General / Off-Topic Have you ever been denied service?

MottiKhan

MottiKhan
That's what happened to me this morning for the first time in my life.

I decided to get my crew some breakfast and pulled into the Dunkin Donuts drive through. I asked for 10 Croissants. Not a huge amount of food, but enough to get the crew started. Just two croissants per person.

Dunkin told me that my order was too big and that I couldn't order so much unless I pre-arrainged the order.

That was a first. So, 10 croissants is too much for Dunkin Donuts to handle? I've ordered more food at pretty much every drive through in the city. If they can't fill the order right away, they have me pull into a parking spot and wait. But not Dunkin Donuts. They just can't do it.

It worked out for the better though. When I got to work, there were two extra people added to my crew for the day.

So I went to the Burger King and ordered 14 croissants. Yes, Burger King could make 14 croissants at one time. And unbeknownst to me, they were on sale for 2 for $4.00. I saved money and was treated like a human there. Take a guess where I'll be buying my crew breakfast in the future.

Rant/Rave over.

Anyone else?
 

ethelred

ethelred
I got refused at a drive through for pretending to be in a car with a mate, as it was late at night and the “inside” bit was closed.

I think our problem was that we should have pretended to be in a car from the beginning, as it was despite our best efforts they couldn’t be convinced our imaginary car was real.

Some people have no sense of humour.
 

Goose4291

Banned
Goose4291
ethelred said:
I got refused at a drive through for pretending to be in a car with a mate, as it was late at night and the “inside” bit was closed.

I think our problem was that we should have pretended to be in a car from the beginning, as it was despite our best efforts they couldn’t be convinced our imaginary car was real.

Some people have no sense of humour.
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Several times, but usually during a run ashore at the 14th pint mark.
 

Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
MottiKhan said:
That's what happened to me this morning for the first time in my life.

I decided to get my crew some breakfast and pulled into the Dunkin Donuts drive through. I asked for 10 Croissants. Not a huge amount of food, but enough to get the crew started. Just two croissants per person.

Dunkin told me that my order was too big and that I couldn't order so much unless I pre-arrainged the order.

That was a first. So, 10 croissants is too much for Dunkin Donuts to handle? I've ordered more food at pretty much every drive through in the city. If they can't fill the order right away, they have me pull into a parking spot and wait. But not Dunkin Donuts. They just can't do it.

It worked out for the better though. When I got to work, there were two extra people added to my crew for the day.

So I went to the Burger King and ordered 14 croissants. Yes, Burger King could make 14 croissants at one time. And unbeknownst to me, they were on sale for 2 for $4.00. I saved money and was treated like a human there. Take a guess where I'll be buying my crew breakfast in the future.

Rant/Rave over.

Anyone else?
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Next time, ask for five croissants. Twice. Another favorite that works in most countries: if you cant cancel an appointment with a doctor or whatever because you should have done it sooner, ask to reschedule to next week. Then immediately cancel that one afterwards.
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
MottiKhan said:
That's what happened to me this morning for the first time in my life.

I decided to get my crew some breakfast and pulled into the Dunkin Donuts drive through. I asked for 10 Croissants. Not a huge amount of food, but enough to get the crew started. Just two croissants per person.

Dunkin told me that my order was too big and that I couldn't order so much unless I pre-arrainged the order.

That was a first. So, 10 croissants is too much for Dunkin Donuts to handle? I've ordered more food at pretty much every drive through in the city. If they can't fill the order right away, they have me pull into a parking spot and wait. But not Dunkin Donuts. They just can't do it.

It worked out for the better though. When I got to work, there were two extra people added to my crew for the day.

So I went to the Burger King and ordered 14 croissants. Yes, Burger King could make 14 croissants at one time. And unbeknownst to me, they were on sale for 2 for $4.00. I saved money and was treated like a human there. Take a guess where I'll be buying my crew breakfast in the future.

Rant/Rave over.

Anyone else?
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Perhaps, they thought that for you alone it was too much, that you eat too much, and that you are a selfish because you do not think of the other customers ?

:)
 

Gun Star

Gun Star
Well dunkin doesnt make the food. It is delivered each day from a distribution center. They need it sent a day earlier so they can put the order into a dist center.

