Ever send food back in a restaurant?

[FamoFunk]

Too right I do, I'm paying for the food afterall. I don't expect to see hair/shit/saliva/spunk in it. Nor do I pay for it to be wrong and forced to eat something I hate like cheese.

I am very polite about it, unless it's a grumpy stuck up waiter; which is very, very slim. Also the order gets amended very quick and I'll always tip for them being so polite and good about it.

 

[winter2]

Hmmm... let me think.. I have sent steaks back. There have been some other things, but I can't really remember the circumstances right now.

And, not very often, I have refused wine. I fully expected an at least tolerable table wine, but was disappointed with something so bland it reminded me of water. It's really interesting to watch the servers reaction though. More often than not they are shocked that somebody refuses the wine after sampling it.

 

[AbstractStream]

At a restaurant, no I haven't. I also intend to keep it that way. At a sit in fast food place, yeah I have. You don't give stale and cold fries to a customer. Come on.

 

[Quaidis]

Fast food restaurants love getting my orders wrong. Sometimes I just shrug it off and eat what I have, other times I question their sanity. No, I asked for a burger. Not a fish sandwich.



I cannot immediately remember if I had anything returned at a regular restaurant. The only reason I could think of to do so would be if eating the food would immediately harm me... Like an uncooked steak or something. Once in a blue moon the server will give me some random dish I didn't ask for, in which I'd tell them about it While eating the food. Then they would give me the extra dish I previously requested for free. Does that make me an ass? I wouldn't think so... After all, if I returned the misplaced dish they would just throw it out.

 

[spartan231490]

Yeah. I've sent back under-cooked steak(i order medium rare so under-cooked is pretty much raw at that point) and I've sent back fish that had literally started to rot before. Generally, If it's just a small fuck up, I'll generally just eat it, I'm not that picky, but I'm not gonna gag down something.

 

[Thaa'ir]

I've never had a reason to...except when the idiots at McDonald's gave us a box of pickles instead of Chicken McNuggets. I did NOT order the Chicken McPickle or Chicken McFuck-Up, thank you.

But oh the guys at the Döner Laden (Döner is like a gyro, but better) make me want to glare and say "try again." How many times do I have to say "no, I do NOT want everything" before they stop throwing everything I hate onto my Döner?

 

[the trooper]

the only time i come close to sending food back was a couple of months ago at a pub where me and my parents ordered roast dinners. Now i ordered roast beef, but instead i got pork. but i was so hungry to wait again, and besides it was delicious, the whole meal was. it made up for all the underwhelming roasts i have had in pubs in the past. it was so perfect that im particuarly drooling over the memory of it

 

[boag]

If I need to send food back, then I am not staying at the restaurant.

If it has hairs, or something else, then there is no telling what the chef will put in next after the food was sent back.

You never insult the person preparing your food, because you dont know what they might do with it.

 

[Yopaz]

I've never returned my food, but I have always got good results so I've never had the need to. I am not sure if I would if it was still edible though, hard to say since it's never happened...

 

[AngloDoom]

I've only ever sent back food if it's improperly cooked or the wrong order, and most times people have been pretty civil about it.

I've also seen someone verbally destroy a waiter. Their father asked for a Diet Coke, they received a regular Coke. His father was diabetic. They returned the Coke, and replaced it with ANOTHER regular Coke, possibly even in the same one. Cue the world's most angry son:
"Does my father look fat to you? Does he look like he's trying to lose weight? Did you think it wouldn't matter? Did you even think at all? My father's almost lost his foot because of stupid, understandable mistakes - you made a fucking stupid, lazy, mistake!"

The waiter looked pretty meek after that.

 

[newwiseman]

Yes,

It's very rare I will though, I'll send back charcoal when I ask for medium rare (but I'll east if it's just well done), and I'll send back frozen but charred on the outside (because WTF is this your first time cooking?).

 

[GeoPB]

To be honest, working in a restaurant I generally find the people who complain are normally pissy customers who think they know everything about food. "yes, your steak is hard to chew because you asked for it to be incinerated on the grill. HAVE IT RARE YOU PUSSY"

But sure if I find a freaking hair or a fly in my food, that meal is going back in the kitchen faster than a bullet to the brain.

 

[Dystopia]

Wow, I can't believe the amount of people who have sent back their steak because it wasn't cooked in a specific way. A steak is steak, just eat it.

OT: I don't go out much these days, but I can't recall ever sending something back.

Never had proper steak then, eh. Steak is expensive, and the texture and flavour varies greatly depending on how it is cooked. If the waiter asks how you'd like your steak, you expect to get what you ask for.

 

[SovietX]

My mother is one of those people. When she has finished her meal she will often tell the waiter if she didn't like it or if it was poor quality. Me? If im not happy with the meal, I suck it up and deal with it. Food is food. I eat if im hungry. If it's something I can't make at home, im generally ok with it being poor or medium quality.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

The only time I'd send back food would be if they straight up gave me a raw chunk of meat.

Never done it, probably never will. I've seen my parents do it multiple times and I think it's extremely rude when it's something so minute as a hair in your food.

 

[bootz]

Well when you ask for medium steak, and they served me a steak that was still frozen. did send it back. I ordered a salad on the side that I never recieved but was charged for. All in the same order at ruby tuesday. (It was empty to so there was no rush).

 

[Queen Michael]

There was this one time when my burger was medium rare even though I asked for it to be cooked rare. But I only asked for it to be rare since my friend who was eating with me said I should and I wanted to impress her. I actually prefer them medium rare. So that turned out well.

 

[Bebus]

I once sent a steak back because it was cooked too much.

I wanted it rare, not medium dammit!

Yes I probably would have liked it, but I was paying £21 for the beauty and wanted it exactly right!