If you complain about your restaurant meal, prepare for the consequences
Ryan Davis: for the Muleskinner
Issue date: 11/20/08 Section: Life & Leisure
It's time that someone comes forward and reveals the truth about restaurants and the perverse and disgusting game that is played within.
We have all been to a restaurant at one time or another to eat our vittles, but do we know what goes on around the food that we eat? Probably not. If we did, we would be sent into a state of nausea putting the girl in the "Exorcist" to shame. Overlooking so many other nasty practices, we will focus on one thing. Most of us are oblivious to the game that is played everyday between customers and staff where they screw one another over.
Behind the spick and span exterior of almost every restaurant-kept up in order to keep Public Health from coming in by zip-line, dropping grenades and taking over the joint-lies underpaid employees waiting, like rabid dogs, to take their frustrations out on the unsuspecting customer.
Some say that customers bring this ill-treatment on themselves. This is because customers often send their food back at restaurants in an attempt to score a free meal, this is when the game begins.
"One time these girls slipped a penny into their pizza to get a free meal," said Reese Craig, a cook at a local Italian restaurant. "But the penny wasn't hot and it was just sitting on top of the cheese."
"Sometimes people send their food back because 'it doesn't taste right,'" said Jamie Hibdon, a delivery driver at Hong Kong Express. "But then half of the food is gone whenever they give it back."
Customers will go to great lengths to get a free meal, and with a town full of poor college students, Warrensburg sees its fair share of scam artists. Some choose to pull a hair from their scalp and place it in their food, while others go to the trouble of bringing foreign objects from home.
Professionals come toting condoms, bugs, buttons, change, plastic wrappers and shards of glass to name a few items. But, a seasoned employee is always on the defensive. Although the customer may win their free meal, it usually comes with a price. Next time you send your food back, you might as well march back to the kitchen, pull out your white glove, smack the cook in the face and challenge him or her to a duel.
We have all been to a restaurant at one time or another to eat our vittles, but do we know what goes on around the food that we eat? Probably not. If we did, we would be sent into a state of nausea putting the girl in the "Exorcist" to shame. Overlooking so many other nasty practices, we will focus on one thing. Most of us are oblivious to the game that is played everyday between customers and staff where they screw one another over.
Behind the spick and span exterior of almost every restaurant-kept up in order to keep Public Health from coming in by zip-line, dropping grenades and taking over the joint-lies underpaid employees waiting, like rabid dogs, to take their frustrations out on the unsuspecting customer.
Some say that customers bring this ill-treatment on themselves. This is because customers often send their food back at restaurants in an attempt to score a free meal, this is when the game begins.
"One time these girls slipped a penny into their pizza to get a free meal," said Reese Craig, a cook at a local Italian restaurant. "But the penny wasn't hot and it was just sitting on top of the cheese."
"Sometimes people send their food back because 'it doesn't taste right,'" said Jamie Hibdon, a delivery driver at Hong Kong Express. "But then half of the food is gone whenever they give it back."
Customers will go to great lengths to get a free meal, and with a town full of poor college students, Warrensburg sees its fair share of scam artists. Some choose to pull a hair from their scalp and place it in their food, while others go to the trouble of bringing foreign objects from home.
Professionals come toting condoms, bugs, buttons, change, plastic wrappers and shards of glass to name a few items. But, a seasoned employee is always on the defensive. Although the customer may win their free meal, it usually comes with a price. Next time you send your food back, you might as well march back to the kitchen, pull out your white glove, smack the cook in the face and challenge him or her to a duel.
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Carlos Restrepo
posted 11/29/08 @ 3:32 PM CST
great story! the ending was great!
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posted 11/30/08 @ 8:59 PM CST
I have seen some terrible stuff go on with videos in the kitchens. You are not in college to learn how to steal so do not try to steal meals. Also what you get in a restaurant is like a gamble. (Continued…)
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Devynn
posted 12/05/08 @ 5:56 PM CST
ok, so what you're saying in that if i pay for a meal, that i've been told that will be prepared for me as i want it, that i had better take whatever they send out to me?! are you SERIOUS!? c'mon, you guys! i've worked in fast food before. (Continued…)
Chris
posted 12/08/08 @ 6:58 PM CST
Gotta agree with Devynn on this one. I've worked at several restarants, even at Copper before it changed ownership, and these kinda of things don't happen as often as some like to make it out. (Continued…)
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