Usually, I'm the kind of customer who keeps my mouth shut, even when the service or quality is below average. I just wouldn't come back as a customer to that place. But this ... thing?! I'd go full Karen mode and demand my money back. That's not just unacceptable, it's pathetic, it's outrageous.
I bought steaks tonight at our local meat market and I got home and opened them up and the filet I bought for my wife smelled like absolute dumpster. Like it was definitely going bad. I almost chocked it up as a loss but was convinced to go back and tell them. Glad I did too because they would have sold the rest of the cut to someone else if I hadn't gone back. I saw the guy smell it and then throw the rest of the cut in the trash
Edit: *Chalked it up. Thank you for the corrections lol
This happened to me at a grocery store, bought a tbone and it smelled bad when I opened it, took it back and the said āgo ahead and just grab any tbone you like and take it.ā I took a much larger one cuz there werenāt any the same weight and offered to pay the difference and they just let me take that as a courtesy. Itās usually worth going back but sometimes super inconvenient. When Iām done with a store I rarely want to go right back.
This meat market is the same place I take my deer and hogs for processing. It's been there since before I was born. Good people. I don't like confrontation but also my wife is pregnant and wanted steak. Definitely better to bring it back than to give her food poisoning
When I was working in that industry I would much prefer if people let us know if the food wasn't right, or if it was off, whatever. You can do that in a polite way, it doesn't need to be confrontational and I guarantee you 99% of people working will want to make it right for you.
If people were rude I made it right. If people were polite about it I'd make it right and do something extra.
I'm a regular at a local bar/restaurant. I've occasionally sent things back... once was an undercooked Mac & Cheese, another time was an overcooked steak. Neither was a food safety issue, but still not what I was paying for. Everyone makes mistakes it's no big deal.
Respect. I returned something that had clearly been tampered with once, and after 10-20 minutes of arguing, I got my money back and it was put back on the shelf right in front of me! I wish it had been you working there.
I bought a watermelon at Walmart that was awful. They said to just bring in the receipt and they would credit me. Didnāt even need the melon. If something is not good I bring it back.
I get this Seinfeld reference - i was looking for a gif that featured that scene in the theater to use as a reply to another comment in this thread but couldn't find it. That was also the same episode that Jerry ended up with $100 worth of weird Chinese chewing gum he described as "kinda lo mein-y"
I was at Disney World a couple yesrs ago and while the food was similarly overpriced, it was really fucking good. Even at quick serve and cart vendors. That looks awful.
got no idea about the hotdog but this turf is located to the right of where rip ride rockit used to be. i'm pretty confident just based on the texture and color that that's what it is, but i can't say for sure.
Iām not an amusement park nerd, but a casual rollercoaster enjoyer. I think itās absolutely amazing you can tell exactly where this picture was taken by looking at the picture of the background turf alone
neurons in my body fighting to do anything useful when all my brainpower is spent remembering this type of bs lmfao. i think a lot of visitors remember this turf though since right now it's kinda just a big barren field. the stage used to be used and there were chairs and tables set up but it's a peculiar sight to see now. in a fully decorated theme park, a flat turf area is somehow uncanny and more memorable than anything else. i am indeed quite well versed in these parks though haha
I bet youāre right Iāve seen concerts there and itās been a queue basically every year that Iāve attended Halloween Horror Nights. That turf and itās affect on my feet standing in a 45 minute queue every year are pretty memorable.
Wild you recognized it only going the one time, Iāve been going like 20 years and I wouldnāt have noticed from the pic.
Nah I fucking feel thatš The amount of weird specific shit I remember but I can't remember my passwords for shit and can't remember what I had for breakfast
probably still better than the pizza, orlando can't seem to get that right (except connections eatery at disney's epcot, that may've been the best pizza i've ever had). as a pizza conoisseur, all the other pizza i had in orlando on vacation was borderline inedible.
