The worst things about eating out

1. When you’re in a group of three or more, and everyone else wants to go to a restaurant that you don’t like, and you can’t find anything on the menu that you want to eat
2. When a restaurant covers ALL its dishes in garlic/onions/spices/miscellaneous added ingredients
3. When every single item on the menu contains an ingredient that you don’t like (garlic, onions, etc.)
4. When a restaurant fails to disclose an ingredient that you don’t like in the menu listing
5. When fried coating is as hard as a rock
6. When French fries are soggy
7. When they don’t give you a choice between thin and thick French fries
8. When scrambled eggs have a weird texture
9. When rice is dry
10. When the wine is bad
11. When the beer is flat
12. When the water is lukewarm
13. When the napkins are too small and don’t fit/stay on your lap
14. When the restaurant serves greasy food and doesn’t have napkins on the table
15. When tables wobble
16. When chairs are uncomfortable
17. When the space between your seat and the table is too small in a booth
18. When you’d rather be seated in a booth, but get a table instead
19. When the restaurant has loud, live music
20. When the restaurant has loud, recorded music
21. When there are too many people talking too loud
22. When assholes are being assholes around you
23. When the restaurant treats certain kinds of customers unfairly
24. (For vegetarians/vegans) When the restaurant doesn’t provide vegetarian/vegan dishes
25. (For those with food allergies) When they won’t give you a straight answer about possible allergens
26.  (For those with food allergies) When they say that a dish doesn’t have your allergen in it, but it actually does
27. When the bathrooms are gross
28. When a restaurant doesn’t take reservations and has long waits 

More to come as needed...