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Bad experience this weekend... Complain to management?

March 18, 2015 11:40AM
If I'm doing a FF shop and there is no iced tea or ketchup in the last or only dispenser, I'll act like any other customer and tell them I need packets because they are out or hand them my cup of ice and ask that they fill my drink if they have it in the back. Just act like a normal customer. If they have a container for cut lemons and its empty, I'm going to ask for a lemon wedge.

I live in the south and we take iced tea very serious here.
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March 18, 2015 02:05PM
Yes, iced tea is almost as serious as barbeque.

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March 18, 2015 02:42PM
"I live in the south and we take iced tea very serious here." >>

That's sweet tea! smiling smiley
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March 18, 2015 02:57PM
Oddly enough I'm the only Southerner ever that detests BBQ.
But at least I know BBQ is a food and not a way to cook something.

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March 18, 2015 02:59PM
@LizRich wrote:

@Mantis wrote:

There's no such thing as an undercooked steak.

I chuckled when I read your comment, Mantis.

My dad (gone more than 20 years now) liked his meat very rare and used to instruct the server, "Tell the cook to throw my steak on the grill. When it stops skidding, it's time to flip it."

I order mine medium to medium-well done; I like knowing my steak's not going to get up and try to make a break for it. I simply couldn't sit across from my dad when he ate steak; I couldn't handle seeing him eat raw meat so I'd sit as far away from him at the table as I could get.

Thanks for the memory. I hadn't thought about that in years...

My dad is just the opposite. He doesn't think you can overcook one!
Personally, I like mine medium or medium-well also.

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March 18, 2015 05:14PM
I have never met a steak (or anything else, such as toast, ripe bananas, etc.) which was too well done for me to want to eat. A true medium-well steak is the absolute least cooking that I can tolerate.

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March 19, 2015 06:16AM
@Phoebe70 wrote:

This is a touchy subject. One time I had a restaurant shop in which I asked if mushrooms were in the stir-fry, as I am allergic. I was told no, but when my plate arrived the stir-fry had several large pieces of mushrooms, along with other veggies that were not supposed to be there (cauliflower in an Asian stir-fry?).

I mentioned it to the server, who offered to make me another dish. I said it was okay, I would just pick out the mushrooms. She then brought out the manager who in turn brought out the actual CHEF who apologized profusely. It was very awkward, to say the least.

The msc was not pleased that I mentioned it to the server, and I'm now forbidden from doing this particular restaurant, as I'm now "memorable."

In one of the Guidelines for a restaurant, it said that in anything that would affect your health, you are supposed to mention it to the server. I don't know why they would penalize you for that. But look at it as a blessing in disguise. You don't want to be eating in that restaurant again where they don't give you what you ordered.

If it was okay for you to just pick out the mushrooms, then your allergies may not be that severe. If you ask me, I would have picked off the mushrooms, eaten my meal and made a detailed report on their mistake. You would have remained anonymous. Hindsight is 20/20.
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