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I don't know if I'd send a hamburger back--at that point, I don't trust the cook. I'd just tell the waiter/tress and have her take it off the check. For example--I ordered the four miniburgers at Chili's that were supposed to be topped with apple smoked bacon, cheese and onions. Sounds good--everyone's doing "sliders" these days. What I ended up with was a DRIED out hamburger patty that was cut into four pieces with a little cheese on one of them. No bacon, no onions--what the he11? When I brought it to the waitress' attention, she didn't seem all that surprised--I guess they were out of mini-burger and were making do. No, I don't want to order something else--it will only be the same quality as the crap the cook already sent out. If the restaurant, whether it's a chain or not, LOSES money because they don't get a chance to "try again", they will make sure the food goes out right the first time! Most of the time, if you send something back what you get isn't all that much better, but you eat it anyway, pay for it anyway just to get out of the restaurant.

The French always spit in returned food. It is tradition.

I bet the 2nd burger was even juicier because of the secret saliva that the cook added to the re-order.

QQ indeed. Thanks for proving my point, dude.

Hey simon, maybe you should learn how to spell and read.

As the poster said : advise. To advise means to counsel, recommend or inform. It does not mean to tell someone what to do.

They obviously feel strongly about eating undercooked meat but instead of respecting their opinion you call it 'their problem'.

I do apologize for not falling in lockstep. Guten Tag.

Yay! I'm so proud I asked the question to spur this in your mind then. I had the same thing happen to me last week. The burger was a hockey puck the first try but the second time it was a fantastic burger.

Absolutely not. If you like well done, that's your problem and you are free to say so. But telling OTHER people not to eat their burgers at less than well done on this site will not get you very far. Learn to read please.

On the flip side what gets me even some mad is when you have the night when you just want to order in tonight. You call your "favorite" burger place put you order in and it arrives rare like hardly even cooked becuase they are so busy.... You pick up the phone to call and you get a busy signal... You just sit there and your pissed...

@Debbie Downer....a medium rare cheese burger is one of the simple pleasures in life. Save your safety talk for another website and day.

I would consider sending an overdone piece of meat back....but by the time it arrives I am way to hungry to part with it and would just eat it no matter what.

And one could be run over on the way there. Everyone calibrates their risks differently; I assume that I will get some kind of food poisoning once a year or so.

Hmm, in all honesty, I would rather die from E. Coli from an undercooked burger than from choking on a dry piece of charcoal that someone overcooked to dryness...