re: Worst restaurant experience you've ever had?

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Apparently, that's not even worthy of a comped drink in Germany

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There's no comped anything in Germany. You don't even get to use the bathroom for free in some places. Asking a waiter for extra napkins is like asking if his grandfather wore a brown shirt in the war.

International worst experience: movie theater restaurant in Belgium. This theater has a pretty decent sit down restaurant attached, with a 30 Euro or so fixed price menu. You get a three course dinner, your movie ticket, and a beer to enjoy during the movie's intermission.

Problem is, restaurants in small town Europe just don't believe in hiring wait staff, I guess bc they don't want to pay them. As a side note, they also don't believe in using trays, so meals are brought out one at a time. So this restaurant has ONE waiter, who is slammed with a full house of 35+ tables at 9 pm, and the last show of the night starts at 10. It takes us 70 minutes to cash out bc everyone else is doing the same. Would have just put our $ on the table and left, but the dude had to give us or movie ticket vouchers.

From then on, movie nights in Belgium were preceded by a McD's stop.