So I call a certain Chinese food place. The day before Valentines day. I ask if I can place my order for the next day knowing they would be busy. So they take my order I ask if they can have it ready at 6:00 pm guy on the phone says yup.
Fast ward to Valentines day I arrive at the place at 6:10( thinking the extra 10 minutes won’t hurt). So I walk in there is line no big deal it’s busy. Some people in line say they have already been served. I wait for guy you get to the counter. He shows up and this lady behind me buts in line gets her food. The guy then stands there just looking, so I walk up and ask if my order is ready. He says not yet but let me check how much longer ( this is at 6:30pm).
While he is out back a lady mentions to me that she has been waiting over an hour for her order. I wasn’t sure if she pre ordered or not. So the guy comes back out doesn’t motion to me but serves some other people who’s food is ready so I figure he will get to me when he’s done to let me know how much longer. After another 10 minutes a guy from the back of the line butts to the front. So I go up and ask the guy at the counter is my food ready. He’s response is no sir just being packed up ( now 6:45). I told him not to bother and walked out. I have been a long time customer at this joint but now will no longer go there.
On a positive note another Chinese joint took my order and only had to wait 40 min for it. —Chinese Cupid
This article appears in Feb 13-19, 2014.
Seinfeld?
After a ”long wait” a person tells you it is ”just being packed up” and you LEAVE? It was being packed up for you. Then, you go to another place and wait 40 minutes when you could have stayed for 90 seconds and went the fuck home. Your fortune cookie states you will flip between being an IDIOT and an ARSEHOLE for the remainder of your life.
Koda?
you’re one of the reasons why so many shithole restaurants can manage to treat people like garbage and still stay open. Not giving a place your business because they can’t get their shit together when you’ve gone out of your way to make it as easy as humanly possible…
is the WHOLE POINT.
fuck them.
“Just being packed up” could have meant another 40 minutes judging by the way things were going there that night.
I guess now you realize the difference between a Chinese restaurant and a catering company. I wouldn’t have wasted my time preparing your food, with a restaurant full of patrons, on the off chance you didn’t change your mind about your plans. I guess next time you’ll just wait in line with the rest of us schlubs.
2014 is the year of the horse, perhaps the chef was late from Banbury Cross?
FUCK ME. Yes, Zzzzzzzzzzzzed, I am one of the reasons shithole restaurants can manage to treat people like garbage. Fawwwwwk, it is a wait in a restaurant for food …. chinese food is the simplest of cuisine to prepare and one does not need a recipe book. CHINESE FOOD. Sweet and Sour Geezuz, what has the world come to these days.
And it’s not like they didn’t just sell that food to someone else because they clearly didn’t have a problem with demand. Chinese food is made in large batches — you don’t really think they make a special order for everyone who comes in, do you?
It’s Valentines day AND it was a weekend night — if you don’t want to wait for your food, then cook something at home. OB was ordering take out so I’m assuming they were going to eat it at HOME. It’s not out of the realm of possibility that the restaurant got behind because of the demand.
OB just cut their nose off to spite their face. They could’ve been home eating their food instead of waiting another 40 minutes (plus the time it took to go to the other place).
Lame.
Been to a South End Chinese place that had a large cockroach scramble down the wall….