What is it with Chinese restaurant employees?

[PM5K]

Ha Ha You Eat You Pay!

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Somewhere there is a thread that I mention my experiment of pouring a sugar packet into the corner of one of the serving trays at a Chinese buffet and the next day coming back to the restaurant to see if the sugar was still in the corner of the tray.

It was. Same tray, different day.

That was my last visit to any Chinese buffet. My guess is that your friends' deliver order was just scooped out of the several day old trays and the restaurant couldn't just drop it all back in the bins...as easily.

[Beno Udrih]

You guys wait till Johnny Blaze sees this!

[Sunshine]

PeiWei (same owners as PF Changs) has the same lettuce wraps and it is much cheaper

I love their lettuce wraps!

[Sunshine]

Somewhere there is a thread that I mention my experiment of pouring a sugar packet into the corner of one of the serving trays at a Chinese buffet and the next day coming back to the restaurant to see if the sugar was still in the corner of the tray.

It was. Same tray, different day.

That was my last visit to any Chinese buffet. My guess is that your friends' deliver order was just scooped out of the several day old trays and the restaurant couldn't just drop it all back in the bins...as easily.

That's what we were all "joking" about. They were just mad that they couldn't simply serve the same container of food to the next person who phoned their order in!

[E20]

Simple: Stop eating chinese fast food.

A) It's unhealthy/oily/fatty
B) It tastes like like melted salt and sugar and doesn't even taste good.

[easjer]

Chopper, you just made me throw up in my mouth a little.

That is so disgusting.

[Hook Dem]

Go to Golden Wok on Wurzbach! Great food!

[CavsSuperFan]

Well...If your friends are upset, call this #...
San Antonio Health Department
332 W Commerce St
San Antonio, TX 78205
Phone: (210) 207-8780

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Chopper, you just made me throw up in my mouth a little.

That is so disgusting.

My buddy and I went to this one restaurant fairly often and I noticed that some of the trays looked like no one touched them from visit to visit...thus the need for the little experiment. Gross but true.

[exstatic]

Totally stupid of the owner. All he needs is a few people spreading stories about his ty food and tier service. I''ll bet money that the people that run that restaurant are NOT Chinese. There are a LOT of Chinese restaurants that are owned and run by Thais, Vietnamese, or Burmese. A Chinese would likely have refunded the money, and then refused delivery to that address again.

[Spurfect]

Chinese places are notorious for pulling crap like this. Once I had ordered fried wontons instead of an eggroll, and they put the eggroll on my plate, so I pointed it out to my waitress and she picked the eggroll up with her fingers and took it to the kitchen. You KNOW she put it on another plate! Most places would leave the eggroll on the plate and bring the wontons out on a separate plate.

Another time I was eating with some friends, and we all ordered the same thing (lunch special)...one of the girls found a roach in her food, so we asked if we could all have a different entree and the lady started yelling at us saying that "there was only roach in one food, not all food! You eat!" So one of the girls said "Do you cook each dish in a different pan? If not, then the roach was in the pan that all our food was cooked in and we dont' want it"

She refused to replace our plates so we got up and left. She chased us out into the parking lot yelling at us that we needed to pay. I turned to her and said "Why? You're just going to scrape it back into the pot and serve it to someone else...you'll get your money!"

uhh if that happened to me I would not want a replacement dish. I'd want my money back and hightail it out of there. that's disgusting

[Kori Ellis]

Go to Golden Wok on Wurzbach! Great food!

We went there last week and I asked LJ if you have been posting on the forum lately because we ordered Chung Bo Steak Remember when you recommended it to us a couple years ago? I love that dish.

[Spurfect]

I just realized since I moved to S.A. last September I have only had chinese food once, when we went to a place for my nieces birthday this thread doesn't help me crave it either...

[LuvBones]

So the girls at your work got paid to argue about their food for almost 2 hours?

[Spurfect]

So the girls at your work got paid to argue about their food for almost 2 hours?

and after all that they lost the argument lol

[slayermin]

The restaurant business is a tough racket. Most asian people I know are hard working and honest. They micromanage their expenses to increase profits. I don't think it's common for them to recycle food but who really knows what happens behind closed doors.

