"Do not yell at them for forgetting your side dish, do you even understand how many things they have to remember at once?"

I won't yell, but will tell you "I ordered such-n-such." Most people including myself can't remember by memory, so if you feel you can't remember, WHY don't you write the order down? Why don't you compare the plate of food and the order that was written down? Go down a checklist: Steak - check, mashed potatoes- check, substituted fries for vegetables - check, BEFORE EVER TAKING IT TO THE CUSTOMER WRONG. So if we give you a less than 15% tip for being TOO LAZY to verify the plate of food as being correct BEFORE taking it to me, don't blame us customers, blame YOURSELF! I don't expect the server to remember by memory at ALL. I expect them to take my food to me EXACTLY how I ordered it as far as what they can SEE. If you can see it's wrong, DON'T BRING IT! My point is, the server is 100% responsible for bringing the CORRECT side dish or condiments that were ordered with the meal. It looks REALLY STUPID when a server that WROTE DOWN my order and brings me the wrong side. I feel gee, WHY FUCKING WRITE IT DOWN WHEN THE OUTCOME IS WRONG? The WHOLE POINT of *WRITING THE ORDER DOWN IS TO VERIFY THE *FINAL RESULT*! I ask to have fries instead of beans, well you wrote it down, you should take the extra 30 seconds to REREAD the order. Are you too LAZY to do that? I understand you won't remember it by memory, so that is why I EXPECT the server to get ALL THINGS they can *SEE* is wrong to be fixed BEFORE taking it to me, because they got a "CHEAT SHEET" in a sense to verify that the correct food is being brought to the customer. I am ONLY talking about if the SAME PERSON that took my order brings me the food. I am NOT talking at all about if someone else takes the food to me. When Jane Doe server takes my order, I EXPECT Jane Doe to take the TIME and EFFORT to *VERIFY* my plate of food to make sure they are taking the correct things to me. Just because Jane Doe printed the ticket 100% correctly, DOESN'T mean that the cook didn't mess up. Also, I've had a few times when the server wrote the orders down, but pressed the wrong button, so the ticket was printed incorrectly, meaning, the actual piece of paper that the order was written down on was correct. COMPARE THE PLATE OF FOOD WITH THE ORDER WRITTEN DOWN! GO DOWN A CHECK LIST! I even do that at the grocery store BEFORE I leave and sometimes I would have left without something. That's the SAME THING basically. You make sure you have the correct stuff BEFORE you take it to the customer incorrectly. That is the SERVER'S JOB, NOT the CUSTOMER'S job to tell the server that something is incorrect that they can SEE without touching the food. I am NOT talking about pickles under a bun that a person ordered not to have pickles, but things a server CAN SEE, such as a wrong side dish. The server is responsible for taking the CORRECT food to the customer as far as what they can SEE! Honestly, WHAT IS THE POINT IF YOU PRINTED THE TICKET CORRECTLY TO BRING OUT THE WRONG FOOD? There's just disadvantages: 1. Makes the server make extra trips that COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED. 2. Embarrassing to the customer 3. A VERY possible not-so-great tip 4. Shows how LAZY the server is by not taking less than a minute to verify the food to be correct.

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"Never, ever take food out that is incorrectly done (I had a waitress rip me a new one for something I goofed up on as a cook and she demanded I fix it then and there - and she was right and I learned)."

Basically, this is a cook that had a VERY SMART waitress tell the cook: “YOU MADE A MISTAKE, FIX IT BEFORE I BRING OUT THE FOOD WRONG.” So it’s NOT ALWAYS the cook that prepared the food wrong if you took the order and bring out the order wrong. It’s the LAST PERSON who sees the food as long as the ticket was printed correctly as far as if it’s a food runner and if it’s the same server, the same server should compare what they wrote down to the plate of food BEFORE taking it to the customer WRONG.

"Take it easy on them when the cook doesn't make your steak perfect, that is not their fault, they just bring it to you."

It COULD be if the server printed the ticket incorrectly by printing medium rare instead of medium well. Think about that, it's TRUE you know. I would say 99% of the time, it's NOT their fault, but it's POSSIBLE the server can print the ticket wrong.