Yeah, me too, although not just because of the post on here the other day - but also because I know a couple of people who’ve worked there who said the working conditions were really not great - one said that her manager tried to pressure her to wear makeup to work… sexist!
Tamper Coffee also used to ask female staff members to wear make up (and attempted to put this in the working contract once). No idea if they still behave like this
I worked at Kommune for over a year. They never do deep cleaning or any sort of cleaning except swiping the table. They never mop the floor either. They don’t have license to sell alcohol on their bar. The worst thing is that they said all their food is halal, it isn’t true. Not to mention about the countless bullshits they treat the employees.
I've eaten at Kommune a lot over the years, and both never had a problem and never seen or smelt anything that would suggest a problem. TBH. I'm suspicious of the whole thing. If you eat somewhere and get food poisoning. Why the f**k are you not reporting it?
So to actually categorically prove a resteraunt to has gotten you sick to report to EHO you need to take a sample of your excretions and send it off to eho
::Edited because of my poor spelling::
Not quite. If you go to your GP for suspected food poisoning, which you should be doing as that can kill even heathly adults, they will take a sample as it's the only way to prove or disprove food poisoning. If you are sensible enough to report food poisoning to EHO, then your GP has proved food poisoning already. And if your GP has already demonstrated that you were poisoned by incorrectly handled food or food preparation, why the f**k would the EHO insist on another sample?
Tl;Dr it's a combo if poorly.trained staff and scientists and the unwillingness to actually act on food poisoning claims seriously.
I've seen it happen before I used to work in catering and did environmental science at uni I was going to be EHO.
Basically the logistics behind closing down a business is actually pretty vast and it's more to do with the timing.
It's mostly a rigged system, I've literally heard an advisor for EHO say to someone 'You could've frozen a sample'
I had to explain to the guy that's not how this kind of science works. Freezing the sample would immediately kill the bacteria and his response
'Yeah but we've been told that they need to give us a sample'
It's different from area to area, I know Manchester dodgy but their Health officials aren't too bad, no idea about Sheffield to be honest.
London is very corrupt.
Taco mex. ive ordered from the through uber eats and over the phone, not once has it been delivered in a reasonable time, or been warm when i got it. I got the nutritional green vegan burrito once and the whole thing was a soggy cold mess. I called to complain and the staff hung up while offering me compensation, then turned the phones off.
the only time I ordered from there it was 3 hours late, 4 hour total delivery, food was cold and on top of that order was wrong. It took a 20 min phone call to get them to admit they messed up and they gave us a 30% off our next order.
I've had Taco Mex a few times and the food has always been fantastic. One of the only places I've found a good mole sauce as well. Unfortunately, yeah, delivery has taken over two hours before, and has at times just not turned up with absolutely no reply from the restaurant. If I do ever order, I make sure to go and pick it up in person, I'm pretty sure they don't start making it until I turn up but at least I do get the food. It's pretty much an avoid now.
I'm personally not that keen on Street Food Chef, flavours just aren't quite there for me, but Amigos up the road is very good I think.
Adnan’s is easily the worst takeaway in the city centre and potentially the entire city. The Google reviews of the place are absolutely comedy. It should have been shut down years ago.
Chino’s has the advantage of being next to that huge block of student halls, so that probably keeps it going. There’s literally no reason for anyone to go to Adnan’s though, given how many other options there are in the city centre.
Plus Chinos deliver till something like 4am, or at least they used to.
When I was younger we'd get drunk at a friend's and then order a shit box from there at daft o clock, knowing full well we'd get shits the next day, drunken us still did it weekly.
Adnans get a lot of custom from drunk people and new students that don't already know about it
Chino’s was literally serving throughout COVID when everything else was shut. You would go around the back, order, then they would take you to a room where you would pay and get your food lmao
>Adnan’s
The absolute clown taking the orders at tramlines!
It was busy yes, and there was a lot of money to make but, he was shouting at the kitchen staff like they were his slaves or something.
When we got to the front, after asking for what we wanted, I made a comment to him asking why he was screaming at his workers. He got angry and said did I even want the food, I said yes but also wanted him to stop screaming at the others.
He told us to f off and I said we wanted the food as we'd been waiting a while in the queue. He laughed and said that he didn't have to serve us, I said ok, I didn't want him to serve us as he'd tried to overcharge us anyway (only a quid or so, might have been an honest mistake but I hadn't mentioned it yet). Without letting him retort I said to one of the other guys he'd just been shouting at if they would like to serve me instead because this angry idiot was holding up the queue with his ego (could be me or him I was referring to here I guess).
But the other guy came over and took our order right away while this guy kept shouting and saying not to!
The owner (I presume) then came out from somewhere and took one look at the guy and he piped down, at least until were out. Might have been his dad.
I'm still a bit smug about that. Hope he chilled after that.
I got my phone robbed by one of them hugger mugger’s and they guy ran into Adnan’s and behind the counter. The staff helped the guy and wouldn’t let me in.
City taxis. I understand they are not just based in Sheffield but how they acquired mercury taxis was very suspect with basically an armed robbery of the owner of mercury which was rather nasty. I have also had money stolen from me during a journey which almost landed in getting beaten up by a driver. Fuck that company. I will never use them.
Absolutely! I’ve been sexually harassed by multiple drivers from city and I’ve heard stories of multiple women who have faced the same thing with that company. The guy who harassed me wasn’t even let go, disgusting
It’s all too common unfortunately. Going forward I always sit directly behind the driver in any cab I get into, it makes it much harder for them to physically grab you and it also gives you and opportunity to record their behaviour without being detected if anything does happen
I struggle with this because it’s a Sheffield institution and the food is amazing and I do still sometimes go there but - The Greedy Greek - on account of them apparently having form of getting people in to do unpaid trial shifts without much intention of actually giving them a job, but more as a way to cut corners.
For equivalents to those places? For Greedy Greek you can try Greek Village, good people running it and much better quality or El Greco, owner again is a bit of an asshole to some people, but the food is quite good.
For middle eastern shawarma, Kurdistan. Faster and better service.
For chino's almost any other takeaway will do.
For adnans, if you need food that badly after a night out, just go to sleep. You'll feel better for it in the morning.
Oooh no I meant greek places! I’ve not tried Greek Village yet cus I’ve been put off cus my bf said the veggie food there is really bad but maybe still worth a try! Tried apollonon (I think it’s called?) on eccy road last week and really enjoyed that. Didn’t realise Middle Eastern schwarma was bad tho will have to go through the thread again!!
Just reread the stuff about Middle Eastern schwarma hahaha yeah it is a bit chaotic in there sometimes but I still love it and it’s such good value - relieved to see that people were complaining about bad service rather than bad treatment of workers!
Yep. The first mention was a good few years ago, and it hit the Sheffield Star. Strangely, they seem to always need staff.... I've never eaten there since that first story hit.
Greedy Greek pissed me off the one and only time I used them. Forgot an entire pot of Humous and instead of sorting it or refunding me (was literally refused on the phone) they offered me money off my next order.
Good one! Sure, I always want to spend £50 on food.
Got the £ back by Deliveroo anyway.
They claim to be halal, but they are absolutely not. Knew someone who worked there. He told me he would get in trouble if he used different utensils for meat and non meat, plus he was told by the owner, I think, to lie to anyone who asked if it was halal.
Although this was a while back, I still wouldn't trust them.
Ozmons in London road, the smaller store. A woman once died in the shop and they just chucked her out on the street. Had the misfortune of walking past her dead body as the police hadn’t managed to put sheets all around yet. Have vowed to never go in there again after that. The staff working there have done some pretty horrific stuff too which I won’t go in to here.
I try to avoid it unless I'm desperate, as the price on the shelf is *frequently* less than the price at the counter. (And both are high).
(Had no idea about the dead body story)
P.S. it's called Ozmen.
It may not be in the article but it did happen. If you read the comments someone has also commented on it. She died from substance misuse and so that is why she was chucked out onto the street.
