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

[april-art.livejournal.com]

If it's a restaurant you care about, definitely request breast meat before you order again.

It's not necessarily indicative of them going cheap on everything, particularly if it's Chinese. Chinense tend to prefer dark meat over breast meat. I totally adore dark meat (thighs rule!) and actually ask for it over breast, even though it IS less healthy (heheh).

On the other hand, with this economy, it could be them cheaping out on things... So maybe ask for breast only when you come in, to make sure you get what you want. If they can't do it, then I guess you go elsewhere with your business... But they should be able to make sure you get breast meat, since they're preparing it right there!