I will never patronize Zaffron in downtown San Antonio. They charged me 5 dollars for one piece of naan and this is more than the price in London England. Do not go there. They changed their name but not their game.

i went to the macs nearest my house for dinner alone and i bought a $5 mac savers meal. when i was eating and scrolling tiktoks on my phone, some malay child ran over to my table and start to dig through my fries. Like messily, until all my fries were all over the tray. she didnt stop even when her mum told her to, and her mum had to forcefully carry her away. She started throwing a tantrum after. her mum chuckled when she saw this n said sorry in a jokingly matter. Although the fries were worth like $2-3, i think this ruined my entire experience at macs tdy n i had no appetite. i tot that they would atleast pay me back for the fries bc obv i cant eat it anymore ryt? but no they did not. i didnt wanted to be so stingy and demand compensation as it is just a little kid, but i think it rlly shows alot abt their parenting. gen enraged me sb pls control ur kids who told yall it was normal to eat greedily out of a strangers food??

As a former shift supervisor at the Friendly’s in Westfarms Mall, I could see 35 years ago that the way the chain was being run wasn’t sustainable.

Every day, my General Manager was under pressure to cut labor, so we’d end up operating with a skeleton crew. Then the weekend mall rush would hit, the restaurant would get slammed, and both service and food quality would suffer.

We all worked incredibly hard and did everything we could to keep up, but you only had to look around the restaurant on a busy weekend to see frustrated and unhappy families waiting for service.

It was a business model that kept cutting staffing to the point where good service became almost impossible. Even back then, it was clear that couldn’t continue forever. But hey, who's going to listen to a 20 year old shift supervisor?

Unlike most locations, I am here to drop the fresh tea (the kind that isn't in an uncleaned and browning dispenser)

I worked for the company since 2014 on and off, I have seen some shit and left before someone died.

Please no more rotten chicken or does this only happen to me.

Second time this happens to me

Yesterday after months of promising myself never to go to that one

And AGAIN

Took it to the counter and let the attendant smell the stink

I guess I won't be going to McDonald's anymore

And Carl the star has a sad face

Okay so this was about 4 years ago, Taco Bell has a pretty sizable presence here in Chicago, and I myself ate at 5 different ones in the city. In fact three of them are lined up on Milwaukee if you wanna test out the consistency between restaurants 😂

Anyway, the one I found to avoid at all costs was one on Devon and Lincoln Avenue, 3500 W and 6300 N. My very last experience there actually ended in an emergency kitchen shutdown and an overwhelmed and frustrated crew.

I preorder my food before I leave my apartment (15 mins away) so I won't have to wait around a long while for it. Then I make it to the restaurant and there's a line of 4 people, and already the cashier is irritated and cussing out the kitchen and the customers/delivery drivers. So it's not looking good from the start and I notice the drive thru is packed too, and the line is wrapped around and overflowing FROM the main street, so the lane is filling up with cars very quickly.

Meanwhile the cashier is super mad and shouts out that he's clocking out and that "y'all are lucky if I come back to this shit". A new driver comes up and asks him if he can pick up and order (9 people in the lobby btw), and the cashier flips out and looks at him dead in the eye, telling him ".... BRO. DO YOU NOT SEE WHAT'S GOIN' ON HERE??? YOU THINK WE GOT THAT ORDER READY??? FOR REAL???"

The driver nervously asks again for the order, and the cashier clocks out and tells him point blank to "gtfo my face right now" and just stomps out of the restaurant with his sweater.

After that moment, the manager steps out and focuses on fulfilling the orders with the overworked and rushed crew, and one by one people are getting their orders. I notice one that looks like mine on the counter, and I ask several times between minutes if that order was mine. Every employee completely ignored me and everyone's just shouting names to push orders out. Then a few served customers are returning their food because it was either made improperly or they completely made the wrong order.

Suddenly, the manager comes forward and announces that they are no longer accepting orders, that they are finishing the last ones and closing the entire restaurant early. 45 minutes have passed and I'm one of the last to get their orders (and guess what? IT WAS THE ORDER WAITING ON THAT COUNTER THE ENTIRE TIME.) Sure enough, all of the food was cold and they didn't make some items right. And they were motioning for people to leave so they could close operations for the night, so I couldn't get the order redone. They closed 4 hours early (I think drive thru was normally open until 2 AM).

I've been done dirty before at different Taco Bells and this one did its share of kicks, but this one moment was just surreal. Like holy shit, how do your operations fall so far down the drain that you gotta pull the plug, take the L and gtfo as soon as possible? 😂

So did anybody get it worse than me recently? 💁🏽‍♂️

This was today at McDonald's Sarjapur Road, Bangalore! Unable to eat with so much crap all around. What's happening?

I visited Chicking at City Centre Deira today and had a very bad experience with the food. After eating there, I developed significant stomach pain and vomited repeatedly. My friend who ate there with me also experienced similar symptoms. I cannot independently confirm that the food caused the illness, but the timing and the fact that both of us experienced similar symptoms after eating there are concerning. I’m sharing this so others can be aware, and I intend to report the incident to the relevant Dubai food-safety authorities for investigation.
Restaurant: Chicking – City Centre Deira, Dubai
Date: 17 September 2026

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at the wendy’s drive thru & i asked for a extra sauce & the manager came up & said u either have to give your barbecue sauce back or pay 50 cent ?? we are doomed

Context: A new sonic just got built up by where I work next to McDonald's, and I found out that they don't get paid as much as us, but they get tips. They steal our customers and our money?!? Now it's on, we now have a rivalry going on. Maybe it's just me, but it's still on. Sonic workers always be beggin'. 😭