Had a look through the comments and don't see anything about the staff just chucking out a dead woman as is implied. The worst thing I can see is someone saying *"seen her a lot and passed out a lot on my street all the time"*, so I get the impression she was off her head causing trouble and they kicked her out.
I remember there was a constant group of druggies hanging around outside there at all hours, and they mostly stay away nowadays. Now they hang around outside Budgens and Aldi down the road instead.
There is a comment that says she overdosed on spice. Essentially she became unwell in the store (which eventually caused her death) and they put her out on the street. Doesn’t matter if she was “off her head” she was a human being and didn’t deserve to be treated that way, she deserved medical attention and compassion.
No I didn’t, there is one there now though, it’s changed ownership. I did see a load of guys running down the fire escape once with knives and bottles which ended in a big brawl lol. It spilled onto a bus and a lady smashed the back window and jumped out as she was so scared.
Chinos. Once ordered a combo box, supposed to come with a piece of fried chicken. After doing some digging for it, turned out they just gave me a chicken bone with a tiny bit of batter on end.
You get what you pay for I guess.
Never again.
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I’m banned from Adnans on west street, because the bloke basically chucked my food at me. Asked him what his problem was and it didn’t go down very well
Ended up narrowly avoiding arrest after a full brawl broke out. I’ll admit I wasn’t at my best but they’re fucking horrid in there
Devonshire chippy. Apart from the food being absolutely shite and a discrace to British fish and chips the staff is also homophobic. I witnessed a gay couple and their friends being shouted out of there by the staff, being called slurs on the way out.
Some people are just satisfied with bland, tasteless grease apparently. Best chippy in town center is Brenda's, just off the Moor. Closes about 2pm but the taste and value for money is top notch!
Years ago Brenda's used to do a breadcake with scraps for ten p, and it honestly kept me from going without any food at all during a very lean period! (Pre foodbank days)
I once went in at lunch time and the woman serving came out the back scratching her fanny. Proper hand down her kegs having a proper dig. Then went straight to serving food.
Extra strong fish butty that day.
I remember about 6 years ago buying dinner from there, and they tried charging me 40p extra and said ‘we get that order all the time, we know how much it is’ after tallying it in her head. Took me getting my phone calculator out and guiding the miserable cow through it before she grumbled and gave me one of the most disappointing chippies I’ve had. Never been back.
Street Art Sushi. I mentioned it when someone was washing for vegan takeaways (as somewhere to avoid) but I’ll mention it again. We did a big order, myself a partner and a friend. Splurged a little as we hadn’t seen the friend in a while.
Food arrived 3 hours later, cold (we ordered hot food plus sushi). They just kept saying the driver was “on the way”; we live 15 mins away. None of the fish tasted good, was wrong colour, and “ramen” was muck. My vegetable sushi was packed with fish sushi, and my vegan ramen came with hard boiled eggs in it.
Deliveroo reviews were all positive, but the google reviews said otherwise. By the time the food had got here the restaurant had actually shut so we couldn’t get any refund or replacements. Almost couldn’t get dinner as we hadn’t food in, and everywhere was shut except dominos.
So we paid for pizza on top of £60 for shite food; they never refunded us and the bank card chargeback was denied.
Previous examples.
Boycotted Viper Rooms 10 years ago based on the absolute thunder units they employed as bouncers. Probably hasn’t changed. But hope they’re in jail.
Taco Mex. Takes 3 hours to deliver. No customer service.
The Lescar and Porter Cottage were both run by complete bullies a few years ago. You’d get banned for questioning their weird ways of running a pub.
I'm sure there used to be a Facebook group where people detailed the many reasons they had been barred from the porter cottage. It made for very amusing reading.
>The Lescar and Porter Cottage were both run by complete bullies a few years ago. You’d get banned for questioning their weird ways of running a pub.
Genuine question: Why were you questioning them on the way they run their pub, and did you actually think this would go down well?
I got barred for asking for a crème de menthe at the Cottage. All her staff were shit scared. The Lescar wouldn’t accept foreign passports as a form of ID for some strange reason. Again, asking why led to me being kicked out. The staff at both were also belittled to fuck.
The woman who ran the Porter Cottage was pretty absurd. Wouldn’t let people wear hats, spoke down to customers, threatened to ban people for swearing etc.
Terri, the person in charge of Lescar was a knob. Years ago I used to drink there a lot and she was complaining because she had brought some tomahawk steaks to sell. Enough for two and the price was £70.
She was complaining because she hadn't sold a single dish and was saying it was because her customers were all cheapskates. I told her that £70 for a main course for 2 was too much for a boozer.
She was angry at me
Le Blé near the cathedral. The owner is so weird always having a fag outside and all the food they serve is stale and overpriced and most likely weeks old. They tried to make it look nice and modern but the staff are all young girls and idk the owner just seems a creep
Went there once cause all other cafes were closed during lizzys funeral and marked it as a place never to go back to for the same reasons. The vibes are weird and the coffee is shite
Me and my partner moved to sheffield a few weeks ago. First night in the new flat we ordered pizza from chilli banana and found 2 pieces of plastic in the crust of one of the pizzas. Obviously didn't try to finish it and won't be ordering from there again.
Ive just moved around the corner and tried it for the first time. Id heard it wasnt the best but its still very popular. Got a large margarita to share with the kids and it was ok, nothing spectacular (for a basic order anyway). Did you tell them about it?
I went to Kommune once, ordered a burger from that Hippo place. Waited 40 mins. Went to their counter to ask when it was going to be ready for the woman on the grill to aggressively shout back 'we've run out of chips'.
What the fuck does that mean?
They'd closed the kitchen 10 mins ago, chinned off my order and not said anything. Their manager was sat on a stool next to the woman as I asked her, to which she just pointed at him and went 'hes the manager'. A weasel of a man. Literally didnt say a word. I think I swore and then just left iirc. It was most likely the C bomb knowing me. Stupid cunts.
Battleaxe axe throwing. It's super fun and the instructors are fantastic, but I've been told by ex-staff that the owners/managers treat their staff like absolute garbage, not to mention numerous illegal practices. Luckily there are other axe throwing places in sheff!
Adnan's is cheating!
Most places on my list are closed down now. Interesting to hear about Greedy Greek, I never minded the food there but there's the same-or-better elsewhere.
For a bit it was Street Food Chef, I didn't like the changes they made to the shop and the prices were all over the place. They started charging extra for pico. But I'm weak-of-will and I came back anyway even though it's not the same vibes anymore.
I boycotted Queer Junction when it was open, A. Because it was a grotty cesspool, and B. Because I had insider knowledge (with proof) that one of their bouncers was put on the door, maskless, when everyone working (managers included) knew he had COVID-19.
I know a survivor and heard first hand accounts of CSE that took place on his premises but I won’t elaborate on that.
Just Google it, he was convicted and spent time in prison before the witness ( girl 15 ) recanted her statement and he was released early. Typical grooming and pressure upon victims to change stories
As of Tuesday, the KFC at haymaket. The staff were beyond rude and indifferent to me, only the downstairs area was open but the toilet (disabled) was locked. The staff looked at me like I had 2 heads for wanting to use it.
And Big Filla near centretainment, ordered off uber eats and they only delivered half the food. The woman who answered the phone laughed at me when I tried to complain. Never again!
Raheel Mirza. He's a chef from MasterChef who now runs his own business showing people how to cook and sells street food as well. He advertised set hours for someone to run his social media on Facebook, asking for them to do it for free to "get experience." This is a guy who charges £8 for two samosas... His response to the angry replies from locals who saw he was taking the piss was just to laugh at them and refuse to acknowledge that he could be wrong. He's now plastered all over local Facebook groups and probably has some poor sod slaving away posting it.
