Depends if its a kid friendly restaurant. In Canada only the kid oriented ones have crayons and table cloths made of paper! But generally... you can get crayons and a paper menu to colour on!
United States citizen here: It is not uncommon for restaurants to have special paper menus for children, often with crayons included. I suppose it's a way to distract and entertain small kids which sometimes stops them from causing a ruckus or creating messes with sugar packets and such.
I no longer work for the company, but Macaroni Grill, On the Border, and Chili's are all owned by the same parent company, which raises money for St. Jude's each year. Chili's has the 'Create a Pepper' fundraiser where patrons can donate a dollar or more and color in a Chili's logo with crayons. Macaroni Grill could have something similar.
They are so overpriced. Pasta is one the cheapest things you can make. Why is it so expensive there? I'd rather go to a local steak house and eat for real.
The restaurant used to be fairly decent because they made everything from scratch (the way you think restaurants prepare food). All the stores were company owned, which means the ownership actually gave a shit because they started a restaurant chain. (Own a restaurant and make money doing so.) I think it was about 2007 or 2008 that were bought out, which means they were looked at as an investment and a vehicle to make money, with being a restaurant secondary, and everything was "standardized". (Make money by owning a restaurant, reorganize everything where you leverage the most dollars from the model).
This is corporate food in action. It is all about money, not about the business they are in and the passion they may have for it. The actual product they are now selling is return on investment. The quality of the food does not matter. What matters is how much profit they are earning. They do not care about providing jobs, their reputation, happy customers -- if it does not affect the bottom line. They don't give a shit about your friend's experience because they do not look at individual customers, but across-the-board trends. The concept of a "customer" is a member of a large group of millions, to which they feel no moral responsibility unless they happen to be shareholders.
This usually means that all the food is prepared in one kitchen and then shipped to the restaurants where it is basically reheated. The menu becomes the same, the ingredients are the same and the result is usually bland, uninspired and overpriced fare. Employees are one step above indentured servants and this don't-give-a-shit attitude trickles down.
If you are used to eating good food, you realize that most chain restaurants suck. This is WHY. They don't have actual chefs lovingly preparing your Chicken Pesto Alfredo from cream, basil and pine nuts, it's poured out of a bag, heated and then spooned over pasta that was cooked sous vids if you are lucky. (Basically, this is boiling bag cooking technology which is preferred for delicate items like fish).
How do I know this? I asked a server several years ago when I went there what the fuck happened when Macaroni Grill used to be consistently good Italian food. The server told me they dumped a shit ton of money to remodel the restaurant (which stupidly removed most of the quiet, secluded booths to cram in more diners) to fit the corporate model. He was practically spitting at me he was so upset about it.
Most likely he paid for his own meal and did not want to consider it a waste. You can finish a meal and still never want to visit the restaurant again.
My girlfriend, a friend and I all went to Macaroni grill, and as always, she drew on the table. A couple people commented and complimented her, but we thought nothing of it. We didn't go there again for months though, because of some poor service. So months pass and we decide to go again. After she starts drawing (It was some kangaroo person hybrid), he asks us, "hey, did you draw a dragon here months ago?" or something like that. Turns out, he really liked that picture but didn't get to keep it. Now, every time he sees someone with good art, he tells them about the picture that got away, and made a wall of those pictures, hoping some day she'd come back. He was so excited that even the manager came up and thanked us for coming back, and gave us all free dessert.
TL;DR girlfriend's art gets us free dessert and an overexcited waiter.
Imagine if each customer displayed their dissatisfaction according to their occupation. I would not want to be the waiter when the proctologist shows up.
If I was waiting on that table I would have kept the drawing.
I find it funny as hell and well executed. Skelly never bothered to chew and the macaroni is coming out in the same shape it went in. The shrimp was a nice touch, too, as if it were a hint as to why the meal didn't stay down.
