🚀 go-pugleaf

On 6/6/2009 8:38 AM, Donna Whitman wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:02:21 -0300, Brian Smith
> <Halifax@NovaScotia.Canada> wrote:
> 
>> Donna Whitman wrote:
>>>     I've had to do that a couple of times and the restaurant was very
>>> gracious about replacing my meal and apologizing for the
>>> inconvenience. If *I* don't get what I ordered and it's not to my
>>> satisfaction, I either request an immediate replacement or eat it and
>>> them complain on Usenet  afterwards.  :-)
>> 	I'm with you here Donna. Complain to the people at the time that can 
>> make a remedy forth coming. Don't waste time complaining to people that 
>> can't do anything about it until it is plain that moving business away 
>>from the establishment is the only way to deal with the company.
> 
> 
> If a meal is so poorly prepared that it's inedible, I'm sure as hell
> not going to pay for it but I haven't personally had that problem. The
> initial complaint for me resulted in a second meal that was very tasty
> and prepared as I had asked for. If the second one was equally
> unpalatable, it would get returned immediately and I would ask for the
> manager and explain why I had no intention of paying for the slop.
> 
> As for complaining on Usenet after the fact, I think that kind of
> feedback can be valuable to those who might be considering eating at
> the same place. I know everyone's opinion varies but I'd pay attention
> to someone who said the food was so poor that they couldn't eat it.
> 


If you complain about your steak in a restaurant and order another, 
the chef always puts the steak on the floor and steps on it, then 
spits on it, before cooking it. I thought this was common knowledge.

-Al-