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(AP) Sick Reason # 11 why you should never send food back to the cook   (hosted.ap.org) divider line 186
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mcwebe0 [TotalFark] 2008-06-21 08:18:28 PM  
FTFA: then stated, "These are my pubes," referring to pubic hair.

Well, I sure am glad they clarified that ambiguous statement.

 
Dallymo [TotalFark] 2008-06-21 08:24:57 PM  
I'd hate to hear reasons 1 through 10; reason 11 is disgusting enough.

 
mr_bunny [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-06-21 08:26:37 PM  
Nothing like a good pube steak.

 
Red Fist Of Harmony [TotalFark] 2008-06-21 09:15:36 PM  
mr_bunny: Nothing like a good pube steak.

As long as it comes with a pube salad with Seth's Own Dressing.

But seriously, watching the movie Waiting was enough to make me be nice to restaurant servers.

 
tzzhc4 2008-06-21 10:07:26 PM  
Hahaha, I worked food service in high school and learned on my own then that you don't complain or send food back. If the service is ever really that bad get your money back, don't eat and just leave. And don't go back!!!!! Pube steak is the tip of the iceberg.

 
Slick Nick 2008-06-21 10:07:28 PM  
I don't see why people get so upset if an order it is sent back, especially if the customer didn't complain. In the story it says the customer refused a new steak but the manager forced a new one upon him.

 
tmbg 2008-06-21 10:07:47 PM  
images.amazon.com

 
wookie_x 2008-06-21 10:08:15 PM  
I've worked in enough restaurants to know I'm better off eating at home.

 
doodoobutter 2008-06-21 10:08:20 PM  
as long as it's not in my pie, i'm ok with it.

 
hbk72777 2008-06-21 10:08:22 PM  
us.movies1.yimg.com


"mmmm,it's good"

 
Benjimin_Dover 2008-06-21 10:08:59 PM  
Slick Nick: I don't see why people get so upset if an order it is sent back, especially if the customer didn't complain. In the story it says the customer refused a new steak but the manager forced a new one upon him.

Because he is an assbag. Food service doesn't attract the sharpest knives in the kitchen.

 
Nuntio 2008-06-21 10:10:28 PM  
I work at a pizza place, and if customers complain, we have to remake their food (or credit them on their next order). I usually don't do anything unhygienic, but I can't count the number of times I've dumped excess cornmeal, oregano, jalapeno juice, anchovy juice, or Phase (nasty imitation butter) all over someone's pizza.

/only to people who are biatches
//sweet revenge

 
ukiah 2008-06-21 10:10:33 PM  
mr_bunny: Nothing like a good pube tube steak.

FTFM. And not sending food back is almost as obvious as not being rude to the drive thru order taker when you go at 3am.

 
saomai 2008-06-21 10:11:12 PM  
tmbg I had to do a double take I thought that said URINATED and raw. hahahahahaha

 
What_Would_Jimi_Do 2008-06-21 10:12:04 PM  
hbk72777: "mmmm,it's good"

first thing i thought of

 
2Slick 2008-06-21 10:12:23 PM  
There is always pubic hair in hair pie.

 
robbiedo 2008-06-21 10:14:03 PM  
Benjimin_Dover: Slick Nick: I don't see why people get so upset if an order it is sent back, especially if the customer didn't complain. In the story it says the customer refused a new steak but the manager forced a new one upon him.

Because he is an assbag. Food service doesn't attract the sharpest knives in the kitchen.


I will often eat food at a restaurant if it is not quite prepared as I prefer , but still edible since it seems a shame to throw out perfectly good food. However, if the server asks how it is I will be frank without being anal. Often times they will offer a free dessert, or take the cost of the check. I usually refuse taking it off the check, though, since I ate it. I would be an idiot to refuse free dessert, though.

I would never take it out of the server's tip. It is really difficult during peak hours to get everything perfect everytime.

 
Odinsward [TotalFark] 2008-06-21 10:14:55 PM  
Pubes in a steak?

Hell try smearing it in feces, throwing it back on the grill and trying to serve it to the customer.
Yes I saw a cook do this, yes I reported him to the management, police, and his parents.
I used to run a kitchen with a bunch of dumb ass people. I had to fire many for contaminating food.

