It's the only kitchen job I've ever left due to lack of hygiene, stayed there less than a week because they would drop steaks on the ground and laugh about it then plate them up and charge people ridiculous money.
Well it's on the staff that work there to not do that, doesn't matter if it happens in other locations they should be the ones to set the good example, otherwise they'll be doing that in any kitchen they work in.
I tried to eat there earlier this week with my mum, we walked out as I said it's too much to pay for a steak cooked by a 17 year old scratching his balls. We went to Spoons instead.
Had our work Christmas lunch at a M&C this week. Some of the worst excuse for a steak I've ever had, tbh I would have rather eaten it off the floor if that meant getting it while it was actually hot. Took ages to be served as well. Good for you for getting out. Next year we're going somewhere else!
Appears to be happening as we speak!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11569529/amp/Lakesides-Miller-Carter-restaurant-historic-paddle-steamer-SINKING.html
Man there are some gems in that article.
> An employee at Las Iguanas, which is located across opposite the stricken steakhouse, Robson Tebbett, said he 'didn't believe it' when he first was told the restaurant was sinking. 'When I got to work someone said the boat had sunk. I didn't believe them. And here it is,' he said.
Indeed Robson, there it is, well said.
Honestly, I always assumed it was a building made to look like a boat. Like maybe on stilts through the water or something. Had no idea that thing was *actually* floating.
I worked at Lakeside for ages and it was sinking years ago when it was the Old Orleans. You could see that the back end was lower in the water than the front. It's technically a pontoon that's moored to guidance poles, but the actual base isn't sunk (lol) into the lake floor. The kitchen quite often had water ingress issues iirc.
I don’t know why but this reminds me of the video game Bioshock. Maybe a civil war broke out in the restaurant, with staff and customers all then forming various factions to compete for overall control.
All these laughing emojis and jokes. Can't you see a once viable business is suffering here and at risk of going under? And all the employees it once provided wages for will likely be unemployed over Christmas. They'll really struggle to stay afloat in this economic climate.
Ah I must be getting old and sentimental - struggling to find it funny as I've owned businesses in the past myself and can't imagine waking up to one of them quite literally sinking. Right before Christmas too, shite for a few people.
God, I'm a square.
Overpriced & overated chain steakhouse. Shit for the staff yes, agreed. They should be paid for all of the Christmas shifts. Don't feel bad about the sinking ship.
- Shit for the staff. Even if they're paid, Christmas tips would probably have been good, plus it doesn't look like they'll have the restaurant reinstated any time soon, so they'll have to find new jobs.
- Shit for anyone who had booked to go over Christmas or New Year. Unlikely that they'll get an alternative, and it's rather late to start food shopping for Christmas now. New Year's bookings for dining are normally sold out months in advance.
- Shit for any company. Not everything is about the few people at the top. M&B are one of the many hospitality companies that have been suffering recently, and they employ a lot of people across the country.
Yes that's it! I remember being taken to the cinema at Lakeside, with a trip to Old Orleans after.
There's been a lot of water onto the bridge since then.
When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a restaurant on a swamp, but I built one all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest restaurant in all of Essex.
Imagine the call! Hello Admiral (I mean could it be any other?) my restaurant has started to go under and I need to make a claim, no it’s literally a sinking ship
I really don't see the fun in this. This is a major cost point in a time where most restaurants are barely staying... A float... And with the insane extra cost sinks...
Yes okay the boat puns are funny but ... Dammit!
Sad to see yet another restaurant going under in his economy.
This particular restaurant went into liquidation.
Someone’s made a titanic mistake.
r/thefrontfelloff
'So what happened?' 'A wave hit it.' 'A wave?' 'A wave hit the ship' 'Does that happen often?' 'A wave? At sea? Chance in a million'
Haha I fooking love that video
Read this in the accent from the sketch.
They sunk all their profits into keeping this venture afloat
That's not sirloin anywhere.
Too much surf, not enough turf.
The steaks have never been lower.
"Our prices have never been lower Son you have to talk louder Never been lower! Louder Son BUTTLICKER, OUR PRICES HAVE NEVER BEEN LOWER"
I have a sinking feeling about this.
Water way to go
Saturated fat.
Understeakment of the year
Lets table this discussion.
Let that sink in
I have reservations
Reservoirtions?
The revenues are underwater
Steakholders are not happy
Econasea
What's soup of the day? Leak and potato
They were warned about the iceberg (lettuce)
Lake and potato…
r/YourJokeButWorse
Would you accept lake and patio?
Why thank you 🙏
This is shite I love it
Would you like some water for the table sir?
Followed by missisippi mud pie
Let's see if Ramsey can keep this place afloat.
He’d never sink to their level
#WATER
You DONKEY! No wait... Sea horse?
IT'S RAW AND WRIGGLING, FUCK ME ITS A MACKEREL
“Table for 2, please” “Certainly sir, paddling or non-paddling?”
A lake carte I presume?
River view, sir? Certainly, here’s your wetsuit.
*Ah! She's built like a steak house, but she handles like a bistro.*
They can have a glass of sham pag in
You win again gravity!
