When Food Goes Bad. Then a restaurant serves it.

Cafe Society
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You go to a restaurant and order a meal, the first course is just about edible but the main course arrives and you take one bite of the meat, it tastes rank, you spit it out, run to the door an throw up in the car park.

The chef comes out and tells you ~ I’m sorry you think the meat was bad, it isn’t, but we will knock the cost of the dish off the bill, but you’re wrong.

Do you

  1. Say: thanks I’m going home to brush my teeth.

  2. Say: Fuck you I’m not paying for the dish that made me vomit or the first course I left in the car park with it.

  3. Cock punch the ass licking fuckwitted toad licker and whilst he’s on the ground stamp on his fingers so he can’t poison anyone else for a few weeks.

  4. something else.

Just curious.

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I’m going to say 4. something else. On multiple choice tests “none of the above” is the correct answer for at least one question, and since there’s only one question on this test, that has to be it.

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  1. Call Health Department.
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  1. If he wants his money he can call the cops, I’ll even wait for them to show up. During that time I’ll be calling the health inspector. I would seriously consider #3, but I don’t want to have to call someone to bail me out.
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But why would you leave the first course in the car?

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ermmm the main course was bad and when spewing the first course came up to?

In the car park

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too:smack:

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Uh, did this happen to you?

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You say, “Here, you eat what I left on my plate, while I watch.”

How were the parsnips?

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Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.

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I’ll pay for the meal if they insist; I’ll not pay if they allow that.

The real result is that I will not go back to that restaurant ever again, and I will never recommend it, and if anyone asks for a recommendation of that type of restaurant I will, after my recommendations, add, “Oh, and don’t even think about …,” and if anyone mentions that they are even thinking of going to that restaurant, I will urge them not to.

It’s the least I can do.

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Which is English for “parking lot”, eh, guv’nah?*

  • See, I took an English class in Junior High… I mean, “during second form” so I can speak English, too.
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Also: blackball them online if you can find a website like “yelp” that allows you to review local businesses.

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This. If the chef is so adamant that there’s nothing wrong with the food, let him prove it.

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This is pretty much what I’d do. First, I’d complain to the manager. If the manager turns purple with embarrassment and offer to comp my meal, then I accept that it might be an honest mistake. I’ll try the place again. I’ve never asked for the chef*. If the manager (or chef) insisted that the meat was perfectly fine, then I’d probably just cross that restaurant off my list, and let all my friends know that dining there was for the adventurous. If I got a bad meal twice, then I figure that the place has quality control issues, and I won’t be back, and again, recommend that my friends stay away from it.

*There’s one chef/owner that I know of who comes out and solicits comments from the diners, but I think that’s just his style. When you only have a dozen or so tables, then you want to make sure every single diner is having an orgasmic experience. This guy handwrites Christmas cards to his diners.

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My wife got the world’s worst risotto in a place in Calgary once. It was full of what seemed to be grains of sand. They tried to knock 10% off the price of the food she ate three bites of. We informed them they would be removing its entire cost from the bill. After involving the manager, they finally agreed.

If your food is so terrible it can’t even be eaten, you don’t pay. What are they going to do? Ban you?

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I’ve worked in hotels almost my whole life, so I’ve seen this situation in resturants a lot. The fact is, food is cheap. It really is. I would be miffed if the chef took the price of the course off the meal rather than comp the whole meal.

All reputable places would give you a comp dinner and apologize. They are used to it. What if it’s a scam? As I said, the markup on food is huge, so it’s no loss and the resturant would take your name (in order to send you an apology letter or such) and now have it in their files. If it is a scam, you’d only get away with it once. Moreover hotels and resturants share the names and descriptions of suspected scammers

The one thing I learned from working with the public is if someone has a legitimate gripe they will always give you a chance to correct it. If they immediately start wanting money or free stuff then I say “forget them.”

If I was in the resturant in the OP example, I’d ask for a new dish or simply say “I’m leaving and I don’t expect to be billed.” If they tried to call the cops, I’d pay by credit card then dispute the charge later on

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Something like this happened to my family, but it was at a fast-food place, so the meal was already paid for.

My wife, daughter, and I had dinner at a Wendy’s in Maryland. As we were finishing, my wife and I noticed my daughter had barely touched her milk. We told her to drink it. She did, then promptly vomited. I grabbed her milk carton; it was warm, and smelled bad. (My wife and I felt like heels for making her drink it. She’d obviously smelled it and avoided it, but was too shy about telling us.)

I went to the counter, and related what happened to the order-taker. I then looked at him; the ball was in his court. “Um… so?”

“So,” I stated, “I want my money back.”

“Oh, uh… let’s see, a milk is 99 cents, with tax is…” he started.

“No,” I explained, “for my daughter’s whole meal. That she couldn’t keep down because she was food poisoned by the milk.”

“U-um… I’ll have to get a manager,” he stammered.

When the manager arrived, I re-explained the situation. He got a little authoritarian, then said, “We can refund the milk, but not the meal, since it was OK.”

I then got my voice a little louder, so that the other patrons could hear, “So, in order to get a refund for the full meal that my daughter regurgitated because of the bad milk, I’ll have to get the county Health Department here and explain how you’re selling tainted milk to 4-year-olds and hoping they leave before they can pin it on you?”

Got our whole meal free. :D:D:D

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Grand pwnage.

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  1. Show the whole thing on national TV! (Is the OP Gordon Ramsey by any chance?)

If you watched “Kitchen Nightmares” you’d know that people make Gordon puke all the time then heartily deny any wrongdoing. Then he demands to see their food storage areas and yells “You’re going to KILL someone!” I think he’s only faking about half the time, because when you see the state of the walk-ins, you definitely want to puke.