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Ok so I was at lunch today with the coworkers since hey why not you know. We all decided applebees since it was close, good food, and military discount. Well while we were waiting the waitress came by with the drinks, she also had in hand a plate of buffalo wings(wings with tabassco). She accidently dropped them on me, well suffice to say they covered my back. Now me being good humored I laughed it off it all got cleaned up, you know accidents happen and hey the army gives me the clothes for free so who cares I can replace easy enough. Well come end of meal they didn't even offer to comp the meal nor did they give me or anyone else our military discount. WE WERE ALL IN UNIFORM!!!!! They did give my coworker a free meal as since her's was 10 minutes later then the rest of ours.....does anyone else find this screwed up? I mean I was goo natured I tipped her well(she was extremely hot in a geeky way), but I mean she spilled hot food down my back and I laughed it off but normally a reastaurant would at least attempt to comp.

Uniforms get a discount?

No not really. while i respect women/men in uniform maybe they are falling on hard times like the rest of the country. they migght not be able to afford it.

If you're not going to complain, they're not going to act like there's a problem. The fact that you tipped pretty much says: "I don't care."

Yeah. No complaint = no compensation. It is messed up if they have a standard military discount and failed to give it to diners in uniform. Should be an easy fix though, if you point it out when you get the check.

your subject line is wrong, because applebee's always sucks.

anyway, yeah, unless you complain you won't get any money back. If you did complain a lot, you'd prolly all get your meals free, but then your hot waitress could lose her job because of you. If she really was hot, better to get on her good side by laughing it off and tipping her good. Ya never know where that might lead...

"Buffalo wings"? What fantastical fauna you have.

Or you could always go berserk, steal a tank or a Hummer that doesn't break down and smash that through the front of the establishment. As they drag your tazered and battered body off, don't forget to shout "That's what you get for not giving me my discount ya tart!"

The really messed up thing is that you say they used Tabasco Sauce on those Buffalo wings!!!

To be real buffalo wings you need to use Franks Red Hot Sauce and butter nothing else!!

I would like to see the applebees up here try to pull that crap!

Honestly as a former retail worker of many years, the sense of entitlement for a military discount always kind of annoyed me. I couldn't offer one much of the time and people tended to get very butt hurt about it. It's something nice people can do for you, not that they have to.

I worked in a pizza shop once that gave 50% discounts to cops and military in uniform, and totally free food to priests and nuns in uniform.

Necros wrote:I worked in a pizza shop once that gave 50% discounts to cops and military in uniform, and totally free food to priests and nuns in uniform.

Could you give me the address of that place? I'm off to the local costume rental shop.

My girlfriends uncle works at a local Applebees and I still refuse to eat there,the food is awful.

I'm lucky. My Applebees has good food.

Ah well.

warpcrafter wrote:

Necros wrote:I worked in a pizza shop once that gave 50% discounts to cops and military in uniform, and totally free food to priests and nuns in uniform.

Could you give me the address of that place? I'm off to the local costume rental shop.

He went out of business around 11 years ago

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:Honestly as a former retail worker of many years, the sense of entitlement for a military discount always kind of annoyed me. I couldn't offer one much of the time and people tended to get very butt hurt about it. It's something nice people can do for you, not that they have to.

For starters because it's not a sense of entitlement it's fact. Applebees offers a blanket 10% and thats tax. The meal that was comped went to the person who didn't complain, and in my opinon if you spill food on someone you should make the offer as the manager. OOO and I care less about getting on her good side as well im getting married in two months. I just think shes hot thats all. I shouldn't have to complain as well she dumped food on me their should be a certain level of curtousy.

I agree.

Regardless of the quality of the restaurant or the customer there are a few basics; you don't get poisoned or food dumped all over you.

It should not be the responsibility of the customer to complain about an obvious, major error.

Agreed, though in a relatively inexpensive, low-medium quality chain restaurant, it's usually the squeeky wheels who get the grease (or unwanted extras in their food, if they're nasty).

The only things I can eat at crapplebee's is the appetizers. Everything else makes me sick if I eat it, and it generally tastes god awful. But I think they slip crack into those damn boneless wings!

As far as the original story. That does suck, but as was pointed out, only squeaky gears get greased. I will usually put up with alot, but if I got food dumped down my back, hot food at that, I would walk out with a nicely sized gift card for free. Trust me you want the gift card so you can go to another location that won't recognize you as the guy who complained... keeps the food spit/dirt/unmentionables free. Well at least as low as is normal lol.

I would go back when the guilty waitress is on duty and vehemently complain first to her then the manager. Try to bring at least two others as witnesses. You will probably be compensated if you handle it maturely.

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Mannahnin wrote:Agreed, though in a relatively inexpensive, low-medium quality chain restaurant, it's usually the squeeky wheels who get the grease (or unwanted extras in their food, if they're nasty).

From my experience working in similar places (Perkins) its best to just roll with the punches. Even if you get some form of restitution the employees will tamper with your food. No one works there by choice, and the indignity requires some form of outlet.

Perkins is no more similar to Applebees than say McDondalds compared to Outback Steakhouse. The OP can rightly request a refund of his money.

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dogma wrote:

Mannahnin wrote:Agreed, though in a relatively inexpensive, low-medium quality chain restaurant, it's usually the squeeky wheels who get the grease (or unwanted extras in their food, if they're nasty).

From my experience working in similar places (Perkins) its best to just roll with the punches. Even if you get some form of restitution the employees will tamper with your food. No one works there by choice, and the indignity requires some form of outlet.

I agree,many many moons ago I worked at a Pizza Hut,and I can assure you if a customer was rude/pain in the backside many employes would delight in "adding a little something extra" to their meal.
However,if the customer was polite about their complaint they more often than not recieved comped meals with no "added suprises".

I swear I must be the only person that likes applebees lol. Everyone I know hates them. But dammit their food is so friggin good.
That sucks what happened to you, but really you have to say something about it, also if they didnt give you your discount, then you should of said something at the check out

I've not eaten at Applebees by choice since my experience working at Perkins. The same goes for all fast food vis a vis my experience working at Taco Hell.

In fact, I don't really trust any form of franchise anymore.

I stopped eating at Applebee's after one time when I waited forever for my waitress to come with the check, and I eventually found her chatting on the phone with her boyfriend. I took the phone out of her hand, slapped a ten on the bar and told her she's lucky I didn't slip out with out paying. And she had the nerve to yell at me!

She yelled at you and you didnt even slap/abuse her? The nerve of people!

KingCracker wrote:She yelled at you and you didnt even slap/abuse her? The nerve of people!

I know! And I heard her end of the conversation as I was walking up to her, and it was not any sort of emergency, they were just chatting. She probably treats everybody that way, so she'll get hers eventually.

Dont get mad or upset about that. People done realize that resturants are not run by robots. it ran by humans who make mistakes. People expect waitresses/waiters to be always polite and always be there when you need them. people make mistakes.

garret wrote:Dont get mad or upset about that. People done realize that resturants are not run by robots. it ran by humans who make mistakes. People expect waitresses/waiters to be always polite and always be there when you need them. people make mistakes.

Well, people also need to have their "mistakes" pointed out to them in a manner which hopefully insures they don't make the same mistake again.