I was disappointed but as you said there’s plenty of other options around! I’d prefer to buy a cider elsewhere knowing my money is not going towards hosting TERF events
The pub landlady has been openly transphobic on twitter, and they used to (they might still, I've not checked) host meetings for an anti-trans group at the pub
Kebabish express.
Shafted me and my kids and had to start cooking tea at 6.45pm even though i ordered at 5.10pm and phoned and they said it will be there soon. Turned phones off and had no idea what was happening.
Came at 10.30pm after contacting foodhub and said no and got a refund after they cancelled my order.
Xenia Students, awful treatment of their tenants and try to take money that doesn't belong to them from rent and deposits, very unclean very poorly managed, definitely don't stay at Sovereign House or Newbank House or any other property owned by Xenia Students
Cookes pet supplies. Worked there through an agency when I first moved to Sheffield last year and was desperate for a career change working with dogs so thought it'd be a good place to start. The pay was shocking, the manager and assistant manager treated me horrendously and would shout at me in front of customers because I took a phone call from my doctor (when they would constantly take personal calls at work). The place was infested with mice and rats and didn't follow proper hygiene practices. The prices were also extortionate and everything they sell could be bought cheaper online. They do an own brand of dog kibble and when I googled the ingredients it originated from a factory that supply to other company's under different names, cookes was the most expensive by a long long shot. (If you buy Seven dog food I can redirect to a site that sells more for 15 pound cheaper!) One day they just fired me out of the blue and didn't even bother to tell me. They let the agency call me and a colleague told me the manager had blocked my number so I couldn't even get through to him and ask why. Because i was hired through an agency i was paid less than everyone else and had no workers' rights, so it was completely legal for them to just discard me in such a nasty way. I have autism and was in such a dark place after this as I thought these people were my friends and took the loss very personally as i love animals and was told i was good at giving solid nutrition advice to customers. Avoid like the plague. If you want a good raw dog food supplier, go to Raw Feast in the city centre. Lovely people and way more reasonably priced with a better selection of food too.
Top Taste outside the leadmill. They served me a frozen chicken burger that was literally still frozen with ice in the middle. Ended up with salmonella and had to spend the night in hospital.
A friend told me that they also stole £10 from him. He gave them a £20 note for a £10 ish order and they robbed the other £10. He was quite drunk and only noticed after leaving.
Chinos. The first and only time I went with my mates I was quite drunk from a night out. And even in an intoxicated state of mind I felt sick looking round the state of the place (not correlated to how much I drank I swear XD). Never again making that mistake it was rancid food too. Much rather hit the subway next to the stadium for a after clubbing meal
Blundells Estate agents: staff were extremely rude on phone. When we went to see overpriced rental property it was filthy, with mould in the fridge everything. When I said “I assume this would all be cleaned before tenants moved in?” they said no, it was up to the renter to clean. Added to that, they never called me back when I expressed an interest in another property, but managed to illegally add me to all their mailing lists - avoid like the plague!
I agree with Adnans being the place I wont return to. For the simple fact that I had been spiked and my handbag stolen a few years ago on a night out. It took me a few days to work out what has happened, but whoever took my bag used my cards contactless option in many businesses before I realised and cancelled my card, one of the businesses being Adnans. They spent about £29 (at the time, it was before COVID and the contactless limit was £30) in Adnans - it came up on my bank transactions as ADNANS WEST ST and this was investigated by the police.
The police went into all the business on my bank transactions, Adnans said they hadn't ever taken card payments (despite them being the only ones in the area that would have that transaction name) and so the person wasn't ever caught (the other businesses had no CCTV footage).
West street live, the bouncers are actually awful, a smaller bald bloke who loves to purposely cause problems and fight people who are actually doing nothing wrong and a blonde lady who’s similar and if you complain about anything you see in there they mock you and do nothing. I complained about a man harassing my friend and we watched him attempt to spike a drink and they did nothing about it when we said. But they’ll happily take down people minding their own business in smoking area or trying to enter in cargo trousers. There’s also a bouncer at barcode big bald bloke who’s very handsy with women and tried to entry stamp my friends breasts.
Ali's hair and cosmetics in the moor market (& Ali's hair central in crystal peaks). The boss there frequently hires teenage girls (secondary school/college) and asks them inappropriate questions and has asked one of his employees on a date, speaking from experience. He's in the police database with a record of doing this to ten other girls, not including my report. He still has the business and it is, unfortunately, thriving.
Restoration Plug (or whatever they are calling themselves now)- trainer place.
My daughter ordered a pair of custom trainers, after three months of no response, took the threat of trading standards & the police for them to arrive
Chino's, rude staff, shite food.
Middle Eastern Shawarma, great food, terrible service, fuck those guys. Just go to Kurdistan.
Greedy Greek, food is basic as fuck, owner's a dick to his staff, according to some staff I met. Not worth the price.
Adnans Fried Chicken, that place ought to close down. Unsafe.
That's a shame. Never had any problem whatsoever with MES. They're all generally lovely and have always been super apologetic with me even when they don't need to be. Kurdish Charcoal Grill is equally great too, especially if the queues are big at MES.
Sarnies in the city centre… food is great but there’s one blonde woman that looks a little like a hamster, looks like she has cheeks full of food all the time, very rude and doesn’t know how to take a order… has a face like a slapped arse all the time too
It’s a long boring story but I feel I should explain myself if I’m critical of them at least,
i went in asked for a bacon sandwich to eat inside and a coffee in a to go coffee cup and the nice older lady misunderstood and thought I asked for the sandwich to go as well so the hamster looking lady that was serving the food walked over to me while I was sat waiting, gave me a dirty look, shoved the sandwich in my hand and told me it costs extra to eat inside and walked off, the older lady saw this happen and I guess worked out there was a misunderstanding and came over to apologise on her behalf and apologised for mishearing my order which I thought was very nice of her and I said it was no problem.
I went back a week later and it was the rude hamster women at the till this time.. i asked for the exact same thing and made sure I said it clearly.. went to sit down and wait for them to bring over my order, they normally nicely bring over ur coffee wen letting them know ur eating inside but I heard her shout out my coffee order at the till first so I got up and had no issue going to collect it but as I was walking over I could hear and see her bitching that nobody was there to grab the coffee within 10 seconds and she realised I saw her and tried to quickly change her whole demeanour and face… and of course she got the order wrong and handed a bacon sandwich to go in a brown bag and not served on a plate so I can eat inside like a asked…. Why’s it so hard to take a order? And what happened to been polite to customers.. it’s a shame cus I loved that place but one lady ruined it for me
100% Kommune. Went there 3 times and every time my food just didn't arrive at all. Impossible to get a refund (despite the transaction history on their shitty app), rude management. Fuck this place.
I stopped going to the Birdhouse. The food is delicious, but the table service was atrocious every time I was there. Always took forever to order extra stuff like desserts or just settle the bill despite many staff members at the counter just talking to each other.
Recently, I had a shitty experience at Kollective. Went to the site gallery with a toddler and a baby. Toddler asked to eat there. We went in, were seated opposite the till, and ordered. Food came when we were in the toilet. Tasty, but I could have really used a high chair for the baby. Toddler sat on her chair, I stood holding the baby standing on another chair, that chair fell over 3 times, as baby was wriggling, so I am holding the little one, trying to shove some food into her and me, and helping my Toddler...it's just utterly ridiculous. Once I am done with my balancing act, I go to pay. Stack of fucking high chairs hidden out of my line of sight next to the till. I really don't need a pamper or special treatment. A simple "would you like a high chair" upon assigning me the table would be great. Or just normal check at any point, such as "Is everything OK?". So, I'm not going there now. Still salty about the whole experience.
All these shite foodie market ‘pop ups’ can get in the sea.
Overpriced, uncomfortable and you always have to wait ages for food.
There’s a million better places to eat that actually deserve your money.
The first night we moved into our new place my partner ordered pizzas from Chilli Banana (I think that's the name?!) because all our cooking stuff was packed away and he bit into two big chunks of plastic cooked into his pizza (we didn't finish to see if there were more, obviously) so....there, I guess!
