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furs
Special Orders don't upset us.... Mark Unseen   Jun 20 01:12 UTC 2007

When you are at a restuarant, do you special order your food?  
Do you think it's too much to ask?
If you do, how often do they get it right?
And what do you do if they get it wrong?
20 responses total.
slynne
response 1 of 20: Mark Unseen   Jun 20 01:22 UTC 2007

I really hate mayo so I try to special order things without it. Most of 
the time, they get it right but if they get it wrong, I just scrape it 
off. 

furs
response 2 of 20: Mark Unseen   Jun 20 01:36 UTC 2007

I special order all the time.  Most of the time they get it right and 
when they don't, I almost always just take care of it myself.

Lately they have gotten my order wrong almost every time.  It's weird, 
cause it's different places every time.

I don't like to send food back because I really don't want any 
extra "special sauce" when it comes back. ;)

But Friday I sent some salmon back, because it was almost not cooked 
at all (raw).  (and it's wasn't supposed to be like that either.) and 
I was afraid to eat it.
slynne
response 3 of 20: Mark Unseen   Jun 20 01:43 UTC 2007

Weird. 

FWIW, raw salmon is usually safer than raw beef or chicken or pork. But
I probably would have sent it back for some extra oven time too. 
samiam
response 4 of 20: Mark Unseen   Jun 20 18:50 UTC 2007

I'm like Jeanne in this. I special order lke crazy, but I'll generally 
eat whatever they put in front of me. I rarely send food back (cold 
rubbery eggs are one huge exception, and a charred steak when I ordered 
it medium rare would be another). 

Most places do OK with my special orders, though my order of "iced tea, 
lots of ice, no lemon" frequently translates to "iced tea, no ice, 
extra lemon." Servers seem to have a hard time wrapping themselves 
around the idea of someone who would rather have less beverage and it 
be very cold than to have more.
jadecat
response 5 of 20: Mark Unseen   Jun 20 19:30 UTC 2007

I don't tend to special order all that much- but when I do I expect it
to be done properly. I will send a steak back if it's not cooked enough
for me (I really don't like rare meat). I've been known to insist on a
totally different piece of meat (if they can't get it cooked properly
twice, I don't want it thrown back on the grill - give me a new one).
I've only had to do that once or twice though. :)
furs
response 6 of 20: Mark Unseen   Jun 20 19:43 UTC 2007

also, when I send stuff back, I try to be SUPER NICE, cause I don't 
want a lugey in it. 
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