The Sewing Mom

I’m really starting to hate ordering take out food.  It’s not so much the ordering process itself, although, there are a few restaurants around here that have horrible phone etiquette, rather, it’s the actual food itself, or lack thereof.  What I mean is, I am becoming more and more disgusted with the fact that when you order take out, you go, you pick it up, you get all the way home with it, only to find out that they’ve either given you the wrong order, or they’ve shorted your order.  Sometimes, they do both.  It’s just really disappointing.

Tonight we ordered from one of our favorite bbq restaurants.  They have a huge combo platter that we usually only order one of because there is so much food that we can all 3 eat off of it and still have leftovers.  Tonight, we had a buy one get one free coupon, so ordered two of the combo platters.  We substituted the 2 sides that come with each platter, for two large baked potatoes.  Pretty simple order don’t you think?

My husband and daughter went to pick the food up.  Upon arriving at the restaurant, they were told that they were out of chicken but had put in extra of the other meats.  My husband felt that was fair so he paid and they headed home.  Once they got home and opened up the containers they realized right away that first of all, they had only given us ONE baked potato, not two as ordered.  Secondly, both platter containers only contained about 1/2 of what they normally contain.  It was as if they’d taken one platter and split it into two boxes!  Plus, neither container had any bbq’d ribs in it, so not only did we not get chicken, we didn’t get ribs.  It was really pathetic.

I’m not sure what happened, but it was pathetic.  If this had been our first time to frequent this particular restaurant, I can tell you that I wouldn’t be going back.  Right now though, I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt and say that they were having a bad day.  If it happens again though we will probably not go back.