Video: How To Send Food Back At a Restaurant
Stop-motion animation + an upbeat dinkly tune = fun educational video on restaurant etiquette! If you're not sure how to send food back at a restaurant, this video will give you some tips. Assuming that the restaurant is at fault, be polite, tell the waitress early on in the meal, and if your dish is still subpar, ask for it to be taken off the bill. Watch the video after the jump.
You can read the steps at Howcast. [via Lifehacker]
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3 Comments:
I have never in my life sent food back, I just don't like to do it. I think I will change course and start sending EVERYTHING back.
redfish at 12:46PM on 08/06/09
My two sisters and I went to a Vietnamese restaurant (we're also Vietnamese) and we made our order and when the food came, they gave my little sister the wrong menu item. She ordered a noodle dish and they brought out a sort of Vietnamese meatloaf that she didn't like but the waitress said in Vietnamese, "Eat it! We already cooked it!" So she sat there eating with tears rolling down her cheeks and my older sister and I were telling her, "Send it back, she can't make you eat that." But she was afraid because it was our favorite restaurant so eventually my big sister just took the item to the kitchen and demanded what she had ordered. I am not sure what my point is except that you should not have to eat what you don't want to when you are paying for it. Oh yeah, we still tipped the waitress out of habit.
supastupa at 9:22PM on 08/06/09
I only send food back in two circumstances:
a) unexpected meat
-I have ordered the item without meat and it arrives with it/no meat was mentioned on the menu but is magically in the actual dish.
b) spoilage
- I was once served a cheese omelette where the cheese was so off that it tasted like dirt.
All else is tolerated with a smile.
rhinny at 6:25PM on 08/08/09