So, I went out to eat solo at a nice sit down restaurant. (Not generally a recommended activity. It’s typically boring and lonely, thus somewhat depressing, as well as expensive). I decide to try an unfamiliar dish, order it, it arrives, and it’s well enough done, but not really to my liking at all. My waitress dropped by and asked how I was liking it, so I said “It’s fine, thank you,” as any midwestern raised gentleman might. I pick out the bits I like and leave half the dish. She comes by and asks if I’d like to have it boxed. I decline. She then asks if I was sure the dish was fine. I said in essence “Well, it was an experiment, and, as experiments sometimes do, this one did not go well.” She was dismayed that I hadn’t said something sooner so that she could have brought me another dish. This flustered me a bit. I said, no, it was quite alright, I wasn’t that hungry, and I just wanted to get on with my evening. She left it at that, took the dishes, and came back (rather quickly to my mind) with the bill, apologizing for taking so long, because she’d had the dish taken off. That was more than half the price of my meal. I thanked her, paid, and left her a tip ($10) that was larger than the bill total ($9.10) for her excellent service. <\/p>\n
Is this standard restaurant operating procedure? I mean, the way I see it, I’m paying for food, not for satisfaction with the dish. If I deliberately order something that turns out to be not what I want, I think I should still pay for it, unless there was some sort of deception or the like involved. Weird, but touching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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