There was a Chinese restaurant that me and my wife loved their char sui pork, we buy a order a few times a month. The place is DEAD I think in all that time I saw two other customers, and the owner is a very elderly woman who speaks almost zero english(every time it is an ordeal to order) and we have had wrong order a few times but wrote it off as trying something new.
A few days ago I go and order the usual char sui to go and I was starved so I ordered a burger and fries too, it was a ordeal with her asking if I wanted it in one container or two etc. So the total is $55(not US currency) and I give her three twenties and she gives me back a five, so I walk around outside while they cook.
Come back and she hands me the char sui, where is the burger? She suddenly can’t remember a burger and claims I never ordered one, her son who speaks perfect english is eventually dragged out of the kitchen. She tells me she gave me back $15 in change and if I want a burger it will be another $10:confused: WHAT? We are argueing for awhile but her son eventually accepts that I gave her $60 bucks and goes to make a burger. Eh mistakes happen you know.
But when the burger is ready she has the nerve to come up and tell me I never paid for the burger, NOW she claims I gave her $40 and she gave me $5 in change(what happened to the $15?) and I owe her $20 for the burger and “I lie” while her son is hiding in the kitchen and yelling at her.:smack::mad: I grabbed my burger and vowed never to step foot in that dysfunctional shithole again, especially after I cut them slack before getting incorrect orders but I’ll be damned if I am going to have $20 bucks stolen from me and called a liar.
The wife was angry I cut off the source of char sui:p
Ever thought of learning to make it yourself? There are a fair number of recipes online for it, and you can get the specific chinese bbq sauce the restaurants use online if you don’t want to do it the old fashioned way.
Yep. You can search for “Pasand Lounge” owned by one Lakireddy Bali Reddy in Berkeley, CA. Good food, but that is about the only time I actually boycotted something seriously. Personally I felt his sentence was a bit light.
Yes, a restaurant that I was stopping at nearly every weekend over the space of 2-3 years. They remodeled and put a big screen TV in the dining area near the order placing area. First time I encountered the TV it was tuned to Fox news. Second time, Fox news.
Papa John’s is not my favorite pizza but it’s the closest and sometimes you just want Papa John’s. Not good pizza, but Papa John’s. Like wanting McDonald’s, not a good burger.
Anyway, the owner guy threw quite a shindig for Romney. I lost all taste for Papa John’s.
In Anchorage, there is a Chinese restaurant close to the nightclub where my former boyfriend and I used to take dance classes on Sunday nights. At that time, they made awesome chicken fried rice, (with large wonderfully sauteed pieces of actual chicken), and often, after dance class, we’d go split an order.
One night we went in, and instead of actual chicken in the chicken fried rice, there were these small square pieces of what looked and tasted like some sort of reconstituted chicken like food product. We never went back.
Does Subway count as a restaurant? I refused to buy from them a few years back while they were airing those execrable “Subway Dinner Theatre” commercials with Jon Lovitz. Sometimes I’d think I could go for a sub and then remember my boycott with a “Damn you, Lovitz!”. Those ads seemed to run for a long time, too.
VOW: Sorry you had that experience at Hometown Buffet. The one near us is quite good: actually better than it was a couple of years ago since they changed managers, and is improving steadily with new items, consistent flavors, good recipes, friendly staff. We go there 4-6 times a month. Maybe our funky old manager moved to your place. ;D
We are boycotting Soup Plantation after we decided it was a major ripoff: the food was not very fresh, some dishes were overheated and others were clearly left out too long and wilted or got soggy. We complained with specifics to the manager; they did try to comp us and wanted to give us free meals for our next visit, but we declined since we never plan to go back and told them so.
In Lafayette La there’s a well know seafood restaurant on Pinhook…it’s right next to where I used to work. A February 8 years ago we rushed in for gumbo. I gulped down an oyster that was full of hydrocarbon [there are oil fields, like Lake Washington, in oyster waters.]
It was such a horrible experience I’ve been unable to eat there again. I do grace the door to attend friend’s events but simply sip tea…can’t even glance at the food items.
I’ve quit going to one restaurant that used to be a favorite. I wouldn’t say that I’m boycotting them, it’s just that the food has changed, and not for the better. I have no quarrel with the people who own it, or work there, it’s just that their supplier changed a product and the tacos don’t taste right any more.
There’s a large local restaurant with decent food that was good to bring people from out of town to mainly for how the place looked. Two nights before my wedding, a lot of my family had come in already because they all live fairly far away. So we called this place and made a reservation for ten people. We got there ten minutes before our reservation time. They were very sorry but they’d given away the tables they’d set aside for us to a large group that had just walked in. But they were willing to put us at two separated tables that could only sit eight comfortably. It just took that one hostess screwing up, but we’ve never been back and I can’t think of anything that’ll change that.
There was a Coney Island by us that we liked for both the food and close proximity. One time when we went, after we left we suspected they overcharged us, but we didn’t really want to go back and look at the prices on the menu and be jackasses about it. The next time we went (two weeks later), we made sure to make note of the prices when we looked at the menu, and sure enough when the bill came, they upped the prices on every thing we ordered by 50cents to $1.50. We complained, the waitress said that they had changed the prices but hadn’t ordered the new menus yet. We asked to see the owner, and he said the same thing. I said that we were either going to pay the prices listed on the menu or we wouldn’t be back.
We never went back. They just shut their doors for the last time a week ago. Shitty business practices don’t do anything for your business.
I’m not sure all these are “boycotts.” Not going to a restaurant because of bad service or food isn’t a “boycott,” it’s just not going to an unpleasant restaurant. A “boycott” is when you refuse to go somewhere or patronie a business for a moral or political reason, examples in this thread being the owner’s a sex trafficker or a Republican.
I used to visit a really nice Chinese restaurant pretty frequently. It had a nice garden and live music and everything always tasted really good and was perfectly cooked. Just trusting the quality of what I always got there I’d even order strange things I didn’t think I’d like and was always amazed. For me an my wife to get two entrees and an appetizer without any alcohol was around $100, but once a month or so we’d go. We came in one day and the place was almost empty. We looked at the menu and the prices were up about 20%. We got our food and it was $7.95 buffet quality.
Sadly, Chik-fil-A. I love love love their food, but… yeah, I just can’t go in there. The boyfriend mentioned the other day that we should consider hitting up the Chik for our traditional Saturday breakfast sandwiches, and I had to tell him that it wasn’t a possibility.
She suddenly can’t remember a burger and claims I never ordered one, her son who speaks perfect english is eventually dragged out of the kitchen. She tells me she gave me back $15 in change and if I want a burger it will be another $10:confused: WHAT? We are argueing for awhile but her son eventually accepts that I gave her $60 bucks and goes to make a burger. Eh mistakes happen you know.