Tipping etiquette...what would you do?

[Looking4new]

I would much rather have grits with my eggs than taters.

 

[amaxwell]

I have learned over the years that in the long run, I'm better off by ordering from the menu as written; usually there are sufficient sides so that I can "roll my own" so to speak... and I rarely, if ever send anything back, for fear of retribution by the kitchen staff. The one thing that I simply can't abide, though is a hard egg. "Over easy", or if you were at the Coffee Pot in Monett in the 1950's, "lightly basted". That's why I do not like Cracker Barrel. Last time I ate breakfast there, the eggs were like hockey pucks. I sent them back and cancelled my order.

I like mayo, mustard or catsup ; my wife doesn't, so we just order burgers as they come and swap my bottom bun for her top bun and we are all happy, (her ,me, and the restaurant). (This would have also solved the original posters problem.)

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I like mayo, mustard or catsup ; my wife doesn't, so we just order burgers as they come and swap my bottom bun for her top bun and we are all happy, (her ,me, and the restaurant). (This would have also solved the original posters problem.)

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

[MossRoad]

Back a good many years: scrambled eggs mixed with fresh Morels and diced Home Cured/Smoked Bacon was very enjoyable.

Eatin out=three egg mushroom&cheese omelet with hash browns & toast used to be a favorite morning fuel.

That sounds really good! :licking:

 

[rtimgray]

I like mayo, mustard or catsup ; my wife doesn't, so we just order burgers as they come and swap my bottom bun for her top bun and we are all happy, (her ,me, and the restaurant). (This would have also solved the original posters problem.)

It wouldn't have helped us, because we only ordered 1 sandwich. The sandwich comes quartered (with toothpicks through each quarter). Mayo is applied to the top, middle, and bottom bread.

What would have solved the problem was for the mayo to be brought on the side.

Good luck and take care.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Funny how they comp the drinks that cost them virtually nothing! Be carefull about complaining when someone can mess with your food.

Sounds like a ****** establishment. Much like the one I went to in Niagara Falls NY with a bunch of kids running the show, and feathers still in the chicken wings! The manager (just a kid) said that you can expect that occasionally. We just walked out, never to return!

I believe (unlike some) that a front line employee is your connection to the establishment. That old "I only work here" does not go over well with me.

I eat out a lot. There are certainly good wait staff and bad ones. A good one will make you feel like they care about your order and satisfaction.

 

[Citydude]

I have done the polite/proper thing as well. Sometimes I just have to make a statement.

Well, your making a statement alright.......what a putz.

 

[Looking4new]

Well, your making a statement alright.......what a putz.

I don't care if you like or dislike my attitude. I am the one paying my hard earned cash for my meal and I want it the way I ordered it. End of discussion.

 

[TomSeller]

I don't care if you like or dislike my attitude. I am the one paying my hard earned cash for my meal and I want it the way I ordered it. End of discussion.

Can't say I'd ever toss food on the floor, but if you keep going back and they keep seating you... Who is anyone else to judge?

Of course these days I see parents let their kids throw food on the floor and let them scream at the top of their lungs without any attempt to rectify the situation or pick up .... It's a different world for sure.

 

[Soundguy]

Of course these days I see parents let their kids throw food on the floor and let them scream at the top of their lungs without any attempt to rectify the situation or pick up .... It's a different world for sure.

agreed.

.. and I avoid those places if possible too.

 

[Citydude]

I don't care if you like or dislike my attitude. I am the one paying my hard earned cash for my meal and I want it the way I ordered it. End of discussion.

Alrighty then. You posted on the internet you throw food on a restaurant floor because you don't like it. Don't like the reply you got for your ridiculous actions? don't post. Now we're done discussing your behavior in a public place, not your attitude.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Wow. If I were cooking, I don't care who was wrong or right, if a customer threw his food on the floor, there WOULD be an little extra something in his next order for sure.

 

[Soundguy]

Yup... It does tend to violate 'good behavior' at least..

