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Grex > Cooking > #247: Special Orders don't upset us.... | |
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jadecat
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response 10 of 20:
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Jun 20 21:01 UTC 2007 |
resp:9 *laughs* Yeah, I usually do that last bit too. Especially if it's
a change I usually ask for, sometimes I get so used to asking for it
that I forget and think I made a special request when I didn't.
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samiam
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response 11 of 20:
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Jun 20 22:41 UTC 2007 |
Re #6: So true! I *do* tip very well, so I don't feel too bad about
special requests, as a rule. Besides, if there is a problem with food
preparation, it is seldom the fault of the server.
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furs
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response 12 of 20:
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Jun 21 00:49 UTC 2007 |
yep, I tip well as well.
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denise
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response 13 of 20:
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Jun 21 23:50 UTC 2007 |
I have no qualms for asking for modifications in something that I'm
ordering, especially if whatever it is hasn't be 'pre-made' [like for
asking no-mushrooms or other such thing that I don't like or can't
eat]. If the item HAS been pre-made, if its a big deal, and/or if they
can't fix it the way I want or need it to be, I'll order something
different that I *can* eat. Especially since we're usually paying more
for eating out, I'd like to get something that I want and enjoy eating.
If I know ahead of time that I won't find much that I'll be able to eat
while dining out [or going to someone's place for a meal], I'll eat
something before I go [and when I get home if I'm hungry]. I'm
somewhat of a 'selective' [picky] eater, so I do what I need to do. I
enjoy eating too much NOT to get and enjoy what I do want... :-)
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edina
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response 14 of 20:
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Jun 22 17:00 UTC 2007 |
I thought of this item last night when I was watching "Waiting", when
Ryan Reynolds tells Sam from "Freaks and Geeks" (I can't remember the
actor's name - I just know that's who he was there) that a woman (who
was *awful* - very rude to the point of belligerance) sent back her
steak: "She just broke the first rule: don't fuck with the people
who handle your food."
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furs
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response 15 of 20:
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Jun 22 20:56 UTC 2007 |
that movie is one of the reasons I'm always nice. :)
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edina
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response 16 of 20:
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Jun 22 21:01 UTC 2007 |
Having worked in restaurants is why I'm always nice...because I know
that "Shenanigans" isn't too far off the mark sometimes.
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slynne
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response 17 of 20:
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Jun 23 01:17 UTC 2007 |
When I was a food service worker, I never did anything bad to anyone's
food nor did I ever see anyone else do anything to a customer's food.
Sometimes we talked about how we *wished* we had though ;). What I did
to punish bad customers when I was a waitress was to simply ignore them
as much as possible and to give them the absolute minimum about of
service as I could get away with. I was always way to busy to waste my
time on that sort of person.
When I worked fast food, I was a teenager so I would just give them the
same look I would give my mother when she chewed me out. It was that
look that all teenagers seem to know instinctively which communicates:
"yeah...whatever" and usually comes with an eye roll or two. It always
amazed me the contempt with which some people treat fast food workers. I
mean it wasnt uncommon for people to be seriously verbally abusive about
really weird things.
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furs
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response 18 of 20:
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Jun 23 10:32 UTC 2007 |
I've always been pretty nice actually, but that movie just confirmed it.
I never worked at a regular restaurant, but I did work fast food. We
never did anything gross except I did see things dropped on the floor be
picked up and served before, but I never did that. :)
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samiam
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response 19 of 20:
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Jun 24 18:52 UTC 2007 |
The five second rule... :)
I've worked at many, many restaurants, and I've never seen (or heard
of) anyone actually dong something bad to a customer's food. Like
slynne, we definitely talked about what we *wanted* to do, but actually
doing it would be just too nasty. Not to mention the embarrassment of
having to tell your family just why you lost your job. That's never a
good thing.
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cmcgee
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response 20 of 20:
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Jun 24 20:22 UTC 2007 |
I had to deal with that kind of allegation once. A spiteful co-worker told
me that one of the women had spit in the food of a customer she had an ongoing
boyfriend feud with.
Fortunately, it was a small town, and I eventually got the truth from a
neutral observer (the cook in the kitchen at the time the alleged incident
took place).
But what frightened me most was even the *rumor* that that could have
happened. It's easy for people to decide not to come to your place based on
the slightest possibility that could have happened. (To say nothing of the
taking-sides in the boyfriend feud).
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