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It's mostly empty and the staff act surprised and confused about your presence. It's a hint that selling food isn't their main business.

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There is a tale (maybe just an urban legend) of a small pizza joint that was owned by a local d**g mobster for money laundering purposes. To everyone's surprise (especially the owner's) it became so popular that they stopped selling d***s and went to pizza full time, as it was simply more profitable.

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Someone handling the food while wearing gloves but then using their gloved hands to handle money, open doors, touch their face, etc.

Or worse, someone handling food with bare hands while there are open wounds or bandaids. I've seen it. Immediate nope for me.

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I'll tell you what. Gloves tend to be more dirty, than your bare hands. You wash or rinse your hands, when you feel them "dirty", like there are spices or any other food item sticking to them. But with gloves, nope. Maximum a spritz of sanitazer. Yummy!

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Having to look up a menu on your phone, music loud enough that you can't have a conversation, general lack of hygiene standards. I've walked out of restaurants for all three of those before.

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My phone is not smart, so for me is a fck-you-you-rwannabe-"creative"-a.ss.

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No Prices on the menu.

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In Spain all prices including tax must appear on the menu. If they do not appear in the menu with prices then you cannot be charged for it.

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Lots of flies buzzing around the tables and the kitchen.

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Cook walks out of the bathroom with an apron on.

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How do you see it? I mean, the personal has it's own changing room and toilets not in sight of the customers, in the staff-area. At least in Germany.

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The smell of a dirty grease trap. After you've worked in a kitchen for a while you recognize it instantly. It's an awful smell and if a place isn't getting it regularly serviced the rest of the operation is probably terrible too.

I was going to pub trivia at a place I had worked at years earlier. As soon as I walked in I smelled *the smell* and it was strong. I ended up calling the trap cleaning service and setting up an appointment for them without telling the manager.

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As soon as the oil it starting to make "espuma" ... you need to change it. And at this stage, it doesn't really stinks ... that comes after a few days.

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When the workers look at you like you ruined their good time and now they gotta work.

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Good that you can't see the cooks' reaction, when you place your order 5 minutes before kitchen's closing time. And to tell you why. A relatively fast dish like salads, soups, a chicken-wings in a Masterchef-device or a pasta dish is still okay. It takes like 10 minutes to make But when you order a 2-3 course menü, you are cursed till the your first ancestor, who decided to leave the african continent. Because that means a minimum 1-1,5 hour overtime. Even in lucky countries, where OT is paid, is a pain in the a.ss, after a 8 hour shift.

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Besides being filthy or having rude service, one thing that will basically make me immediately turn around and leave is blaringly loud music and strange lighting. I just want to eat my meal in peace or be able to have a nice conversation with someone.

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Compulsory service charge.

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In some countries -like Hungary- a lot of restaurants already added a service fee aka. tip of 10-12%. This is mentioned on their menü. It's up to you, if you make an order in such a restaurant. But in this case, you don't tip.

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If I go into a restaurant and sit for more than15 minutes before someone comes to my table, I leave. If a roach scurries across the table, I am out. I go to the restroom immediately if no haven’t been there before. The cleanliness of the restroom reflects the restaurant’s cleanliness standards. Gross bathrooms? I am out….

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No soap in the bathroom- and no hint that it just ran out. Like there is no dispenser on the wall and no empty container on the sink.

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Is that legal where?

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It's a bit specific but if I'm looking to eat at a bbq joint and I don't smell it well before I walk in I know it's not gonna be good. Ideally I should be able to smell it from like a block away. Anytime I've ignored that instinct and gone in anyway the food ended up being bland and dry as hell.

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I agree. You should smell that barbecue as soon as you open your car door. That tells me that the owner of that BBQ place means business, as in, having the meat in that smoker overnight. Back in the 80's, bad BBQ was EVERYWHERE. Burned on the outside, raw on the inside. Then some chefs stepped up and said, "Let us show you how it's done." The rest is history.

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I got 2 from the same Dunkin Donuts! A worker sneezed into his gloved hands and gave them a half-hearted wipe on his pant legs. Immediately after, a customer came in to get donuts and I saw the man fill the order without changing his gloves. I went off and left. Later on, I went to leave a review explaining this and saw that I'm not the only one to point out their disgusting ways. Someone else posted a picture of a worker with his shoes off and dirty socked feet up on a table. Sitting right next to a window for the public to see.

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Ugh.

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My brother told me this story.

He saw a black cord like thing sticking out of a wall. Thought it was a wire or something…. Then it started to move.

Apparently it was a mouse tail. That’s not the worst part.

He tells a waiter. Waiter grabs a spoon, one that is obviously something guests would be given to eat with, and attacks the tail with it.

Him and his entire group just left.

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I'm starting to lose my appetite.

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My wife is Arabic and one time we are at a kebab shop and her demeanor changed and when I asked why she explained that she heard one kitchen staff ask the other;


A: "What are you doing?"


B: "I'm throwing this old meat away?"


A: "No no no mix it with the fresh. These stupid westerners can't tell anyway.

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Well as a stupid Westerner, I can tell if the meat is old or rotten. I have nose yk...

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I went to a diner near me recently I had never heard of. There was no one eating at the tables inside. The woman who was at the front entrance walked away into the kitchen when I walked in the door. Then a dude came out of the kitchen and stood in her place and refused to acknowledge me. Then a girl came up and said something to him and he said I know I know just calm down it’s ok. Then she scurried off into the kitchen. I asked the guy if I could see a menu and he said “she’ll be right back”. I left. I don’t know what was going in there but I will never eat anything from there.

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TL;DR: When cooks don't wash their hands.