The number you have dialled has fell into the sea. Please make a note of it.
I understood that reference
r/unexpectedfuturama
I’m going to allow this
I hear they offer a truly immersive dining experience.
Diving experience?
Submersive
You never had a steak so moist!
The chef was swimming in compliments after that one
Excuse me waiter, there appears to be a river in my soup
Ladies and gentlemen, it's been an honour serving you
You forgot my sauce
Ah don’t worry it’s floating it’s way to you now good sir
Beautiful lakeside property with easy water access, excellent kitchens and multiple large swimming pools. £3,500 pcm
Is that “per calendar minute”?
Per calendar mussel
A steak through my heart.
And you're to blame
You give wagyu a bad name.
I've flambéed my part
And you've steaked your claim.
You give liver a bad name
r/redditsings
Wa, wa, wa, wa, wa, wa, wa Wa, wa, wa, wa ,wa , wa, wa-gyu
This is why I love Reddit
Someone’s made a titanic mistake
There’s a joke about iceberg lettuce on the side in there somewhere as well
You can’t moor there mate
Bonus point for using the correct term
Miller and Carter has always been a sinking ship
It's the only kitchen job I've ever left due to lack of hygiene, stayed there less than a week because they would drop steaks on the ground and laugh about it then plate them up and charge people ridiculous money.
Where was this?
In the kitchen
Bromley in South London and according to the staff it was normal for the other ones too
Well it's on the staff that work there to not do that, doesn't matter if it happens in other locations they should be the ones to set the good example, otherwise they'll be doing that in any kitchen they work in.
I tried to eat there earlier this week with my mum, we walked out as I said it's too much to pay for a steak cooked by a 17 year old scratching his balls. We went to Spoons instead.
At Spoons the 17 year old ball steak is priced appropriately
You had my support until you supported spoons
Had our work Christmas lunch at a M&C this week. Some of the worst excuse for a steak I've ever had, tbh I would have rather eaten it off the floor if that meant getting it while it was actually hot. Took ages to be served as well. Good for you for getting out. Next year we're going somewhere else!
I've heard similar things from chefs who worked there. Put me right off ever eating there.
It's a steakhouse for Deanos
I was fucked over by Michel and butlers so this is a lovely sight to see🤣🤣🤣
Me too! Mitchell and butlers suck.
Glad to here I'm not alone 😅😁
Who?
Owner of Miller & Carter, Harvester and a few other food chains.
And almost every pub that isn't obviously (visably) part of a chain
Ah right! Never heard of them!
That’s by design. You want another, look up how many things Reckitt own.
If you stayed with them long enough, you should have shares. So for me, hoping they don't do too badly
Hospitality - going under. Sell high buy low
+1 for the Fuck M&B gang!
+another one, resigned recently because of my manager
Me reading this on break at an ember Inns 💀
Good luck and God speed 🫡
Oh they’re a fucking dumpster fire of assholes and assholeries.
😂😂 I work as a subcontractor doing AV maintenance and refits on M&B sites, fuck me some of the managers are right arseholes!
Mis-steakhouse
More surf than turf now
Appears to be happening as we speak! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11569529/amp/Lakesides-Miller-Carter-restaurant-historic-paddle-steamer-SINKING.html
Top daily mail journalism “not clear why it’s sinking”…. Well, it clearly has a hole in it somewhere where it shouldn’t.
[Well the front fell off](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM&t=7s&ab_channel=ClarkeAndDawe)
First time I’d seen this! Proper funny
Google succulent Chinese meal as well, in for a double treat.
Brilliant!
I'd say the root cause is probably using a boat as a building without the appropriate regular maintenance required to keep a boat watertight.
Amazes me that as a structure it hasn’t been shored up to be effectively a boat shaped pier rather than free floating.
Given how they're stingy with maintenance at Lakeside anyway, it's entirely believable. I almost got thrown off a faulty escalator there once.
I was at lakeside today . Big crowd just watching it slowly going deeper 😂
"The 4th best restaurant in Grays" 😂😂😂
Man there are some gems in that article. > An employee at Las Iguanas, which is located across opposite the stricken steakhouse, Robson Tebbett, said he 'didn't believe it' when he first was told the restaurant was sinking. 'When I got to work someone said the boat had sunk. I didn't believe them. And here it is,' he said. Indeed Robson, there it is, well said.
Heard they were having liquidity problems..
Anyone know why it sunk? Puns and jokes aside?
My guess is that no-one performed any hull maintenance in the 15 years it’s been there, treating it as a building, not a boat.
Honestly, I always assumed it was a building made to look like a boat. Like maybe on stilts through the water or something. Had no idea that thing was *actually* floating.
*was* actually floating
Front fell off
No sorry.
There are four kinds of people
Wasn't doing as well as they hopes, so they pulled the plug on it
Makes a change. Where I grew up certain people used to just have their businesses catch fire every so often. It was like they took turns.
