# What do you do if you find a hair in restaurant food? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 5, 2010, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-if-you-find-a-hair-in-restaurant-food/535073 "2010-04-05T20:03:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rafe\_Hollister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Rafe\_Hollister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rafe_Hollister)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-if-you-find-a-hair-in-restaurant-food/535073/21 "2010-04-06T17:11:04Z")
Long straight hair gets in food pretty frequently, but you know there’s a problem if the hair is short & curly. 🙂 Kinda along those lines, I figure that my mouth gets on a woman’s crotch once in a while and that’s probably more contaminated than anything that could be on a hair in the food. (Full disclosure: for those who don’t know, I am a health inspector.) ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-if-you-find-a-hair-in-restaurant-food/535073/22 "2010-04-06T17:18:24Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > No big whoop. The one time I bitched was I found an actual label in my food (Olive Garden) to which they replied “Oh yeah, that’s the label that tells us how long it’s good for.” They didn’t give a rat’s ass about it. They told me I could have a dessert, and when I said “I’d rather have the soup taken off” they said: nah. You can have a dessert. (???!) This is off-topic, but what is WITH Olive Garden and foreign objects in food? I know two people that have found obvious non-food items in their food at a restaurant, and both times it was Olive Garden. MrWhatsit found part of a plastic bag in his salad there once - and was told, “Oh, that’s the plastic bag the salad came out of,” as though it was no big deal and this sort of thing happens all the time (which apparently it does). And a co-worker of mine actually found a small bolt in her salad there. ---
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-if-you-find-a-hair-in-restaurant-food/535073/23 "2010-04-06T19:00:11Z")
That happened to me once but luckily I noticed it immediately while the server was still at our table. I sent it back. I probably got the same plate sans hair but I couldn’t not send it back. Unacceptable. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-if-you-find-a-hair-in-restaurant-food/535073/24 "2010-04-06T19:05:14Z")
I discretely move the hair to the side and continue eating. If I am friendly with the owner, I might mention it _after I’ve paid the check_, just so the owner is aware. If the owner wants to buy me a drink for my troubles, I retire to the bar. ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-if-you-find-a-hair-in-restaurant-food/535073/25 "2010-04-06T21:32:36Z")
I can’t remember ever getting hair in my food in a restaurant. I once found a thumbnail in a salad, though. I wasn’t in the restaurant - I’d had it delivered to the office when I was working late. I called and bitched out the restaurant and the delivery service, and also reported them to the health department. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-if-you-find-a-hair-in-restaurant-food/535073.md?page=1)