• Jackthelad@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    If anyone needed a summary of British politeness and not wanting to cause a fuss, this is it.

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    19 days ago

    My biggest problem with sending food back is that now you have to wait while everyone else at your table eats. Then when your food arrives, everyone needs to wait for you while you eat.

    This usually isn’t too much of an issue if your table has a lot of people because you can just chat and the length of time to eat a meal is higher since you all are talking. But when you’re on a date, it’s super annoying and awkward.

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          18 days ago

          I think it’s hitting on with the fact that Americans are super impatient with anything and when they go to a restaurant they sit down they eat and then they leave there’s no big wait period of socializing(usually), it also could be because it’s frowned upon because we don’t pay the waiters livable wages here, so for every minute that we’re still sitting and not ordering anything we’re taking money out of the Waiters pocket.

          That’s how ass backwards the US. But no the Tipping structure is apparently a better system lmao

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          17 days ago

          You used the egocentric word “everyone” when you should have used the more inclusive word “everyall”

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    19 days ago

    If there are glass shards in your burger, making a new one in the same kitchen probably won’t help.

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    19 days ago

    Honestly, I would have eaten that burger, before the point the shards glass were introduced. I completely relate.

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        18 days ago

        It all depends to be honest I’m paying money for the food and I want the food to be done correctly. I receive a burger and it’s ice cold in the center or the fries aren’t done I’ll send it back, however if it’s just cold because it’s been clear that it sat out for a little bit or they put the wrong ingredients on it I’ll suck it up and eat.

        Being said, If I receive something that I didn’t order in replacement of something I did order I’m going to mention it. If the restaurant decides to throw it out that’s not me wasting food that’s the restaurant wasting food they could very easily have offered to give it any discount or gave it away. I refuse to have the blame of the kitchen be put on the consumer, the food wouldn’t have been wasted in the first place if the order was correct and there are many outcomes that the business can do that would prevent the food from being wasted before and after its cooked.

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          18 days ago

          yeah, it really depends on how it happens.

          if i receive some other dish that also pleases me, im not sending it back cause i dont want it to go to waste. and if its cheaper than what i had ordered, im paying the price of what i got, at most. If what I receive is shit food, i really dont mind sending it back and it going in the trash or whatever. I believe the restaurant that takes a plate that someone has already taken a bite of and reserves it to someone else at a discount is infringing some sanitary law… at least where i live.

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            17 days ago

            I was meaning offering it to the table at a discount, yeah if it’s already been eaten from it should not be given to another table, if it hadn’t been eaten from then that’s a little different but yet definitely if it’s been eaten from no way.

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    18 days ago

    I ordered ramen at a restaurant. I should have guessed that they misheard me when they brought me latex gloves. A few minutes later, they carried out a platter of crab and other seafood.

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    18 days ago

    I once shared a house with three chefs, who each told me that if you’re sending food back to the kitchen, it’s better to state you don’t want anything else. Get the item removed from the bill and eat somewhere else. If you are with a group, suck it up and go hungry while they eat.

    Not all chefs will do something but for some. their egos can’t handle that the food wasn’t right and they take “revenge”.

    It’s safer not to risk it.

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      18 days ago

      What? That’s not what happens. I’m a cook by trade. You would get fired so fast.

      We just want to get through the day and remaking a dish and cooking it in the first place is no different.

      All customers are assholes but I’d never mistreat their food.

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        I’m glad to hear that you’re a decent human being.

        One of these chefs had worked in a top restaurant in Sydney, and said some of the crew were like animals, especially towards the end of a long and busy shift.

        But to this day their warning always stuck in my mind. So I understand the glass reference.