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About table location-a couple of diners in our town have closely spaced two seater tables, where we're practically sitting in the lap of the strangers eating next to us. Just because we're a couple and not a family of four or more doesn't mean we should be punished by having to hear every word of another couple's conversation (nor they ours). I always ask for reseating in those cases.
Someone has to say it, but screaming/crying babies and kids.
Another good one! In fact, you can combine kids + tables with so little space between them that you might as well be sitting with strangers and that would describe our last experience at an expensive trendy restaurant in Boston. Last and only! I wish we *had* walked out of that place -- it was so expensive for food that was as greasy and salty as a truck stop.
When could be so many reasons to a person to get out from the restaurant that can be because of he didn't like the food or may be he got some important work to do etc..
I usually leave it the employees are texting instead of taking care of the customers. As soon as I see a phone come out and people waiting for anything, it is time to go. I don't go out as much as I used to because the service of this new generation is horrible, due to the addiction of media. They can't stop themselves.
Smell will do it for me. If they wiped the table with a cloth that's dirtier than the table was (salad dressing!) or mopped the floor with water that was dirtier than the floor was, I'm out of there.
I went to a Taco Bell once where apparently the bathroom exhaust fans were exhausting to right where you stood to place your order. That was bad. At that particular time, real bad.
Last time I walked out of a restaurant was a little more then three years ago. We were visiting the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia. We stopped at a place on Chincoteague. It was fairly empty but it took forever to get seated. We ordered a couple beers and a milk for my son from the hostess. Sat down, looked around, only other people in the place looked like hardcore alcoholics. Glanced at the table and dead flies were on it. I pointed it out to my husband. We walked out. I will not compromise on cleanliness, ever.
A restaurant we used to go to all the time changed hands but kept the same menu so we decided to give it a try under the new owner. We placed an order for our usual when we were seated. Once we were settled in - noticed how really dirty everything was, the table was sticky, the glasses had spots, floor was fithy, dead bugs in the windo sill ...etc.
So we just got up and left
When my wife lifted her partially eaten steak only to find a dead cricket under it...(she's my ex now. I think it's funny).
When a waitress at a small cafe greated me when I first came in then visited with her friends at another table then decided to wait on me 20 minutes later. I waited until she finally came to wait on me and I didn't say a word. I just got up and left...
In Dallas, at a restaurant that had only one waitress. I left when the only cook quit after getting into an argument with the waitress in front of all of the customers.
We went out for breakfast this morning. Our favorite place was too busy so we decided to try a new place. We walk in and stand next to the Please Wait to be Seated sign. We are ten feet from the counter where two people are cooking. No one says hello. A waitress looks at us, says nothing. We wait five minutes. No one greets us. The place is half empty and no one seems particularly busy.
We sit at one of the empty tables- maybe they forgot to move the sign after the rush? The waitress comes up and asks us if someone had sat us. We said no. She says that it'll be a few minutes and walks off.
We decided to cut our losses at that point and just leave. Would you have stayed?
I absolutely would NOT have stayed. I might have explained why we sat down... and then left.
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What makes you walk out of a restuarant?