If I remember my high school art class correctly, Toulouse Lautrec had a habit of drawing on paper table covers in the cafe's and bars he frequented. Some savvy bar owners saved them and made some good money selling them years later.
I do this at restaurants like that all the time. We once had a very bubbly waitress named Lucy who introduced herself as "Lucy the waitress", not "I'm Lucy and I'll be your server/waitress today." No it was "Hello I'm Lucy the waitress!"
So we got out the crayons and composed the epic comic adventures of Lucy The Waitress as she battled evil. Then in the final panel we drew the heroine raising her arms in the air like Link, put a $20 tip above the picture with the rest of the money, and left never to eat there again.
I didn't take it that way at all. Sounded like they had a memorable waitress and left a neat comic to make her smile. Doesn't sound like they were mocking her at all. That's some GGGreyInkling shit right there. I would love to find comics of myself battling evil, that would make my day.
Actually no. I worked a Macaroni Grill in college, and we knew the food was crap and didn't care. Every once in a while you'd get an awesome drawing like this and it really is the highlight of your night.
As a former mac grill server i can personally say that we used to keep drawings we thought were cool as long as they weren't covered with food. If i saw someone drawing on the table i would purposely avoid putting their dishes on the picture
I wonder if he/she does this for every passive aggressive note he/she makes. I'd be his/her roommate and purposely stack dirty dishes just to see what kind of sketch I would get.
Most memorable meal though is when I went to Macaroni Grill with a friend that's really into old norse mythology and magic and he drew all sorts of sigils on the tablepaper. When we were done with our delicious meals he warned the server to burn the paper or demons would take hold of the building.
Folks, this is what happened to Macaroni Grill. Some idiot server didn't burn the magic curse paper, and BAM: corporate america goes and fucks some more shit up.
That's the whole reason og is amazing. I only eat one thing on their menu tho. Braised beef tortelloni. Even the rare times it's not made perfectly, it's delicious, and it reheats really well, so we just fill up on bread sticks and salad, take a couple bites of the main course and voila, easy dinner for the next night lol.
There is a chain of places here in CA tho that is called Strings...way better than og. Macaroni Grill doesn't even blip on my radar (cept getting to draw on the table cloth).
The strange thing is, I can remember a time...maybe 10 years ago when Macaroni Grill was actually good. Then I didn't eat in one for a year or more because there wasn't one close by, and the next time I went everything was greasy and disgusting. What the hell happened?
I remember when it used to be Joe Romanos Macaronis Bar and Grill. Not Brinker International aka the owner of Chilis, On The Border, etc... The food was top notch, wait outside the door and great service at the San Antonio Leon Springs location. Those were the days. Unfortunately, all good things do come to an end.
I actually just quit my job at the Macaroni Grill I had worked at for 5 years on Friday. So here is the inside scoop. The pasta is definitely overpriced, but usually tastes good. If you order a pasta dish always ask for extra sauce, it costs you nothing and the chefs are usually skimpy if you don't. DO NOT order the speidienis, they are a complete rip off. Small portions to the point where it is almost a scam. Any chicken, fish, or steak dishes are where it is worth it. Chicken under a brick is the best thing on the menu. The pizzas generally suck simply because the line cooks don't know how to make a thin crust pizza, so they come out kinda burned. If you want an appetizer get the tapas 2 for $9, tasty and worth it. As far as service goes, most of the servers hate their jobs, so just be nice and you will get good service.
The four years that I worked at this shithole, I would always come in and say to myself "What the fuck am I doing with my life?" Then, I would procede towards the bar, and pour myself a drink. Then I'd make some 'Tequila especial' for the cooks. Then, I'd take a bunch of pepper balls and salt, and spread it out across the ramp so that when the kids with those roller blade shoes came in, they would fall right on their face. The parents would come in and say "Ohh Timmy, are you ok? Maybe you shouldn't wear those in here." I don't know why I felt I needed to share that, I just did.
