Do you ever complain at a restaurant to make yourself look superior - be honest?

Question

I owned a restaurant. I have no idea why but the restaurant trade seems to provoke much amateurish comments/criticism/input. Something seems to happen to seemly fairly level headed people when they enter a restaurant that makes them feel it necessary to flex their food/wine intellect muscles with the waiter, waitress or bar staff person to make them in some way feel bigger, superior or more knowledgeable. Am I right or have I got it very wrong?


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Answer 1

Not me, I have to have a serious concern with the food or service to bother the hard working staff with trivial stuff. I have seen other people do that though and have been on the receiving end of some when I worked in the industry

Answer 2

I have never ever in my life complained at a restaurant to make myself feel superior because that's just sad and pathetic really.

I remember working as a waiter and some customers would deliberately put me on the spot and would try to catch me out by quizzing me about the food and drinks menu.

Sometimes you could tell that the customer was genuinely interested in the selection but sometimes you just knew they where doing it to show off in front of their family/friends.

Answer 3

because no one is better then their mother, or grandmother.
OK seriously though many are on dates and just want to be seen as suave or cultured and if the date is smart they'd see them for the idiots they are.
on the other hand, they're just idiots and are going about the whole dinning experience the wrong way. where you go is what your going to get.
as a cook i know the difference between where i eat and what's acceptable for that place. and what's not acceptable. better is always good, less is irritating but nothing to get pompas about to the waiter. order a plate of pancakes at ihop and guess what, you get pancakes from ihop, basic pancakes. if i go to that expensive Italian place in north end, then i believe i have the right to ask where their house Chianti comes from because I'm curious if it's American or other wise. after all house wines are supposed to be chosen for their compatibility with most of the house's dishes.
so it's all in the person and the place i guess, ignore the idiots

Answer 4

Once I went out for dinner with a man a doctor and he had the nerve to complain about the size of his salmon. He said it was a child's sized portion. I was sooo embarrassed. I wanted to crawl under the table and hide. The cook made him another and said it was the biggest salmon in the kitchen. I was finished eating by the time he got it then I had to sit there with no food while he ate. All so he could flex his muscle. He made an idiot of himself. what made it even funnier is he's a skinny guy. not like he's 300 pounds.

Answer 5

The only time i complain is if my food is not cooked wright. I go out to eat a lot, like 5 to 6 times a week, cause im an airline pilot, but anyway i cannot remember the last time i complained about the food....

Answer 6

If you're a waiter you must be wrong ....never met one that was worth tipping in my life ....wait there were 2 that i can recall thinking she or he was the best waiter server I've ever seen..... I wish I had all the money I've tipped to lousy servers, out of guilt or not wanting to look like a jerk....I'd buy a new car...

Answer 7

It just comes naturally with me when there's a valid reason to complain. After all, I pay good money for patronizing such a place. Affectations of superiority? That might be for the bullies who are really insecure of their status in life.

Answer 8

just the other day (my birthday) we were at the lake for a vacation and we went to the nearest town that had a place to set down and eat and I order hamburger steak and it came back black as coal on the back side and fried okra that was also burnt and hard so I did complained and got it free ,but I didn't eat but the salad and baked potato and roll.

Answer 9

Nope, I never have. Seems to me that the people who do that are harboring an inferiority complex that they are trying to overcome by faking superior knowledge.

Answer 10

pretty wrong because i don't feel like i have to do that..never have either that would just make me look stupid and insecure as well as a show off