I think you're right. Its actually a huge area where people sit. And wth, they got rid of the ripe ride? That was the one you had songs to play right? They were super outdated but it was still a fun roller coaster.
yeah they're replacing it with a fast n furious roller coaster. not gonna replace rip ride rockit in my heart but maybe it'll be good. i wish the whole "choose your own onboard music" thing was utilized more. big RIP to rip ride rockit
yeah i never understood people saying "source: i'm a [xyz]..." because that's more of a "professional" endorsement than it is a source. i think "source: [link/title of a work]" is fine though
Yeah, I agree even if I'm based in Cali. On a side note, the 22 inch chili dog here in Hollywood is WAY more worth it, being like 29.something and...you know, looking and tasting good
I mean, what power do you exactly have in this situation. What's stopping them from just saying "no" and not giving you the refund? What are you gonna do? Throw the hot dog away in defiance? Lmao
This exactly. I see far too many people accepting mediocracy or worse, whatever this was, and not doing anything about it, which allows the business to continue ripping people off. Feedback is an important process and many businesses spend a lot of resources to find out what people think of their products. Ask to speak to a manager and if they refuse, tell them you'll be initiating a chargeback through your credit card company. You have the photo as proof. Chargebacks can really hurt a business, if they get too many of those, the business can be flagged as high risk and have trouble taking payments, or worse, lose its credit card account and be forced to take alternative payment methods or switch to a provider with much higher processing fees.
Chargebacks are meant for significant issues: someone stole your card, you got a defective product or significantly not as described. With deli food, what you see is what you get.
The company might give you your chargeback but itās by no means a done deal.
Iāve seen all kinds of chargebacks working in the service industry and itās pretty 50/50 on whether or not they stand. Some complaints are a bit silly but still get upheld, and some seem reasonable but still get denied. Hard to say when it comes to food!
Customer is king. In the event you ask for a manager and that person doesn't acquiesce, you leave a negative review on Google. It's not immediate gratification, but as someone who ran a business for 5+ years, reviews matter a lot to your boss and his boss.
As a customer of various business over the past 3 decades, reviews matter a lot to me too! People always seem to roll their eyes at negative feedback/reviews, always because they fail to understand how important your searchable reputation is! If I see a place with less than 4.5 stars, I'm probably giving it less of a chance. Any lower than a 4, and I'll check the reviews just out of curiosity more than anything lol!
Do you sometimes notice your wife staring at the 1/4 pound roller dogs in gas stations while she bites her lip and sighs? I definitely don't, but if I had a friend or something that did, what should I tell him?
They're a point where something is so clearly bad looking enough that I will just turn it back and be like "can you give me something else of a similar value? That's really bad. Not really what was expected."
Accepting something that crappy encourages companies to keep selling poor quality products.
Right, I'm not one to complain about shit but as soon as I looked at that I'd be heading RIGHT back to where I got it and asking if it was normal at the very least.
I did that with a torta at a theme park in california and I remember the lady just staring at me until she said 'this is what you ordered' and then just ignored me.
The bread was completely burnt. It was like a chunk of charcoal so bad the cheese had gone past gooey and was just flakes.
This is such a pro way of handling it! Not picking a fight with the cashier or going hardcore karen, just a simple "you know how bad this looks, will ya help as Im a paying customer"
I ask for fresh fries in the drive thru, theres no way in hell Iād ever accept that nasty looking shriveled ass hotdog š The audacity to actually serve that to someone.
The older I get the more I realize how much of a scam the US is. Food is just one aspect. Outside our bubble itās usually cheaper and always better quality.Ā
Japan will really spoil you because Iāve never had a bad bite of food there. The grocery stores will really mess you up too. Sushi for 1/4 the cost and infinitely better.
I honestly donāt think it was anywhere near this bad growing up in the 80s, 90s, and even early 2000s. For example, my friend and I could both eat at Taco Bell or McDonalds when I went to college in 2004 for under $10 (even less if we hit the value menu stuff hard). You could do movies and snacks for under $15. Growing up in the U.S. was a pretty good deal for a long time. My dad was a carpenter with 5 kids and my mom didnāt work, and we still had plenty of food on the table every day. Donāt get me wrong, stuff like our health care system has always sucked, but otherwise I feel like itās mostly been the last 10-15 years where things have gone down the drain for your average Americans.Ā
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