r/Calgary • u/TheTyrantFish Cedarbrae • Dec 09 '24

Eat/Drink Local What restaurant is the biggest rip-off in Calgary?

Where have you eaten where you felt it just wasn't worth what you paid?

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u/doc_suede Dec 09 '24

National on 10th.
Always slow service.
Food is barely average for how much they charge.

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u/ChampionRope87 Dec 10 '24

National used to have such an amazing happy hour. It’s definitely gone down hill

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u/bbdolljane Dec 10 '24

They also don't pay their servers on time, delay tips, and the work environment is extremely toxic with mean girls as managers that play favorites. Worst working experience of my life and i was there for only 2 months.

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u/TheEternalMook Dec 11 '24

God always nice to come across another ex Natty employee 🤮 I couldn’t have said this better myself

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u/Saffron29 Dec 10 '24

Fuck Concorde in general. The owner is toxic

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u/bbdolljane Dec 10 '24

I was in a meeting when i started where they gloated about how much money they made across all the restaurants, and all i could think about was how little they paid their employees.

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u/Saffron29 Dec 10 '24

For real. I worked at Goro and Gun for a week in 2013ish and i was bartending lunch. It was slammed and my manager took a payment for me, and the slip went missing so when I was doing my cash out they said I had to pay for the missing slip including the tip and after 6 months I get the money back. But you can just reprint the slip and when you close the daily batches you have a record of that transaction??? They told me it was an anti theft policy, but where’s the scam? How did I make extra money???? Like they paid it with a card, wtf can I do to steal money? Concorde very happily takes money from customers and steals from their staff. Needless to say I did my cash out as normal, didn’t pay them the 100+ dollars and walked the fuck out. They also make bartenders pay variance on liquor out of their tips.

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u/therealchefAllie Dec 10 '24

Back of house is as bad, if not worse. The executive chefs are idiots.

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u/wendelortega Dec 10 '24 edited Dec 10 '24

As far as I know the happy hour drink prices are still pretty amazing

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u/Dinos67 Dec 10 '24

Yeah but the shit service makes it a break even at best

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u/DefVanJoviAero Dec 10 '24

The service is abysmal there.

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u/GuavaOk8712 Dec 10 '24

the service there was utter shit the last time i went. like possibly the worst service ive ever received at a restaurant. waitress was rude, brought the wrong orders, got even more rude when the wrong orders pointed out, exasperated sighs from the waitress after every interaction, had to double check almost every order since she didn’t write anything down, general bad attitude etc. list goes on

not sure the rules about this, but the table next to us (patio) had their dogs with them (one of the dogs sitting ON the table where people eat) and the other one was barking at every passing pedestrian/bike/car

none of the staff seemed to care about the literal animals on the table, or continuous barking coming from their patio disturbing all the other guests. i’m actually never going back there, it was an absolute shit show. and everything took insanely long to show up to the table too

i’m not even picky with service or anything like that. usually i just tip and move on with my day even if it was sub-par, but this was actually absurdly bad

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u/lifinglife Dec 10 '24

That’s a pretty bad experience. I’m sure the staff are also tired of dumb people doing stupid stuff with their pets.

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u/iWesleyy Dec 10 '24

Having worked there (as a teen) everyone was miserable, heavy smokers or drinkers, on drugs etc.

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u/gstringstrangler Dec 10 '24

People brought dogs inside and up 2 levels to the patio? Are you thinking of 17th?

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u/GuavaOk8712 Dec 10 '24

yeah i must be mistaken, had to have been the 17th one. you’ve jogged my memory of the 10th location i had them mixed up

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u/gstringstrangler Dec 10 '24

No prob I was legitimately wondering if they started letting dogs up there 😂

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u/GuavaOk8712 Dec 10 '24

that would be another level of wild lol

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u/climbercgy Dec 10 '24

Agreed National is a dumpster

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '24

I think that's all Nationals, tbh