• The Octonaut@mander.xyz
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        11 months ago

        This just reminds me I never went through with my 2010s business idea of opening a restaurant called “With an egg on top”.

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          11 months ago

          I’d be there weekly, so many things are just better with an egg on top.

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            11 months ago

            Same. They’re both perfectly valid opinions. If it’s 4 in the afternoon and I want a burger before a night of hard drinking, keep your damn egg to yourself. If it’s 4 in the morning after a night of hard drinking, a runny yolk on a greasy bacon breakfast burger is just what the doctor ordered. But for me hard fried or scrambled just don’t feel right.

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            11 months ago

            I tried one a couple years ago with an open mind.

            I took two bites and yeah no. Couldn’t eat it.

            I told the server that I couldn’t eat it, so she took my plate off the table and slapped the bill down in front of me, charging me for it without offering any alternatives while my lunch mates slowly enjoyed their good burgers and I got to sit there watching, hungry, and sixteen dollars lighter in the wallet. Worse, I was about to catch a plane, so I was fucked on getting any other food.

            I got the rolled eyes treatment when I paid and didn’t tip.

            I’m not bitter about that experience. Not one bit.

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              11 months ago

              Your order being fucked up or undercooked, or having an allergic reaction is a valid reason to have your meal comped, merely not liking the food is not a valid reason. It sucks you didn’t like it, but it’s no fault of the restaurant. That’s what you ordered. It doesn’t matter you only took two bites of it, all the restaurant can legally do with it is throw it in the trash, so it’s still a loss for them.

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                11 months ago

                Cool your jets there. I don’t mind that I paid for it.

                There was an aggressive, “well fuck you, pay me and get the fuck out then,” demeanor from the server.

                I never raised my voice, never asked for a comp. All I did was response, “I can’t eat this,” when she asked how everything was. That was it.

                I would’ve paid AGAIN if she’d offered to let me order something else because I was so god damned hungry and knew there would be no food for many hours ahead.

                But no. She grabbed that plate, stormed off, and slapped a check in front of me. The end.

                Sorry i hurt your service industry feelings.

                I NEVER send food back and I NEVER ask for a comp. Never have, never will.

                But you want to be shitty to be about it, I’ll pay for the food, and that’s all I’m gonna pay for.

                In a similar situation this past summer, I told the server I didn’t care for the food and she immediately asked if I wanted something else. I politely declined and told her to charge me for the food, that it wasn’t her fault, and tipped her somewhere in the 25% neighborhood.

                These two incidents are the only two times I can recall not being able to eat what I was served. I have, however, been witness to a number of other people getting pretty vocal about wanting everything for free, including everybody at their table, claiming they didn’t like the food they had consumed in its entirety. On that front, you and I are united, I’m sure.

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                11 months ago

                Yeah, honestly sounds like something you’d try when you have no shame. Not that I’m judging, just there’s a certain low you have to sink to to be the first one to try that…

        • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          11 months ago

          It was messy, but I still loved it. Them my body spontaneously became allergic to eggs. A tragic loss to my taste buds, especially since a lot of the Asian foods I love like to include eggs (Ramen, fried rice, Omurice, Kimbap, oyakodon, etc etc).