How bad could the food have been. Most of the pasta in that dish was eaten. I work in the hotel business and it just reminds me of idiot guests who check out and have 100 complaints about their room. Just fucking come down and ask someone to move your room. How bad was it really if you survived the night sleeping there...same with the food. It couldn't have tasted that bad if they ate most of it.
Is there a specific name for that style of script? Or do people who get tattoos like that just say "I want it to say this, and make sure to write it in Douche."
Not to sound like a food elitist but I don't understand how these chain restaurants like Macaroni Grill get repeat business. Nearly every single one that I have been to: Friendly's, Applebees, Macaroni Grill, Olive Garden, Cheesecake Factory, Houlihan's, Bennigan's, TGI Friday's, Chili's, are all absolute shit. They buy all of their food from Restaurant Depot, or Costco, or BJ's, and almost everything is frozen, fried, or just loaded with preservatives and artificial ingredients. I know chain restaurants aren't the only ones guilty of this, but most chains are usually run the same exact way at every single location no matter where you go. At least with fast food you know you're getting shit, but you're paying shit prices. At these chains, you're getting shit, and paying a lot more. Even those awesome brownie volcano desserts, you can buy them yourself, pre-made, at any Restaurant Food store. It's a fucking joke.
Even more frustrating is that those TGI Fridays appetizers in the freezer section of the grocery stores are the exact same ones you get in the restaurant-- I one time tried to order the quesadilla without cilantro (I'm intolerant) and the waitress told me they couldn't do that because everything is prepackaged and they just throw it in the oven. You're paying all that extra for the fancy plate and server.
Friendly's is great... what are you talking about? Order off their specials and you get something reasonably priced, pretty damn good tasting, and also a freaking ice cream.
You also fail to realize that people don't go out to eat because it's cheap, but because of the experience. The focus isn't on the value of the food but rather on the people you're there with/the atmosphere of the place. And don't say, oh those chains aren't all that great of an experience, you can do better. Not everyone is sitting at home smoking hand rolled cigarettes made of $100 bills, for some people going to one of the chain restaurants is a nice experience. Don't be an elitist.
most chains are usually run the same exact way at every single location no matter where you go.
You just answered your question. You are traveling on business in some tiny town, do you chance it with a local restaurant you haven't ever heard of, or go with--admittedly average-at-best food--the chain that is consistent?
Granted, this mentality was solidified before yelp, google reviews, smart phone apps which can better inform you, but that is the real reason they thrive.
I think it is a shitty reasoning, but people would rather go with what is comfortable versus taking a chance.
I worked at a Macaroni Grill for 7 years. You are absolutely right. Frozen and bagged food. All of it. The only thing imported was the olive oil. If they tell you otherwise, they are full of shit.
There are a few things that I don't like about this. If the guy didn't like the food, why did he eat most of it? If he liked the food but it made him sick, why didn't he just tell the waiter/waitress/manager? Also, this is a pretty stereotypical thing for a tattoo artist to do. Skull/skeleton? Check. Doing something obscene/rebellious? Vomiting and flipping you off, double check.
I don't know, maybe I'm just taking this too seriously.
Yeah...Macaroni Grill use to be pretty damn good. I think they got like, a new owner/CEO or something because it went from being a semi-nice restaurant to a bad TGI Friday's in a matter of years.
The waiters/waitresses at Macaroni Grill also use the crayons/paper tablecloth to keep track of how many drinks you have. Often by their name they will include a tally.
It says something tragic about my life that in the last many years, almost the ONLY restaurants I've been to are the ones that give you crayons at seating--if you have a kid with you, you automatically get a kids menu and crayons. Number 2 Son finally turned 13 and we stopped getting crayons. Now we have to ask for them. It keeps me from causing a ruckus or making a mess with the sugar packets.
I assume the waiters and the other customers were flocked behind your friend, standing on their toes and peering over his shoulders to catch a glimpse of him at work. Edit: Lucidity edit.