At most, setting something off to the side of your plate on a napkin. IE.. getting a jucy tomato on a sandwich and you don't eat tomato... and setting it on a napkin off your plate ( small plate / no room? ).. that's acceptable. Tossing it on the floor? Naa.. that's rude.. even if it was the wrong order.

 

[Soundguy]

Yup... It does tend to violate 'good behavior' at least..

At most, setting something off to the side of your plate on a napkin. IE.. getting a jucy tomato on a sandwich and you don't eat tomato... and setting it on a napkin off your plate ( small plate / no room? ).. that's acceptable. Tossing it on the floor? Naa.. that's rude.. even if it was the wrong order.

 

[TomSeller]

Yup... It does tend to violate 'good behavior' at least..

At most, setting something off to the side of your plate on a napkin. IE.. getting a jucy tomato on a sandwich and you don't eat tomato... and setting it on a napkin off your plate ( small plate / no room? ).. that's acceptable. Tossing it on the floor? Naa.. that's rude.. even if it was the wrong order.

That is what I do. I don't eat rotten or spoiled food. I do put it on a napkin or something and maybe mention it. But if it doesn't seem to matter and I get the same quality of food twice, I cross that place off my list.

I recall going to a restaurant once and finding an inch worm on my salad. The staff did not apologize but also did not fuss when I asked that the salad be removed from my bill. I held off for probably 8 months before we went back and, I kid you not, an inch worm was on my salad again. I asked for the manager and told him two strikes and I was out without paying. Two months later they closed. No surprise.

On the flip side of this, back when I was selling lettuce to local restaurants, I had this one restaurant call me on the carpet. They had a customer complaint of a worm in their salad. They got in my face and asked me where I grew the lettuce. I said "In the dirt". I asked if they rinsed the lettuce and they said no. They cancelled my deliveries and went with someone else. A few months later they closed. No surprise.

If you are serving people, you should look at what you serve and ask yourself if you would eat it.

 

[Soundguy]

I like your answer, and yup..it's produce.. it's going to have bugs and dirt.. that's what we invented sinks for.. to wash it.

And lets face it.. no one is immune.

I one time opened a bag of frozen lima beans from a well known brand wtih a tall green mascot.

As I poured them into the pan of water, i noticed one that did not look right. It was a green frozen worm about a half inch long.

what did I do? yup... fished it out, and turned the burner on and tossed in a few cuts of turkey sausage for flavor..

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I like your answer, and yup..it's produce.. it's going to have bugs and dirt.. that's what we invented sinks for.. to wash it.

And lets face it.. no one is immune.

I one time opened a bag of frozen lima beans from a well known brand wtih a tall green mascot.

As I poured them into the pan of water, i noticed one that did not look right. It was a green frozen worm about a half inch long.

what did I do? yup... fished it out, and turned the burner on and tossed in a few cuts of turkey sausage for flavor..

I too have found a worm in my salad; not the end of the world, but it does suggest the preparer did not wash the lettuce which is more disconcerting than the worm. I once found a roofing nail in my BBQ beans; I have no idea from whence it came. In the old days of soft drinks in recycled bottles, I have found some strange things, including a full length cigarette and paint chips in the bottles.

 

[Soundguy]

nice....

 

[Mace Canute]

I too have found a worm in my salad; not the end of the world, but it does suggest the preparer did not wash the lettuce which is more disconcerting than the worm. I once found a roofing nail in my BBQ beans; I have no idea from whence it came. In the old days of soft drinks in recycled bottles, I have found some strange things, including a full length cigarette and paint chips in the bottles.

Nothing is worse than being really really thirsty and tipping that bottle of a Coke like fluid back, taking a good swig and discovering something decidedly furry is now in your mouth...

 

[Bird]

I too have found a worm in my salad; not the end of the world, but it does suggest the preparer did not wash the lettuce which is more disconcerting than the worm. I once found a roofing nail in my BBQ beans; I have no idea from whence it came. In the old days of soft drinks in recycled bottles, I have found some strange things, including a full length cigarette and paint chips in the bottles.

I still have an unopened 10 oz. bottle of Coca-Cola that was one of a six pack that I bought just before Thanksgiving, 1969. It contains the wrapper from a package of cheese crackers.