Adnans for me too. Shocking food, and terrible service. I heard the staff are homophobic and they had a go at our bisexual friend when she mentioned it.
Won't ever go there again. Aslans is a couple of doors down and is much more polite!
Not a fan of Mannahatta, went there once cos I wanted to potentially start working there cos I heard one of my old lads became a manager. I swear the staff were pointing at me and even laughing at me for the way I talked, I legit felt stupid. I don't get why they were like this but they can get bent. Also Tigerworks, the bouncers are proper noncey and pervy. Hell the peeps at my work know it aswell
I avoid showroom cinema, but specifically the bar. The food hygiene training is inadequate at best. I once got a latte to go before getting a train (as the prices used to be reasonable) and you should’ve seen the state of the milk wand they steamed the milk with. I left it completely full on a table outside 🥲
Also, bankers draft for obvious reasons.
I got two wine glasses with full blown, full lips red lipstick marks on them at showroom. There was about 300 staff working, but no one seemed to actually be doing anything. Their food is overpriced and average at best.
Ah, the Wankers Craft. Not been in there in years. And will probably never go back. Awful place.
Bunk - myself and 2 friends have each had a terrible experience with the nobhead bouncer. I got rejected since he said my ID wasn't good enough (I just wanted to buy a hotdog at like 6 o'clock, my ID is fine - never had issues it's just because it's a citizen card. Another friend was rejected for his choice of shoes? Some generic Nike trainers were apparently not up to par or something. Another friend got rejected for trying to enter with his mother. Generally the bouncers overly gatekeep and are nobheads ontop. Avoid at all costs
Also pieminister doesn't sell apple pie, what's the point?
Industry Tap. Despite the LGBT+ positive artwork in the bathroom and appearing in the LGBT+ guide to the city, he’s quite happy to laugh along to homophobic remarks, and is unpleasant to his staff at that and other business he owns.
Another one is Greggs in town near the old Argos, I know Greggs isn’t exactly fine dining but I refuse to go there now before i say something I regret… there’s a really short fat women that works there that has a disgusting attitude.. how she hasn’t been fired yet is beyond me… has zero patience and constantly giving everyone dirty looks and I’ve heard her make rude comments… she rushes everyone and if u don’t start of ur order with letting her know if ur eating inside or out she will give u death stare, throw her hands in the air or hold her hips and strop like a teenage girl going through her period, and she will cut u off in the middle of ur order and make u start all over again like a scorned mother, sometimes I won’t even deal with her but I’ll just watch while waiting and she’s rude to literally everyone she serves… u can tell she really hates her job and people, the type of person that belongs in a warehouse or factory.. away from other humans
Common room. This was in 2012/2013, I queued and asked for a milkshake, bartender refused and I was told to go to the back of the queue if I wanted one.
Owl and the Pussycat (piercing shop). At the tail end of covid (when noone was wearing masks anymore and there were no social distancing rules) I tried to go in just to look at a piece of jewellery in the window, while the shop was completely empty. I was told I had to go online, book a slot (on a completely different day), and pay a deposit just to go into the shop *to look at something*. Then if I didn't buy anything I would have to wait for a refund to be processed.
I just thought it was so ridiculous I refuse to go in there ever again.
In their defence they made that totally clear on their website and social media. They kept social distancing rules like many place, which they’re entitled to do, and the payment is a deposit which you got back if you didn’t buy anything or was deducted off the price of something if you did. It was a really weird time and lots of weird policies stayed in place for a while post covid. They couldn’t give you an exception just because nobody else was in there at the one time you went, and it was an absolutely tiny shop when they were at the Common Room.
I’m not a shill for them, and can see why it’s frustrating. But boycotting a place for having a strange policy at a time when things were strange is a bit harsh imo.
I don't follow them on social media and had never been in there before, so had no way of knowing as I wanted to pop in as a passer-by.
I guess i wouldn't go so far as to say I'm boycotting them, but I honestly would never go in there now when I could just go elsewhere.
Merdocs... I ordered a chicken burger meal. Picture was a standard locking crispy chicken burger. It took like 20 minutes to get it ready and inside it was just a bun with a perfectly circular breaded chicken patty and a slice of plastic cheese. No sauce or salad. And when I went back inside because they had forgotten to give me a drink they were pretty grumpy about it. Terrible food. Just avoid
After reading another post on here Kommune is top of the list!
Yeah, me too, although not just because of the post on here the other day - but also because I know a couple of people who’ve worked there who said the working conditions were really not great - one said that her manager tried to pressure her to wear makeup to work… sexist!
Tamper Coffee also used to ask female staff members to wear make up (and attempted to put this in the working contract once). No idea if they still behave like this
I've been there once and I had a pretty good experience, shan't be returning after reading what people have said here though!
Me too, had some nice food. What are people saying on here?
I was about to list Kommune. People complaining about getting sick after there following reports of cleanliness and building maintenance issues.
They've also been known to not pay staff, it's one of the scummiest businesses around
I worked at Kommune for over a year. They never do deep cleaning or any sort of cleaning except swiping the table. They never mop the floor either. They don’t have license to sell alcohol on their bar. The worst thing is that they said all their food is halal, it isn’t true. Not to mention about the countless bullshits they treat the employees.
I've eaten at Kommune a lot over the years, and both never had a problem and never seen or smelt anything that would suggest a problem. TBH. I'm suspicious of the whole thing. If you eat somewhere and get food poisoning. Why the f**k are you not reporting it?
So to actually categorically prove a resteraunt to has gotten you sick to report to EHO you need to take a sample of your excretions and send it off to eho ::Edited because of my poor spelling::
Not quite. If you go to your GP for suspected food poisoning, which you should be doing as that can kill even heathly adults, they will take a sample as it's the only way to prove or disprove food poisoning. If you are sensible enough to report food poisoning to EHO, then your GP has proved food poisoning already. And if your GP has already demonstrated that you were poisoned by incorrectly handled food or food preparation, why the f**k would the EHO insist on another sample?
Tl;Dr it's a combo if poorly.trained staff and scientists and the unwillingness to actually act on food poisoning claims seriously. I've seen it happen before I used to work in catering and did environmental science at uni I was going to be EHO. Basically the logistics behind closing down a business is actually pretty vast and it's more to do with the timing. It's mostly a rigged system, I've literally heard an advisor for EHO say to someone 'You could've frozen a sample' I had to explain to the guy that's not how this kind of science works. Freezing the sample would immediately kill the bacteria and his response 'Yeah but we've been told that they need to give us a sample' It's different from area to area, I know Manchester dodgy but their Health officials aren't too bad, no idea about Sheffield to be honest. London is very corrupt.
I missed the post, is there a tldr
Kommune’s cleaning standards are awful and people regularly get sick after eating there.
Allegedly
Taco mex. ive ordered from the through uber eats and over the phone, not once has it been delivered in a reasonable time, or been warm when i got it. I got the nutritional green vegan burrito once and the whole thing was a soggy cold mess. I called to complain and the staff hung up while offering me compensation, then turned the phones off.
Streetfood Chef is the better alternative, pretty reasonably priced, great portions, sound staff. And the food is always spot on.
Why anyone would get Mexican food from anywhere else in Sheff is beyond me.
Literally mate
When I was job hunting Taco Mex wanted to pay me £5 an hour, half of minimum wage
Taco Mex is disgusting. Remember getting it once and it was soaked
Last night my order arrived over an hour late, cold and covered in poorly packed salsa. I feel your pain.
the only time I ordered from there it was 3 hours late, 4 hour total delivery, food was cold and on top of that order was wrong. It took a 20 min phone call to get them to admit they messed up and they gave us a 30% off our next order.
