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DH has boycotted the local Wendy's after a particularly disgusting experience and awful customer service. A shame because we use to be regulars, lol. Now when we go out of town we always hit up a Wendy's to get our fix!

I boycott one local restaurant. The food is a) revolting and b) their service is terrible. I asked for a water refill and the waitress' response was: "What are you, a waterhog?" then pointed to the bar where I could refill it myself. My friend asked for ranch sauce with her chicken and the waitress said "Omg eww!" We haven't been back since, lol

Yup. We went to a Thai place one night for dinner. It took 20 minutes to get our water and place our orders, and after 50 MORE minutes, we still hadn't gotten our food (and no one had been by the table to check on us or refill Hubs's water). We walked out and won't go back.

Absolutely...it's funny because a lot of places we boycott end up going out of business...ha. Currently I'm boycotting an amazing place not because of their food or service but because I know the owner is a huge ass and treats his employees horribly (a good friend of mine is the chef that created their menu & my sister worked there) My sister being wronged was the last straw. Haven't gone since. Now, months later, their once thriving business isn't doing so hot.

A local Ruby Tuesdays. We went with a large group (10 people maybe) about 8 years ago and the place was absolutely dead, so there should have been no issues, in my opinion. But it took like 30 minutes for them to get us our drinks, almost 1.5 hrs to bring our food, and almost every single order was wrong. Then the manager tried to apologize by giving us dessert, then put them on the bill. Then they wanted to argue about the dessert being on the bill. We were literally there for 3.5 hrs. It was insane. I've only been to a Ruby Tuesdays maybe 1 other time before that, and it's not as if we're missing out on anything by not going, but I tell everyone what a shitty experience we had there, so maybe other won't go either.

We are currently boycotting the local Pizza Hut. Now that they have outsourced the ordering process there is zero customer service. We ordered our pizza online and after everything was paid for we got a delivery time of 2 hours!! I was pregnant and starving so we tried to call the local Pizza Hut to change it to pick up to see if that would be faster. Apparently when they are busy they divert all calls somewhere. I'm not sure where that somewhere is because nobody ever answered. I kept trying to call for 1.5 hours before the call was finally routed to the local store and then I found out that our pizza was out for delivery. I was pretty pissed. Just found out they are closing down. There pizza wasn't great anyway. Can't say I will miss them.

I haven't boycotted any restaurants but we won't visit that particular one (if it's a chain) if we get bad service, food, etc. We usually give places a fair chance though.

@BananaPancakes: I ordered mozzarella sticks at Ruby Tuesday once and they arrived still frozen in the center. Yummy.

@grizz: Ha, how hard is it to screw up frozen mozzerella sticks?! I don't even know how or what their menu looks like, but I'm still so pissed about that whole event that I refuse to acknowledge they exist.

I stopped ordering from one place because they took an absurdly long time to deliver once, like twice as long as they said. When we called they were also super rude to us. The guy on the phone even said, "well this is not FAST FOOD, it takes TIME," with a lot of attitude, which was funny because it was Bonchon Chicken, as in chicken that comes in a box. Not exactly gourmet haha.

I also haven't been to another chain in years because I don't agree with their values. I know, I know, I'm sure they aren't devastated over losing my business but it makes me feel better

Only one place. My favorite Chinese takeout. They were super late delivering my meal and then the delivery kid had the NERVE to knock on my door after I paid to tell me that I "forgot" to tip him. The worst part was that I did tip him. His manager got an earful when I called the restaurant and I haven't ordered from them since.

Most recently, DH's favorite mexican place. The food isn't that great, the seating is like sitting in a cafeteria, it's overpriced, and last time I was there my $13.99 fajitas came out to the table with the sticker still on one of the pieces of bell pepper!

When I told them, they offered to make new ones, but I refused - why would I want more food that probably wasn't washed? They didn't offer to remove the fajitas from the bill. A-holes.

We boycott Chik-fil-a because of the whole anti-gay thing. Other than that we don't really "boycott" per se, we'll just choose somewhere else to go or throw away take out menus from bad places without much thought.

@locavore_mama: nope! if the food is good, i'd probably still go there. I love to eat!

@locavore_mama: we don't have a lot of options, so I have no choice!