Funniest Storys From 50's Primetime Cafe

[kaligal]

Again, WCC and not 50s, but the 9yo was being a sulky brat and refused to order his food (he'd show us!)...so, fine, he wouldn't eat.

But the server said, "Well, if you aren't happy here, I can fix that! Maybe you'd be more happy over there!" he pulls the kid's chair out, drags it over to another family's table, and then asks him if he's happier...and took his order.

 

[willowsnn3]

Wish I had access to my pictures on this laptop!! We ate at '50s a few weeks ago. My dd & I both ordered tea & granddaughter ordered coke. Waiter brought out our tea and was 'ignoring' granddaughter, lol. When she asked about her coke he stomped off and brought her a teeny plastic cup of coke with a straw, lol. When she asked for a refill he brought her a whole pitcher of coke with straws hooked together to reach the bottom. Then at the end of the meal he tossed her a wet cloth and told her to wipe the table, lol.

 

[jpeka65844]

Here's what happened when my waitress had to tell me repeatedly for getting my elbows off the table:

Also, I don't want to post his pic without his permission, but another person in our party kept ordering Coke refills. She brought him a pitcher full of Coke and a park map with all the bathrooms circled on it.

 

[PrincessAli]

QUOTEING--Previous Poster----"Most recently, my sister and I went there on our trip in 2011 that was just the two of us. Our waiter basically was Neil Patrick Harris' (Barney from How I Met Your Mother, if you didn't know) lost twin, both in appearance and behavior. He gave my sister crap for texting at the table, plus he accused her of licking her plate when he saw that she had used her pork chop to wipe up all the barbecue sauce on the plate. He also had some hilarious responses to the light-up MJ glove I had gotten at Captain EO and brought there with me (we had hoppers). The best, though, was when he found out she was celebrating her birthday and brought her an ice cream sundae with popcorn as one of the toppings"

We were there last September and I'm sure we had the same waiter!! He was hilarious--our party consisted of 4 Adults (all grandparents) and we laughed throughout our entire meal. He didn't have to punish anyone of us--the conversation with him was just hysterical! Going back again this year--hopeing that he's still there!

 

[MouseEarsForAll]

First time we took our daughter in law they asked her if she washed her hands in the bathroom. She said yes. They asked the color of the soap. She guessed wrong and had to go back and wash again.

HILARIOUS!

- MouseEarsForAll

 

[Eljay]

My sister and I (we are adults) ate dinner at 50's PT and when we declined dessert, our server told us to go out and play until the streetlights come on, then come back for some jello before bedtime.

My brother-in-law ordered the fried chicken and couldn't finish it all. Our server made a point of telling him that he better finish that chicken, or he would have to answer to her. He was so afraid she would see the chicken he left, that he carefully placed his naphin on his plate to hide it. The waitress came back, stared at him with a grouchy face, snatched the napkin off the dish and said loudly, "Do you think I was born yesterday?"

Another time, I was having lunch with a friend and our waitress came into the room and caught me applying lip gloss. She YELLED across the room and pointed at me, "Young lady, you can just take that straight to the ladies room!

Once a friend and I were having a cocktail at the 50's PT bar and 2 Streetmosphere actresses came in and sat at the bar. One was a young beautiful girl that was dressed in a typical 1940's dress. The other was her "mother" and was bragging to the bartender how talented her "daughter" is and how if she could just meet the right people in this town, she just knew her daughter could be a big star. They were absolutely hysterically funny! It was such a fun performance!

No clue if they are still there, but there were a male and a female server that used to sing the All In The Family theme, "Those Were The Days" together. It was ear-splitting and hilarious! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F9vRVyV914

 

[TheAceOfAces]

We were there last September and I'm sure we had the same waiter!! He was hilarious--our party consisted of 4 Adults (all grandparents) and we laughed throughout our entire meal. He didn't have to punish anyone of us--the conversation with him was just hysterical! Going back again this year--hopeing that he's still there!

I forgot to mention something else funny about him. His name tag said he was from Peoria, Arizona, and my sister and I are from a small town near Peoria, Illinois, so we ended up laughing a bit about that coincidence. He also had everyone at the tables near us sing "happy birthday" to my sister when he brought out the popcorn sundae. He's a great waiter. When we were there, there was a table near us with 3 kids sitting at it (their group had done a table for the kids and a table for the adults). While he was taking their order, he sat at the fourth chair at their table, and he was also really enthusiastic about looking at the pictures the kids had colored. My sister and I found that part entertaining.

I might add that this was during Star Wars Weekends, so I'm sure that guy was really busy during that time, and he still did a great job of staying in character and keeping up the theme of the restaurant.

 

[GoofyMB]

When I ate there years ago I had the pot roast. It was so good I used the bread and cleaned up all the gravy as well. The server came out and drew a big smiley face on the plate in mustard and began banging a knife on the plate to get everyone's attention. She announced to everyone that I was a new member of the clean plate club. My DW was so embarrassed but I thought it was great!

 

[HMfan]

Our server noticed a Birthday pin on someone sitting at another table. She passed around a birthday card for all near by diners to sign since she knew we were all "too cheap" to buy a gift.

 

[sharadoc]

We were there for my birthday in 09 and had a wonderful time. I guess it was fueled by the fact that I got a Long Island Iced Tea! First time I ever had one and didn't realize how much alcohol is in it. Combine that with a very warm day and woo hoo, lunch was pretty hysterical.

