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re: What's the #1 turnoff for you that will lead to you not returning to an establishment?

Posted on 12/3/25 at 4:46 pm to
Posted by CSATiger
The Battlefield
Member since Aug 2010
6795 posts
Posted on 12/3/25 at 4:46 pm to
a monkey as a waiter
Posted by FeauxPaw
BRuh
Member since Sep 2015
1083 posts
Posted on 12/3/25 at 5:00 pm to
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Smell. If a place smells like arse, I assume it's dirty and bad things are going down in the kitchen.


Stepped foot in a Chinese restaurant like this I never tried before. Immediately got the whiff of their 200 gallon fish tank at the entrance. Smelled like they never cleaned it and it stunk up the whole restaurant. Turned around with the quickness.
Posted by Jimmyboy
Member since May 2025
1923 posts
Posted on 12/3/25 at 5:13 pm to
If loud/stupid people are also at the establishment. I know it’s not the staffs fault (unless they are the loud stupid ones) but the memory of idiots will keep me from going back
Posted by Spankum
Miss-sippi
Member since Jan 2007
60379 posts
Posted on 12/3/25 at 5:16 pm to
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Overpriced food not worth the scratch



This…
Posted by WheyCheddar
Member since Aug 2024
1058 posts
Posted on 12/3/25 at 5:20 pm to
Anal probing
Posted by Barbellthor
Columbia
Member since Aug 2015
10785 posts
Posted on 12/3/25 at 5:46 pm to
A presence of culcha.
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
138056 posts
Posted on 12/3/25 at 5:59 pm to
Really loud music
Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
Member since May 2012
58875 posts
Posted on 12/3/25 at 7:10 pm to
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If the food is a disappointment. I guess I set my expectations high, but it seems like quality has really gone down in a lot of places
what gets me is when I branch out from my usual places and it’s worse food and more expensive. Makes me want to go to the same 5-10 restaurants for the rest of my life
Posted by Lsudx256
DFW
Member since Mar 2016
3240 posts
Posted on 12/3/25 at 8:52 pm to
I was in an Italian place in NY during a work trip. I ordered their specialty, which was a stuffed shrimp in a red sauce kind of thing. They asked me if I wanted a side of pasta with that. I assumed a side like 4-5oz of pasta in a side dish. The next thing I know this chick rolls out a station that has a huge wheel of Parmesan and scraps it up, starts a fire inside of it and then continues to make a sauce in this wheel. Ends up putting pasta in it and plates it for me. It was $38. Just a freaking scam because no one would expect that for a side.
Posted by Mr Clean
Power I-Formation
Member since Aug 2006
53077 posts
Posted on 12/3/25 at 9:04 pm to
I got irate recently when my food was over 20 minutes late at the drive through.

Had me pull up because it was late. Then he comes out and says the microwave tapped out and they're switching. Says it will be two minutes. 10 minutes later, I blew a fuse.

I didn't yell directly at any employees, but I was doing some shouting in the parking lot. I'm not going back soon.
Posted by AlwysATgr
Member since Apr 2008
20070 posts
Posted on 12/3/25 at 9:07 pm to
Rainbow rockers
Posted by Lou Loomis
A pond. Ponds good for you.
Member since Mar 2025
1044 posts
Posted on 12/3/25 at 9:25 pm to
Many years ago, a sushi/hibachi place hit me with added gratuity for MY FAMILY! It was the 6 of us. My wife, me, and our 4 children, the oldest was probably twelve. I got so pissed! When I asked manager about it she and the others just laughed and say SOWWY IT SAY PAHTY 6. NO WE CAN DO.

I’ve never been back. Screw any place that does that. No problem at all with gratuity added, but not when it’s a FAMILY!
Posted by mmmmmbeeer
ATL
Member since Nov 2014
9698 posts
Posted on 12/3/25 at 9:29 pm to
If I see one single dishwasher with a cleft lip, I’m out. I don’t play games when it comes to cleft lips.
Posted by Tiger in the Sticks
Back in the Boot
Member since Jan 2007
1735 posts
Posted on 12/3/25 at 9:30 pm to
No soap in the bathroom
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
28054 posts
Posted on 12/3/25 at 9:43 pm to
It irritates me when the server asks "Will this be separate checks?" when it's just my wife and I dining together.
Posted by BK Lounge
Member since Nov 2021
5021 posts
Posted on 12/3/25 at 9:50 pm to
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No soap in the bathroom



Same same, that’s a really good one .

Posted by BK Lounge
Member since Nov 2021
5021 posts
Posted on 12/3/25 at 9:56 pm to
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a monkey as a waiter




What does this mean, i dont get it
Posted by Harry Boutte
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2024
3655 posts
Posted on 12/3/25 at 10:07 pm to
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Automatic gratuities

No such thing. That's a service charge.

A gratuity is a gift given freely.
Posted by Johnny Roastbeef
Somewhere in Bartow County
Member since Sep 2018
2043 posts
Posted on 12/3/25 at 10:32 pm to
If the waiter/waitress has poor hygiene. One time, a waitress waited on me and the girl looked like she haven’t bathe in a week and not to mention she had powerful BO. I was absolutely disgusted and got up and left.
Posted by BK Lounge
Member since Nov 2021
5021 posts
Posted on 12/3/25 at 11:55 pm to
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What's the #1 turnoff for you that will lead to you not returning to an establishment?




For me, if i get the slightest whiff that a place is owned/run by Maga filth, i wont return.. they are most likely cutting corners on the food or whatever product they sell b/c profit is always the only thing they care about .. you can usually tell if they are Maga by their attitudes, ive even been to a couple restaurants where they have Fox News on the tv… that’s a no go for me .
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