30 People Who Got Some Of The Most Ridiculous Food Servings In The Restaurant Business (New Pics)
We Want Plates is a community of both regular people and dedicated foodies who are joining their forces to make restaurants serve food on actual plates, not on bits of wood and roof tiles. To do so, they are shaming all the ridiculous food presentations they are receiving online, and their crusade has made them quite famous.
Founded in 2015 by Ross McGinnes, We Want Plates already has 157K followers on Twitter, 100K on Facebook, and 30K on Instagram. However, the biggest unit of their army is located on Reddit — over 650K troops. I think it's safe to say that the growth of the project is a pretty good indication that restaurants should think twice before serving cured meat on a bone or pouring a cocktail into a baby bottle. At least I hope so.
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“Our Environmentally Friendly Tempura Is Made With Sustainable Seafood And Vegetables, Harvested In Ways That Consider The Long-Term Well-Being Of Our Precious Land And Oceans.”“Wonderful! How’s It Served?”“On A Large Polystyrene Block.”
Cocktail Bathtub Complete With Rubber Ducky
“Here’s Your Beef Wellington Starter. Is There Anything Else I Can Get You?”“Tetanus Shot, Please.”
Caesar Salad Or Charlie Brown Christmas Tree?
So a caesar salad is lettuce, 2 crusty pieces of bread and sauce.
"Waiter, I Prefer My Pie To Be At Least 9 Inches Off The Table"
The Chips Come In A Rock
Coz nothing says fancy like 2 chips randomly placed on a rock.
Japan...
This Is A Take Out Dish - Diners Were Instructed To Plate Like This At Home. Part Of A $115 Tasting Menu
Turns Out The Best Plates Are At Arm's Reach
Espresso... To Go
Please Take A Charcuterie And Have A Seat
That's not even too bad with the paper. Weird yes, but looks hygienic.
Yes, I Would Like Your "Mini Corn Dogs On A Ceramic Decorative Pillow" Please
Looks like someone has ripped open the poor pillow, showing its bowel...
Venison Cubes On A Deer Antler (Was Actually Incredible)
Gravy In A Urinal
This? Oh, It's Just An Orthodontic Mould Of The Restaurant-Owner's Mouth From Barcelona
Why
Repeat After Me, Hub Caps Are Not Plates
Chocolate "Horse Turd" Truffles On A Manure Fork. Just No
My Cocktail Was Caged Because What If It Flies Away
Ah yes, my cocktail flies away pretty often too. I should get a cage like that 9_9
Nachos On A Rusty Bin Lid
Beignets Growing On A Tree
Found On Yelp & Now I Don’t Want To Stay At This Hotel Anymore
What A Time To Be Alive
Full Breakfast In A Jar
Please Stop
My Cocktail Came In A Box
This is the traditional way to drink Sake. Maybe they're going for a fusion thing. It is a silly thing to do for many drinks, but if woodiness is part of the flavour, it's a great option.
Syphon Tower Of Onion Rings
Fish And Chips On Paper
Lazy owner who wants to cut cost on plates and a dishwasher
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This is pretty normal in a lot of seafood restaurants I think. We always got crabs on newspaper
I grew up in DC and in the summer we would drive to Baltimore to meet our cousins and we would always get crabs, while the table was always lined with newspaper for the mess, the food was actually served in baskets. I wouldn't want my food served on paper, yuck.
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Look at the state of that fish , looks like an old boot. I bet it tastes that way also .
And those are not the kind of chips that go in fish and chips
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Nothing wrong with this. I have been in many places all around in Europe, for example in Thessaloniki, when you can eat delicious fish and chips served on paper
Except for the fact that those are not chips, they're crisps...
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Fish and.chips always come on paper. Ask on any fish and chips shop, and see what you get. Should it be different on a restaurant? What i do not understand is why do you ask for fish and chips in a restaurant.
That is not Fish and Chips, that is Fish and Crisps. If you are culturally appropriating my country's food CHIPS ARE CHIPS NOT CRISPS. Now I need a cup of tea and a hob k**b to calm down. Aaaaarrrrrghhh
And don't you **** my biscuit choice. H O B K N O B S . H O B K N O B S. H O B K N O B S
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Back in the day, I always got my Fish 'n Chips wrapped in a double sheet of newspaper
This seems ok to me, especially if the paper soaks up all of the grease.
This one I wouldn't mind, being Australian and as a child we always have fish and chips wrapped in newspaper!
Fish and chips always taste better eaten out or paper and it isn't so much eccentric than traditional. Also those are not chips, I would be so disappointed if my chips looked like that
"They do it in the street, why would I do anything differently inside?"
I admit, I have seen this before...pretty small portions...READ ALL ABOUT IT! LOL!
