Do you send food back when eating out?

[Britpopbaby]

I’ve just sent some cake back due to how dry it was and I am not afraid to do this at all. Do you send food back?

Yes, if there is something very obviously wrong with it, it’s cold or burnt or raw or has some key ingredient missing. No, if I just don’t like it. That is my fault for choosing it.

Surely nobody sends food back just because they don’t like it? Or at least if you do then it’s reasonable for the restaurant to charge you for both meals if you then order something else!

I would definitely send something back if it wasn’t cooked properly and it was impossible or unsafe to eat, like an uncooked jacket potato. There would need to be something quite wrong with it though, because I know it would most likely be thrown away and the waste bothers me.

If there is something wrong with it I will send it back. I wouldn't send it back if I just didn't like it / made a bad choice.

I don't eat something and then complain later..........if there is something wrong I stop eating it and send it back straight away.

I never do. I just wouldn't go back.

We sent back 5 of 7 meals at the Ivy a few years ago: cold, burnt, swimming in oil, raw we had the lot.

My worst meal ever was at the Oxo Tower, that was a place where they don't write orders down and 3 of 4 were wrong.

When I've saved and looked forward to something I expect it to match expectations. I'm not going to write a shitty review, I just want to really enjoy what I came for.

Yes only a few times.
Once on a ferry. Rest of family ordered chips and burgers. I ordered a noodle dish. It was so salty it was inedible and I had paid £10+ for it. They were so good about it. Everyone was staring at me in the queue and DH couldn't stop laughing because in his words I'd ordered something very weird and ended up getting weird served on a plate.
I sent a hard jacket spud back, which was hard work. They couldn't accept it was not fully cooked.
However I ate burnt choc pud in a very busy, posh restaurant. Why I didn't speak up I don't know, possibly due to being younger and putting up with more shit than I do now.

Definitely if it wasn't worth the money- I am a bit fussy about my food being hot and have sent back two meals in the last month as barely any warmth at all, plus one for uncooked bloody pork fillet and one memorable meal out where all 7 of us sent them back for various reasons...

Same I wish I was more assertive but I can’t bring myself to complain even if it’s really bad

Oh absolutely. The show has to be as described.

Yes, I have no problem doing this. Recently sent a sandwich back because I'd asked for it to be toasted and it wasn't (easy fix and the maker/server was apologetic).