To want my dinner served on a plate

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instead of a bit of slate/wood/chopping board

Had a lovely lunch today - the food was really good, just a sandwich but posh sarnie. It was marred somewhat by being served on an oblong serving board that wasn't really big enough. It was an open sarnie and was a knife and fork jobbie. So as a consequence, half of it ended up on the table and how do they get those things clean??

Yes, it looks really impressive but whatever is wrong with a nice, clean, smooth plate with a little lip on it so that the food stays on it when you push it around?

It wasn't even a particularly expensive restaurant, naice but not dead posh. This happens everywhere now - I am now considering ASKING for my food to be served on a plate and risking being thought of as an old fuddy duddy - my 77 year old mother was totally discombobulated by the board thing!

I'd rather a dog bowl than a flat cap. How on earth do they go through the dishwasher ?

All I could think of was old men's greasy hair strands. A shame because the actual meal was lovely.

I'll post a pic if i can work out how to do it (smile)

the flat cap

There's a place near me that serves tea in jam jars.

you can just see the butter was served on a bit of old tree trunk but I could cope with that

Was just thinking about the whole slate/chopping board thing today as I past a slateinsteadofplate place. I felt all concerned about what will become of all the slate when this fashion ends!? I worry fir the slateplates will they ever fufill their true calling and be a roof?

The only time that I have had a board for anything but bread (bread is acceptable IMHO ) I asked why they didn't just bring the pan out and scape my dinner onto the wooden table top, waitress nearly pissed herself laughing.

Worst was it was muscles in a cider and cream sauce!!

My mum was really poorly last month with suspected food poisoning. Her doctor said it could've been from the wooden board her starter was served on the day before.

Grim.

Why is it suddenly haute couture to put a salad on a roof tile.

I would not eat of a wooden board. I don't trust how wood is washed

Bar staff/ waitress here seconding that they are an absolute nightmare to both eat off and serve. I am rarely asked to serve food now I struggle that much (tiny hands)
Please inform management if you're not happy, most managers don't like them but it's higher up that makes the decisions.
They will be clean though as another poster said.