I can see what they were aiming for, but they should have a square of greaseproof paper under the food too if they are going for the 'Chip Shop Take Away' style
What on earth? A pathetic tiny excuse for a fish & who the heck has fish & crisps as a meal anywhere, let alone ordered at a restaurant? Bonkers, time for a refund!
The paper doesn't bother me particularly btw - as others have said, fish & chips comes in paper in the UK anyway so we're used to that. Though I'd expect plates when eating out, we can see they do own some, the side dish is served on one!
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There was a barbecue restaurant in Muskogee, Oklahoma called Slick's that served all their food on paper. He was a rather crabby, skinny old Black man (fun to watch him yell at the staff) and their ribs were so good people would drive great distances to eat in that cramped little restaurant. Best ribs I've ever tasted.
Just kinda gross how you can see a huge grease stain right under the paper on the tablecloth. Doesn't look too hygienic to me -_-
If you get actual British fish and chips, they are often served on or wrapped in paper, so this isn't all that weird.
That's actually an old sea-side tradition... someone's only being playful by making it look like plates.
Charcoal Waffle Eggs Benedict On A Shovel In Barcelona
This Is Not How I Want My Biriyani To Be Served!
Charcuterie, Anyone?
“Siri, It’s International Gin And Tonic Day. Show Me The Worst Ways Gin And Tonic Has Ever Been Served.”
Oh I've been here and I was so confused as to why anyone thought putting a glass in a shoe would enhance the experience.
From A Restaurant In Munich, Germany
Blood Pancakes In A Mask...
Because this world needs more trash? It infuriates me that they're throwing away perfectly good masks.
“Chef, I’ve Defrosted The Freezer And Put Out The Recycling.”“That’s It!”“Chef?”“I’ve Had An Idea For The Red Bull Sorbet.”
Served In An Ashtray
"Would You Like Some Bread While You Wait?""I'm Forty-Eight Years Old."
Nothing Says Love Like This Hogs And Kisses Bouquet!
I prefer food to cut flowers. I also prefer plants and flowers in a pot that will last longer with proper care.
Parsnip, Sprout And Swede Wellington, Served On An Afro Comb. As You Do
“Sausage And Mash, Please.”“Pint?”“Just A Half, I’m Driving.”
At A 2 Michelin Starred Restaurant
This Pizza Being Served On A Slice Of Tree
Whats Up With All Of This Food On Your Hand Trend?
My Friend Sent This To Put On Reddit, Located In Indonesia
Eat From Hollowed Out Wood
Served On A Moose Antler
Jimmy Mac's Campfire Chicken Sandwich On A Hubcap. Complimentary Chefs Hair Under The Chicken
I Didn’t Get A Plate But At Least My Steak Will Be Vaccinated
Casual Shovel Dinner
Found This Gem On Facebook
This is definitely smarter than most of the others. Using glass bottles that otherwise will be thrown out to landfill. Some companies clean and reshaped glass bottles to be used as plates, drinking glass or coaster (one of them is instagram.com/ffrash_designs > they're now closed tho).
Technically There Is A Plate...
Excuse me sir I don’t have a napkin. It’s right there. Here? Yeah there. You mean the napkin with a piece of food already sitting on it? Yes. Heard.
Restaurant In My Area Serving Food In Lunch Boxes
My Seaweed Salad Is Apparently A Cocktail Now
Cocktails In The Wild... Manhattan Served On A Rock With A Side Of Dirt And Pine Cone
Three Small Plates Pls
Want A Fishbowl Cocktail But Still Remain Classy? I Present To You, Suitcasebowl
The "suitcase" is probably filled with ice to keep it at the proper serving temperature, which is why it's in a steam table pan.
Fancy Chicken Tendies
How About A Refreshing Cup Of Caesar?
All Day Breakfast Served On A Tile, And Soup In A Mug
My Smoked Tuna Tataki Came In A Jar
Tacos On A Log
Steak Which You Cook On A Concrete Brick
I Wouldn’t Even Want To Reach The Fried Rice At That Point
Onion Soup In An Onion Bowl
That Is Butter On A Rock. Why?
A Brownie In A Tiny Jar
If any restaurant owner / chef is here, I have an idea to serve food. Off the floor. Hear me out. There's no need for tables and chairs, people will be sitting on the floor, maybe on a cushion. It's cozy and homey. Then you take the food and throw it on the floor and people will eat it using their hands (the 5 sec rule obviously doesn't apply - you can take your sweet time). So no need for plates and cutlery, which means no need for dishwashing!! For liquids, you just make your hands like a cup and the waiter serves your beverage there. Awesome and progressive, right? Right??
Sarcasm is really underrated! I laughed a lot with your comment!
