Is it bad to send food back at a restaurant?

There’s always that awkward moment when you’ve received your food or drink order and it tastes nothing like what you expected. The consensus among dining experts is that it’s OK to send food back to the kitchen if you’re not completely happy with it.

When would you send food back while eating at a restaurant?

When to send your food back Same goes if you’re served a cold plate, or if your food is overcooked, whether that’s a steak, as we mentioned above, or a plate of eggs that were ordered over-easy and came out way too hard, Engman says.

Can you send a dish back?

As a former restaurant chef, let me clear one thing up: you can absolutely send back your food under the right circumstances. I’ve never worked in a kitchen that deliberately messed with the food or added unsavory ingredients to a re-fired plate.

Do you have the right to send food back from restaurants?

Yet, when a restaurant churns out thousands of meals a week, the odds are good that either the waiter or the kitchen will mess up at some point. But no matter whose fault it is, you the customer have the right to send the food back. But many of you don’t.

Why is my food being sent back?

This is probably the single most common reason for food to be sent back, and it typically happens when a kitchen gets so overwhelmed that food sits in the window for an extended period of time, leading to a warm salad or a cold burger. That’s not an excuse; merely an explanation.

Should you send food back if it has a band-aid in it?

Look, you’re never going to find a server or chef who thinks you shouldn’t send food back if it’s got a Band-Aid in it. If your chocolate cake bursts open and a swarm of extremely irate hobo spiders stream out, A) stop eating at restaurants owned by David Cronenberg, and B) send the food back.

Is it OK to send back food that has burned?

Your food is burned If your dinner is a charred briquette husk of what may once have been charitably described as “food,” not many sane people would question whether it’s OK to send it back.