Went to a restaurant the other day and then to the bathroom shortly after being seated. While standing at the urinal I saw a cook come out of the stall after dropping a deuce and head straight out the door without washing his hands.

That's how people get trichinosis and I don't want to end up like RFKjr with worms in my brain.

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No. People get sick with trichinosis from eating pork with trichinosis, something that should not happen if the pig has been slaughtered in a slaughterhouse and its meat has been tested as the law, at least in Spain, requires. The only cases I have read in Spain are of hunters who have eaten wild boar meat without passing sanitary controls.

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Walked into a restaurant and i smelled sewage. They said a sewage back-up had occurred and was being fixed by a plumber. I left anyways because the place was running like it was normal. No windows open or fans running to try and flush the smell. Ya it was warm outside but seriously I'd rather sweat than smell s**t while eating.

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Multiple babies/toddlers roaring loud enough to wake the dead.

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Thank God for childfree restaurants. Here where I live it more and more common since parents nowadays have no clue about how to be a parent. So yeah.. Kids are vile.

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Any bad Smell.

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Wife and I walked into a diner once and were seated. Waitress came over and handed us our menus. Her make up was so caked on that bits of it were falling on our table. 🤮 She then showed us the salad bar which was a card table set up next to the front door, not iced or anything with bowls of potato salad and macaroni salad with saran wrap over them. We got up and left.

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If the restaurant smells bad or has dirty tables, I’m out.

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Flags or posters supporting a geopolitical stance that I radically disagree with or supports killing people like me.

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Ants in the salt shaker.

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Dirty floor.

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Honestly a sushi place that reeks of fish. Made that mistake once, it was not comfortable afterwards.

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I didn’t even have to go into the restaurant…I was at my local bar and the head cook from the restaurant across the street started coming in after his shifts pretty regularly.

Just an overall sloven dude with the grossest habits, body odor, funky skin growths, unkept fingernails and similar demeanor.

None of the other regulars, including myself will ever go back there.

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There’s a sign that says “Applebee’s” outside.

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Blasting loud music will send me back out the door before I can sit down. Doesn’t matter how good the food is, I’m not sitting through that nonsense.

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I do pest control for a living, and I used to LOVE small mom and pop restaurants, especially taco places. Now 5 years into my profession I know alot of subtle warnings a place has a bug problem, one being a smell. I make a point to sit as close to the kitchen as possible just to get a true smell of what's going on back there.

3/4s of all taquerias have roaches from what I can tell, and I'm eating flavorless garbage from a chain restaurant who's kitchen is clean.

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Flies when it's 20 below outside.

Where are they breeding?

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If I see a dirty bathroom, I'm out. It reflects kitchen hygiene too.

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Not really. Cooks and dishwashers don't clean public restrooms.

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If I see a sanitation score that is not an "A" I'll leave.

If I sit at a table and a server doesn't show up for 10 minutes I'll leave.

If I walk in and they are displaying maga b******t I'll leave.

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Recently blackballed one of my formerly goto places because they hosted the local GOP party this year, we went their election night to try and get away from the mounting sense of depression and dread and all we encounter is TVs tuned to election coverage and MAGAts cheering. . . I’m Never going back, I’ll go to the Irish Pub down the road that had a better atmosphere and food but not as good a view and a bit pricier.

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Fabuloso. I dunno why but tons of restaurants have started using fabuloso. You can't even smell the food.

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Local tex-mex place here. Had a staff that were not as careful as they should have been. Found a birds-nest of curly hair in our salad. Our waiter was bald and the only cooks I could see had long hair held back by hats. We did not eat the salad because we spotted it before that but we did get up and leave.

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Honestly, if I’m looking for a Chinese restaurant, I can immediately tell if it’s good or not based on how many white people are eating there. If there are no Asians inside, I’m walking out and finding a different restaurant.

And yes, I am Chinese.

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Well that may work well enough in places with a large Asian population, but would be a really bad indicator to use across much of Europe, for example.

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This was a sort of on purpose version of that. 


I stayed with a friends family years ago and his dad told us we were going to visit some restaurants in the city. He said not to order anything at the first restaurant but to look at the menu and then get up and leave.


Second restaurant had the same exact menu. Half the prices. Both restaurants ordered from the same supplier.

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You mean they were just buying in pre-made dishes? Otherwise what does the supplier have to do with how well they prepare the food?

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Haven't seen squabbling servers on the list yet.

That happened to four of us at a recently opened seafood-themed place that we vaguely knew the owner of and wanted to support as new restaurants were a pretty big thing in our small city. Normally we would have waited a couple months for the dust to settle and the place to figure itself out, but we went in their second week.

House manager greeted and seated us and then disappeared. It was a little before standard lunch hour and mid-week and nobody else was there.

About 5 minutes of nothing later, we heard the distant yelling start from the kitchen area. After about a minute of that, a female server charged through the doors and grabbed menus and brought them over, muttering.

Her opening words were "Sorry if you heard that. That b***h in there, what can you do?"

We glanced at each other, asked for a few minutes before ordering drinks, and when she went back in the kitchen, left.

Somehow the restaurant still managed to survive and is still there to this day, but goddamn if the excellent show The Bear didn't remind us of that experience.

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Dirty tables or unsanitary conditions immediately make me leave.

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It's full of screaming children running around.

There's a strict dress code.

It smells bad.

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My friend took me to a Mexican restaurant where the raw meat was all just on the counter unrefrigerated. The same salsa bowl was on the table all day on between customers so you were eating leftovers. When I said I didn't want to eat there she got mad and said the food was great and I was stuck-up.

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