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My main concern with this pretentious presentations is the hygiene. Pretty sure that certain objects are not as easily washable as normal dishes.
I believe in most cases, they are ALL single-use. Our urban elites pay indulgences to their phony environmentalist gods, but live like disgusting, planet-killing slobs.
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As a chef, I can honestly say some of these are standard plating in a lot of places, but most are just pretentious and ridiculous hipster trends that serve no purpose to the food nor to the client. There's a fine line between being creative and being stupid.
Whenever I see plating theatrics like this, I firmly believe they are trying to distract you from something not good. Flavors, prices?
The worst part of most of these is that the "plates" they're using aren't made of food-grade materials. I don't want to eat from a wooden board that someone else has eaten from. And I don't want to eat from a shovel or hubcap at ALL.
I did think the fish and chips on a sheet of paper would work, though. After all, that is a traditional way to serve them (wrapped, though), and the paper gets thrown away or perhaps tossed on a fire afterwards, so this is hygienic and allows for a normal-sized meal.
I wish they would have included prices. I'd like to see if I could be even more incredulous.
I just gotta say: I'm sure the dishwashers in these restaurants hate their bosses.
It's totally ok to be creative, and if the guests of these place like the trash looks of these plates I'm fine. But are all of these things hygienic and not toxic? There is a reason if some things are not usually used as plates or pots, some materials are not suitable to contain food.
All those crazy ideas might be "innovating" but if my food is served on a towel, a piece of paper, a rusty bin lid or a hub cap they found on the roadside, I'm walking out without paying.
All of these are just gross and unhygienic. What is wrong with your food that it needs this stupid presentations?
this "culinaire progressive" restaurants can existe because of the snobisme of "nouveau rich" without any education education and totally tasteless like drinking champagne in a plastic cup at the vernissage of fake artists like M.A.
great work overall, but the autorun ads overheat my computer, could you please stop them?
Most of these are a great way to get guests to pay a lot for almost microscopic portions! aka a ripoff.
These were all probably meant to be "artistic," or "fancy." They actually look "stupid" and "gross."
Oh my God! What a bunch of tossers! I bet they charge ridiculous amounts of money for their disgusting messes!
With so many people photographing their food you have to do something to get your place free publicity.
At the risk of sounding like a philistine, I really don't see the point in food served this way. It's artsy-fartsy yes but so impractical. Unless these things are merely meant to be seen and not eaten.
So conceptual "art" has its version on cuisine... go figure. caballos-6...6f1ddd.jpg 
These remind me of that scene in Grandma's Boy where they go to the vegan restaurant.
By the end, the comments were along the lines of, "It's not so bad." I think our brains were taken hostage by the first few pictures.
There used to be a chrome-and-auto themed bar around here with a non-sequitur idea for getting and paying your tabs: There was a four-inch wide stream of water just inside the bar rail that gently flowed by you as you sat. You could launch those little plastic, rectangular dishes you get your bill in and send your payment off to the bartender like a little boat. I loved it. I'm a little weird, though... I like flowing water so much that when I was a kid I used to watch the water that ran off driveways as they were cleaned form streams like microcosmic rivers. Besides minor mishaps, I'm not sure WHAT was wrong with this (the flow prevented algae, for instance), but I'm sure something was.
This is basically and advertisement of "Our food really sucks, so we have to get you in using gimmicks that may distract you long enough to not realize that we're charging you way too much for this slop."
I'm sure those all taste crap. What lacks in taste usually also fails in presentation.
I'm quite sure the majority of those are not food grade, meaning it's not safe to put food on them or eat off them... who is supervising these establishments because I'm sure using serveware that isn't food grade is a no-no.
If anywhere served me food on anything but a plate, I'd walk out. NASTY
So many of these are so terribly unhygienic that the trend MUST be conspicuous waste: objects like concrete blocks, logs, etc., that can't possibly be used more than once without visibly being contaminated. So keep in mind when you see the wealthiest areas of America (or... what's up Barcelona?) vote 99% Democrat (Lower Manhattan, San Francisco, D.C., Loop Chicago, even downtown Houston) how hypocritical these elites are. These places don't cater to some conservative minority; they're the trendy locales of the dominant culture. PLEASE DON'T MISUNDERSTAND ME: Ad hominem is a fallacy! Their hypocrisy doesn't mean conservation isn't needed. It just means we shouldn't follow the elites in how to be conservationists! LIVE SIMPLY. Simply means cheaply.
If any restaurant owner / chef is here, I have an idea to serve food. Off the floor. Hear me out. There's no need for tables and chairs, people will be sitting on the floor, maybe on a cushion. It's cozy and homey. Then you take the food and throw it on the floor and people will eat it using their hands (the 5 sec rule obviously doesn't apply - you can take your sweet time). So no need for plates and cutlery, which means no need for dishwashing!! For liquids, you just make your hands like a cup and the waiter serves your beverage there. Awesome and progressive, right? Right??
