So my girlfriend and I wanted to get a bite to eat. We came to a certain restaurant 5 minutes before it closed, and were turned away. What the fuck! So what if we came in 5 minutes or 5 SECONDS before closing, this place was technically still OPEN. You lost my business, assholes. Sending potential customers away to another restaurant, that’s great business sense, that is! —Just wanted a meal
This article appears in Feb 24 – Mar 2, 2011.
*facepalm* You really expect them to make something just for you 5 minutes from close? What an entitled ass.
Is your meal going to be ready in time for you to shove it down your pie hole in 5 minutes?
…no?
Then go to mcdicks — they’re open 24 hours.
FFS.
Get fucked.
Is this bitch for real?!
Pretty much what I was going to say has been covered. It takes longer then five minutes to cook a meal dude.
It remains open until the time stated for the people already inside eating. Not for the people coming in and asking for a meal that it would take an additional 1/2 hour past closing time to get you.
I sense this is a wind up.
Um, poor you, OP the world doesn’t revolve around you. Entitled jerk.
can you imagine how much it would have cost them to stay open extra just to serve YOU? waaaay more than $10/meal net revenue from your meal.
See McDicks if you want 5 minute meals 5 mins to close.
What a fucking knob – your sense of entitlement is only surpassed by your sheer stupidity.
Most restaurants’ kitchens close around 10pm OP. If you couldn’t find the time to get to the restaurant before 10pm, then stay the fuck home, or like PK said, get fast food.
Haha.. what kind of idiot reads the business hours of a food establishment and thinks it’s a good idea to go in for service 5 minutes before they close? Either plan more efficiently for your evening out or start thinking about other people beside yourself. You think restaurant workers want to stay an extra half-hour after a long hard shift to satisfy your simple needs? Go work in a kitchen for an evening and you’ll see otherwise.
OP, post where you work and we’ll send your boss over to start a one hour meeting with you 5 minutes before you’re scheduled to leave to go home. Fuck nut! Hope you and your booty call mistress starved.
What is the cut off time to go in to a restaurant before close though?
It’s so tempting to join the pile on, but this bitch is so retarded that my spidey senses are tingling.
This *can’t* be a real bitch, can it?
I smell a fake bitch trying to ruffle some feathers. If it’s legit, than this poor bastard has no common sense.
I think y’all are fucked.
It’s the posted business hours…
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NOW, potentially they should state that they will be closing soon and so you can only have a grilled cheese… but they’re still open folks.
If you’re going to be turning people away while you’re still open, post a ‘last seating’ time or something.
Anyone with half a brain can probably figure out that going 5 minutes to closing and expecting a meal is just a jerk move.
But I agree on your last seating time being posted.
…ok I just squirted a bunch of purell on/in my keyboard…seems to have worked…and it smells lemony fresh!
Theres no such thing as common sense because hardly anyone has it. and i think its a wind up bitch too.
“this place was technically still OPEN” … people like you really annoy me!
most restaurants have a mandatory 15 minute to closing time thing. that gives them time to do cash, cleanups, and straighten other shit away. only a braindead maggot, would expect someone to dote on their too lazy to get there on time ass.
====…ok I just squirted a bunch of purell on/in my keyboard…seems to have worked…and it smells lemony fresh!====
fapfap*fresh*?
Totally, wheelie!
sa-Wheet!
I wonder what the OB if we came in 5 minutes to close at his place of business (if they even work) and lounge around for an hour or so? If you want to dine then come at the proper time to enjoy. But then again, I forgot you’re one of the entitled ones. I bow down and beg forgiveness.
You’re an asshole, OP. A huge, selfish, thick-headed, dumb fuck. And yeah, it makes sense to turn away dickheads who try and come in and order 5 mins before closing. It costs the restaurant a shitlaod more in overhead to accommodate your self centered ass. Fuck you!!!!
I agree with all the other posts on here!
..op is just another of the millions of dumbass peeps who don’t know wtf is going on in the service industry.. not really their fault .. sorta
It’s one thing to go into a store 5 minutes before closing to pick something up and leave, but you OP are a grade-A fetal alcohol syndrome mental midget.
I just want to make a few comments on this bitch being a former waitress.
You may have arrived 5 minutes before closing, however it takes more than 5 minutes to look at the menus, make a decision, have the food made, being served to you, and taking it home. OR sitting there and eating it depending on your choice. That’s another 20-60 minutes. Maybe the kitchen was closed? Why should they have to work late because of you? Maybe they had to take the bus to get home? Maybe you arrived at like 11, and if they took another hour to serve you, maybe they`d miss the bus home. I don`t think this is a valid bitch. I think you`re ignorant.|
Maybe you should work the closing shift at a restaurant for a year, THAN you can re-write this bitch. My opinion.
I agree with zZz in that they should have a ‘last seating’ time rather than a closing time. Or both. We’ll seat you at 9 but you have to be outta here by 10, k?
I think if I went into a restaurant 5 minutes before close and ordered – and got severed because that’s the restaurants policy to serve you…I wouldn’t want to eat the food that the cook and waitresses had to stick around late to serve me….just sayin.
But you’re a nice, considerate person RC – not all people share those traits.
But RC, what part of you did they sever? LOL.
From being a cook for years – 5 minutes to closing is your time to be told to fuck off – noone can make and or eat that fast – we all wanna go home – not feed your hungry ass when we all trying to get out !
“*facepalm* You really expect them to make something just for you 5 minutes from close? What an entitled ass.”
AMEN!
double secret amens 🙂
I used to love sitting around for an extra hour on dark and cold winter nights because some clown decided to come in at close. I would never do it, that’s for sure.
I can’t speak for all cooks but I can speak for the restaurant I worked for. The cooks started shutting down the kitchen in the last 20 minutes. It’s called closing time for a reason. It’s common sense. If they’re closing at 10, that means they are locking the doors and turning off the lights at 10. Not serving newcomers.
Where I work as a server, we technically have to take customers in even if they come in 5-10 minutes before closing (the owners are nazi pricks). Luckily 95% of the population have enough sense to turn around and leave upon learning the joint is about to close. Some people are just inconsiderate assholes who have never worked a day in their life in a restaurant. I’ve had some fucking idiots come in 10 minutes before closing, I have everything done and am ready to leave, I tell them we’re closed in 10 mins.
“That’s fine,” They say, and proceed to find a booth to sit in.
Ummmm, NO! It’s NOT fine, go home, I have a fucking bus to catch!!