How to Send Food Back at a Restaurant

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Learn when it's appropriate to send your meal back in a restaurant, and how to do it without offending the chef.

To complete this How-To you will need:

An inedible meal
Diplomacy

Step 1: Evaluate the error

Make sure the problem is on their end, not yours. If your food is undercooked, overcooked, the wrong temperature, stale, has a foreign object in it, or is not what you ordered, send it back. If it doesn't taste the way you thought it would, however, try to deal with your disappointment.

Tip: If you're at a business meal, don't send food back unless it poses a health risk.

Step 2: Notify your server immediately

Notify your server as soon as possible. Don't eat half the meal and then complain.

Step 3: Be polite

Be polite. Call over the waitperson and, in a calm and friendly voice, tell them exactly what is wrong with your meal and what you would like done about it. Do you want the meal to be fixed? Cooked from scratch? Replaced with something else?

Step 4: Insist that everyone else eat

Insist that everyone else begin eating while the kitchen remedies your complaint.

Tip: Orders that are sent back to the kitchen usually take priority over everything else.

Step 5: Be persistent

If the food comes back and it's still not up to snuff, ask that it be taken off the bill. If your server refuses, ask to speak to the manager.

Step 6: Don't expect a free meal

Unless the restaurant's made an egregious mistake, don't expect your meal to be on the house.

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• restaurant
• eating
• out

[ilovezac126]

Next up: How To Turn Ice Into Water

[skoolier]

BITCH THIS AINT WHAT I ORDERED!!!

[mpcoex]

CRAP! i don't have a diploma..

[freemoney911]

@hotdogloco12345 hahaha

[hotdogloco12345]

@freemoney911 LOL!

[GuiltyPleasure317]

Meanwhile in Africa

[Takisawesome]

Next: How to walk out of the restaurant

[silentswan12]

step 1: dont be a complaining bitch and eat the food because there are people around the world who are starving and would kill to be you -_-

[freemoney911]

Bitch thats not how you make a sandwich!

[losatta123]

Step 1) Shove in the waiter's face

DONE!!

[theremotemusic]

my dish came late, I ended up not paying for it! :D

[yulio3000]

@ilovezac126 they actually did that...