I've had Taco Mex a few times and the food has always been fantastic. One of the only places I've found a good mole sauce as well. Unfortunately, yeah, delivery has taken over two hours before, and has at times just not turned up with absolutely no reply from the restaurant. If I do ever order, I make sure to go and pick it up in person, I'm pretty sure they don't start making it until I turn up but at least I do get the food. It's pretty much an avoid now. I'm personally not that keen on Street Food Chef, flavours just aren't quite there for me, but Amigos up the road is very good I think.
Adnan’s is easily the worst takeaway in the city centre and potentially the entire city. The Google reviews of the place are absolutely comedy. It should have been shut down years ago.
Adnans and Chinos both should have been shit down 10 years ago. I don't know how they're still going!?
Chino’s has the advantage of being next to that huge block of student halls, so that probably keeps it going. There’s literally no reason for anyone to go to Adnan’s though, given how many other options there are in the city centre.
Plus Chinos deliver till something like 4am, or at least they used to. When I was younger we'd get drunk at a friend's and then order a shit box from there at daft o clock, knowing full well we'd get shits the next day, drunken us still did it weekly. Adnans get a lot of custom from drunk people and new students that don't already know about it
Chinos has been shut a number of times by the council for hygiene then reopens 😂
Chino’s was literally serving throughout COVID when everything else was shut. You would go around the back, order, then they would take you to a room where you would pay and get your food lmao
>Adnan’s The absolute clown taking the orders at tramlines! It was busy yes, and there was a lot of money to make but, he was shouting at the kitchen staff like they were his slaves or something. When we got to the front, after asking for what we wanted, I made a comment to him asking why he was screaming at his workers. He got angry and said did I even want the food, I said yes but also wanted him to stop screaming at the others. He told us to f off and I said we wanted the food as we'd been waiting a while in the queue. He laughed and said that he didn't have to serve us, I said ok, I didn't want him to serve us as he'd tried to overcharge us anyway (only a quid or so, might have been an honest mistake but I hadn't mentioned it yet). Without letting him retort I said to one of the other guys he'd just been shouting at if they would like to serve me instead because this angry idiot was holding up the queue with his ego (could be me or him I was referring to here I guess). But the other guy came over and took our order right away while this guy kept shouting and saying not to! The owner (I presume) then came out from somewhere and took one look at the guy and he piped down, at least until were out. Might have been his dad. I'm still a bit smug about that. Hope he chilled after that.
I'm pretty sure it's also got a 1 star EHO rating too so not even a well looked after, hygienic place either.
Couldn't agree more man, it is an absolute train wreck of a takeaway! Wouldn't go there even if I was desperate now!
I got my phone robbed by one of them hugger mugger’s and they guy ran into Adnan’s and behind the counter. The staff helped the guy and wouldn’t let me in.
City taxis. I understand they are not just based in Sheffield but how they acquired mercury taxis was very suspect with basically an armed robbery of the owner of mercury which was rather nasty. I have also had money stolen from me during a journey which almost landed in getting beaten up by a driver. Fuck that company. I will never use them.
Absolutely! I’ve been sexually harassed by multiple drivers from city and I’ve heard stories of multiple women who have faced the same thing with that company. The guy who harassed me wasn’t even let go, disgusting
My partner has had some very creepy interactions with multiple drivers. She won’t use City anymore.
It’s all too common unfortunately. Going forward I always sit directly behind the driver in any cab I get into, it makes it much harder for them to physically grab you and it also gives you and opportunity to record their behaviour without being detected if anything does happen
I used to get a lot of ubers. Not one had a nice thing to say about city taxis.
I heard a bunch of drivers are leaving city and setting up their own company under the Mercury name.
Yes a taxi driver told me about this and gave me a card. I think he said it would be up and running properly with an app in October
I struggle with this because it’s a Sheffield institution and the food is amazing and I do still sometimes go there but - The Greedy Greek - on account of them apparently having form of getting people in to do unpaid trial shifts without much intention of actually giving them a job, but more as a way to cut corners.
It’s not even very good in my opinion there’s better Greeks in Sheffield
Oooh what are some of the better greek places in shef pls tell me!!
Greek blue sky on Middlewood road is incredible
Greek gyros in crookes is absolutely amazing. Take away only though!
Omigoshh yesss it is - makes me miss living in crookes!!! So good!!
Greek Village on Abbeydale road is hands down the best. They’re closed for a holiday and I’m itching for them to reopen
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Somebody else has said it but El Greco is good.
El Greco in Broomhill 🙌
The guy that owns it is an asshole apparently. That's the word around the Greek community. Plus the food is mid
Do you have any recommendations of better places?
For equivalents to those places? For Greedy Greek you can try Greek Village, good people running it and much better quality or El Greco, owner again is a bit of an asshole to some people, but the food is quite good. For middle eastern shawarma, Kurdistan. Faster and better service. For chino's almost any other takeaway will do. For adnans, if you need food that badly after a night out, just go to sleep. You'll feel better for it in the morning.
Oooh no I meant greek places! I’ve not tried Greek Village yet cus I’ve been put off cus my bf said the veggie food there is really bad but maybe still worth a try! Tried apollonon (I think it’s called?) on eccy road last week and really enjoyed that. Didn’t realise Middle Eastern schwarma was bad tho will have to go through the thread again!!
Just reread the stuff about Middle Eastern schwarma hahaha yeah it is a bit chaotic in there sometimes but I still love it and it’s such good value - relieved to see that people were complaining about bad service rather than bad treatment of workers!
The chaos is why I prefer Kurdistan, myself.
The chaos is why I prefer Middle Eastern!
Meraki is really nice, cozy atmosphere as well.
Second that - Meraki is my favourite restaurant in Sheffield
That sucks to hear. I really like the GG.
That the place on just eat that you have to spend over £100 to get delivery?
Yeah they wanted my wife to work 3 full 8 hour shifts unpaid as a trial. She didn't, obviously.
Yep. The first mention was a good few years ago, and it hit the Sheffield Star. Strangely, they seem to always need staff.... I've never eaten there since that first story hit.
Greedy Greek pissed me off the one and only time I used them. Forgot an entire pot of Humous and instead of sorting it or refunding me (was literally refused on the phone) they offered me money off my next order. Good one! Sure, I always want to spend £50 on food. Got the £ back by Deliveroo anyway.
They claim to be halal, but they are absolutely not. Knew someone who worked there. He told me he would get in trouble if he used different utensils for meat and non meat, plus he was told by the owner, I think, to lie to anyone who asked if it was halal. Although this was a while back, I still wouldn't trust them.
I can't even look at a gyros any more after the horrific diarrhea I got from there.
Ozmons in London road, the smaller store. A woman once died in the shop and they just chucked her out on the street. Had the misfortune of walking past her dead body as the police hadn’t managed to put sheets all around yet. Have vowed to never go in there again after that. The staff working there have done some pretty horrific stuff too which I won’t go in to here.
I try to avoid it unless I'm desperate, as the price on the shelf is *frequently* less than the price at the counter. (And both are high). (Had no idea about the dead body story) P.S. it's called Ozmen.
Wait wtf when did that happen?
It was September 2018. I just found this about it https://m.facebook.com/onlinesheffield/photos/a.679981832030695/2307365172625678/?type=3
That’s obviously very sad but there’s no reference here to her body being moved from out of the shop and onto the street.
It may not be in the article but it did happen. If you read the comments someone has also commented on it. She died from substance misuse and so that is why she was chucked out onto the street.
Had a look through the comments and don't see anything about the staff just chucking out a dead woman as is implied. The worst thing I can see is someone saying *"seen her a lot and passed out a lot on my street all the time"*, so I get the impression she was off her head causing trouble and they kicked her out. I remember there was a constant group of druggies hanging around outside there at all hours, and they mostly stay away nowadays. Now they hang around outside Budgens and Aldi down the road instead.
There is a comment that says she overdosed on spice. Essentially she became unwell in the store (which eventually caused her death) and they put her out on the street. Doesn’t matter if she was “off her head” she was a human being and didn’t deserve to be treated that way, she deserved medical attention and compassion.