I think my fav was the guy who tried to season the meat with his man juice. I fired him on the spot and kicked his ass.

Fuggin idiots.
/oh yeah but be nice to your server and cook, we can find many creative ways to make your next meal one you'll never forget.
// without contaminating your food.

 
TurboCojones [TotalFark] 2008-06-21 10:17:09 PM  
media.movieweb.com

You can't mix manscape with t-bones.... I thought you were better than that.

/shoulda went with "garlic salt"

 
jst3p 2008-06-21 10:17:10 PM  
robbiedo: Benjimin_Dover: Slick Nick: I don't see why people get so upset if an order it is sent back, especially if the customer didn't complain. In the story it says the customer refused a new steak but the manager forced a new one upon him.

Because he is an assbag. Food service doesn't attract the sharpest knives in the kitchen.

I will often eat food at a restaurant if it is not quite prepared as I prefer , but still edible since it seems a shame to throw out perfectly good food. However, if the server asks how it is I will be frank without being anal. Often times they will offer a free dessert, or take the cost of the check. I usually refuse taking it off the check, though, since I ate it. I would be an idiot to refuse free dessert, though.

I would never take it out of the server's tip. It is really difficult during peak hours to get everything perfect everytime.


This is what I do, eat it (if it is edible) and make comments later. I won't touch anything that comes from the kitchen after criticism though, not even free dessert. I am sure most of the time there is nothing to worry about but I don't want to take the chance.

Mostly I just don't go back for a long time. I figure the best way to vote is with my dollars.

 
cerejaninja 2008-06-21 10:18:02 PM  
How is this news? I know of a case when the cook, angry at some costumer who kept on sending his steak back, threw it on the floor, jumped repeatedly on it, spit on it and refried the thing. The steak wasn't returned after that.

/old, oooold story

 
nirwana [TotalFark] 2008-06-21 10:18:11 PM  
Old news is...news.

 
falconpunch 2008-06-21 10:21:16 PM  
I'm a line-cook and if it is a peak time just shut the hell up and eat the damned food. We don't want to remake an entire meal when we have 20 chits in the window and more coming in.

 
JohnCougarMelonhead 2008-06-21 10:21:18 PM  
Reason #7 not to eat where you can't see how your food is being prepared: Squeaky-voiced teen with grease and zit-juice on his face which drips down into the food.

img113.imageshack.us

Worked my way through college at a Jack-in-the-Box in the SF Bay Area. What always amazed me was how stupid the customers were, in that they would heap abuse upon teenagers making their food who were hidden from their view. They would curse at you through the clown head speaker and then drive up to the window. A pubic hair is nothing compared to what I witnessed.

 
Nocens 2008-06-21 10:21:54 PM  
Give me a tall glass of warm gin with a human hair in it.

 
cerejaninja 2008-06-21 10:22:37 PM  
jst3p: This is what I do, eat it (if it is edible) and make comments later. I won't touch anything that comes from the kitchen after criticism though, not even free dessert. I am sure most of the time there is nothing to worry about but I don't want to take the chance.

Mostly I just don't go back for a long time. I figure the best way to vote is with my dollars.


I don't complain about bad food or service, I just don't come back. I don't think it's worth the trouble.

 
Terrx [TotalFark] 2008-06-21 10:22:42 PM  
I love when fark's food tampering defender society gets to come out and play.

 
jst3p 2008-06-21 10:24:40 PM  
cerejaninja: jst3p: This is what I do, eat it (if it is edible) and make comments later. I won't touch anything that comes from the kitchen after criticism though, not even free dessert. I am sure most of the time there is nothing to worry about but I don't want to take the chance.

Mostly I just don't go back for a long time. I figure the best way to vote is with my dollars.

I don't complain about bad food or service, I just don't come back. I don't think it's worth the trouble.


I figure I will at least let them learn from the mistake, plus I think the criticism is taken more seriously if I refuse a replacement or to be comped. Hopefully the next guy will get at least some pink in his medium rare steak.

 
rga184 2008-06-21 10:24:50 PM  
Red Fist Of Harmony: As long as it comes with a pube salad with Seth's Own Dressing.

