Jed and I had what I believe is the single worst experience in a restaurant that I've ever had....period.
After the show last night we decided to head to our neighborhood Shari's (a Denny's clone) for a late night snack. We decided to split some nachos, and we each had a drink. From the time we got in to the time the guy showed up to take our order was at least 10 minutes, and that was only the beginning.
The food took forever to come, and the nachos were skimpy on cheese, too many olives, forgot the tomatoes, and didn't include the salsa and sour cream that was supposed to be there. The bowl of chilli that came as a dip was half full, over dried, and had clearly come from the bottom of a pot.
It took us another 10 minutes to flag down the waitress and actually get our drinks refilled and the sour cream and salsa delivered. But the kicker was at the end of the meal. We finished our last bite of food at 11:40. We were sitting there, with obviously empty plates in front of us. At 12:10, we were still sitting there! Not one person had come over with a check, or to ask if we wanted refills, or ANYTHING.
We were tempted to just keep sitting there and see exactly how long it would take for them to realize we were there...but eventually we just went and stood at the register. When the guy came over and asked for our check, we rather pointedly told him that we didn't have it, and had been waiting for it for almost half an hour. He didn't seem too disturbed.
Now, the restaurant was not that full, and there were serveral guys there apparantly under the impression that they were being paid to chat with each other about girls. It was just an awful eating experience.
Needless to say, there was no tip involved.