We decided to pop in because we just had just got off the road after 16 hours driving and 2 hours of sleep the night before and we had just checked into a hotel near by. We wanted some food to go, and had an off-putting experience with the woman who greeted us. We had a different server who was very sweet, the chili was pretty ok but cold. We ordered a burger for my boyfriend and a salad for myself both to-go. After driving for 16 hours we just wanted to go eat lay down. My salad was over all ok, but it was a huge salad and only had a drizzle of dressing on it, leaving it mainly dry. Ok, not the end of the world. One of the tomatoes was half rotten but I picked it out and inspected the others which appeared ok-mistakes happen. Not appealing, but not the bringer of the apocalypse. My boyfriend took the top bun off his burger to arrange his toppings (forgot to add tomato but oh well, worse things can happen) he peeled off the lettuce on his burger, held it up and said OH MY GOD. I looked over and it was rotten and brown. Literally PAST the wilty stage, it was rotten. We called to let them know about it and they said "oh great that will give you a reason to get back here and pay the rest of your bill". They said we were $4 off, I literally had over a 60 dollars in mixed change out between the 2 of us combining money and figuring out a tip, why would I not only stiff my server on a tip, (I Always tip about 20%) but also pay $4 LESS THAN THE ACTUAL BILL? We went back and fourth about whether or not we wanted to tip 20% on takeout, but she was nice so I decided to do it. Which should have been 42 w/$6tip. I put the cash down and put the remaining bills I had taken out back into my wallet. I'm not a teenager trying to dine and dash, I had plenty of money in my wallet. I'm a 30 year old woman and former waitress and always treat my servers well- even in instances where the kitchen messes the food up I always tip well with very few exceptions. I would never intentionally pay less than what I owe AND completely stiff my server. I was checking my email before we left; when I got up the money was gone which I'm fairly certain she had picked up a few minutes before we left and nothing was said. To be fair, I do realize we both had been driving for 16 hours today and it's not completely beyond the realm of possibility that perhaps I got mixed up doing the math with combined cash. I'm not saying it's completely impossible although I'm beyond surprised by the thought of doing that. The problem is not the mention of it. The problem is that when we he called to calmly let them know about the ROTTEN food they could have: apologized, offer to fix it, make us aware of the $4 discrepancy and ask to settle up when we came in to have our food fixed (OR ANY VARIATION OF THAT)I would have had no problem. The mere idea that I could have accidentally shorted on my bill is mortifying to begin with and I've played it over and over in my head and the only explanation I can think of is running on no sleep and making a stupid math error. But they were extremely rude and accusatory and offered no explanation for the literal ROTTEN FOOD we were served. Why on gods green earth would someone who KNOWINGLY shorted their waitress and left no tip EVER CALL the restaurant to take issu about the food!? At that point we were pissed about the nastiness of situation along with the fact that we were served food that could literally make us sick. My boyfriend is the slowest person to anger....on the planet. I have never seen him upset over service before. He told them "Well I guess we'll call it even on the rotten food then" and hung up. I'm embarrassed at the mere NOTION of being short, but more so about the way I was treated like a dirtbag because if we were short were completely oblivious! We would have been MORE THAN HAPPY to pay the remaining $4 + intended original tip and make it right in exchange for a BURGER FREE FROM ROTTING, SLIMEY PRODUCE. And after that exchange I'd say it was fair of us to leave it at that.... and they are lucky that we didn't ask for the remaining six dollar value of the burger in addition. It was not edible and we had to give it to the dog, going to bed hungry AND exhausted. I have never left a bad review for any business or restaurant before. I have never shorted and I have never even seen my boyfriend send food back or complain. I cannot stress enough this enough. read more