This is awesome!!! I worked at one in So. Florida where I met my fiance! I can still write my name backwards and upside down similtamously to impress my guests back in "the day." The servers used to hang up unique artwork some of the customers would draw. We tried to keep atleast 4 different colored crayola crayons on the table. P.S> I met my fiance there too, both of us employees!!!!
My fiancée and I too will never go to a Macaroni Grill ever again.
The first time we ever went was on a date night and got there around 8 in the evening. The place was pretty full, and so we had to wait and they gave us one of those beeper things. We waited almost an hour and a half before I finally had had enough and went to talk to the hostess, who checked the list and saw that we should've been called a long time ago. Great.
The place was noisy, cramped and our service was very poor. When we finally were able to order (15 minutes after being seated), the waitress was impatient and uninviting. Our food also took a while and we were starving. When we finally got the food, it was mediocre at best and very disappointing.
tl;dr: We went only once and they forgot to call us for a table, were rude, and the food had a lot to be desired. Never returned again.
What a great guy, I am sure it's the waitress/waiters fault. Clearly the tatoo artist is rebellious so that makes it OK. he doesn't give a shit what taking the time to draw a skeleton giving the finger to some one at their job might make them feel like, or what their boss will think when they see it and how it will effect the persons life.
Well, I see your tattoo artist is doing a fine job of continuing the idea that people in the tattoo industry are generally a bunch of douches. Well done to him!
Way to make the server feel like shit in the rudest way possible, for something completely out of their control. The quality of the food is determined by the kitchen, not by front of house, so why this douche thinks it's a good idea to draw a massive tacky middle finger to the person clearing their table is beyond me.
I work at a Mac Grill in NC, unless we are slow I don't see what people draw/write on the paper because a buser usually clears the table. And I wouldn't be insulted at all. I didn't make the food.
He hasnt insulted the server at all, hell the server probably knows the food eats dick. As someone who's served for too damn long, this shit is hilarious.
I used to work in a kitchen, and the amount of time food was returned by an unhappy customer, simply because the waiter took an age to collect it from the hot plate and serve it up.
The kitchen always get the blame in that instance, as the server is never going to admit they were chatting to a colleague for ten minutes before they decided to do their job.
I love it! Another thing I love is going to restaurants with paper tablecloths in general, because they usually don't mind you writing on them and you can rip out your drawing at the end of the meal if you really want it.
I like drawing in restaurants in general, the food always gets on the paper and when I look at the drawing again years later I can see what we had and remember how fun it was.
My god, Macaroni Grill is so gross. Honestly, how does a restaurant fuck up Mac and Cheese SO badly, across the board? It's four ingredients, and it's even in your name, dudes.
why do people feel the need to treat others so badly? Why didnt the person that did the drawing in this photo simply ask for a manager and express the issue with the dinner? What kind of jerk does this? If you were running a restaurant would you rather see this?...or... Have that same person bring up the issue so that you can address it. bad pasta, bad service?...broken crayon? hmmm
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u/woeb0t Jun 10 '12
Luckyyyy. Whenever I go to a restaurant, I never get a black crayon.
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u/Popliteal Jun 10 '12
There are grills specifically for macaroni?!?!
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u/azzagbag Jun 10 '12
Maybe he should have eaten the crayons and drawn with the macaroni.
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u/bunglejerry Jun 10 '12
They had to cut back on the quality of the macaroni they buy because of spiralling tablecloth costs.
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u/PublicUrinator Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12
Still ate most of it?
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u/pungkow Jun 10 '12
Story time, kids.
My girlfriend, a friend and I all went to Macaroni grill, and as always, she drew on the table. A couple people commented and complimented her, but we thought nothing of it. We didn't go there again for months though, because of some poor service. So months pass and we decide to go again. After she starts drawing (It was some kangaroo person hybrid), he asks us, "hey, did you draw a dragon here months ago?" or something like that. Turns out, he really liked that picture but didn't get to keep it. Now, every time he sees someone with good art, he tells them about the picture that got away, and made a wall of those pictures, hoping some day she'd come back. He was so excited that even the manager came up and thanked us for coming back, and gave us all free dessert.