But seriously, watching the movie Waiting was enough to make me be nice to restaurant servers.
avoid those entitled brats and not go to restaurants altogether.

/that and the immature waiters and ex-waiters that frequent every fark thread about tipping where they threaten people with spitting in their food.
//I'm always polite to everybody anyway. I don't think I have anything to fear, but why would I want my money to go to such a self entitled brat that picked the wrong industry to save up money for their cancun spring break vacation?
/oh, and get off my lawn.

 
devildog123 [TotalFark] 2008-06-21 10:27:02 PM  
falconpunch: I'm a line-cook and if it is a peak time just shut the hell up and eat the damned food. We don't want to remake an entire meal when we have 20 chits in the window and more coming in.

I'm sorry that I want you to do your job properly. I mean, I realize that this must be difficult for you, but, considering how much a lot of these places charge, I damn well want it done right. However, since I'm not stupid, I usually don't complain until I'm sure that I'm not ordering anything else. Then, I just don't go back for about 6 months, knowing that by then, most of the farkups that were there during my last visit have probably either been fired, or, considering what high quality employees they all are, have quit.

 
Interrupted Infinitum 2008-06-21 10:27:32 PM  
Doesn't just happen at restaurants either. I work at a amusement park (17) serving people overpriced lemonade and Dip 'N' Dots and I know people (and have done) who will screw with your food furtively right in front of you and serve it to you with a simile and say "Have a great day"

/brother knew someone who pissed in the lemon juice
//never ask for free samples

 
Nocens 2008-06-21 10:27:45 PM  
JohnCougarMelonhead:
Worked my way through college at a Jack-in-the-Box in the SF Bay Area. What always amazed me was how stupid the customers were, in that they would heap abuse upon teenagers making their food who were hidden from their view. They would curse at you through the clown head speaker and then drive up to the window. A pubic hair is nothing compared to what I witnessed.



I always figured the best way to voice my displeasure was to take the hamburger or whatever it was and smear it across the windows of the shiat boxes parked in the back.

 
tony41454 2008-06-21 10:27:53 PM  
falconpunch
I'm a line-cook and if it is a peak time just shut the hell up and eat the damned food. We don't want to remake an entire meal when we have 20 chits in the window and more coming in.



Then do your job right the first time, nitwit.

 
jst3p 2008-06-21 10:27:56 PM  
JohnCougarMelonhead: Worked my way through college at a Jack-in-the-Box in the SF Bay Area. What always amazed me was how stupid the customers were, in that they would heap abuse upon teenagers making their food who were hidden from their view. They would curse at you through the clown head speaker and then drive up to the window. A pubic hair is nothing compared to what I witnessed.

It isn't just food service. I am far from wealthy but I have learned that it pays to treat people who perform services for you well.

 
orat-on-a-stick 2008-06-21 10:29:28 PM  
After the accident, sometimes Melvin pee red...



/obscure?

 
Kill_Da_Wabbit 2008-06-21 10:29:51 PM  
"This steak still has marks from where the jockey was hitting it."

 
Suicidal Writer 2008-06-21 10:30:23 PM  
This is why I don't eat at restaurants where I can't watch food being cooked. Waiters and cooks are notorious for doing things to food and it's fairly common, and it's rare that they get caught.

 
Interrupted Infinitum 2008-06-21 10:30:44 PM  
Interrupted Infinitum: Doesn't just happen at restaurants either. I work at a amusement park (17) serving people overpriced lemonade and Dip 'N' Dots and I known people (and have done) who will screw with your food furtively right in front of you and serve it to you with a simile and say "Have a great day"

/brother knew someone who pissed in the lemon juice
//never ask for free samples



Forgot to mention, no one notices either.

 
Fluffy_the_cactus 2008-06-21 10:30:47 PM  
I have always been nice to food servers wherever I've been to, with the exception of one place, where they gave me the wrong order the first time, then gave me cold food the next time. I wasn't an ass about them giving me the wrong order, I just said "Hey, I could've sworn I asked for a *insert sandwich name here, I forget what it was*, but you guys gave me this. Is there any way I can get *what it was I ordered*, instead? Sorry about that."