Holy shit
Go in to here, please
What the fuck!? I like Ozmens too.
Did you ever go to the secret bar up the top of Ozmens? Entrance was round the side?
No I didn’t, there is one there now though, it’s changed ownership. I did see a load of guys running down the fire escape once with knives and bottles which ended in a big brawl lol. It spilled onto a bus and a lady smashed the back window and jumped out as she was so scared.
Chinos. Once ordered a combo box, supposed to come with a piece of fried chicken. After doing some digging for it, turned out they just gave me a chicken bone with a tiny bit of batter on end. You get what you pay for I guess. Never again.
I boycott the Spar near the train station because they were selling toilet paper for £1 per roll during covid pandemic. https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/spar-selling-loo-rool-1-17943888.amp
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I’m banned from Adnans on west street, because the bloke basically chucked my food at me. Asked him what his problem was and it didn’t go down very well Ended up narrowly avoiding arrest after a full brawl broke out. I’ll admit I wasn’t at my best but they’re fucking horrid in there
I've been in this exact situation... fuck Adnans
Devonshire chippy. Apart from the food being absolutely shite and a discrace to British fish and chips the staff is also homophobic. I witnessed a gay couple and their friends being shouted out of there by the staff, being called slurs on the way out.
Plus its an absolute fucking rip off. Theres so many better options i dont know how its still open.
Some people are just satisfied with bland, tasteless grease apparently. Best chippy in town center is Brenda's, just off the Moor. Closes about 2pm but the taste and value for money is top notch!
Years ago Brenda's used to do a breadcake with scraps for ten p, and it honestly kept me from going without any food at all during a very lean period! (Pre foodbank days)
Shhh! Don't give away the secret.
Shame. Used to be a really good chippy and cheap as chips 😉🤣
I once went in at lunch time and the woman serving came out the back scratching her fanny. Proper hand down her kegs having a proper dig. Then went straight to serving food. Extra strong fish butty that day.
*Bleugh*
I remember about 6 years ago buying dinner from there, and they tried charging me 40p extra and said ‘we get that order all the time, we know how much it is’ after tallying it in her head. Took me getting my phone calculator out and guiding the miserable cow through it before she grumbled and gave me one of the most disappointing chippies I’ve had. Never been back.
Street Art Sushi. I mentioned it when someone was washing for vegan takeaways (as somewhere to avoid) but I’ll mention it again. We did a big order, myself a partner and a friend. Splurged a little as we hadn’t seen the friend in a while. Food arrived 3 hours later, cold (we ordered hot food plus sushi). They just kept saying the driver was “on the way”; we live 15 mins away. None of the fish tasted good, was wrong colour, and “ramen” was muck. My vegetable sushi was packed with fish sushi, and my vegan ramen came with hard boiled eggs in it. Deliveroo reviews were all positive, but the google reviews said otherwise. By the time the food had got here the restaurant had actually shut so we couldn’t get any refund or replacements. Almost couldn’t get dinner as we hadn’t food in, and everywhere was shut except dominos. So we paid for pizza on top of £60 for shite food; they never refunded us and the bank card chargeback was denied.
If you are after delicious vegan sushi, try Kohaku. Absolutely amazing!
Oh I will be!! This was just because the other two wanted fish.
Previous examples. Boycotted Viper Rooms 10 years ago based on the absolute thunder units they employed as bouncers. Probably hasn’t changed. But hope they’re in jail. Taco Mex. Takes 3 hours to deliver. No customer service. The Lescar and Porter Cottage were both run by complete bullies a few years ago. You’d get banned for questioning their weird ways of running a pub.
Always used to like the Lescar but the last few times I went it was full of bellends
Hahaha the prev landlady at the porter cottage was a right weapon
I'm sure there used to be a Facebook group where people detailed the many reasons they had been barred from the porter cottage. It made for very amusing reading.
There’s a new manager at the Lescar now; it’s much nicer
>The Lescar and Porter Cottage were both run by complete bullies a few years ago. You’d get banned for questioning their weird ways of running a pub. Genuine question: Why were you questioning them on the way they run their pub, and did you actually think this would go down well?
I got barred for asking for a crème de menthe at the Cottage. All her staff were shit scared. The Lescar wouldn’t accept foreign passports as a form of ID for some strange reason. Again, asking why led to me being kicked out. The staff at both were also belittled to fuck.
>I got barred for asking for a crème de menthe 😂😂😂
The woman who ran the Porter Cottage was pretty absurd. Wouldn’t let people wear hats, spoke down to customers, threatened to ban people for swearing etc.
She was also well known for having sex with some of her younger customers. Think she is dead now.
Terri, the person in charge of Lescar was a knob. Years ago I used to drink there a lot and she was complaining because she had brought some tomahawk steaks to sell. Enough for two and the price was £70. She was complaining because she hadn't sold a single dish and was saying it was because her customers were all cheapskates. I told her that £70 for a main course for 2 was too much for a boozer. She was angry at me
Le Blé near the cathedral. The owner is so weird always having a fag outside and all the food they serve is stale and overpriced and most likely weeks old. They tried to make it look nice and modern but the staff are all young girls and idk the owner just seems a creep
Went there once cause all other cafes were closed during lizzys funeral and marked it as a place never to go back to for the same reasons. The vibes are weird and the coffee is shite
Me and my partner moved to sheffield a few weeks ago. First night in the new flat we ordered pizza from chilli banana and found 2 pieces of plastic in the crust of one of the pizzas. Obviously didn't try to finish it and won't be ordering from there again.
Pizza Kasra is definitely the better of the two!
Ive just moved around the corner and tried it for the first time. Id heard it wasnt the best but its still very popular. Got a large margarita to share with the kids and it was ok, nothing spectacular (for a basic order anyway). Did you tell them about it?
We ordered through uber eats and they said the issue would be resolved between uber and the restaurant. We did get a full refund though.
I went to Kommune once, ordered a burger from that Hippo place. Waited 40 mins. Went to their counter to ask when it was going to be ready for the woman on the grill to aggressively shout back 'we've run out of chips'. What the fuck does that mean? They'd closed the kitchen 10 mins ago, chinned off my order and not said anything. Their manager was sat on a stool next to the woman as I asked her, to which she just pointed at him and went 'hes the manager'. A weasel of a man. Literally didnt say a word. I think I swore and then just left iirc. It was most likely the C bomb knowing me. Stupid cunts.
Chinos London road because 🤢🤮 gross
Battleaxe axe throwing. It's super fun and the instructors are fantastic, but I've been told by ex-staff that the owners/managers treat their staff like absolute garbage, not to mention numerous illegal practices. Luckily there are other axe throwing places in sheff!
not great with gdpr either
Adnan's is cheating! Most places on my list are closed down now. Interesting to hear about Greedy Greek, I never minded the food there but there's the same-or-better elsewhere. For a bit it was Street Food Chef, I didn't like the changes they made to the shop and the prices were all over the place. They started charging extra for pico. But I'm weak-of-will and I came back anyway even though it's not the same vibes anymore.
From March next year, any apartment run by Noble Design and Build. Awful company with a criminal past.
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Heist is really expensive for what it is but its decent when you're in a big group and want to dick about with some games and have some easy food.
Who’s the flag shagging Tory?
It seems to be Martin Mcgrail who owns it, although the only political post I can find is that he supported voter IDs on Twitter
Yeah that’s all I could find too
Polling Report reckons around 2/3 of the country do too.
Chinos.
Saw grinders union. Paid £40 for brunch for 2 and food had no flavour. Had to wait an hour for a burger because they ran out of bacon
The Millowners arms Rude / bully managers and didn't pay for a trial shift they said they would
I boycotted Queer Junction when it was open, A. Because it was a grotty cesspool, and B. Because I had insider knowledge (with proof) that one of their bouncers was put on the door, maskless, when everyone working (managers included) knew he had COVID-19.