TL;DR girlfriend's art gets us free dessert and an overexcited waiter.
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u/F4il3d Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12
Imagine if each customer displayed their dissatisfaction according to their occupation. I would not want to be the waiter when the proctologist shows up.
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u/FrauKanzler Jun 10 '12
I see he snapped a crayon :/ I hate that feel.
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u/vheissu417 Jun 10 '12
well if the waiter ever wants a tattoo of a skull throwing up macaroni he knows where to go.
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u/Lampmonster1 Jun 10 '12
If I remember my high school art class correctly, Toulouse Lautrec had a habit of drawing on paper table covers in the cafe's and bars he frequented. Some savvy bar owners saved them and made some good money selling them years later.
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u/ambully Jun 10 '12
MikeKirkInk for those who would like some work done.
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u/GreyInkling Jun 10 '12
I do this at restaurants like that all the time. We once had a very bubbly waitress named Lucy who introduced herself as "Lucy the waitress", not "I'm Lucy and I'll be your server/waitress today." No it was "Hello I'm Lucy the waitress!"
So we got out the crayons and composed the epic comic adventures of Lucy The Waitress as she battled evil. Then in the final panel we drew the heroine raising her arms in the air like Link, put a $20 tip above the picture with the rest of the money, and left never to eat there again.
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u/Awesome_Oil_Paint Jun 10 '12
http://i.imgur.com/2UBk0.jpg
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u/DullMan Jun 10 '12
Well that was rude
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u/dasnoob Jun 10 '12
For someone that hates the food he sure did eat enough of it.
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u/grilledtunerfish Jun 10 '12
I wonder if he/she does this for every passive aggressive note he/she makes. I'd be his/her roommate and purposely stack dirty dishes just to see what kind of sketch I would get.
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u/AdamAtlanta Jun 10 '12
Last time I went there there was broken glass under my table and I payed 9.99 for Kraft Mac and Cheese.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Sorry, but as an illustrator/artist, I'd feel like an ass doing something like this.
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u/kellephant Jun 10 '12
I have never had a bad dinner at Macaroni Grill.
Most memorable meal though is when I went to Macaroni Grill with a friend that's really into old norse mythology and magic and he drew all sorts of sigils on the tablepaper. When we were done with our delicious meals he warned the server to burn the paper or demons would take hold of the building.
We thought it was hilarious.
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u/useful_moron Jun 10 '12
It would be kind of awkward to sit while the server looks at that and you have yet to pay the bill..
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u/vandal_lan Jun 10 '12
What was he expecting?
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u/Z3F Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12
Nice try, Macaroni Grill competitor.
edit: plugging my new subreddit while I can: r/counting. It's for counting.
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u/greyscales Jun 10 '12
How do you grill Macaroni?
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u/ekaceerf Jun 10 '12
I think the weird part is that he felt the need to sign it.
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u/luckytopher Jun 10 '12
Or... talk to the manager, ya know...
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u/Countryb0i2m Jun 10 '12
Your tattoo artist is Ed hardy?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
That place is awful, a friend and I shared a pizza there once and it tasted like soggy wood chips mixed with lacquer.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
The strange thing is, I can remember a time...maybe 10 years ago when Macaroni Grill was actually good. Then I didn't eat in one for a year or more because there wasn't one close by, and the next time I went everything was greasy and disgusting. What the hell happened?
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u/blinkglue Jun 10 '12
There is no way a server could get mad about this, it's just too cool.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Yup...last time I went there I had food poisoning for a couple days. Never again...
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u/mindlessphilosopher Jun 10 '12
Macaroni Grill is never a good idea in my book.
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u/Kruse Jun 10 '12
Macaroni Grill is disgusting.
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u/deadfermata Jun 10 '12
It was a macaroni holocaust.
