Bad food at a restaurant.

What do you do when you are dissatisfied with the food at a restaurant? Do you send it back to the kitchen along with your comment that it was cold, too hot, burnt, had bad ingredients or whatever else might be wrong with the fare? If so, then you are doing something foolish. If you are lucky, the cook will simply correct the error and then spit in your food; if you are unlucky, he may add other bodily secretions to the food he sends back to you. Cooks and waiters have countless opportunities to take silent revenge on complaining customers – whether the complaint is justified or not.

A better way to handle the situation is to eat the food without complaining and then never go to the restaurant again. There are many other fine dining establishments you can choose. If the food is so bad that it is inedible, you should refuse to pay and then leave the restaurant. Later you can warn friends and acquaintances about the place, and if you have a social conscience you should review the restaurant on one of the many rating sites that can be found on the Internet. There are also a number of restaurant guidebooks; authors of these will appreciate getting your ratings of restaurants you have frequented.

But I would never dare to eat any food that comes back from the kitchen after making a complaint.