Do you send food back at a restaurant?

It is rare, but I have sent things back. Happened about a year ago when there was a large group of us. Not sure if it was the cook or the server, but when we got our food, mine was cold. I suspect that mine was cooked first and a couple of other dishes last and by the time theirs was done mine had grown cold.

I am dying!!! Hahaha. I was wondering the same thing.

If the food was bad I would decide it was the wrong restaurant not eat and not go back, the idea of a second chance is unappealing. If everything else looked good around the table and something was undercooked, I would politely ask for a solution. I only did the latter a few times. When the waiter says it's fine when you can see it's not...that isn't good service.

My general rule is you get what you get and you don't throw a fit. However, I will send something back for food safety reasons. I once got a burger and Hopdoddy (TX chain) that was pink and cold on the inside. And I once had manicotti at an Italian restaurant that had ice cold chicken on the inside. They brought it back after they had obviously just shoved it into the microwave instead of remaking it. The chicken was still cold and I walked out.

Of course you should ask for the feta, but just ask for the waiter to bring you some feta in a ramekin or something. I have worked in too many restaurants to send food back into the kitchen unless it is something other than a complaint. If it is the wrong meal or allergy-related, go for it. If not, the better option is to never give the restaurant any further business.

I was visiting my brother-in-law's family one summer and we all went out to a nice restaurant. Not a steakhouse, but they had a Bistecca alla Fiorentina (very expensive, very large steak) on the menu that he ordered. He ordered it medium rare. He decided it was a little too rare (it wasn't), and sent it back. It came back charred, of course. He sent it back. At this point we've all eaten 75% of our meals and he is a bottle deep on the Montepulciano and getting loud. I told him to just order something else, but he was stubborn and wanted the steak medium rare. When it came back the 3rd time, it was cooked perfectly but was missing the herb sauce, so he asked that the sauce be added to his dish (rather than have them just bring some out). So at this point his plate has re-entered the kitchen 3 times. I 100% guarantee there were some additions to the sauce when they applied it to the steak. I told him that, but he didn't care.

I think this kind of thing is less common now due to high profile lawsuits and media coverage, but it definitely still goes on in kitchens.

Now, in defense of the kitchen workers: It is not their job to serve you whatever you want. They are not your personal chef. You are visiting their kitchen. If you don't like the food, go somewhere else.

Ground beef is commonly called minced beef or mincemeat over here

We had something called "chipped beef" in the US Navy chow halls. Seem like what might have been swept off the meat packing floor.

Are you in UK or Aus? I had no idea and I have been to UK a number of times. My bad...

Now chipped beef I know... My grandmother made a mean chipped beef gravy for biscuits. Holy cow it was good.

Cacca is the yin and the yang. There are perfumes made with indolic notes, which is to say cacca smells amazing in the right mix.

I sent back a sweetened iced tea after ordering unsweetened iced tea.