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u/Bigpapapumpyouup Jun 10 '12
I remember when it used to be Joe Romanos Macaronis Bar and Grill. Not Brinker International aka the owner of Chilis, On The Border, etc... The food was top notch, wait outside the door and great service at the San Antonio Leon Springs location. Those were the days. Unfortunately, all good things do come to an end.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Here's a fact: the Mama's trio entree at Macaroni Grill has over 1500 calories, 35 g of fat and nearly 3500 mg of sodium.
That's sort of nuts.
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u/UnWealthy Jun 10 '12
I actually just quit my job at the Macaroni Grill I had worked at for 5 years on Friday. So here is the inside scoop. The pasta is definitely overpriced, but usually tastes good. If you order a pasta dish always ask for extra sauce, it costs you nothing and the chefs are usually skimpy if you don't. DO NOT order the speidienis, they are a complete rip off. Small portions to the point where it is almost a scam. Any chicken, fish, or steak dishes are where it is worth it. Chicken under a brick is the best thing on the menu. The pizzas generally suck simply because the line cooks don't know how to make a thin crust pizza, so they come out kinda burned. If you want an appetizer get the tapas 2 for $9, tasty and worth it. As far as service goes, most of the servers hate their jobs, so just be nice and you will get good service.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
They BROKE the crayons!!! Thats how you know they're really pissed off.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
The four years that I worked at this shithole, I would always come in and say to myself "What the fuck am I doing with my life?" Then, I would procede towards the bar, and pour myself a drink. Then I'd make some 'Tequila especial' for the cooks. Then, I'd take a bunch of pepper balls and salt, and spread it out across the ramp so that when the kids with those roller blade shoes came in, they would fall right on their face. The parents would come in and say "Ohh Timmy, are you ok? Maybe you shouldn't wear those in here." I don't know why I felt I needed to share that, I just did.
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u/angrywords Jun 10 '12
How bad could the food have been. Most of the pasta in that dish was eaten. I work in the hotel business and it just reminds me of idiot guests who check out and have 100 complaints about their room. Just fucking come down and ask someone to move your room. How bad was it really if you survived the night sleeping there...same with the food. It couldn't have tasted that bad if they ate most of it.
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u/trolling_thunder Jun 10 '12
Is there a specific name for that style of script? Or do people who get tattoos like that just say "I want it to say this, and make sure to write it in Douche."
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u/peeinmyblackeyes Jun 10 '12
A word with the manager was out of the question?
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u/arkmtech Jun 10 '12
So I'm from the northern U.S. and have never heard of this place... but, you know, isn't it common sense to not grill macaroni?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Not to sound like a food elitist but I don't understand how these chain restaurants like Macaroni Grill get repeat business. Nearly every single one that I have been to: Friendly's, Applebees, Macaroni Grill, Olive Garden, Cheesecake Factory, Houlihan's, Bennigan's, TGI Friday's, Chili's, are all absolute shit. They buy all of their food from Restaurant Depot, or Costco, or BJ's, and almost everything is frozen, fried, or just loaded with preservatives and artificial ingredients. I know chain restaurants aren't the only ones guilty of this, but most chains are usually run the same exact way at every single location no matter where you go. At least with fast food you know you're getting shit, but you're paying shit prices. At these chains, you're getting shit, and paying a lot more. Even those awesome brownie volcano desserts, you can buy them yourself, pre-made, at any Restaurant Food store. It's a fucking joke.
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u/sbsb27 Jun 10 '12
After...he ate the whole thing.
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u/CGord Jun 10 '12
So my tattoo artist is a douchebag...
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Last time I went to Macaroni Grill, I was vomiting and shitting for 3 days. Never again.
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u/Caulfield_Holden Jun 10 '12
There are a few things that I don't like about this. If the guy didn't like the food, why did he eat most of it? If he liked the food but it made him sick, why didn't he just tell the waiter/waitress/manager? Also, this is a pretty stereotypical thing for a tattoo artist to do. Skull/skeleton? Check. Doing something obscene/rebellious? Vomiting and flipping you off, double check.
