The beauty of breakfast food is that it can all be mixed together and be even more yummy - especially if you get grits, biscuit and gravy instead of potatoes and toast.
Mmmmm, breakfast!
But i don’t mix my food together with toast
Couldn’t you just move the toast off the plate and onto the counter/table? I don’t see the problem here at all.
“A rack”?
The rack?
You hate toast so much you want it tortured?
Put the toast on the table?
Because toast isn’t food? There’s no rational reason to distinguish toast from anything else on that plate. How are you going to sop the leftover goodness on the plate if you can’t mix toast food with other food?
That’s what I said. What’s the problem with it?
why the hell would i put it on the table when I can request a small plate?
Cause… the counter table is not likely to be clean, or warm. And it’s difficult to butter and put jam on.
I’ve switched over to English muffins. I don’t want that much toast and they are smaller and easier to work with.
Platters like that usually come with toast or english muffin included, so it’s not “on the side”. “On the side” to me means “a side of sausage”, something that is in addition to the components that are part of the platter. That side comes on a separate plate. Therefore, I’m sorry to say I think you will need to explicitly ask for your toast on a separate plate.
My fourteen-year-old son and I have this conversation all. the. time.
Scene: Any restaurant. My son is on one side of the table, I’m on the other.
Son, reading the menu: I’d like to try dish x, but I don’t like the y that comes with it.
Me: Then don’t get y. They’ll leave it off if you ask them to.
Son: But it says y on the menu! I don’t want the y!
Me, with the patience one normally uses with young children and dementia patients: If you don’t want y, then ask for z instead. I ask for that all the time.
Son: But it says y on the menu! I don’t want the y!
Lather, rinse, repeat.
My point is that you can (generally) have what you want, if you ask for it. Servers don’t read minds. If you don’t want your toast on top of your eggs, then ask for it on a separate plate. If it’s a restaurant you frequent, the staff will start putting your toast on a separate plate. Trust me on this. 
You put it in a rack so the pieces are kept separate.
I will be requesting it like that in the future for now on
Huh. I have literally never seen one of those in my 33 years in the business. Seems to me that serving toast that way would just make it get cold faster.
You could also put it on a napkin since you seem to have a problem with requesting a plate.
The plate may not be clean or warm either.
I guess I am not such a wuss that I don’t see the table as some kind of biohazard that must not be touched.
I truly hope you’ve made a sandwich out of the whole thing anything else is just wrong, I’m hungry
How so? The table is a hard surface just like a plate.
When I eat breakfast the toast or bagel is always on small plate and not on top on the food . Every restaurant I ate at have a small plate for the bread . People have to be very lazy at the dinner you eat at not to give people a small plate for their toast !
Toast on top of food is very common. It doesn’t bother me. Just stack all four halves off to the side of the plate chow down.
I’ve never seen toast on top of the food. It always comes on a separate small plate.