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Post by clodhopper on Feb 25, 2019 16:43:58 GMT -5
Could never eat at KFC again after working there, just for knowing how manky the food prep was behind the scenes. I worked at Wendy's for a year and can't say I have any complaints. I think a lot probably has to do with management. Quite possibly, he wasn't the most upstanding gentlemen from what I remember.
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Post by Paul on Feb 25, 2019 16:50:30 GMT -5
A restaurant with sub-par food quality and/or really bad service. And if it has both then it definitely gets crossed of my list of places I like to go.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Feb 25, 2019 17:11:17 GMT -5
I stopped going to a bar becausw I'm now going to a different bar for trivia
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Post by OldDirtyBernie on Feb 25, 2019 20:15:57 GMT -5
I kinda have to disagree with you on the pizza part. Might had agreed before working in restaurant but there are some things you cant control. Truck might had forgot to put on shipping, might had a huge rush and used more than usual, nother store might had borrowed some and hadnt returned favor yet, etc. All which have happened where I work. Now if it becomes a regular thing, okay with you. But something like that I might give a pass at least once It’s a competition thing too. If they were the only pizza place in town I may have been more forgiving or lenient. But if I go to six pizza places that all have never run out of parmesan cheese (at least while I was there) and then run into one that does...well I’m going to choose one of the other six. Unless that one has damn good pizza and this one was pretty middle of the road. I’m hardly the pickiest customer and this is why so many restaurants fail. Not enjoying the pizza is one thing, so I'm not against you at all on that but I have to echo that running out of an ingredient, especially a side more than likely given out for free to an extent, is hardly a reason to stop going somewhere. Planning stock in a pizza place can be difficult. The first time I had to do the calculations and place an order, the GM neglected to mention the owner was rolling out BOGO coupons for ALL pizzas. One night we ran out of sausage, another pepperoni, etc. We had some unhappy people, but the owner had my back and brought some stock from another store AND paid for an emergency delivery to get us on track. I will say, however, in a situation running out of parmesan I probably would have just sent an employee to a local grocery store to get some and then portion them out.
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Post by Derk! on Feb 25, 2019 21:52:29 GMT -5
The gas station near my house. I would go there practically every morning after work. Spend at least 10-15 bucks for snacks/drinks for me and my parents. I bought a flavored Slim Jim. Took it home and took one bite and it was just awful and dry. I look at the wrapper and it expired fall 2016. It was mid to late summer 2017. I took it back and told the clerk and he said "you want a different one". I said no. Put in on the counter and grabbed a 1 liter Coke and walked out.
It's a shame. The store actually used to have a friendly staff until they got new ownership. Then they got replaced by humorless drones.
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Post by mike1287 on Feb 25, 2019 23:26:39 GMT -5
Home Depot. We hired them for some remodeling which took much longer than expected because they made a mistake in their measurements, and failed to communicate with us about the problem. There's a New England based pizza chain called Papa Gino's we no longer go to because their food was terrible the last few times we ordered there. Papa Ginos went way downhill in the last few years. Now every one of them that is close to where I live has closed. Ironically, none of the Papa Gino's in my area closed. However, all of the D'angelo sub shops, which are owned by the same company and had great sandwiches, were shuttered up.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Feb 25, 2019 23:46:27 GMT -5
Bad customer service. The most recent one was at an art gallery. I was interested in buying one of the paintings.
You had to mske the purchase via the galleries app. The guy rolled his eyes when i asked him to show me what to do.
I didnt buy it. f*** you. Your eye roll cost your small gallery a sale.
