernals off of the cob with her fingers!



Looks like you may have picked too high end of a place.

I side with Crab Shack. I acknowledge their awfulness(one of the chains that is truly deserving of their horrible reputation.) but shite, y'all were eating without utensils
Posted by Afreaux
Conway Bayou
Member since Aug 2007
47019 posts
Posted on 2/6/11 at 8:04 pm to
quote:

should never have gone there to begin with
Posted by notiger1997
Metairie
Member since May 2009
61265 posts
Posted on 2/6/11 at 8:06 pm to
Just go to a real place next time.
Posted by bobbyleewilliams
Tigertown
Member since Feb 2010
8413 posts
Posted on 2/6/11 at 8:12 pm to
Just because you went through a terrible experience dining doesn't mean you have to
take it out on us!
Posted by Dorothy
Munchkinland
Member since Oct 2008
18154 posts
Posted on 2/6/11 at 8:33 pm to
So about 1/2 of your bad experience seems to be Joe's fault, and about 1/2 was the fault of members of your party, unless the waitress never brought silverware to your young companions.

Moral of the story:
1. Don't go to places like Joe's Crab Shack expecting quality food & service, especially with a large crowd. Joe's is overpriced for what you get, IMO.
2. Don't go out to eat with people who don't know how to eat in public unless you just want to be entertained by watching them.

Look at it this way, at least you didn't go someplace really nice where the lack of table manners would have been more noticeable.
This post was edited on 2/6/11 at 8:36 pm
Posted by SitchProdigy
Member since Jan 2010
2530 posts
Posted on 2/6/11 at 8:54 pm to
TL;DR
Posted by Lithium
Member since Dec 2004
63966 posts
Posted on 2/6/11 at 8:55 pm to
It;s a chain like McDonald's. WTF did you expect the Redfish Grill?
Posted by charlied
Lafayette
Member since Dec 2007
3822 posts
Posted on 2/6/11 at 8:57 pm to
Sounds like the patrons were a perfect match for the place. Had to be one step up from their norm,Golden Corral.Ashame that Sears Charm School didn't take on the teens..........
This post was edited on 2/6/11 at 9:33 pm
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
129067 posts
Posted on 2/6/11 at 9:11 pm to
This thread won't go like you planned.
Posted by TigerMyth36
River Ridge
Member since Nov 2005
40948 posts
Posted on 2/6/11 at 9:38 pm to
Went one time and the boiled crabs I ordered were almost hollow. I mean next to NO crab meat.

I couldn't complain because some friends brought me there for dinner and they were paying.

Easily one of the worst seafood dinners in my life.
This post was edited on 2/6/11 at 9:55 pm
Posted by andouille
A table near a waiter.
Member since Dec 2004
11376 posts
Posted on 2/6/11 at 10:06 pm to
I have to sympathize, somewhat. My only experience was with a group and it was not my choice. JCS forever earned the title of worst restaurant in BR.

The deal with the wait staff setting aside hot trays of food to sing and dance is positively the dumbest thing I've ever seen in a restaurant. I got up and walked over, saw it was our order, picked up the tray and brought it to the table. Naturally this upset the applecart and the manager came over to speak to me. I had to laugh in his face.

Fine dining axiom #37
Females under the age of 30 do not get to chose the restaurant unless the are paying, including the bar bill.
Posted by robot55
Member since Dec 2008
924 posts
Posted on 2/6/11 at 10:30 pm to
ive never been.

ive heard from many its god awwful.

somehow, i want to go there.
Posted by TigerMyth36
River Ridge
Member since Nov 2005
40948 posts
Posted on 2/6/11 at 10:34 pm to
If you go be sure to ask them their secret to meatless crabs.
Posted by Degas
2187645493 posts
Member since Jul 2010
11936 posts
Posted on 2/6/11 at 10:53 pm to
quote:

My strings dissappear because everybody is starving by now.
Those deep fried onion strings? Aren't you the same guy who posts in the PUTTADAFORKDOWN thread trying to get below 210 lbs?
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