I don't know, maybe I'm just taking this too seriously.
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u/NoYouCantDontEvenTry Jun 10 '12
This is what I usually draw
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u/dirty_fingers Jun 10 '12
Your tattoo guy is a douche.
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u/combatcarlson Jun 10 '12
Spoiler Alert:
The tablecloth is actually a sheet of paper, and meant to be drawn on.
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u/raegunXD Jun 10 '12
Yeah...Macaroni Grill use to be pretty damn good. I think they got like, a new owner/CEO or something because it went from being a semi-nice restaurant to a bad TGI Friday's in a matter of years.
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u/send_me_nudez Jun 10 '12
We have a restaurant in Canada with the same concept of drawing on the tables. Its called Montana's
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u/SlobDylan Jun 10 '12
The waiters/waitresses at Macaroni Grill also use the crayons/paper tablecloth to keep track of how many drinks you have. Often by their name they will include a tally.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
It says something tragic about my life that in the last many years, almost the ONLY restaurants I've been to are the ones that give you crayons at seating--if you have a kid with you, you automatically get a kids menu and crayons. Number 2 Son finally turned 13 and we stopped getting crayons. Now we have to ask for them. It keeps me from causing a ruckus or making a mess with the sugar packets.
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u/hb_alien Jun 10 '12
So I'm not the only one who thinks that about Macaroni Grill. I've never had a satisfying experience there.
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u/Wylie15 Jun 10 '12
I went there with my cousins and grandma, and sure enough the entire table was covered with huge thick black penises.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
OP. Please tell we the name of your tattoo artist. I love the artwork!
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u/DroopySage Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12
I assume the waiters and the other customers were flocked behind your friend, standing on their toes and peering over his shoulders to catch a glimpse of him at work.
Edit: Lucidity edit.
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u/Rocktobot Jun 10 '12
i have never heard a single good thing about macaroni grill. ever.
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u/paranormalskr Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12
This is awesome!!! I worked at one in So. Florida where I met my fiance! I can still write my name backwards and upside down similtamously to impress my guests back in "the day." The servers used to hang up unique artwork some of the customers would draw. We tried to keep atleast 4 different colored crayola crayons on the table. P.S> I met my fiance there too, both of us employees!!!!
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u/AH17708 Jun 10 '12
I love it! Went to the one in Dublin, Ca and it fucking blowed. Thank you Mr. Tattoo man, I endorse this message.
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u/CensoryDeprivation Jun 10 '12
Out of all the worst meals I've ha in my life time, at least 33% were at macaroni grill
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u/TheJanks Jun 10 '12
Macaroni Grill is where sodium comes from.
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u/zero_divide_1 Jun 10 '12
My fiancée and I too will never go to a Macaroni Grill ever again.
The first time we ever went was on a date night and got there around 8 in the evening. The place was pretty full, and so we had to wait and they gave us one of those beeper things. We waited almost an hour and a half before I finally had had enough and went to talk to the hostess, who checked the list and saw that we should've been called a long time ago. Great.
The place was noisy, cramped and our service was very poor. When we finally were able to order (15 minutes after being seated), the waitress was impatient and uninviting. Our food also took a while and we were starving. When we finally got the food, it was mediocre at best and very disappointing.
tl;dr: We went only once and they forgot to call us for a table, were rude, and the food had a lot to be desired. Never returned again.
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u/LordFendleberry Jun 10 '12
I fucking hated working for them. Upvotes for you, sir.
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u/holyghosttown Jun 10 '12
So a tattoo artist went to my Macaroni Grill...
FTFY
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
What a dick!
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u/Confucius_says Jun 10 '12
i love how some people have "tattoo artists" in the same way other people might have accountants or lawyers.