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Post by OldDirtyBernie on Feb 26, 2019 0:54:36 GMT -5
Terrible management. Anything from a mom and pop store to restaurants, websites, big box stores, whatever. If you visit a place, you can generally tell what their management is like in certain ways even if you don't interact with them personally and it's made me go out of my way to choose even another location of the same name rather than a more convenient option. Personal example - I was working at a restaurant for a while and our original GM was fired for being a lazy-ass and they brought in a new guy. While the original wasn't great at the actual job, he surrounded himself with talented people and kept morale up. The new guy comes in like a friggin tyrant at first, killing that morale. FFS, he threatened my job one day I was vomiting with a fever if I didn't come in...to a restaurant. Staff begins to turn over and those of us who stayed were miserable. The longer he stayed, the creepier he got, to the point that we lost over half our staff at one point because he made them uncomfortable. Misery continues, food quality goes down, customers can tell we're down...sales plummeted. The owner wound up firing him for sexual harassment and promoted me but we had to rebuild.
Also - F**k Goodwill. Beyond the fact that their CEO is beyond rich and prays on a low income customer base, they also fired my wife for calling 911 and helping an elderly woman who had tripped over a hole in their parking lot and was bleeding from the head. Their policy is to get a member of management to handle the situation, ignoring the people in need altogether in order to try and avoid any liability. The shitty thing is that a LOOOOOT of places have policies like this.
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Post by Fade on Feb 26, 2019 1:19:29 GMT -5
Pizzeria Uno, because they put the actual calories on the menu, and my favorite dish was 600 calories PER SLICE. Now, I knew I wasn't eating healthy, but shit, I didn't think it was that bad. I’ve loved Sbarros since I was a kid. Lo and behold my surprise when I found out just one slice is more calories than ya need in a single days serving. Anyway...my thing: There’s this place in my Girlfriends city. It’s a Mexican/Guatemalan/Salvadorian(I think?) food fusion place. She wanted to go. It’s a small place. Very intimate. Very nice. Anyways, I gotta take a shit. There’s one bathroom. I plug that sumbitch. I f*** the pipes up. That toilet is deep-sixed. I return to my gf. Quickly tell her we have to live and I’ve yet to go back from the shame of delivering such a monstrous shit.
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Post by Long A, Short A on Feb 26, 2019 2:30:16 GMT -5
Once my brother got a car, I stopped shopping near my house or the southern party of the city. I got use to shopping at the larger and cleaner version of stores I liked. Plus, I'm still mad about the Pizza Hut that's two minutes away from my house taking an hour to get my order right. Oh, I can't forget the strip mall T-Mobile that got robbered during store hours.
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Post by Fauxnaki on Feb 26, 2019 4:55:37 GMT -5
I stopped supporting Hollywood from all the controversy,don't support the BBC after jimmy savile
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Post by Nikki Heyman on Feb 26, 2019 5:27:39 GMT -5
Quizno's lost a customer with their creepy puppet ads. Still haven't gone back.
I nearly got in a fist fight with a manager at a Fuddrucker's who refused to cook my burger at least medium rare. When they first opened, I could get a rare burger if I asked nicely enough, this place would only do medium or worse.
I refuse to set foot in Five Guys for the same reason- I don't eat hamburger-flavored charcoal.
Red Robin(another burger place) has gone downhill in the last year or so. I still have gift cards but the last time I went everything tasted really slimy and I got sick afterwards.
I drive across town for a lot of my car repair work since the one closest to me enjoyed watching me stand in the middle of the lobby for 20 minutes without asking why I was even there.
Wal-Marts are easy to avoid for me because they're a bit out of the way for me. They're a "Last resort" if I need something. The ones I used to go to were dirty, dark, and we'd get to watch the occasional shoplifting attempt.
