The World’s Rudest Restaurants

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“Go find a f***ing bar—we need table back!”

This article hits on a few topics over the past few days.

Can't believe no one's mentioned the Soup Nazi, or even the Dick's Last Resort chain . . .

As much as I love them, the original Thai Smile in Frankfort sounds a bit similar to the description of Wong Kei in London at times.

I dunno, when part of a place's gimmick is rudeness I can't really get all that concerned about it. I'd be going in there knowing what to expect and it would kind of make it...tired? Worn out? I'm not sure, but gimmicks like that just don't really appeal, and haven't for a long time.

Germany has a lot of that. In the Kölsch houses of Cologne they will keep bringing beer until you've told them three times you want the check. And that only if you give them a really stern look. In Frankfurt's Apple Wine taverns they will literally scream at you to get out of the way when they're carrying food and drink through. It's just part of the show I guess. If you have enough stones to order a beer in an Apfelwein joint they will either show you the door, insult your mother, or the ultimate insult...serve you a warm bottle of putrid beer that they "age" under the counter specifically for people like you.

In my twenties, I worked at a now defunct mini-chain of restaurants throughout northern New England known as Road Kill Cafe. Pretty much anything went there as far as service as long as you didn't use foul language. Think Ed Debevick's.

An example of this would be making people bus their own tables. This was particularly helpful during "leaf-peeping" season when the lines would be out the door and wait for a table would be at least an hour at most dining establishments where I lived in New Hampshire.

During these busy times I would also like to patrol the dining rooms with a very large meat cleaver and proclaim very loudly to anyone who dared complianing about the wait or how long it took for the food to come out, "Due to the raw nature of the food it must go through a process known as cooking. You'll get it when it's done!"

We had three dining rooms which were offered as "Non Smoking, Smoking or Secondhand Smoke". The menu descriptions were interesting as well. My favorite was for the ribs. Simply "Ribs: Good, Hitler: Bad". or the "Cook's Specials" because we can't afford a chef.

If you have enough stones to order a beer in an Apfelwein joint they will either show you the door, insult your mother, or the ultimate insult...serve you a warm bottle of putrid beer that they "age" under the counter specifically for people like you.

Ok. Who has been speaking to my relatives from Rüdesheim?