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Went out with the same friend and two other guys.
Arrived at the bar at 22:25.
The menu said: meals and salad from 17:00 till 22:30.
So we said to ourselves: Good timing, as we all were pretty hungry after the rehearsal.
And then we rememberd the movie “Falling Down” with Michael Douglas. (Remember the fast food store and the breakfast lady?).
And THEN we wondered, why the waitress would not come to our table, although she had nothing to do.
When she finally came, we wanted two salads. So, guess what:
“I’m sorry, it’s already past 22:30.”
Silence.
Looks.
More silence.
But no shotgun being pulled out…
We did not get the salad, the waitress did not get a tip.
And the word “Service-Wüste Deutschland” suddenly comes back to my mind.

Edited on Oct 13th 2004, 14:17 by Outsider

Went out for dinner with a friend to a bar-restaurant.
We ordered two meals planning to share them. One pasta gratin and one chicken Schnitzel with potatoes.
Unfortunately, the Schnitzel was way too salty, so we returned it. They had to change the meal though into turkey as the marinade was the reason for the salt problem, so all chicken was spoiled.
When the turkey arrived, guess what: no salt at all. And the potatoes (which were fine the first time) were not boiled properly. But we did not want to make another fuss, so we nibbled the salat and that was it.
But when we asked the waitress, whether we have to pay the full price for this again-spoiled meal, the manager started to rumble to the other guests about us being impertinent. After we payed (quite a high bill), we had a little argument with him and left.
After a few minutes I started wondering: why did we pay more than 30 Euro for two drinks and two meals. Did they bill us the spoiled one twice?
So we returned to the place, already laughing because the whole scene got a surreal, absurd notion. They looked at the bill and: tatata, three cafe latte, one cappuchino etc. which none of us had. So we got back 14 Euros, one free drink, lots of apologies.
And the manager said in despair: Recommend us. Haha.