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Restaurant customers who weren't supposed to eat that

by Robin Garr » Tue Sep 02, 2014 8:41 am

This week's dose of server snark from Jezebel's Kitchenette ...

http://kitchenette.jezebel.com/restaura ... 1629253254
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Re: Restaurant customers who weren't supposed to eat that

by Mark R. » Tue Sep 02, 2014 5:08 pm

Those three stories certainly sound very believable! I'm sure the "Pastry" was extremely tough although the "French Toast" probably was very delicious since everything is better with bacon!
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Re: Restaurant customers who weren't supposed to eat that

by Alanna H » Tue Sep 02, 2014 8:00 pm

I could go for some of that French toast...
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Re: Restaurant customers who weren't supposed to eat that

by Matt C » Wed Sep 03, 2014 9:48 am

When I worked at park place on main the owner of a steak house chain in Cincinnati was in for dinner , came out of are bath room and said : the nuts u got in the bath room are bad or stale . ?! I was like ahh we dont have nuts or any other food in are restrooms sir .?? On further inspection we discovered he had eaten the scented bowl of herbs we had for decoration by the sink !! We both had a good laugh about and so did his employees he had brought in for dinner ! :-)
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Re: Restaurant customers who weren't supposed to eat that

by Robin Garr » Wed Sep 03, 2014 10:16 am

Matt C wrote:the owner of a steak house chain in Cincinnati


:shock: Jeff?
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Re: Restaurant customers who weren't supposed to eat that

by Matt C » Wed Sep 03, 2014 11:08 am

Yes and he joked about w me fot years !
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Re: Restaurant customers who weren't supposed to eat that

by RonnieD » Wed Sep 03, 2014 11:15 am

I never tire of these. Having a catalog of my own experiences, it is very cathartic to read the tribulations of others.
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Re: Restaurant customers who weren't supposed to eat that

by Adriel Gray » Wed Sep 03, 2014 12:08 pm

Worked a catering gig when I was a kid and had one of the guests kept lingering to the side of the buffet chatting up ladies. He was snacking and talking. I came up to take a drink order from him and he pulled me aside to politely ask what this dish was he was chowing down on. I told him that it was potpourri and I wasn't sure he should eat it.

My mom had a business client in for lunch from the midwest once and took him to... I want to say Kingfish in the early 90's. He had never had shrimp before so ordered it. On the ride back to the office with a group of executive types in the car my mom asked what he thought of the shrimp. The guy said they tasted great, but didn't know why they were so popular since they had just torn his mouth to pieces to eat. No one had bothered to inform him that he needed to peel them...
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Re: Restaurant customers who weren't supposed to eat that

by Marsha L. » Wed Sep 03, 2014 3:47 pm

I once watched, from across a large room, as a child at a bar mitzvah ate an entire cinnamon stick (bark of the cinnamon tree that was there for the coffee buffet) before I could get through the crowd to stop her. She and her parents probably had an interesting couple of days after the party.
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Re: Restaurant customers who weren't supposed to eat that

by Jeff Cavanaugh » Wed Sep 03, 2014 4:03 pm

I have been hangry enough to contemplate eating stuff I knew wasn't supposed to be edible.

I have eaten plenty of stuff that was supposed to be edible but tasted about like potpourri or packing peanuts.

But I don't think I've ever unknowingly eaten stuff that wasn't supposed to be edible. Or, if I have, nobody bothered to enlighten me afterwards. :D
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Re: Restaurant customers who weren't supposed to eat that

by Susanne Smith » Thu Sep 04, 2014 6:26 am

At the reopening of the Seelbach hotel, Roger Davis came in the tiny kitchen of the downstairs cafe where I was the lone cook, almost every night. He would look around and usually taste something I was preparing. One night he came in, looked around and grabbed a hunk of what he presumed to be cheese and chomped down on it. BUTTER. He was more careful in his ensuing trips. He came in the Shady Lane a couple of years ago on a secret stealth trip to Louisville and I did not mention that evening.
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Re: Restaurant customers who weren't supposed to eat that

by Clay Cundiff » Thu Sep 04, 2014 10:00 am

Years ago I worked at a restaurant that took a display tray of desserts around to each table after the entree to try and upsell. When there was a dessert served with ice cream we would sometimes up a scoop of Sweetex (a type of shortening used for icings) to represent the ice cream since it wouldn't melt at room temperature. Apparently one night a somewhat intoxicated guest decided to eat a big spoonful of ice cream off the tray as the server was going through the descriptions of the desserts.

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