Ever send food back in a restaurant?

[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!

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Absolutely. I get the wrong food? Sent back.

Cooked wrong, not the way I ordered it? Sent back.

They put ketchup or mayonnaise on my burger? Sent back.

I am paying good money for someone else to make my food. I expect it to be correct. You don't be an asshole about it, you don't want someone to do something to your food, but you are their customer and they should care about what you want.

 

[shadyh8er]

The few times I do, I try to be as polite as humanly possible. My perspectives on these waiters/waitresses/clerks have changed ever since I heard some of the stories my gas-station clerk brother told. They put up with a LOT of shit they don't deserve. Hell, I've apologized to some for taking too harsh of a tone.

 

[sir.rutthed]

I don't have the balls to do it. I think even if my food were crawling with giant spiders, I would still just eat around them and suck it up. Besides, if I do send it back, it might come back with something even WORSE hidden in it.
What about all of you?

As long as you do it politely you have nothing to fear. Wait staff tend to not want to risk their jobs to offend the few nice people they serve on a given day.

OT: I do if it's a big screw up. Broccoli instead of mashed potatoes, steak's burnt, ommited cheese on my burger. There was one time I got fried okra instead of fries going through a drive through and didn't see it till I got back to my apartment. I HATE fried okra. So I drove back to the restaurant and the manager gave me an upgraded order of fries at no charge and let me keep the okra. It was pretty cool of him.

 

[Mellomi]

I've done it once. You know a classic gazpacho? Made with tomatoes, red peppers, cucumber and onion? You can't call it classic if the primary ingredient is watermelon (which I hate), followed by honeydew and cantaloupe (which I hate even more). When asked, the waitress told me "oh, this is how we make gazpacho here." I ordered fish tacos instead (which she didn't even discount or anything), and my dad ate the soup.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I ordered key lime pie in a restaurant, where my family go often, and got blackcurrant pie...I don't even...

I sent it back because I like key lime pie a lot. :<

I've done it once. You know a classic gazpacho? Made with tomatoes, red peppers, cucumber and onion? You can't call it classic if the primary ingredient is watermelon (which I hate), followed by honeydew and cantaloupe (which I hate even more). When asked, the waitress told me "oh, this is how we make gazpacho here." I ordered fish tacos instead (which she didn't even discount or anything), and my dad ate the soup.

You should have asked her if they make tomato soup with broccoli. I sense a 'we ran out of ingredients' moment.

 

[game-lover]

Nope. Never had cause to. And I hope I never will.