96 points
  • You arent allowed to bring any food home. In fact the server stays by your table, uncomfortable close, and watches you to make sure none of the food you’ve already paid for is “stolen”.
  • The restaurant reserves the right to ban anyone not following rules. They do not need to tell you which rule you broke. Also the rules are secret. They frequently brag to media about how many “rule-breakers” they’ve banned.
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You can order whatever you want, you’ll get whatever the chef decides to give you. They have several Michelin star chefs on staff, but also several people who have never boiled an egg. If you order the chicken parm you might get a chicken parm, but depending on their internal kitchen decisions they might deliver a turkey sandwich or a Greek salad or caviar instead. It’s a gamble every time.

There’s a commission in the kitchen that gets paid money to push diverse food to the chefs, even outside of their normal creative process. Which sounds great, you want your diet to be as diverse as possible. But if you were hoping to feast on some eggs and bacon and instead get peas and broccoli, your taste buds might be disappointed with the… Creative choices.

When ordering, you might be tempted to think “the vegetable soup” contains some different types of vegetables. And depending on the chef, it might. But if you get one of the stingy chefs, your vegetable soup will only have carrots in it. You can still add other vegetables, but you need to pay extra. Sometimes you go from a $30 soup to a $2000 soup, if you want all the ingredients. And no, this is not a problem only with the vegetable soup, it’s with all food.

Some other food tastes excellent, but just when you get your third of fourth bite in and are enjoying the flavors, the entire waitstaff comes and tries to pull on your hand and make it as hard as possible to eat. You will still progress, but it will be harder and they don’t really care if you’re hungry or not, they just want to make it slower for you to continue eating. But don’t worry, if you give them 10 bucks they leave you alone for a few moments - then they come back and form the next paywall.

You have a limited time with your food. If you don’t eat it in time, they take it away and kick you out. No refunds.

Speaking of which - if you don’t like the food you got, good luck getting it removed from the bill. There’s like one manager that will comp partially tasted food if you didn’t like it, but the others? Not so much.

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7 points

So is the Buffet Pass worth getting? I heard the Dead Meat meal is rather dry without it, but it nearly doubles the price of the meal.

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11 points

But you can appeal

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16 points

But only through email, and you may receive the (definitely human-written) reply in the next 3-10 months

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We have reviewed your request for an appeal, and decided to stick with our original decision. Please be sure to familiarize yourself with the rules so that you know how to not break them. Thank you.

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87 points

“The restaurant is free to come in and sit down at a table. If you want to choose something from our specials menu, we charge $15 a month. If you want to choose from our full Ala Carte menu, it’s $35 a month.”

“Oh, I’ve never been here before, I’m not sure if I’ll like it or want to come back. Can I just pay for tonight?”

“If you pay yearly, it’s 20% off.”

“That’s not what I aske…”

“Why don’t you come in for a free entree?”

“Free?”

“I’ll just need your credit card details, you can cancel any time.”

“…”

“Offer expires in 39 minutes.”

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And if you want to know what’s in the food you can! Only $9.99 per month extra!

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71 points

Just as you’re about to take a bite of your burger, you bite into a pop-up salad and now you have to pay for it too.

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48 points

My workplace unfortunately uses Microsoft Teams and last week I got a modal popup which said “Your organization is switching to the new Teams.” with a singular button “Switch to the new Teams”.

No close button, no maybe-later button, and I needed to get into a fucking meeting.
I quickly tried to remove the popup via browser tools, but it wouldn’t easily budge.
I saw in the background that there was a toggle for switching, so I bit the bullet and clicked that button, hoping it would still work afterwards and if not, that there would be a toggle to switch back.

It changed to a loading screen, then refreshed, and I was presented with said new Teams.

What is new Teams? I still have no clue. They applied some slightly different CSS styling, otherwise it seems to be exactly the same.

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the removed like half of the features (including mic tray), removed ukrainian localization (which my mom relied on), removed the option to disable hw acceleration (which is borked with my specific gpu in chromium and results in extremely blurry text and ghosting artifacts) and switched to ms edge webview from chromium (so if you’re using windows and uninstall edge, it won’t start)

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Doesn’t seem worth making a lot of fuss over adding a “new” label.

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removed the option to disable hw acceleration (which is borked with my specific gpu in chromium and results in extremely blurry text and ghosting artifacts) and switched to ms edge webview from chromium (so if you’re using windows and uninstall edge, it won’t start)

On my work computer this causes all the shadows and such behind windows to flash. Various other UI elements flash too. It’s extremely annoying.

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yeah some stuff that’s on top of new teams video freds flashes. e.g. if i put a cursor or a window shadow over any other participant’s video feed it does that.

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4 points

They’re in a lawsuit with slack about monopoly. They can’t sell it bundled with 365 in the EU anymore, and they appear to be planning to separate it Globally. That’s the most generous reading, but Microsoft forces annoying changes all the time, so it may just be Microsoft being Microsoft. Also new teams installs very differently than teams, especially if using virtual desktops with either nonpersistent machines and/or using FSLogix, which is irritating from a support perspective. Imagine having to reinstall teams every time you reboot (there are ways around it, but we had to track them down unexpectedly and our client wasn’t happy).

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4 points

They’re changing a bunch of things about how the Office apps work. They’re doing a similar thing with Outlook. There’s also now “New Outlook” that they push you towards, which looks a little bit fresher yet is also missing features from the last version.

I’m assuming they’re changing something architecturally about how the apps are put together, but the only thing I’ve actually seen is the bugs and all the headaches that come from migrating everybody to what’s basically a brand new app.

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I despise new outlook. They removed spell check and secure messaging! When I posted about it in the Microsoft forum they said they don’t plan on adding those back in the near future. What the actual fuck Microsoft?!

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Wow, sounds amazing. Also the base burger will be free, but that just includes the plate. For buns, patties, salad, cheese and anything else you’ll be charged extra, adding up to about tenfold the outright price and you’ll be incentived to help their business by bringing in a friend so you both can get free cheese.

edit: fixed phrasing

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29 points

The plate is also served with a 56 page Burger Consumer Licensing Agreement.

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11 points

End User Burger Agreement

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6 points

Just your standard BCLA, forced arbitration, etc.

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8 points

“Ingredients Extra”

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