@cubbiecat wrote:

Some restaurant shops do not allow you to complain or send the food back. I once spent 5 hours writing a negative report on a meal that wasn't edible. It was a bar plus dinner shop.

@Bob Stone wrote:

To me, bad experiences are easier to write about than good experiences.

@SteveSoCal wrote:

I feel your pain. I had a dinner shop a few years ago where we found a bug in the food and had to return it.

The restaurant ended up comping the meal, so I literarily had to spend hours writing an extra lengthy report about the problem, and how it was resolved...only to receive the small shop fee in return.

@Rho wrote:

Then there was the restaurant that had dust so thick on the window ledges I was able to take a photo.........

@Rho wrote:

Then there was the restaurant that had dust so thick on the window ledges I was able to take a photo.........

@Miss Tree Shopper wrote:

I never return the food as it goes against the "don't make yourself memorable" shopper ethos. Unless the client guidelines say to document response to returned food. No bueno!

@mysterioso412 wrote:

Not once, but twice, in the past year, when I've gone to the bathroom, even though I'd just started eating my entree, they cleared the table in my absence. I literally spend two minutes in the bathroom because I generally don't need to *use* it, just make the observation. They then comped my meal and brought me new food, both times.

@DT wrote:

So when dining alone, instead of observing the condition of the bathroom before your meal arrived, or after you finished eating, you chose to perform your bathroom observation shortly after your food arrived..twice?

@mysterioso412 wrote:

Not once, but twice, in the past year, when I've gone to the bathroom, even though I'd just started eating my entree, they cleared the table in my absence. I literally spend two minutes in the bathroom because I generally don't need to *use* it, just make the observation. They then comped my meal and brought me new food, both times.

@Deedeezthoughts wrote:

@DT wrote:

So when dining alone, instead of observing the condition of the bathroom before your meal arrived, or after you finished eating, you chose to perform your bathroom observation shortly after your food arrived..twice?

@mysterioso412 wrote:

Not once, but twice, in the past year, when I've gone to the bathroom, even though I'd just started eating my entree, they cleared the table in my absence. I literally spend two minutes in the bathroom because I generally don't need to *use* it, just make the observation. They then comped my meal and brought me new food, both times.

It works very well to use the restroom after paying your bill. Check that you don't have anything stuck in your teeth if nothing else.

@SteveSoCal wrote:

I feel your pain. I had a dinner shop a few years ago where we found a bug in the food and had to return it.

The restaurant ended up comping the meal, so I literarily had to spend hours writing an extra lengthy report about the problem, and how it was resolved...only to receive the small shop fee in return.

@Deedeezthoughts wrote:

@DT wrote:

So when dining alone, instead of observing the condition of the bathroom before your meal arrived, or after you finished eating, you chose to perform your bathroom observation shortly after your food arrived..twice?

@mysterioso412 wrote:

Not once, but twice, in the past year, when I've gone to the bathroom, even though I'd just started eating my entree, they cleared the table in my absence. I literally spend two minutes in the bathroom because I generally don't need to *use* it, just make the observation. They then comped my meal and brought me new food, both times.

It works very well to use the restroom after paying your bill. Check that you don't have anything stuck in your teeth if nothing else.