Unsatisfactory restaurant food
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:16 pm
Have you ever sent anything back to the kitchen at a restaurant because it wasn't cooked correctly?
My wife and I ate at a small-town cafe last week. I usually order a cheeseburger whenever I go out to eat, since I'm fairly picky and never know if I am going to like something the way the restaurant prepares it. I figure they can't go wrong with a burger. Well, most places can't go wrong with a burger.
The price for a cheeseburger and fries was $6.25, and the bacon cheeseburger was $6.95. Why do they charge 70 cents for two little strips of bacon? That's outrageous, but I do like bacon, so I ordered the bacon cheeseburger. I asked what else came on the burger, and the waitress said, "Nothing, just bacon and cheese." I asked how much extra for lettuce and tomate, and was told it was 50 cents each. I have reluctantly spent 8 dollars for a burger and fries before, so I ordered the lettuce and tomato, but I sure felt a bit ripped off because of it. The piece of tomato was an anemic one-eighth inch slice and there were three little pices of lettuce.
I took the first bite of the burger, and it crunched as I chewed it. There was a layer of char burnt on the bottom of the patty. I'm actually not that picky about burnt spots, but the patty was so thin that all I could taste in this burger was the char. I sent it back to the kitchen, and the second burger came back with a bit of char on the bottom, but the patty was much thicker so I didn't taste it as much.
Then the waitress asked if we wanted the price of the burger removed from our bill, or if we wanted two free pieces of pie. We figured that we could buy a whole pie with the eight dollars that the burger would have cost, so we took the price reduction. I wasn't expecting to get the burger free, so I can't complain that much about the cafe, but I still don't think I'll be going back there.
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My wife and I ate at a small-town cafe last week. I usually order a cheeseburger whenever I go out to eat, since I'm fairly picky and never know if I am going to like something the way the restaurant prepares it. I figure they can't go wrong with a burger. Well, most places can't go wrong with a burger.
The price for a cheeseburger and fries was $6.25, and the bacon cheeseburger was $6.95. Why do they charge 70 cents for two little strips of bacon? That's outrageous, but I do like bacon, so I ordered the bacon cheeseburger. I asked what else came on the burger, and the waitress said, "Nothing, just bacon and cheese." I asked how much extra for lettuce and tomate, and was told it was 50 cents each. I have reluctantly spent 8 dollars for a burger and fries before, so I ordered the lettuce and tomato, but I sure felt a bit ripped off because of it. The piece of tomato was an anemic one-eighth inch slice and there were three little pices of lettuce.
I took the first bite of the burger, and it crunched as I chewed it. There was a layer of char burnt on the bottom of the patty. I'm actually not that picky about burnt spots, but the patty was so thin that all I could taste in this burger was the char. I sent it back to the kitchen, and the second burger came back with a bit of char on the bottom, but the patty was much thicker so I didn't taste it as much.
Then the waitress asked if we wanted the price of the burger removed from our bill, or if we wanted two free pieces of pie. We figured that we could buy a whole pie with the eight dollars that the burger would have cost, so we took the price reduction. I wasn't expecting to get the burger free, so I can't complain that much about the cafe, but I still don't think I'll be going back there.
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