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re: If you owned a restaurant, how would you handle a request for a 1/2 sized entree
Posted on 4/28/15 at 2:23 pm to tigerfoot
Posted on 4/28/15 at 2:23 pm to tigerfoot
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Does the patron use half a plate? half a glass? Does the restaurant only half cook the food
Youve gotta be shittin me.
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It costs the same to produce a half entrée as a full,
Im assuming youre getting at wages on the people prepping/cooking the food? If you are, then you make a good point.
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Posted on 4/28/15 at 2:24 pm to dnm3305
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No it wont. The business is still selling said good.
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about, so I'm just going to call it a day in this one.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 2:24 pm to arseinclarse
Menus are structured for full sized entrees. I'd give her 1/2 her entree if it was possible and charge her 75% of full price. She saves money and I make just as much or more money. Win/Win.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 2:24 pm to arseinclarse
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“The server told me I would have to order the entire thing,” she recalls of the incident last year — despite her offer to pay the full $15 price for a pint-sized portion.
This seems odd to me. So the restaurant wouldn't give her a half portion even though she said she would pay the full price? Why not? Also, if she's willing to pay the full portion, why does she insist on getting a half portion? Either eat half and take the other half with you (which she did), or eat half and leave the other half on the plate. You paid for it, why care if it's "wasted?"
Posted on 4/28/15 at 2:25 pm to dnm3305
Can't make everyone happy.
You would be the person I would not make happy, and it would be fine by me.
You would be the person I would not make happy, and it would be fine by me.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 2:25 pm to arseinclarse
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What do you do with the fish or steak you don't sell?
Put it in a tartare, make fish and chips, grind it for a burger, serve it as apps, get creative. I really dont think I needed to say all of that though.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 2:26 pm to dnm3305
quote:You've already said too much.
I really dont think I needed to say all of that though.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 2:27 pm to TigerHam85
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Can't make everyone happy. You would be the person I would not make happy, and it would be fine by me.
I have never gone to a restaurant and asked for a half sized/priced entree' and I never will. Im just saying that it makes no sense to not offer that just because "that's not how this works". You better come up with more justification than that.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 2:27 pm to LNCHBOX
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You clearly have no idea what you're talking about, so I'm just going to call it a day in this one.
Why take your ball and go home? This is an interesting topic. This is a service business. Would catering to a request like this necessarily result in a detrimental effect? Even with good will factored in?
Posted on 4/28/15 at 2:28 pm to LSUAfro
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Menus are structured for full sized entrees. I'd give her 1/2 her entree if it was possible and charge her 75% of full price. She saves money and I make just as much or more money. Win/Win.
That's certainly plausible and realistic, yet you disagree with me in my post just above this.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 2:28 pm to dnm3305
quote:Entitlement at restaurants is outta control.
You better come up with more justification than that.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 2:28 pm to hungryone
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Very few foods (besides pizza) make decent leftovers.
When it comes to a meal at a nicer restaurant, I wholeheartedly agree.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 2:29 pm to LNCHBOX
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You clearly have no idea what you're talking about, so I'm just going to call it a day in this one.
How so? Do you own a restaurant? If not, then you are just as ignorant as I am.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 2:30 pm to Mo Jeaux
Why can't the customer just go to a restaurant that offers what they want?
Instead they go to places they know won't accommodate them just to be a pain in the arse.
Instead they go to places they know won't accommodate them just to be a pain in the arse.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 2:30 pm to dnm3305
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How so? Do you own a restaurant? If not, then you are just as ignorant as I am.
You laughed off costs other than the food. You win the ignorant contest in this thread.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 2:31 pm to arseinclarse
Posted on 4/28/15 at 2:31 pm to LSUAfro
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Menus are structured for full sized entrees.
For fatties. I often can't finish an entire entree so a woman who isnt a cow would def have trouble.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 2:32 pm to dnm3305
quote:Because you didn't suggest that and many menu items can't just be "halfed". Where do you draw the line?
That's certainly plausible and realistic, yet you disagree with me in my post just above this.
If you want a 1/2 serving of gumbo for 3/4 of the full price, I can do that for you all day.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 2:32 pm to LNCHBOX
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No it wont. The business is still selling said good.
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about, so I'm just going to call it a day in this one.
This was post 70,000
Posted on 4/28/15 at 2:32 pm to LNCHBOX
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You laughed off costs other than the food. You win the ignorant contest in this thread.
No I didnt. I made an argument against it, which wasnt even directed at you. Please, enlighten me. In what way would a restaurant lose money selling half of an entree to a customer than not selling one at all because the person bypasses your place because they dont want that much food?
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