I haven't ordered Domino's in years, mostly because of an incompetent store near a college campus where I worked. I remember ordering a pizza, them taking over an hour to get it to me (regular weekday night), first telling me they couldn't deliver it (no one answered the door; the building locked up at 8p and I'm up on the third floor with no key and told them to call me when they arrived). They sent the guy out again, who claimed he "Got lost", then gave me the absolute wrong pizza. They offered to bring me another one, and I snarked something about being finished with work by the time they'd get it to me.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2019 5:40:50 GMT -5
Terrible management. Anything from a mom and pop store to restaurants, websites, big box stores, whatever. If you visit a place, you can generally tell what their management is like in certain ways even if you don't interact with them personally and it's made me go out of my way to choose even another location of the same name rather than a more convenient option. Personal example - I was working at a restaurant for a while and our original GM was fired for being a lazy-ass and they brought in a new guy. While the original wasn't great at the actual job, he surrounded himself with talented people and kept morale up. The new guy comes in like a friggin tyrant at first, killing that morale. FFS, he threatened my job one day I was vomiting with a fever if I didn't come in...to a restaurant. Staff begins to turn over and those of us who stayed were miserable. The longer he stayed, the creepier he got, to the point that we lost over half our staff at one point because he made them uncomfortable. Misery continues, food quality goes down, customers can tell we're down...sales plummeted. The owner wound up firing him for sexual harassment and promoted me but we had to rebuild. Also - F**k Goodwill. Beyond the fact that their CEO is beyond rich and prays on a low income customer base, they also fired my wife for calling 911 and helping an elderly woman who had tripped over a hole in their parking lot and was bleeding from the head. Their policy is to get a member of management to handle the situation, ignoring the people in need altogether in order to try and avoid any liability. The shitty thing is that a LOOOOOT of places have policies like this. What the f***. That is absolutely disgusting.
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Post by DoubleDare on Feb 26, 2019 16:44:32 GMT -5
On The Border: Ate there in 2005, next day was very sick, throwing up and diarreha. Will never eat there.
Though Gillette isn't a place, I stopped buying them over a year ago cause their blades are too much. I buy a 4 pack of barbosal ultra 3 disposales for like 5 bucks, just as good as Mach 3.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Feb 26, 2019 17:00:07 GMT -5
I stopped supporting Hollywood from all the controversy,don't support the BBC after jimmy savile Do you still watch the WWE?
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Feb 26, 2019 17:19:27 GMT -5
Once my brother got a car, I stopped shopping near my house or the southern party of the city. I got use to shopping at the larger and cleaner version of stores I liked. Plus, I'm still mad about the Pizza Hut that's two minutes away from my house taking an hour to get my order right. Oh, I can't forget the strip mall T-Mobile that got robbered during store hours. Speaking of bad pizza delivery I guess my beef with pizza joints goes way back. When I was very little (like 3 or so) a friend of my mom's used to babysit me at the Irish American Club, essentially a bar. There was a pizza place across the street and my mom's friend ordered us some. It took the place across the street 2 hours to get there! When the pizza guy finally showed up my mom's friend told him to shove the pizza up his ass! Needless to say we didn't have pizza that night and we never ordered from there again.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Feb 26, 2019 17:22:09 GMT -5
I stopped supporting Hollywood from all the controversy,don't support the BBC after jimmy savile Do you just watch old indie/foreign movies then or something? Or do you still watch all the movies, but sit there quietly condemning them?
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Post by arrogantmodel on Feb 26, 2019 22:26:49 GMT -5
I stopped supporting Hollywood from all the controversy,don't support the BBC after jimmy savile Do you just watch old indie/foreign movies then or something? Or do you still watch all the movies, but sit there quietly condemning them? Yeah, I don't get how this works. Like, literally all music, movies, and television is Hollywood somehow. I understand not liking an actor or something because of what they've done or said, but ALL of it?
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Post by Gopher Mod on Feb 26, 2019 23:06:13 GMT -5
On The Border: Ate there in 2005, next day was very sick, throwing up and diarreha. Will never eat there. Though Gillette isn't a place, I stopped buying them over a year ago cause their blades are too much. I buy a 4 pack of barbosal ultra 3 disposales for like 5 bucks, just as good as Mach 3. Have you looked into Dorco at all? They're the providers for Dollar Shave Club, and you can get their blades for pretty darn cheap- we're talking ~$7 for a 4 pack without any sort of discount (and the discounts are readily available most of the year which drives the prices down further).
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Post by arrogantmodel on Feb 26, 2019 23:40:49 GMT -5
I buy a four pack of blades for my ProGlide, and I get about six shaves out of one. I also only shave like once a week, so that's like six months where I don't have to buy razors. I am lucky there.
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