My wife and Dinner?

Question

My wife and I like to eat out at lease twice a week. When time to order my food I am always straight forward with my order but my wife has to have her meal a certain way. Every time we get our meal my wife always fines something wrong with her order and the waiter always have to take it back and fix it like she wanted it. She gets mad at me because I always tell her that somebody is going to spit in her food someday. Am i wrong for that or what? Im just tring to warn her not to tick off the cook.

Answer 1

My sister AND her husband are like that too.  We can't stand going out with them to restaurants....he doesn't like any vegetables or anything green on his plate...if they accidentally put some parsley or a pickle on there he'll send it back.  She doesn't eat butter or oil...so she orders everything dry but if it glistens she'll send it back.  I'm sure they've received some not so pleasant additions to their food from the kitchen after doing that so many times!  

We can't change them and you probably can't change your wife either...just grin and bear it and VENT on here! :)

Answer 2

When my husband and I go out, we have had problems with the meal.  Not often but every now and then.   If there is a problem we are not shy in having it sent back.  You should get what you have asked for.  On the other hand, if someone complains virtually every time they go out, I think they may be the one with the problem.  Besides if you are never happy with the meal when you go out, why bother going out in the first place!!!  If you cook it yourself you should naturally get what you want!!!

Then naturally, there is the opposite type of person.  You know, the one that says everything is fine, they leave a good tip and start complaining the second they leave.

Personally, if there is a real legitimate complaint, the manager, owner, whoever, would like to know, so that it may not happen again.  A regular complainer however, may very well get spit under their potato or in their soup.

Try to explain the problem to your spouse, and if they can't "behave" why put up with it.  I would rather eat at home then trying to enjoy a meal while someone is complaining!!!!!!!!

Answer 3

haha.. this made me smile, because your wife somewhat reminds me of myself.

Over time I have had some not so nice experiences with restaurants, fast food.. and just dining in general.

I try not to complain much, nowadays though. It would tick my bf off... he's really shy, and embarassing him isn't something I want to do.

I usually keep it to myself if I have an issue with something, for example, in the past if I ordered no onions and they put onions on my burger, I would take it and complain and ask for a replacement.. nicely of course. Now I just take a fork and scrape it off.

Answer 4

Seems a bit obsessive if she does this every time you go out. Maybe she would rather stay home and cook for you. That way it will come out exactly the way she wants it!!

Answer 5

You wont be the one with the spit, you can only warn her.

Answer 6

Are you wrong for letting her know that the wait staff or kitchen folks might do something to her food? No. But once you've told her that, don't keep harping on it. Some requests are acceptable; others are not. Sending food back can be appropriate. But if she does it all the time, she may have control issues. As long as you keep your plate, no one can do anything to it. Let her take her chances.

Answer 7

reminds me of meg ryan in when harry met sally lol.

I don't think your wrong it's probably happend. I'm not always happy with what I order either but sometimes you just have to accept that your eating out and if you want something exactly your way then you have to cook at home.

Answer 8

This is easy, if you think this is a problem, rent the movie "WAITING" let her watch it. that will do the trick.... Good Luck.

Answer 9

She should be happy to have food and not be so picky how it is prepared does she have any idea how many children are starving in this world?

Answer 10

It doesn't sound like either you "like" to eat out twice a week. I think if she is that picky about food, she should stay home or have a personal chef like Oprah does.

I used to go out to eat with several of my cousins. All five of them were extremely picky about their orders and it would take forever to get through ordering as well as eating. Their spouses were their opposites. Eventually the non-picky eaters tired of the big show that they had to sit through and we stopped eating out and would just go drink instead. The women drove us to drink!