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Rose Red

Re: You know you're not going to eat it...
« Reply #15 on: July 16, 2020, 07:40:40 am »
Quote from: Soop on July 16, 2020, 07:21:43 am
Quote from: STiG on July 16, 2020, 05:28:39 am
Nothing wrong with asking something be left off the plate if you're not going to eat it.  If they offer a substitute, you're fine to accept.  If they fail to tell you there is an upcharge, I think it's fair if you refuse to pay it.

I just wish I could remember to tell them not to bother to bring Chalet sauce whenever I eat at Swiss Chalet.   ::)
I wish when I ordered online from Swiss Chalet and I don't check the box for cutlery that they would not send cutlery. It's wasteful enough to get their delivery containers. I don't want crappy plastic cutlery to throw away on top of that.

We have a drawer at work where everybody toss in their extra plastic cutlery and sauces for others who need them. We bring them from home too if we want to get rid of them. Plastic is still wasteful, but at least they get used before they're thrown in the garbage.
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« Reply #16 on: July 16, 2020, 09:16:32 am »
Usually, especially if the place is a sit-down restaurant, it’s possible to ask for a reasonable substitution.

There’s an Austrian place we like to go for lunch.  They offer a wonderful herring plate that comes with ‘spicy tomato salad’.  That’s a little too sour for me but I’ve never had a problem asking for potato salad or house salad instead. On the ‘sides’ menu they’re the same price so nobody minds the substitute.
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Soop

Re: You know you're not going to eat it...
« Reply #17 on: July 17, 2020, 07:57:13 am »
Quote from: Rose Red on July 16, 2020, 07:40:40 am
Quote from: Soop on July 16, 2020, 07:21:43 am
Quote from: STiG on July 16, 2020, 05:28:39 am
Nothing wrong with asking something be left off the plate if you're not going to eat it.  If they offer a substitute, you're fine to accept.  If they fail to tell you there is an upcharge, I think it's fair if you refuse to pay it.

I just wish I could remember to tell them not to bother to bring Chalet sauce whenever I eat at Swiss Chalet.   ::)
I wish when I ordered online from Swiss Chalet and I don't check the box for cutlery that they would not send cutlery. It's wasteful enough to get their delivery containers. I don't want crappy plastic cutlery to throw away on top of that.

We have a drawer at work where everybody toss in their extra plastic cutlery and sauces for others who need them. We bring them from home too if we want to get rid of them. Plastic is still wasteful, but at least they get used before they're thrown in the garbage.
We have tons of real cutlery and dishes at work and 2 dishwashers. I was saving some for when my mom has her surgerys, but was getting too many (and cheap plastic doesn't keep forever; it gets brittle).
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Re: You know you're not going to eat it...
« Reply #18 on: July 17, 2020, 07:29:08 pm »
I just ask them to leave it off. I prefer not to waste food.
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Re: You know you're not going to eat it...
« Reply #19 on: July 21, 2020, 07:01:10 pm »
I was a server for several years. I also don't like food waste, and neither do restauranteurs. Don't feel bad about asking to leave it off! At my employer's place, you could sub any side. All of our sandwiches came with fries, but some people didn't want the fries so they'd ask to just get the sandwich. I always offered for them to sub another side, since the side was included anyway and leaving it off wouldn't change the price, and many people happily took me up on that offer. Even if you simply don't want the side and don't want to sub, I feel it's better to ask them to leave it off completely than to get it then not eat it. Everybody wins that way. :)
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Re: You know you're not going to eat it...
« Reply #20 on: July 24, 2020, 11:01:38 pm »
Quote from: Soop on July 16, 2020, 07:21:43 am
Quote from: STiG on July 16, 2020, 05:28:39 am
Nothing wrong with asking something be left off the plate if you're not going to eat it.  If they offer a substitute, you're fine to accept.  If they fail to tell you there is an upcharge, I think it's fair if you refuse to pay it.

I just wish I could remember to tell them not to bother to bring Chalet sauce whenever I eat at Swiss Chalet.   ::)
I wish when I ordered online from Swiss Chalet and I don't check the box for cutlery that they would not send cutlery. It's wasteful enough to get their delivery containers. I don't want crappy plastic cutlery to throw away on top of that.