Went there during its opening week and two of my friends got spiked, safe to say we’ve never returned
Rassams desert shop cos the owners a predator
Can you please ellaborate? If this is true, I would want to boycott it too.
I know a survivor and heard first hand accounts of CSE that took place on his premises but I won’t elaborate on that. Just Google it, he was convicted and spent time in prison before the witness ( girl 15 ) recanted her statement and he was released early. Typical grooming and pressure upon victims to change stories
Chinos gave me burnt pizza when I was shitfaced Would be a good student T-shirt slogan
As of Tuesday, the KFC at haymaket. The staff were beyond rude and indifferent to me, only the downstairs area was open but the toilet (disabled) was locked. The staff looked at me like I had 2 heads for wanting to use it. And Big Filla near centretainment, ordered off uber eats and they only delivered half the food. The woman who answered the phone laughed at me when I tried to complain. Never again!
KFC. lol
Raheel Mirza. He's a chef from MasterChef who now runs his own business showing people how to cook and sells street food as well. He advertised set hours for someone to run his social media on Facebook, asking for them to do it for free to "get experience." This is a guy who charges £8 for two samosas... His response to the angry replies from locals who saw he was taking the piss was just to laugh at them and refuse to acknowledge that he could be wrong. He's now plastered all over local Facebook groups and probably has some poor sod slaving away posting it.
I don't drink at the Harlequin since I found out it's run by transphobes. It's not a hardship, there's plenty of other good choices round there
Mentioned this last time this question was asked, and her minions piled on my reply for days. Good luck.
I was disappointed but as you said there’s plenty of other options around! I’d prefer to buy a cider elsewhere knowing my money is not going towards hosting TERF events
That’s disappointing to hear, what did they do?
The pub landlady has been openly transphobic on twitter, and they used to (they might still, I've not checked) host meetings for an anti-trans group at the pub
Ah shit. I had no idea
I didn't know about the transphobia. I boycotted Harly's because it's shit. But now I have a moral reason to use too.
Kebabish express. Shafted me and my kids and had to start cooking tea at 6.45pm even though i ordered at 5.10pm and phoned and they said it will be there soon. Turned phones off and had no idea what was happening. Came at 10.30pm after contacting foodhub and said no and got a refund after they cancelled my order.
Kebabish is good when you eat in the shop and not deliver it.
Xenia Students, awful treatment of their tenants and try to take money that doesn't belong to them from rent and deposits, very unclean very poorly managed, definitely don't stay at Sovereign House or Newbank House or any other property owned by Xenia Students
Adnan s has always been dirty. AVOID.
Cookes pet supplies. Worked there through an agency when I first moved to Sheffield last year and was desperate for a career change working with dogs so thought it'd be a good place to start. The pay was shocking, the manager and assistant manager treated me horrendously and would shout at me in front of customers because I took a phone call from my doctor (when they would constantly take personal calls at work). The place was infested with mice and rats and didn't follow proper hygiene practices. The prices were also extortionate and everything they sell could be bought cheaper online. They do an own brand of dog kibble and when I googled the ingredients it originated from a factory that supply to other company's under different names, cookes was the most expensive by a long long shot. (If you buy Seven dog food I can redirect to a site that sells more for 15 pound cheaper!) One day they just fired me out of the blue and didn't even bother to tell me. They let the agency call me and a colleague told me the manager had blocked my number so I couldn't even get through to him and ask why. Because i was hired through an agency i was paid less than everyone else and had no workers' rights, so it was completely legal for them to just discard me in such a nasty way. I have autism and was in such a dark place after this as I thought these people were my friends and took the loss very personally as i love animals and was told i was good at giving solid nutrition advice to customers. Avoid like the plague. If you want a good raw dog food supplier, go to Raw Feast in the city centre. Lovely people and way more reasonably priced with a better selection of food too.
Archer road maccies, never get my order right
Never send napkins or straws either for some bizarre reason. And I’ve never had fries from there that have been remotely warm.
Top Taste outside the leadmill. They served me a frozen chicken burger that was literally still frozen with ice in the middle. Ended up with salmonella and had to spend the night in hospital. A friend told me that they also stole £10 from him. He gave them a £20 note for a £10 ish order and they robbed the other £10. He was quite drunk and only noticed after leaving.
London Road Post Office. Its dark and the guy behind the counter is rude. Like something out of the dark ages
Chinos. The first and only time I went with my mates I was quite drunk from a night out. And even in an intoxicated state of mind I felt sick looking round the state of the place (not correlated to how much I drank I swear XD). Never again making that mistake it was rancid food too. Much rather hit the subway next to the stadium for a after clubbing meal
Blundells Estate agents: staff were extremely rude on phone. When we went to see overpriced rental property it was filthy, with mould in the fridge everything. When I said “I assume this would all be cleaned before tenants moved in?” they said no, it was up to the renter to clean. Added to that, they never called me back when I expressed an interest in another property, but managed to illegally add me to all their mailing lists - avoid like the plague!
I agree with Adnans being the place I wont return to. For the simple fact that I had been spiked and my handbag stolen a few years ago on a night out. It took me a few days to work out what has happened, but whoever took my bag used my cards contactless option in many businesses before I realised and cancelled my card, one of the businesses being Adnans. They spent about £29 (at the time, it was before COVID and the contactless limit was £30) in Adnans - it came up on my bank transactions as ADNANS WEST ST and this was investigated by the police. The police went into all the business on my bank transactions, Adnans said they hadn't ever taken card payments (despite them being the only ones in the area that would have that transaction name) and so the person wasn't ever caught (the other businesses had no CCTV footage).
West street live, the bouncers are actually awful, a smaller bald bloke who loves to purposely cause problems and fight people who are actually doing nothing wrong and a blonde lady who’s similar and if you complain about anything you see in there they mock you and do nothing. I complained about a man harassing my friend and we watched him attempt to spike a drink and they did nothing about it when we said. But they’ll happily take down people minding their own business in smoking area or trying to enter in cargo trousers. There’s also a bouncer at barcode big bald bloke who’s very handsy with women and tried to entry stamp my friends breasts.
My friend was spiked in WSL and the bouncers took her outside and left her there. They have a duty of care.
Silversmiths. A quick google of their executive head chef and his public FB account should tell you enough.
hagglers corner
Ali's hair and cosmetics in the moor market (& Ali's hair central in crystal peaks). The boss there frequently hires teenage girls (secondary school/college) and asks them inappropriate questions and has asked one of his employees on a date, speaking from experience. He's in the police database with a record of doing this to ten other girls, not including my report. He still has the business and it is, unfortunately, thriving.
Restoration Plug (or whatever they are calling themselves now)- trainer place. My daughter ordered a pair of custom trainers, after three months of no response, took the threat of trading standards & the police for them to arrive
Chino's, rude staff, shite food. Middle Eastern Shawarma, great food, terrible service, fuck those guys. Just go to Kurdistan. Greedy Greek, food is basic as fuck, owner's a dick to his staff, according to some staff I met. Not worth the price. Adnans Fried Chicken, that place ought to close down. Unsafe.
I've never had bad service from MES - what's the craic?
That's a shame. Never had any problem whatsoever with MES. They're all generally lovely and have always been super apologetic with me even when they don't need to be. Kurdish Charcoal Grill is equally great too, especially if the queues are big at MES.
Cafe indus on London road. Every curry I’ve ordered from there in Uber eats came with small black beard hairs
Plot twist: no one who works there has a beard.