But you are kidding yourself if you think chinese restaurants are the only ones that cut corners. I don't want to generalize so I will keep my comments to myself.

Here in Cali, most of the chinese restaurants in my area offer free delivery with a minimum purchase. If they screw up an order or forget something, they will go back to their kitchen and correct the problem.

Most asian immigrants can't speak english very well so restaurant jobs are their only avenue for a decent income. They are easy targets because of this fact. But they do love this country as much as anyone, pay their taxes, and raise their kids to be law abiding citizens.

[ploto]

I had great Chinese food for lunch today at Beijing. Gave my usual waitress an extra large Christmas tip.

[TDMVPDPOY]

Msg Ftw

[Duff McCartney]

Totally stupid of the owner. All he needs is a few people spreading stories about his ty food and tier service. I''ll bet money that the people that run that restaurant are NOT Chinese. There are a LOT of Chinese restaurants that are owned and run by Thais, Vietnamese, or Burmese. A Chinese would likely have refunded the money, and then refused delivery to that address again.

I don't mean this in a bad way...as if there is a good way to say this...and I'm not Asian...but that's like borderline bigotry right there.

[ashbeeigh]

So apparently some girls here at work ordered Chinese delivery for lunch today. They get their food and take it to the breakroom to eat and two of the dishes are inedible. They called the restaurant and told them that the food was "nasty" and they wanted their money back. The guy tells them he'll credit back their credit card but he's coming back to get the food.

Strange...but...ok. I guess they need to make sure they food wasn't eaten. So the guy gets here, opens the boxes and sees that one of the egg rolls had a bite out of it and the food is mixed together and had been picked at, so he tells them they can't "return" their food because they already ate part of it and he wants his money.

This is where I actually came into the lobby and heard them arguing. They're telling him "We didn't eat your nasty food, all we want is our money back." He yells "You ate, you pay!" One of the girls says "We TASTED it and it was nasty, we didn't eat the whole thing!" So angry Chinese guy says "But you touched the food! You have to pay!"

He refused to leave until he was paid. The receptionist called Security, Security told him to leave and he refused. He called the manager or owner of the restaurant and HE came to demand that the girls pay for their orders. As of 15 minutes ago, they were still here and this all started at about 1:45.

So I guess they're pissed because the food was all mixed together and they weren't going to be able to resell it.

I totally didn't see this thread yesterday when you started it and had to let you know I had a perfect view of all the mishaps that happened in the front when the police came. I had to let everyone know what happened, all based on our previous conversation. It was completely ridiculous, but nonetheless, another day at the office.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

You guys wait till Johnny Blaze sees this!

Whew. I was getting worried for a second that I might have fallen off.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

I don't mean this in a bad way...as if there is a good way to say this...and I'm not Asian...but that's like borderline bigotry right there.

Out of all the posts in all of SpursTalk, that's the one that brought our a bigotry assumption?

Really?

[Sunshine]

Totally stupid of the owner. All he needs is a few people spreading stories about his ty food and tier service. I''ll bet money that the people that run that restaurant are NOT Chinese. There are a LOT of Chinese restaurants that are owned and run by Thais, Vietnamese, or Burmese. A Chinese would likely have refunded the money, and then refused delivery to that address again.

I'd never ordered from this particular place, but you can bet I won't. We were joking that we should just take up a collection and pay the guy just to get him to leave. It was really kinda funny because he was standing outside the main doors, looking thru the glass with his hands cupped around his eyes. Every once in a while, he'd pick up the bag with the food in it and point to it and say something (we can only imagine he was saying "You eat, you pay!!!"

[Sunshine]

So the girls at your work got paid to argue about their food for almost 2 hours?

No...they gave up after only a few minutes and went back to work. The man stayed in the lobby harassing the receptionist about calling them to come back and pay him. They didn't come back downstairs until the police got there...THEN the receptionist had them and their supervisor come back downstairs.