I hate being a karen but where's the line?[/quote]

Your paying for it to be right. Their getting paid to as well. Not much difficulty in understanding that. Your customers expect you to do what they ask.
Your not being a Karen. Just want to get what you ordered. Simple.

Sarge

I dont send much back. if steaks are under cooked they will.com back over cooked. If over cooked the dogs ar happy. I dont trust eating something after complaining at a restaurant.

Warrior, you left out
Scattered=well, crispy

Wow....you've entered menopause.

How about when a waitress insists on using her memory for the tables order. Then it comes out wrong or she forgot who got what. Just write it down lol

Seen this a couple times it burns me up

Though this thread is basically about food but there are other facets of pettiness that aren’t related to food that are just as impactful to a person’s livelihood. A chef, a cook, a server’s attention to their customers needs is easily understandable but what about anyone who has to meet a specific criteria? If a person fails to meet whatever the acceptable and expected criteria is specified is it being petty to complain is the question and how is that handled by the purchaser.

Because I was a Welding Engr as well as a Certified Welding Inspector, I had to oversee Welding Inspectors who could be petty or picky when inspecting welders welds. Believe me there is a fine line between the two and what the spec says very similar to a fast food expectation also the “who is on top” deal. One of the first things that I warned inspectors about was the fact that these welders (or restaurant workers) all had families depending on them. Make sure the inspection of a welder’s work wasn’t petty or picky but only according to the spec understanding that the inspector held the welder’s future paycheck and that of his family in their hands when they inspected and criticized the welds!!

Hopefully my analogy isn’t to obtuse to food suppliers for folks to recognize a correlation. Think about your son or daughter, grandson or granddaughter back the on the flattop trying to cook to your satisfaction without you knowing it or under the welding hood trying to make a weld that meets the spec and some welding inspector is trying to tear your house down by being petty/picky with the spec over a spec of undercut or a customer going ape-chit about a missed order??? Make sure your reaction meets the severity of the conditions!

I just eat it the wife gets ticked

The only four things a manger of a restaurant require of their employees nowadays is:

1. Will you show up?
2. On time?
3. Sober?
4. And work the entire shift?

NONE OF THEM do a drug test. If they did they wouldn't hire anyone and would go broke paying for positive drug tests.

Fast food employees are not college grads nor do they get paid as such. These are people, who for the most part, did not graduate high school or made poor choices in life.

It is rare anyone WANTS to work at a fast food joint as these jobs are mostly entry level jobs. The vast majority of employees have little to no interest in promotion or getting a better job in life.

And the vast majority have a lower than average IQ and a lot have trouble with English and I include native born Americans in that group.

You get what you pay for when you go through the drive through. Check your bag AND your change before you leave the window.

If you dine in and the order is wrong, ask the waitress to repeat what you ordered so as not to offend as you may have made a mistake also.

And most importantly, DON'T punish the waitress with a lower tip if the order was not right. If it was brought to your table in a timely fashion with a smiling face, tell them you don't blame them. I do ask for a re-fire if the order is wrong. Especially if it is an expensive item. I know, I have probably gotten "extra" ingredients but I feel the correction needs to be made with the cook not reading the order correctly. But then we get to my reference of lots of employees having trouble with English and reading.

It all comes down to restaurants scrape the bottom of the barrel for good employees. Sad but true.

My ex-wife never had a meal that she was happy with. But then one of her favorite pastimes was (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) about everything.

I've only complained at a restaurant twice in my life. Once I ordered a $45 ribeye to be grilled rare, showed up medium well, so I ended up leaving hungry when they didn't care to get me another steak.

The other time a sweetheart of a waitress accidentally spilled a hot plate of pasta on my lap when a toddler from another table tripped her, minor burns but I survived. Her manager ran over and proceeded to scream at her, so I got up and backed the little fellow into a corner so we could chat. I made him apologize and I was there chatting with his boss the next day.

Only two times I've complained. Other than that if orders are regularly messed up I just quit going.

The wife and I rarely will complain, a order has to be messed up pretty royally before we do.

Myself, if I get a screwed up order or the food is bad I just lock that info away in the memory and it just makes it harder for me to ever want to go there again.