Sarcasm is really underrated! I laughed a lot with your comment!
Load More Replies... My main concern with this pretentious presentations is the hygiene. Pretty sure that certain objects are not as easily washable as normal dishes.
I believe in most cases, they are ALL single-use. Our urban elites pay indulgences to their phony environmentalist gods, but live like disgusting, planet-killing slobs.
Load More Replies... As a chef, I can honestly say some of these are standard plating in a lot of places, but most are just pretentious and ridiculous hipster trends that serve no purpose to the food nor to the client. There's a fine line between being creative and being stupid.
Whenever I see plating theatrics like this, I firmly believe they are trying to distract you from something not good. Flavors, prices?
The worst part of most of these is that the "plates" they're using aren't made of food-grade materials. I don't want to eat from a wooden board that someone else has eaten from. And I don't want to eat from a shovel or hubcap at ALL.
I did think the fish and chips on a sheet of paper would work, though. After all, that is a traditional way to serve them (wrapped, though), and the paper gets thrown away or perhaps tossed on a fire afterwards, so this is hygienic and allows for a normal-sized meal.
I wish they would have included prices. I'd like to see if I could be even more incredulous.
I just gotta say: I'm sure the dishwashers in these restaurants hate their bosses.
It's totally ok to be creative, and if the guests of these place like the trash looks of these plates I'm fine. But are all of these things hygienic and not toxic? There is a reason if some things are not usually used as plates or pots, some materials are not suitable to contain food.
All those crazy ideas might be "innovating" but if my food is served on a towel, a piece of paper, a rusty bin lid or a hub cap they found on the roadside, I'm walking out without paying.
All of these are just gross and unhygienic. What is wrong with your food that it needs this stupid presentations?
this "culinaire progressive" restaurants can existe because of the snobisme of "nouveau rich" without any education education and totally tasteless like drinking champagne in a plastic cup at the vernissage of fake artists like M.A.
great work overall, but the autorun ads overheat my computer, could you please stop them?
Most of these are a great way to get guests to pay a lot for almost microscopic portions! aka a ripoff.
These were all probably meant to be "artistic," or "fancy." They actually look "stupid" and "gross."
Oh my God! What a bunch of tossers! I bet they charge ridiculous amounts of money for their disgusting messes!
With so many people photographing their food you have to do something to get your place free publicity.
At the risk of sounding like a philistine, I really don't see the point in food served this way. It's artsy-fartsy yes but so impractical. Unless these things are merely meant to be seen and not eaten.
So conceptual "art" has its version on cuisine... go figure. caballos-6...6f1ddd.jpg
These remind me of that scene in Grandma's Boy where they go to the vegan restaurant.
By the end, the comments were along the lines of, "It's not so bad." I think our brains were taken hostage by the first few pictures.
There used to be a chrome-and-auto themed bar around here with a non-sequitur idea for getting and paying your tabs: There was a four-inch wide stream of water just inside the bar rail that gently flowed by you as you sat. You could launch those little plastic, rectangular dishes you get your bill in and send your payment off to the bartender like a little boat. I loved it. I'm a little weird, though... I like flowing water so much that when I was a kid I used to watch the water that ran off driveways as they were cleaned form streams like microcosmic rivers. Besides minor mishaps, I'm not sure WHAT was wrong with this (the flow prevented algae, for instance), but I'm sure something was.
This is basically and advertisement of "Our food really sucks, so we have to get you in using gimmicks that may distract you long enough to not realize that we're charging you way too much for this slop."
I'm sure those all taste crap. What lacks in taste usually also fails in presentation.
I'm quite sure the majority of those are not food grade, meaning it's not safe to put food on them or eat off them... who is supervising these establishments because I'm sure using serveware that isn't food grade is a no-no.
If anywhere served me food on anything but a plate, I'd walk out. NASTY
So many of these are so terribly unhygienic that the trend MUST be conspicuous waste: objects like concrete blocks, logs, etc., that can't possibly be used more than once without visibly being contaminated. So keep in mind when you see the wealthiest areas of America (or... what's up Barcelona?) vote 99% Democrat (Lower Manhattan, San Francisco, D.C., Loop Chicago, even downtown Houston) how hypocritical these elites are. These places don't cater to some conservative minority; they're the trendy locales of the dominant culture. PLEASE DON'T MISUNDERSTAND ME: Ad hominem is a fallacy! Their hypocrisy doesn't mean conservation isn't needed. It just means we shouldn't follow the elites in how to be conservationists! LIVE SIMPLY. Simply means cheaply.
