Restaurant changes

[winter_elf]

So, what do you do when a place you've been eating at regularly starts using cheaper meats?

Me & my co-worker eat lunch in the area. We have about 5 or 6 places we like that do nice sandwiches and salads and trade off at each place during the week. At one place that made this wonderful chicken sandwich with egg, and has been using nice, cooked chicken breasts, today had greasy, fatty chicken thigh meat instead. *sigh* Sorry, but I can tell the difference.

It's happened before with other places I've gone. One was a chinese, and I no longer eat there. I'm sorry, but I prefer the taste of white meat, and I don't like fat. And once they start to use cheaper chicken, then it's cheaper beef and everything else. *sigh*

So, has anyone else had this happen to them? Do they say something, or just stop going to the restaurant?

Comments

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

Tonight I nuked a Lean Cuisine Chicken Fettucine dinner that had, and I count, four pieces of chicken in it the size of my thumbnail and some watery sauce with tasteless noodles. At one time, this was a dinner I would happily consume. I ended up throwing it away--the *dog* wouldn't even eat it!

I simply will not buy it again. And I would be the person who quietly left the restaurant too--but I think these days I would be more inclined to politely ask to speak to the manager on the way out--after I've paid my bill. I would point out my disatisfaction with the meal and ask if this was an off day or the new standard. Anyone can have a off day. But if no one knows you're upset, they will continue to try and get away with substandard food. For every person who complains--there are 10-15 more who feel the same way but say nothing.

But then I'm getting pissy in my old age! :-)