I always try to be nice. But then they gave me cold food. So after I ate, I didn't clean my tray up and just left and didn't come back. But that's been the ONLY time I've ever been an asshat, and I think I was a righteous one at that, considering the order-taker was extremely arrogant and told me that I *had* ordered that. She clearly had an attitude problem with me even after *I* apologized. Funny.

 
jst3p 2008-06-21 10:32:28 PM  
Fluffy_the_cactus: I have always been nice to food servers wherever I've been to, with the exception of one place, where they gave me the wrong order the first time, then gave me cold food the next time. I wasn't an ass about them giving me the wrong order, I just said "Hey, I could've sworn I asked for a *insert sandwich name here, I forget what it was*, but you guys gave me this. Is there any way I can get *what it was I ordered*, instead? Sorry about that."

I always try to be nice. But then they gave me cold food. So after I ate, I didn't clean my tray up and just left and didn't come back. But that's been the ONLY time I've ever been an asshat, and I think I was a righteous one at that, considering the order-taker was extremely arrogant and told me that I *had* ordered that. She clearly had an attitude problem with me even after *I* apologized. Funny.


I bet THAT Burger King location feels the sting of your not returning.,,

 
rga184 2008-06-21 10:33:10 PM  
I'm with the farkers that say they won't eat anything they complained about.

I'll either eat the meal and point out the problem later, or not eat it and just pay my check and leave. If the food wasn't edible and I had to leave, I never come back.

Most of the time, if the mistake isn't too egregious (asked for a medium NY strip and they gave it to me almost well), I'll point out that it was overdone but still very tasty (even if it was tough and nasty). I thank the waitress or waiter for the meal and just ask her to let the cooks know that maybe the grill is running hotter or the meat is thinner than they normally work with. Something like that, but always sandwiched between two compliments. If I return and there's somethign again wrong with my meal, that's it. Not only will I not go there, I recommend all my friends go elsewhere.

/have built up a pretty good network for restaurnat reviews from friends

 
betona 2008-06-21 10:35:41 PM  
It's not Fark, it's a img1.fark.net.

 
doodoobutter 2008-06-21 10:35:52 PM  
images.wikia.com

 
Fact Man 2008-06-21 10:36:09 PM  
I'm wondering if these people were asses to their server.

Working as a server you learn how many sad people there are in the world where the only power they feel they have is the power over somebody who is PAID to be nice to them (and fired if they aren't).

We smile politely when you're an ass to us, then go back to the kitchen and politely notify the cooks (who we're friends with).

 
bingethinker [TotalFark] 2008-06-21 10:36:21 PM  
I love how some douchebag with a room temperature I.Q. thinks he has the right to spit in my food if I dare to ask him to give me the meal I actually asked for, correctly cooked.

You f**kin' moron. Ever had an honest job?

 
Fact Man 2008-06-21 10:37:09 PM  
bingethinker: I love how some douchebag with a room temperature I.Q. thinks he has the right to spit in my food if I dare to ask him to give me the meal I actually asked for, correctly cooked.

You f**kin' moron. Ever had an honest job?


It depends how you ask. Most servers/cooks won't care if you politely say that it was cooked wrong.

 
JohnCougarMelonhead 2008-06-21 10:37:33 PM  
I always figured the best way to voice my displeasure was to take the hamburger or whatever it was and smear it across the windows of the shiat boxes parked in the back.

I rode a bicycle which I parked inside. Ha Ha!

It isn't just food service. I am far from wealthy but I have learned that it pays to treat people who perform services for you well.

There you go. It's just common sense. Never saw anyone mess with a customers' food unless they were rude. Not that there's an excuse for that.

/don't eat out much these days

 
JuicyJ 2008-06-21 10:37:34 PM  
The other cook is such a fukking snitch.

 
Oznog 2008-06-21 10:38:06 PM  
Yeah I was wondering how long it would take Scott Tenorman to show up.

 
ph0rk 2008-06-21 10:38:18 PM  
falconpunch: I'm a line-cook and if it is a peak time just shut the hell up and eat the damned food. We don't want to remake an entire meal when we have 20 chits in the window and more coming in.

I generally don't advocate biatching about food because of, well, shiat like this.

However: making food is your job. Shut the hell up and remake it if it is wrong.

 
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