We got into it from the beginning, DH had to set the table, elbows, etc. Our "cousin" got everyone in our section to sign my birthday card, and they all sang happy birthday to "cousin" Sharon! It was so fun.

The icing on the cake was later in the day as I sat on a bench at the back of the sorcerer hat waiting for DH and DS to come out of GMR. Across the courtyard I hear someone yelling "Happy Birthday Sharon" and I thought wow who do I know here today? I look and he points to himself and his wife and says Cousin John and Mary - from lunch! I laughed and thanked him. How great was that!!

I always recommend 50sPT for anyone born in the 50's or 60's, the tv show clips are great, the atmosphere is cool and the furniture and deco are really authentic. On our first visit there, we sat at a TV table with a canister set that I have in my kitchen! It was my mother's from her first house in the 60's.

 

[songkat]

We celebrated my niece's 18th birthday there in 1985. It was such fun! Our "brother" brought a cake with a card signed by "Mom, Dad, Brother and Sister", and made the entire room we were in sing Happy Birthday to my niece - LOUDLY. My niece noticed another server putting a bib on someone at another table who apparently had spilled.

I am happy to say I kept the camcorder running and have a nice memory of that after all these years.


ETA: I mean 1995.

 

[canopynut66]

it is fun and last time we there my brotheer in law did not like the green beans so they yelled at him and then when his dessert came they were ---the topping.....so funny

 

[hollygolitely93]

While there my 5-year old Son was playing with his Lego mini figs...he had a whole bag full of body parts. The waitress, Nicole, screamed bloody murder and spent a good five minutes grilling my son who was in hysterics as to why he had so many headless men with him. She just kept screaming "no head and no legs!!! Why? Why?" They then got into a screaming contest...and by the end of the evening she was sitting with him having dessert and actually playing with the Lego guys. She was so funny and she and my son hit it off...they hugged for like two minutes when we left. So funny and sweet.

 

[CurlyJo224]

DH and I ate there on our honeymoon. As our server passed by, DH asked, "Can I have some ketchup?"

Another server passing by plunked a bottle down on the table and said, "Say please!"

 

[cymbaldiva]

We celebrated my niece's 18th birthday there in 1985. It was such fun! Our "brother" brought a cake with a card signed by "Mom, Dad, Brother and Sister", and made the entire room we were in sing Happy Birthday to my niece - LOUDLY. My niece noticed another server putting a bib on someone at another table who apparently had spilled.

I am happy to say I kept the camcorder running and have a nice memory of that after all these years.

Sounds wonderful 95 maybe though...? MGM wasn't there in 85.




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[ladypage]

I've been twice, and both were absolutely hysterical.

The first time, I had no clue what to expect, but my friend, whom I was dining with, had been there many times before. So immediately, she sets me up for everything. Cell phone, elbows on the table, not setting the table ourselves, all of the above. It really got me though, when we finished our meals. I had the fried chicken and it had come with green beans and onions. I dislike green beans, and can't stand onions, so I forced myself to eat some of the greens, but completely avoided all the onions. My friend did the exact same thing, but she knew what was coming. While our waiter wasn't looking, she pushed everything on to my plate. However, when I tried to do the same to her, I got caught. Our "cousin" made me stand up against the wall, holding a napkin with my nose, and repeat that I was "A naughty girl," to the whole restaurant. Thing is, when I tried to get her caught for some of the stuff, I then had to repeat that I wouldn't be a tattle tale.

The second time I was a bit wiser, and ordered only food I would eat, but out server had plenty of stuff to come up with. We were also some of the last people in the restaurant, so our server had some extra time with us. I was with my roommates, and our guy friends, one who was new, and to all of us girls, was very interesting. He was completely oblivious, but our server wasn't, and kept making jokes about us girls all swooning over this guy. When we got there she had also given us some crayons, making jokes about how "us youngins needed something to do," (Our youngest was 19) so she expected us to make her some pretty pictures. She ended up sitting down with us and chatting, teasing my friends and I about just about everything. We all got up and danced to The Twist or something like that. We had a ball.

It might have helped that every single one of us were also CMs, so when we were literally the only people left, she teased us even more. One of my friends has a very mild allergy to onions. Nothing too bad, but of course, as an allergy, it came up when she was ordering. When the lady brought out our dinner, she pulled my friend's chair (with her in it) our of its spot, and to a whole new table. Because the plate of the person sitting 4 down had onions on it. "We don't need to be sending you to the ER tonight dear. That always seems to happen during our little family reunions....."

 

[GreenCntryGirl]

I am really enjoying this thread.

Thanks everyone for sharing your stories and I hope to hear (read) some more.

 

[DiSnEyLvR76]

After being caught with the cell phone one too many times, it was taken away and brought back at the end of the meal completely saran wrapped..and like an entire tube of it! The next table got in trouble for something and the teenage boy was given a broom and pan and told to sweep up the room!

 

[ChristusG]

Wow, I had no idea that all of this went on at the 50's cafe! We went for the first time a few months ago and absolutely nothing happened anywhere. It was just a regular restaurant. I wish we would have seen something funny happen!

 

[Suellen]

I think mine is when my then two year old got down and threw her arms open to our waiter "cousin" and said "HUG?!" he looked a little thrown for a minute and husband said... well if you were her cousin you would hug her.

They had a huge hug and he got an even huger tip for staying in character.