I worked at TGIFridays in New York City (across from Madison square garden). It was a miserable experience, and I will never eat at one again. There is a 6’2 black guy named Ninja who is missing his front teeth. A normal human being would use the tongs to place french fries on the plates. this guy has calloused his hands with hot food, so he decides he doesn’t need the tongs. Every fry in the place touches his hands. In between putting fries on plates, he picks his teeth, his nose, and probably a few other things one could pick.
Food is commonly dropped on the foor and served. I once served a pizza to someone that upon close inspection had a cockroach cooked in like a topping. There’s more, but I’ll gag if I go any further!!!
Yeah, that and the fact that a TGIF burger is $11 in NYC. What the fuck?!! I almost crapped my pants when I saw that! Is that American money or fucking Pesos or Yen or something?
It is a commonly known fact that the value of the American Dollar drops some 60% when you enter the Burrough of Manhattan. Aint that a bitch? I was at Joe’s Pub not too long ago and an Absolut screwdriver was $11. Aint that a kick in the ass!!!
I particularly enjoy the $22 burgers you can eat at Houlihan’s. That is, after I’ve recovered from the shock of seeing a burger so outrageously priced. Come to think of it, I lied. I don’t enjoy them at all.
Well, here’s another issue. You’re in New York City, and you choose to eat at a chain that has locations all over the fucking country? I mean, christ, do something local and original. I guess I can understand some locals with TGIF cravings going there, but I’ll just bet there are some lame-brained tourists who think it’s a lark to eat at a TGIF restaurant just like the one back home!
I used to travel a lot for work and I’d meet up with other reps and we’d all go out for dinner after a recruitment fair. Invariably someone would say “Let’s go to Bennigans!” Right. You’re in San Antonio, or Phoenix, or Charleston, or St. Petersburg, and rather than take in some local flavor and regional food and see some of the city you’re in, you wanna go to Bennigans.
The most important reason to boycott TGIFridays is the relentless, annoying cheerfulness of the goddamn waitstaff. I loathe it.
Maybe he doesn’t really like to talk about his flair.
That TGIF’s is actually the only place in New York City where I’ve eaten. I stayed last summer with a friend on Long Island, and took the Long Island Rail Road into Grand Central Station (alone! I’m so brave!) to meet a friend who lived in NYC. TGIF’s was the closest place, and I was on a pretty tight time schedule. I didn’t notice if the food was gritty or dirty or sneezed on as I was too busy choking on the prices as compared to the TGIF’s in Tampa.
Amen & A-fucking-men. I would say this guy is rather well mannered compared to some of stories I have heard. This stuff happens all the time, and being an ornery type, they probably target me often. I’d simply rather not know lest I cease my outgoing ways and become a shut-in.
I agree about that TGIF’s. I used to go there when I worked near MSG, and we wanted to go out for lunch at work or for drinks after. The service was consistently amazingly slow, and the drinks watered down.
We went there a number of times partly because you know what to expect at a chain. Even if that is sub-par, it was close by and predictable. OK, we’re idiots.
I’m happy knowing that at the time of inspection, no violations were found that presented a threat to public health, or were related directly to factors leading to foodborne illness at Scores, everyone’s favorite midtown “restaurant”.
My girlfriend and I ate there a few months ago, and it was the worst. We sat on the 3rd floor, right by the bar, and the entire time we were there, the bartender was screaming at waitresses and slamming things around. We tried to be patient and tolerate it, until he threw ice at our waitress and ended up hitting my shoe.
That kind of shit pisses me off. So I bitched to the manager (when she finally showed up…it took about 5 minutes to get her to the register) and she went and bitched him out. Personally I would have sent him home on the spot and maybe suspended him.
From that one night, we decided we were never going there again.
It wasn’t me, I haven’t worked there in years, but I’m glad to see they still suck. Part of working there was coming to grips with the fact that the person you were waiting on was going to have a shitty time. Their food was going to take too long, come out bad or wrong, and they were going to pay too much for it. They would blame your cheerful ass and everybody would be pissed. Once you were expecting it to happen it wasn’t so bad. Kind of funny. I never did anything deliberately to screw with the patrons or their food, but I can’t say the same for my coworkers.
Don’t even get me started on the management. They work twice the hours of the wait staff and get about half as much money. It makes for some petty bitter human beings. Jerks.