BK on the other hand get food deliveries weekly, and they usually over order stock.
 

Bob Lighthouse

Banned
Bob Lighthouse
Only once, and I think that was because we were all so sure that our friend was going to easily finish the "Bust Yo Belly Burger Challenge" at Dixie Grill.
It consisted of a 2lb patty on a 1lb Kaiser bun, with a whole pound of cheese and all the toppings, and another pound of fries, served on a trash can lid...


My friends nickname is "Ribs" so we were chanting "Ribs! Ribs! Ribs!!!"
They said we were too rowdy!
 

Bob Lighthouse

Banned
Bob Lighthouse
MottiKhan said:
That's what happened to me this morning for the first time in my life.

I decided to get my crew some breakfast and pulled into the Dunkin Donuts drive through. I asked for 10 Croissants. Not a huge amount of food, but enough to get the crew started. Just two croissants per person.

Dunkin told me that my order was too big and that I couldn't order so much unless I pre-arrainged the order.

That was a first. So, 10 croissants is too much for Dunkin Donuts to handle? I've ordered more food at pretty much every drive through in the city. If they can't fill the order right away, they have me pull into a parking spot and wait. But not Dunkin Donuts. They just can't do it.

It worked out for the better though. When I got to work, there were two extra people added to my crew for the day.

So I went to the Burger King and ordered 14 croissants. Yes, Burger King could make 14 croissants at one time. And unbeknownst to me, they were on sale for 2 for $4.00. I saved money and was treated like a human there. Take a guess where I'll be buying my crew breakfast in the future.

Rant/Rave over.

Anyone else?
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Excuse me, but what kind of crew does one make a full order of croissants for in the first place?



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m0rl0ck

M
In my drinking days i was occasionally denied service, which was somewhat problematic, as at that point in the evening my white knuckled grip on the bar
was usually the only thing keeping me upright.
 
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Bob Lighthouse

Banned
Bob Lighthouse
MottiKhan said:
Does crew mean something different in the UK? Over here, it's the people who work for me.

And how did you get our picture?
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That's what I thought.
I have no idea, I live in Hawaii.
Our crews hug it out.

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Just a good guess, with the croissants and all.
I figured you for the guy with the spade, on the far right?

Looks like a fine gig!
 

znôrt

znôrt
just imagining a croissant from dunking donuts or burger king makes me shudder ... this should be in the odd thread. with a spoiler and maturity warning :D
 

Bob Lighthouse

Banned
Bob Lighthouse
Over here you can buy them some malasadas from Leonard's Bakery!

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Or maybe some manapua (char siu bao), half moon and pork-hash from Libby's!

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Both places are very busy though, so have your proverbial shirt together please!
 
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verminstar

Banned
verminstar
There is an incident that happened a few years back...I was asked to leave a restaurant because of my tattoos. By my standards, it was a fancy place where I was out on an anniversary of sorts, so no expense spared and dress proper.

I was on me best behaviour when the waiter arrived with the manager who asked me to leave the premises...after being seated by the hot brunette who greets at the door. And me being me, well I sorta refused and reminded him I wanted my steak medium rare and carried on like he was invisible. However, after a moments thought, I rolled my sleeves down and looked around to see who it was complained to ask if they could see fit to not complain so I could enjoy my 40 quid steak in peace.

Nope...nobody complaining but the snob in the suit asking me to leave, and by this time my daughter was recording everything which appeared to be making the snob uncomfortable. One can just imagine that shotgunned all over facebook and youtube just fer giggles I was well up fer it if he had pushed...which he didnt sadly.

Moral of the story...that steak was delicious, my compliments to the chef ^
 

K M Butler

K
A number of times, on phone -in orders and twice on emergency services. As soon as people hear my given name of "Kermit", they assume I'm a prankster. Oh, I'm quite a bit older than Jim Henson's muppet.
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
K M Butler said:
A number of times, on phone -in orders and twice on emergency services. As soon as people hear my given name of "Kermit", they assume I'm a prankster. Oh, I'm quite a bit older than Jim Henson's muppet.
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You will not dare to say that the name of your half is Miss Piggy ?
 
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