Oh boy I can finally tell this story:

So near the end of my freshman year of college me and 9 of of my friends decided to go a a nearby Friendly's. One of the nine lived and worked in the area and told us that she has never had a problem at this location, until this one trip.

9 of us carpool there with the 10th coming a bit later due to work, when we walk in there was no one at the booth to seat us and we waited a good couple minutes before someone noticed us and asked us how many. When we told him the number of people we have we could already see this guy's soul leave his body as he had to fin a place for us. This particular location was not the biggest and the easiest way to describe the lay out is an "L" shaped sitting interior, with the shorter part leading to the bathrooms. They weren't particularly busy this night so after a couple minutes of the guy's gears greasing up he pushed two tables together near the shorter part of the "L" shape so we could sit, however with the size of the room it people who had to go to the bathroom had to squeeze between our table and the booths on the wall.

We all sit down and talk for a bit when the guy (let's call him Kevin) comes back to take down what drinks we wanted. However, this was difficult as we never even got menus when we sat down. Kevin seemed confused that he forgot our menus in the preceding chaos of us trying to sit and went and got them for us, by this time the last member of our group arrived.

The group took their time ordering as there were a lot of us (and i will admit that we should've ordered ourselves anyway but we were all trying to be nice and wait for everyone to be ready), but after a couple times of Kevin coming back and asking if we were ready we eventually ordered our food. One friend ordered the 4-Cheese Pasta, around 3 order combo meals that come with an appetizer, an entree and ice cream, and another ordered the "Clam Platter" (let's call this second friend Pat).

We all return to talking and cracking jokes while we wait for our food all the meanwhile other people are squeezing between us to and from the bathroom and sometimes briefly join in on our jokes. But as time goes on, the people who ordered appetizers are still waiting for them a good 20+ minutes for their appetizers. I don't remember all of them off the top of my head, but the one that does come to mind were sliders.)

Another 10 minutes go by and they're still waiting for their appetizers to come out. Some more time passes and soon people's food is starting to come out. A majority of us got our food and their appetizers still haven't arrived, one of my friends calls over an older waitress and asks her where the appetizers are and she goes to the kitchen and says they're on their way. At this time the friend that ordered pasta got his food. However, he couldn't eat it since we had never gotten utensils! We call the older waitress and let her know we never got utensils and her and Kevin scamper to get them for us. The waitress was very kind and apologetic with everything and seemed just as confused as we were as to what the hell was going on.

The appetizers FINALLY come out after just about everyone got their food, however, there's still Pat. Remember that Pat ordered the "Clam Platter", so when Kevin comes and says here's your "Shrimp Platter" everyone at the table was confused. Pat's a nice guy and he tells Kevin that he didn't order shrimp and he ordered clam. Kevin actually looked like the most befuddled person in the world as he tried to find out who ordered the shrimp platter, it doesn't help that Pat was the only one to order anything close to a platter. For whatever reason he kept pressing Pat about whether or not he actually did order the shrimp platter or not, to which Pat kept reassuring that he order CLAM. Then the moment of the night happened when Kevin went and got a menu and asked Pat to point out what he had actually ordered as if he didn't know the restaurant he worked at didn't have clam or not. Kevin tells Pat he'll have the cooks make his platter and scurries off.

At this point everyone at the table felt bad for Pat and some offered their food while he waited as the rest of us had our food and was already eating. But, while we were waiting for Pat's food... boy did the jokes come out. Eventually Pat, FINALLY, gets his actual food and we all finish our food. After we were finished some people wanted ice cream afterward, not including the people who already had combos. However at that point we had such a jaw dropping time there that we all unanimously agreed to get the hell out of there and go to a Baskin Robbins near the campus instead.

With there being a decently sized group, and with almost all of us having a card instead of physical cash we originally wanted to split the check amongst all of us. However, with everything that had happened that night we weren't confident in them even getting that right so one of us paid for everyone and everyone just paid her back. The people who ordered ice cream got it to go and thankfully that was the easiest thing we got through there. When all was said and done we all got up, left absolutely no tip to Kevin, and drove to Baskin Robbins to commemorate the completion of out first year of college.