Couple writes bad review of restaurant, face accusations of being bad customers after the restaurant adds random charges to their card: ‘No apology and no acknowledgment or accountability’

When is it appropriate for a business owner to protest a negative review? We all know that the customer is not always as right as they are supposed to be, and dealing with that when you work in the service industry can be a tricky thing. You can’t win ‘em all, but it is also …
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Restaurant causes controversy by charging adult diners extra to order from the kids menu: ‘That’s encouraging obesity and wastefulness’

Should an adult have to pay more for a meal that is the same size as a kid’s portion? No two appetites are exactly the same, and there are myriad reasons why a grown-up person may eat out at a restaurant and not want to order a full-size meal to eat. Depending on the place, …
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Restaurant customer consults ChatGPT instead of server when ordering food: ‘Does something as trivial as ordering really require AI?’

How difficult is it to make an everyday decision without consulting AI? We aren’t talking about the big, scary life changes here, like a drastic career switch or having kids. This is the kind of stuff that most people wouldn’t even have thought twice about dealing with themselves as recently as a couple of years …
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‘Dinner is served’: 22 Restaurant memes for chefs and waiters going into their dinner shifts

Who doesn’t love to eat out now and then? It certainly releases us from having to cook… Going out to eat is a fun and relaxing experience for us customers. We show up to the chosen restaurant, we sit, we order, and after a few minutes, voila! Our dinner suddenly appears in front of us. …
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Diner Divides Internet After Calling Out Friend Who Attempts to Try Her Salad Before She Does: ‘I Can’t Imagine Having the Audacity’

Should food always be a shared thing? While one of the things that the whole world has in common is that we all need to eat, it feels like people have a slightly different attitude to eating both in and outside their homes, wherever you go. Some places have the kind of cuisines that actively …
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Restaurant charges over $100 for pineapple on pizza: ‘Cultural damage has a cost’

Do you enjoy pineapple on your pizza? Should you? We’re all entitled to our own tastes, but they might offend others. Is that our fault? No! If you want to eat French toast with black olives and pour orange juice in your coffee, who am I to stop you? As long as you’re enjoying yourself …
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Boyfriend orders extra fries after girlfriend keeps stealing half of his, then she gets offended despite eating them: ‘She ate the extra fries’

Some relationship arguments aren’t really about the thing they appear to be about. Besides, sharing food can be a delicate matter. Especially if we’re talking about French fries. Now we are getting serious. This boyfriend knows his girlfriend. She loves fries. And he loves fries too. But every time they go out, he kindly asks …
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31-year-old birthday girl asks to go to Melting Pot for dinner, but her parents push back and try to change it to Korean BBQ despite letting her siblings pick freely: ‘[My siblings] always choose fancy upscale steakhouses or seafood restaurants’

A grown adult asks for a birthday dinner where, just once, the day is actually about them, and somehow this turns into a full-scale family negotiation where preferences are debated, dismissed, rerouted, and ultimately replaced with something safer, more convenient, and most importantly, not their choice.

Restaurant customer eats most of $68 steak, gets offended when he doesn’t get a refund: ‘He said he couldn’t finish it’

It’s almost comical how often the customer is, in fact, not right. At their worst, they have sky-high expectations that are never going to be met, are not interested in being agreeable or pleasant in order to facilitate that, and then expect to be given some kind of compensation when things inevitably go wrong (or …
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63-year-old refuses to take sister to her favorite Thai restaurant, chooses a different restaurant and refuses to pay: ‘She looked disappointed and sad’

If you’re being taken out for your birthday, it should be to a place that you like.  We all have our preferences. We have the things that we like and the places we frequent. Even if you’re a go with the flow kind of person, you probably have certain things you like more than others. …
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