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If I order and it comes back wrong it goes back,
and I am paying, and it needs to be hot, or it goes back.
If it is a buffet I try a lot of things on my plate and if
something tastes bad or it is cold I leave it on the plate.
I have left a large amount of junk food on plates
for them to do what ever they want with it ... feed it to hogs.
If I order Sunnyside up eggs, and they come turned over, they go back.
If I order a rare steak, and it comes back medium rare, I may eat it,
but if it comes out medium, it goes back, and I want another one cooked right.
I ordered food that I wanted to eat ... not slop ! ! !
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So the hell what?
We're not advocating letting an incorrect order go unaddressed. We're talking about being a crank who makes life miserable for everyone around him.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with saying to the waiter, "Excuse me, but this order isn't correct. I ordered medium rare, not rare. Would you please ask the kitchen to take care of it?"
But that's not what's going on here. As an example, when the man in question ordered coffee, the waitress asked for clarification on whether he wanted regular or decaf. A reasonable question. He made the choice to be difficult.
This thread is not about whether or not one should send back food that is prepared incorrectly.
This is about a person who displayed arrogance by speaking to a server with unnecessary disrespect, thereby making the rest of the party uncomfortable.
I think your best bet is to NOT go to restaurants (not even McDs!) with your father (or any place where there is customer service!)
Eat at your home or his. If he complains about your cooking, tell him "tough beans, dad, you get what you get here" (or whatever he told YOU when you complained about meals growing up)
I can't be around people like that, especially at a restaurant. Everything is a complaint and they ruin the dining experience.
we go out with my dad once most weekends. he likes going out and spending time with the granddaughter and i like it also. ive learned to ignore the whole "food is ice cold thing" and the coffee thing is new. if it becomes a regular thing, i may give the waitress a heads up beforehand to avoid it. he isnt a miserable person for most of the meal, ive learned to try to control the conversation with him to keep things positive. my brother would kill himself if he had to spend an hour in the car with my dad but i do it fine because i choose the topics of conversation. i dont leave silence for the old man to say something i dont want to hear.
And so is the OP of this thread. Captain, does your dad ask for a different table, too?
he has some table issues. but usually if he has a big issue (near front or bathroom) he will immediately say rudely that he doesnt want to sit there. the "transaction" is fast. he also doesnt like to be the one facing the wall, thats been my whole lift. he is easier with the table choice now, usually if he has an issue he just asks me if the table is ok and i pretty much always say its fine with me.
Less than five minutes later the chef came sashaying out of the kitchen bearing a silver platter upon which the offending dinner plate was placed and through which a big silver steak knife (still in situ) had sliced through to reveal a very vaguely pink steak interior. It was like something out of a Monty Python skit as he flounced around saying that he'd NEVER been so insulted and that we obviously knew NOTHING about cooking, etc. etc.
whoah, my dad would be so pissed and i would be also. i remember one time a waiter disagreed with my mom who complained that her diet coke didnt taste right. i tasted it and she was right. i spoke up and my wife said i was rude but i wasnt going to let him be a dick to my mom.
I had an ex like this. He liked his french fries well-done and crispy, but he wouldn't say this when he ordered. When the fries came, he would indignantly say "These aren't even cooked!" and send them back, often criticizing the server for having served them. It was embarrassing. When I would ask why he doesn't just order them the way he likes them, he would deflect it to how they should "know" no one wants fries cooked the way these were.
My stepfather never ordered soup without sending it back, always complaining it wasn't hot enough.
I admit I am a pain in some ways in restaurants. I ask for a lot of substitutions, the pancakes need to be on a separate plate than the eggs, can you make me a Mojito with Splenda, that kind of thing...but I am always polite, patient and appreciative, and when I know I've been a pain, I tip extra to make up for it.
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