Worked in restaurants for about 12 years before my desk job.

Rule 1, most of the time is alright to send back your meal once if it's not cooked to how you like. Rule 2, if you send back your food more than once your asking for it from the chef. I've seen everything from spit into the fett sauce to steaks being dropped and kicked around on the floor, then ran through the dishwasher, then plopped into the au jus bucket, and then returned on the plate . So beware.

My best clam chowder story is from a local seafood restaurant that I used to wait tables at, one time a lady came in, ordered a cup of chowder and proceeded to chew on what she thought was a tough clam, she delicately spit it into her napkin and then realized she had been chewing on a used fabric band aid . The prep chef confessed to noticing the band aid missing on his finger after he made the chowder the previous day, but he figured that it just fell on the floor somewhere.


BD