What made you 'break up' with a restaurant?

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Anonymous wrote:As a way to offset rising costs, we have added a 3.5% surcharge to all checks. You may request to have this taken off your check should you choose.

Au revoir, Mon Ami Gabi.

I completely agree.

[Anonymous]

Rude or indifferent staff and food quality decline.

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Anonymous wrote:What was the one thing - whether a dish, an experience or an interaction - that made you decide 'Never again!' about a particular restaurant?

I guess food that tastes like nothing -- like a Mexican place that wasn't even remotely authentic. I can handle inauthentic but delicious -- I'm fine with a Chili's! But we have a local place where the chips are like cardboard and the salsa is sweet. Nothing else about the meal was any good, either. So, off the list.

[Anonymous]

For me it wasn't the restaurant -- my kid went to the bathroom -- and threw up in the bathroom and then again walking back to our table and then all over our table.

We left a giant tip and never returned.

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Anonymous wrote:My vegetarian pad thai leftovers had a chicken bone sitting on top when I opened it. I took it back to the restaurant and asked to speak to the manager- no manager on duty. I reported them to the board of health and they closed a few months later.

Pad thai, like most Thai foods, are made with fish and not vegetarian. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Sent stinky, overdue seafood to my kid. This was a restaurant located three blocks from the ocean.

[Anonymous]

I found a bolt in my dish.

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Rednecks with long beard hired to cook.

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Found a plastic bag in my pho.

[Anonymous]

Servers not knowing what mineral water is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What was the one thing - whether a dish, an experience or an interaction - that made you decide 'Never again!' about a particular restaurant?

I guess food that tastes like nothing -- like a Mexican place that wasn't even remotely authentic. I can handle inauthentic but delicious -- I'm fine with a Chili's! But we have a local place where the chips are like cardboard and the salsa is sweet. Nothing else about the meal was any good, either. So, off the list.

I went to a local place where they honest to God served marinara instead of salsa with the chips. The proprietor insisted that it was salsa. It tasted sweet like Ragu!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mexican place was known for great fajita's and frozen drinks. Portions were huge and provided leftovers for days! Now the platters are 1/2 the size, more expensive, all the fixings that used to come on/and with the sizzling platter are now extras and super tiny dollops for $$. The go-to drinks seem less alcoholic and in turn, they've invented super expensive drinks, desserts, and table side offerings--IMO, they strayed too far from their bread and butter offerings. We went weekly for years, sometimes a 1 1/2 hour wait. Now maybe 2-3 times a year.

Uncle Julio’s right? We stopped going altogether.

+1

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Cockroach on the floor running around under the tables. We pointed it out to the waitstaff, left, and never went back. My assumption is that if we saw one running around that boldly in the open, there must be many, many more in the corners of the kitchen.

They went out of business about 6 months later.

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What’s up with all these bolts in food?

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Anonymous wrote:What’s up with all these bolts in food?

air fryer? IDK. Mine has bolts that keep getting loose on the basket.