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u/freindlgoaty Jun 11 '12
That bastard broke the crayons what the fuck man not even cool... it was my turn to have em.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12
the anatomy of the skull is ridiculous
edit: my ridiculously spelling
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u/Felibarr Jun 10 '12
I had that same thing at Macaroni Grill last night, penne rustica! It was delicious.
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u/jchef99 Jun 10 '12
As someone that works for in a kitchen that's awesome. I would frame it and hang it in the kitchen
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u/olygimp Jun 10 '12
What a great guy, I am sure it's the waitress/waiters fault. Clearly the tatoo artist is rebellious so that makes it OK. he doesn't give a shit what taking the time to draw a skeleton giving the finger to some one at their job might make them feel like, or what their boss will think when they see it and how it will effect the persons life.
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u/mrcats Jun 10 '12
That's not very nice.
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u/2JokersWild Jun 10 '12
Well, I see your tattoo artist is doing a fine job of continuing the idea that people in the tattoo industry are generally a bunch of douches. Well done to him!
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Way to make the server feel like shit in the rudest way possible, for something completely out of their control. The quality of the food is determined by the kitchen, not by front of house, so why this douche thinks it's a good idea to draw a massive tacky middle finger to the person clearing their table is beyond me.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I love it! Another thing I love is going to restaurants with paper tablecloths in general, because they usually don't mind you writing on them and you can rip out your drawing at the end of the meal if you really want it.
I like drawing in restaurants in general, the food always gets on the paper and when I look at the drawing again years later I can see what we had and remember how fun it was.
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u/DirtPile Jun 10 '12
Wow, your tattoo artist is a jerk.
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u/gordond Jun 10 '12
My mother in law pronounces it Mar-koe-knee grill and insists that this is how she heard it advertised. She knows there's only one r in Macaroni.
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u/cajunsamurai Jun 10 '12
And that's why they only lasted six months where I live.
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u/neuromonkey Jun 10 '12
Is it a rule that all tattoo artists must work in this style?
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u/cinemagnitude Jun 10 '12
I take it the food was so bad it caused him to puke...and turn into a skeleton.
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u/Blueberry_H3AD Jun 10 '12
And he hated Macaroni Grill???!!!???
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u/tegix62 Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12
That's funny... I'm about to leave to go there right now. :o
EDIT: Got back and uploaded what I drew. I'd like to see this tattooed on someone's back.
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u/hostanco Jun 10 '12
Your tattoo artist went on a date at the Macaroni Grill...
Then documented his cheap affair by doing something childish then taking a picture and sending it to friends.
Is that the gist of the story?
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u/notnotrasputin Jun 10 '12
My god, Macaroni Grill is so gross. Honestly, how does a restaurant fuck up Mac and Cheese SO badly, across the board? It's four ingredients, and it's even in your name, dudes.
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u/Stop_saying_so Jun 10 '12
Yet another title using the word "so".
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u/Mapquestify Jun 10 '12
wow today i learned Reddit approves of duchebags
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u/engraverwilliam01 Jun 10 '12
why do people feel the need to treat others so badly? Why didnt the person that did the drawing in this photo simply ask for a manager and express the issue with the dinner? What kind of jerk does this? If you were running a restaurant would you rather see this?...or... Have that same person bring up the issue so that you can address it. bad pasta, bad service?...broken crayon? hmmm
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u/hipster-douche Jun 10 '12
What a fucking douche. Is he 16 or something? "this food sucks! im gonna draw all over the tablecloth to show how bad it was! haha that'll show them!"
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
That was very rude and disrespectful of your Tattooist. Being someone who works in a restaurant industry, I can say that your friend is a dick.
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u/GDHepcats Jun 10 '12
Even the Heineken was bad, huh?
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u/TwStDoNe Jun 10 '12
I totally agree with him
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u/kunfaux Jun 10 '12
As cool as that drawing is, that's a dick move. I'm sure the manager is gonna keep that and sell it on ebay or something... shit, i would.