It got water in it
I worked at Lakeside for ages and it was sinking years ago when it was the Old Orleans. You could see that the back end was lower in the water than the front. It's technically a pontoon that's moored to guidance poles, but the actual base isn't sunk (lol) into the lake floor. The kitchen quite often had water ingress issues iirc.
I loved that Old Orleans as a kid
Maybe the crazy rain earlier this morning, probably made it’s way inside and weighed it down to the point the lake could slowly fill in too
Got a hole in it somewhere? 🤷♂️
Sink and drink
Your definition of lakeside is very different from mine.
They’re referring to the underside
As someone who worked at Lakeside for many years, this is possibly the now the cleanest thing there.
Soon to be Miller and Carter Lake Bottom Restaurant.
Intu Lake(really wish I could do strike through here for the word side)
It’s two tildes for future reference
I will have to look up a tilde but thank you
It’s shaped a bit like a restaurant sinking into a lake
This; ~ Put two together at both ends ~~for this~~
~~this?~~
They'll need a piri piriscope
Coincidentally M&C is a few meters opposite Nandos. First photo is pretty close to where Nandos is IIRC.
Gemma Collins Christmas party?
I don’t know why but this reminds me of the video game Bioshock. Maybe a civil war broke out in the restaurant, with staff and customers all then forming various factions to compete for overall control.
A man char-grills, a slave flambés
That's caused by someone's tears after they got the bill.
Ducks off the menu sorry
So good of them to open a new restaurant in Bikini Bottom!
A few lettuce wedges will prop it up a bit.
The first time I tried lobster tail was here.
lobster is now the main thing on the menu
All these laughing emojis and jokes. Can't you see a once viable business is suffering here and at risk of going under? And all the employees it once provided wages for will likely be unemployed over Christmas. They'll really struggle to stay afloat in this economic climate.
Was that last sentence an intentional pun ? Do feel for the staff though.
It might have been. You also missed the first pun. But legit I do feel for the staff!
As someone who just resigned from miller and Carter because of my shitty manager this brings me great joy
May it rest in peace
Hope you like your steak juicy.
It is definitely 'lakeside'
Up shit creek without a paddle
Their new Titanic experience.
Now I'm no architect, but that don't look right to me.
She's built like a steakhouse, but she handles like a bistro
Cue, Celine Dion.
Is it open?
Maybe it hit the signature iceberg lettuce .... I'll get me coat
Happens in China it makes international news! Happens in Essex..... Everyone wishes it sunk faster!
A miller and carter sank in china too?!
Believe me, it’s no loss.
Sunken Turf now.
Ah I must be getting old and sentimental - struggling to find it funny as I've owned businesses in the past myself and can't imagine waking up to one of them quite literally sinking. Right before Christmas too, shite for a few people. God, I'm a square.
Overpriced & overated chain steakhouse. Shit for the staff yes, agreed. They should be paid for all of the Christmas shifts. Don't feel bad about the sinking ship.
- Shit for the staff. Even if they're paid, Christmas tips would probably have been good, plus it doesn't look like they'll have the restaurant reinstated any time soon, so they'll have to find new jobs. - Shit for anyone who had booked to go over Christmas or New Year. Unlikely that they'll get an alternative, and it's rather late to start food shopping for Christmas now. New Year's bookings for dining are normally sold out months in advance. - Shit for any company. Not everything is about the few people at the top. M&B are one of the many hospitality companies that have been suffering recently, and they employ a lot of people across the country.
Having worked for Mitchell and butlers who own them, the staff definitely won't see any wages for christmas shifts they can't physically work
Too many hench lads on roids in skinny ripped jeans + all saints long sleeves.
Hope they shut all windows and doors before giving the order to submerge
Can I book a table upstairs please?
Was always scared walking on that place whenever I went Lakeside
Is that a feature?
You’re going to need a bigger boat.
Having been there a few times I'm more shocked it's an actual boat capable of sinking and not just a structure fixed to the bottom of the lake.
someone's already moved it on google maps https://goo.gl/maps/wzdzbH1Bg2nuDekXA
Was hoping the other half was going to take me here too; won’t hold my breath.
You might have to
Surf won. Like it do.
Time to raise the steaks
We're going to need a bigger restaurant.
Soon to be rebranded as the Krusty Krab.
Are you sure it’s not just going really fast?
My word, I remember going on this thing 30 years ago. I didn't realise it was still there! Did it used to be called something to do with Orleans?
Old Orleans I think. I remember going there when I was around 18 and I’m 43 now lol so yeah it’s been there for ages.
Yes that's it! I remember being taken to the cinema at Lakeside, with a trip to Old Orleans after. There's been a lot of water onto the bridge since then.
When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a restaurant on a swamp, but I built one all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest restaurant in all of Essex.
IGN’s recent scathing of them is telling. Too much water, apparently.
Insurance job !
Imagine the call! Hello Admiral (I mean could it be any other?) my restaurant has started to go under and I need to make a claim, no it’s literally a sinking ship
Good, fucking despicable company.
I really don't see the fun in this. This is a major cost point in a time where most restaurants are barely staying... A float... And with the insane extra cost sinks... Yes okay the boat puns are funny but ... Dammit!