When you get a bad meal do you complain?

cold desert ..

How can you refuse to pay ???? 🙄

you could ask for a reduction on price if it wasnt good/acceptable, but i dont think you can refuse to pay ??

If you went to a movie, and you didnt like it , would you demand your money back ?!??

Fish is a tricky one!

I remember a few (gastro)pubs in London local to me back in the day... you would walk in of a weekend and get blinded by the bang of rotten fish, never trust a restaurant where your food makes your eyes water before you see it 😀 rugby lads, yummy mummies and the rest all tucking into minging fish n chips.

I lived near a great fishmonger for a while, would be in there maybe 3 days a week so would be on talking terms with the staff, towards the start or the end of the week they would point out the fish to avoid, it wouldn't make you sick but it would be far past it's best I guess. They told me what they had left on a Saturday they would sell to the local (posh) supermarket!

I can see why so many people dislike fish

Ah! I see you know dishes well! Good one, Good one!

If its a chipper, you eat it or you don't.

I'd like to see you go up to the counter and demand to speak to the chef ;)

When you get a bad meal do you complain? Yes of course, and why not ...

Food ain't cheap these days so if it's a bad meal of course I'd complain, for two reasons, one it's my money and I was looking forward to eating my meal, and secondly, my complaint may help the next customer.

I realise I'm probably part of the problem but no, I don't complain. Not in the official understanding, anyway. In the unlikely event where the dish is absolutely uneatable I just leave it all, throw some napkins in, pay the bill with no tip and tell the staff to take it back so that whoever "cooked" this **** can eat it themselves. I then walk away and they never see my money ever again. It's just that when I am in mood to eat outside (a very rare occasion) I am not in mood to stir **** and argue and I rather walk away.

No I wouldn’t complain unless something was horrendous. Life is too short.

I remember a mate had a boyfriend that complained about everything everywhere we went. It was so draining

What pisses me off is that look, they ask for an X amount of money. And a certain currency. And I am paying X currency, so I expect the exact service+quality. I don't say "here, have 23 indonesian rupees", no - I give them 23 euro exactly as they wanted. So it always pisses me off when somehow it's OK for the service provider to go "whoops, we didn't do it the right way BUT we did it, so you have to pay". F....kng hell, each and every time I am tempted to pay them in russian roubles, indonesian rupees or ukrainian hryvnas and say "there you go, an equivalent to the **** service you provided".

Listen carefully restaurators, plumbers, electricians and builders. 2009 is gonna happen again sooner than you think and there will be no sympathy for you.

Had a charge on my bill for 'Table water' of 2 x €1 = €2...... you know when they come around when u sit down and fill up a small glass of water while you decide what beverage to go for. We never asked for water..... we like to save that space in our belly for alcohol!! The bill for the night for 2 people was close to €90 before tipping..

Called the Manager and told him that 'it was not on'.... especially as it was pissing down outside all day and the town was drowning in water!. And it came from the tap.... not bottled water which I appreciate has a cost. He blagged it off that 'it was double- filtered'!

Told him it was gauging and greedy...... and that he was lucky I didn't go on TripAdvisor - which to me is the worse thing that can happen to a Restaurant/ Hotel if they get bad reviews as I always check same when staying in an out of town hotel etc. Asked him politely to pass on my comments to Management / Owners to have it removed as it does not do the image of the restaurant any good especially as their food is excellent and gave my name and number if they wanted to discuss same with me.

First time I ever felt that 'TODAY IS THE DAY' when I am fed up being screwed over... and felt so strongly that I had to complain on the concept.

Don't think I will go back there again... as I be worried if they would take out their revenge on me on my steak!!

I went there a few times over the last 12 months- I thought it was way overpriced, lots of staff standing around, or else getting out of the way where work needed to be done. I was in front of the display where the food is/was, and was trying to order something, but the lady at the till, 4 feet away, would not come down, there was no name on it, so I didn't know what they called it, anyway, she would not budge, and said that was not her area, I was with my wife, said nothing, just ordered 2 sandwich and chips, then proceeded to try and find a clean spot among the dirty tables - Charged more than I would be for table service in Killarney, and it was basically self service crap at a dirty table where you had to hunt for cutlery- I swore we would never go back- I had no idea why people went there.