Due to the crazy awesome response from the last Can I Get a Consensus? I’ve decided to make this a permanent feature.
This weeks question is – If you go to a restaurant and the food you order is inedible, is it acceptable to refuse it? What are your options? I had a truly revolting eggs benedict last weekend that was 90% hollandaise but being hideously hungover, starving and lost in the CBD of Sydney (everywhere else was closed) I had little choice but to scrape off the offending sauce and hold my nose as I devoured the remaining soggy eggs and toast. The coffee was appalling. Mr Smaggle’s breakfast was even worse with vinegar flavoured eggs floating in water and slimey spinach. The waitress asked us how everything was and I replied that it was bad. Really, really bad. She just kind of laughed and said ‘Oh. Yeah.’
Obviously we had already eaten the food and therefore felt we should pay for it but if we hadn’t eaten it would we have been entitled to leave without paying? What’s the protocol? Can you request that they make it again? Would you trust a restaurant to re-cook your food after you complained about it? Are there any restaurant owners out there who can shed some light on this issue?
What do you think?
Love Lady Smaggle
xxx
P.S This argument is not about fussy eaters. I was so hung over I would have eaten shit on toast. Which, ironically, is pretty close to what I got. The point is the food has to have something obviously wrong with it. Consumer tastes are irrevalent. If you order food and you don’t like it when it arrives, tough.