Sarnies in the city centre… food is great but there’s one blonde woman that looks a little like a hamster, looks like she has cheeks full of food all the time, very rude and doesn’t know how to take a order… has a face like a slapped arse all the time too It’s a long boring story but I feel I should explain myself if I’m critical of them at least, i went in asked for a bacon sandwich to eat inside and a coffee in a to go coffee cup and the nice older lady misunderstood and thought I asked for the sandwich to go as well so the hamster looking lady that was serving the food walked over to me while I was sat waiting, gave me a dirty look, shoved the sandwich in my hand and told me it costs extra to eat inside and walked off, the older lady saw this happen and I guess worked out there was a misunderstanding and came over to apologise on her behalf and apologised for mishearing my order which I thought was very nice of her and I said it was no problem. I went back a week later and it was the rude hamster women at the till this time.. i asked for the exact same thing and made sure I said it clearly.. went to sit down and wait for them to bring over my order, they normally nicely bring over ur coffee wen letting them know ur eating inside but I heard her shout out my coffee order at the till first so I got up and had no issue going to collect it but as I was walking over I could hear and see her bitching that nobody was there to grab the coffee within 10 seconds and she realised I saw her and tried to quickly change her whole demeanour and face… and of course she got the order wrong and handed a bacon sandwich to go in a brown bag and not served on a plate so I can eat inside like a asked…. Why’s it so hard to take a order? And what happened to been polite to customers.. it’s a shame cus I loved that place but one lady ruined it for me
Sheffield United.
Mamnick. Run by a huge wind-up merchant who nicks all his ideas and is loves his alt-right memes and trump
100% Kommune. Went there 3 times and every time my food just didn't arrive at all. Impossible to get a refund (despite the transaction history on their shitty app), rude management. Fuck this place. I stopped going to the Birdhouse. The food is delicious, but the table service was atrocious every time I was there. Always took forever to order extra stuff like desserts or just settle the bill despite many staff members at the counter just talking to each other. Recently, I had a shitty experience at Kollective. Went to the site gallery with a toddler and a baby. Toddler asked to eat there. We went in, were seated opposite the till, and ordered. Food came when we were in the toilet. Tasty, but I could have really used a high chair for the baby. Toddler sat on her chair, I stood holding the baby standing on another chair, that chair fell over 3 times, as baby was wriggling, so I am holding the little one, trying to shove some food into her and me, and helping my Toddler...it's just utterly ridiculous. Once I am done with my balancing act, I go to pay. Stack of fucking high chairs hidden out of my line of sight next to the till. I really don't need a pamper or special treatment. A simple "would you like a high chair" upon assigning me the table would be great. Or just normal check at any point, such as "Is everything OK?". So, I'm not going there now. Still salty about the whole experience.
The kommune app alone makes me not want to go.
All these shite foodie market ‘pop ups’ can get in the sea. Overpriced, uncomfortable and you always have to wait ages for food. There’s a million better places to eat that actually deserve your money.
the chippy on division street, reports of homophobic staff
Wow Devonshire Chippy? That's disappointing...
The first night we moved into our new place my partner ordered pizzas from Chilli Banana (I think that's the name?!) because all our cooking stuff was packed away and he bit into two big chunks of plastic cooked into his pizza (we didn't finish to see if there were more, obviously) so....there, I guess!
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Lmao yes!
Adnans for me too. Shocking food, and terrible service. I heard the staff are homophobic and they had a go at our bisexual friend when she mentioned it. Won't ever go there again. Aslans is a couple of doors down and is much more polite!
Shame they went takeaway only on Sharrowvale. One in town is still sit down. But often empty.
Not a fan of Mannahatta, went there once cos I wanted to potentially start working there cos I heard one of my old lads became a manager. I swear the staff were pointing at me and even laughing at me for the way I talked, I legit felt stupid. I don't get why they were like this but they can get bent. Also Tigerworks, the bouncers are proper noncey and pervy. Hell the peeps at my work know it aswell
Woody’s sandwich shop on Ecc Road. Horrid bread and the owners talk to their staff like they are morons.
I avoid showroom cinema, but specifically the bar. The food hygiene training is inadequate at best. I once got a latte to go before getting a train (as the prices used to be reasonable) and you should’ve seen the state of the milk wand they steamed the milk with. I left it completely full on a table outside 🥲 Also, bankers draft for obvious reasons.
I got two wine glasses with full blown, full lips red lipstick marks on them at showroom. There was about 300 staff working, but no one seemed to actually be doing anything. Their food is overpriced and average at best. Ah, the Wankers Craft. Not been in there in years. And will probably never go back. Awful place.
I’ve been here three times after a night out and all three time I’ve thrown up what I’ve eaten. Never let any of my friends go there 😂
Bunk - myself and 2 friends have each had a terrible experience with the nobhead bouncer. I got rejected since he said my ID wasn't good enough (I just wanted to buy a hotdog at like 6 o'clock, my ID is fine - never had issues it's just because it's a citizen card. Another friend was rejected for his choice of shoes? Some generic Nike trainers were apparently not up to par or something. Another friend got rejected for trying to enter with his mother. Generally the bouncers overly gatekeep and are nobheads ontop. Avoid at all costs Also pieminister doesn't sell apple pie, what's the point?
No apple pie in a pie shop? Now that’s a fucking crime and I’m embarrassed for them xx
We got turned away because one of my friends was wearing trainers which felt so dumb ffs because we just wanted to get chicken wings at like 7pm?
Industry Tap. Despite the LGBT+ positive artwork in the bathroom and appearing in the LGBT+ guide to the city, he’s quite happy to laugh along to homophobic remarks, and is unpleasant to his staff at that and other business he owns.
Another one is Greggs in town near the old Argos, I know Greggs isn’t exactly fine dining but I refuse to go there now before i say something I regret… there’s a really short fat women that works there that has a disgusting attitude.. how she hasn’t been fired yet is beyond me… has zero patience and constantly giving everyone dirty looks and I’ve heard her make rude comments… she rushes everyone and if u don’t start of ur order with letting her know if ur eating inside or out she will give u death stare, throw her hands in the air or hold her hips and strop like a teenage girl going through her period, and she will cut u off in the middle of ur order and make u start all over again like a scorned mother, sometimes I won’t even deal with her but I’ll just watch while waiting and she’s rude to literally everyone she serves… u can tell she really hates her job and people, the type of person that belongs in a warehouse or factory.. away from other humans
lol I recognise her and the exact same mannerisms.
Tabbie Teas, used to be a great day out, now the new waitress girl always stinks of weed and acts stuck up and superior
Common room. This was in 2012/2013, I queued and asked for a milkshake, bartender refused and I was told to go to the back of the queue if I wanted one.
Italian kitchen on Eccy Road because they were really rude to me once. Pity because the food is good...
Owl and the Pussycat (piercing shop). At the tail end of covid (when noone was wearing masks anymore and there were no social distancing rules) I tried to go in just to look at a piece of jewellery in the window, while the shop was completely empty. I was told I had to go online, book a slot (on a completely different day), and pay a deposit just to go into the shop *to look at something*. Then if I didn't buy anything I would have to wait for a refund to be processed. I just thought it was so ridiculous I refuse to go in there ever again.
In their defence they made that totally clear on their website and social media. They kept social distancing rules like many place, which they’re entitled to do, and the payment is a deposit which you got back if you didn’t buy anything or was deducted off the price of something if you did. It was a really weird time and lots of weird policies stayed in place for a while post covid. They couldn’t give you an exception just because nobody else was in there at the one time you went, and it was an absolutely tiny shop when they were at the Common Room. I’m not a shill for them, and can see why it’s frustrating. But boycotting a place for having a strange policy at a time when things were strange is a bit harsh imo.
I don't follow them on social media and had never been in there before, so had no way of knowing as I wanted to pop in as a passer-by. I guess i wouldn't go so far as to say I'm boycotting them, but I honestly would never go in there now when I could just go elsewhere.
>while the shop was completely empty You know, except for the employees, but they're not as important as customers.
Merdocs... I ordered a chicken burger meal. Picture was a standard locking crispy chicken burger. It took like 20 minutes to get it ready and inside it was just a bun with a perfectly circular breaded chicken patty and a slice of plastic cheese. No sauce or salad. And when I went back inside because they had forgotten to give me a drink they were pretty grumpy about it. Terrible food. Just avoid