STiG, I'll take your Chalet sauce so it doesn't go to waste.  And Soop, I agree, I wish the default was not to include the cutlery; I've tossed so many of those cutlery packages.  Our experience with ordering Swiss recently has been so bad we have stopped getting delivery and go to the store to pick it up instead.  After the fourth or fifth time they screwed it up, I threw in the towel.
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Re: You know you're not going to eat it...
« Reply #21 on: July 27, 2020, 07:21:39 am »
Quote from: Sylverbirch on July 24, 2020, 11:01:38 pm
Quote from: Soop on July 16, 2020, 07:21:43 am
Quote from: STiG on July 16, 2020, 05:28:39 am
Nothing wrong with asking something be left off the plate if you're not going to eat it.  If they offer a substitute, you're fine to accept.  If they fail to tell you there is an upcharge, I think it's fair if you refuse to pay it.

I just wish I could remember to tell them not to bother to bring Chalet sauce whenever I eat at Swiss Chalet.   ::)
I wish when I ordered online from Swiss Chalet and I don't check the box for cutlery that they would not send cutlery. It's wasteful enough to get their delivery containers. I don't want crappy plastic cutlery to throw away on top of that.

STiG, I'll take your Chalet sauce so it doesn't go to waste.  And Soop, I agree, I wish the default was not to include the cutlery; I've tossed so many of those cutlery packages.  Our experience with ordering Swiss recently has been so bad we have stopped getting delivery and go to the store to pick it up instead.  After the fourth or fifth time they screwed it up, I threw in the towel.
Whenever we get delivery when my sister is over, she wants to get Swiss Chalet, because the one near her pretty much counts out the number of fries in an order, whereas in my area, you get a large portion.
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Re: You know you're not going to eat it...
« Reply #22 on: July 29, 2020, 06:18:44 am »
I ordinarily ask them not to bring the unwanted item, but with grilled tomatoes, I know I can put it on my husband's plate and he will be even happier with an 'enhanced' breakfast.

The one exception was The Pippin in Maidstone: asking for my burger with "no bun; everything else, just no bun" brought just the burger, no everything else, no bun.

Took a while for us to go back [we're English, don't you know; we don't do complaining easily or well, and we'd already waited ages for service and even more ages to be served food], but when we did we took note of the server...

Ditzy woman [she'd been ditzy at repeated visits, and never seemed to listen]?  Yup, they can waste my bun after I've scraped all the good stuff off and eaten it.  Manageress or the guy behind the bar?  "No bun, please but everything else" and that worked fine.

We got to the point before we left Maidstone, that if DW was the server in the restaurant section, we'd just go cook food at home, and try somewhere else at the weekend.  Oh, how nice it must be not to get churned up by the thought of having to (repeatedly) ask for what you ordered! ::)
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« Reply #23 on: August 04, 2020, 02:02:56 pm »
Quote from: guihong on July 16, 2020, 04:24:30 am
My DH doesn't eat salad.  When we are in a place that serves salad with the entree, I'll eat his, or else he asks for a substitute (usually chili).

For something like a salad, we would ask for it in a to-go box, so that someone who did like salad could eat it the next day. 
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Re: You know you're not going to eat it...
« Reply #24 on: August 04, 2020, 03:54:54 pm »
Quote from: Sylverbirch on July 24, 2020, 11:01:38 pm
Quote from: Soop on July 16, 2020, 07:21:43 am
Quote from: STiG on July 16, 2020, 05:28:39 am
Nothing wrong with asking something be left off the plate if you're not going to eat it.  If they offer a substitute, you're fine to accept.  If they fail to tell you there is an upcharge, I think it's fair if you refuse to pay it.

I just wish I could remember to tell them not to bother to bring Chalet sauce whenever I eat at Swiss Chalet.   ::)
I wish when I ordered online from Swiss Chalet and I don't check the box for cutlery that they would not send cutlery. It's wasteful enough to get their delivery containers. I don't want crappy plastic cutlery to throw away on top of that.

STiG, I'll take your Chalet sauce so it doesn't go to waste.  And Soop, I agree, I wish the default was not to include the cutlery; I've tossed so many of those cutlery packages.  Our experience with ordering Swiss recently has been so bad we have stopped getting delivery and go to the store to pick it up instead.  After the fourth or fifth time they screwed it up, I threw in the towel.

I think that it will soon be illegal to provide plastic cutlery without it being request (much as restaurants in some cities once weren't allowed to reflexively pour water into the glasses; you had to ask). And in some European countries, plastic cutlery is going to be illegal, period, i bet.
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Re: You know you're not going to eat it...
« Reply #25 on: August 11, 2020, 02:56:12 pm »
I'm glad to see so many would just ask for it to be left off. This is something that has bothered me in the past so I thought it would make for a good discussion.

I've been out with people who read the menu, see the item they want to order comes with something they don't like, comment on it to the present company, but then say nothing to the server. The item sits on the plate, ignored and uneaten, and eventually tossed. And I wonder, why!?

So thanks for validating my feelings on the matter!  :)
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