Piss pour planning on the guest part who are attending the conference. If you know you have a food allergy or intolerance and are traveling. Make sure to let the meeting planer or staff know either before arriving or once you arrive at the conference. Waiting till you are seated and everyone is being served is not the time to drop on the staff that you have multiple allergies. This will almost 100% of time mean you will either have to wait a long time and eat your entree while the others are done with dessert or you will get a half assed meal. I don't like or want to give you subpar food, but me or my staff are not mind readers or psychics, if we were, we would not be doing what we do. Same for meeting planners, if someone tells you they have allergies, make sure the people you are working with knows.
Entitlement. ... I understand at home you may have certain foods every morning. We have a contract with the group or person hosting the event you are at. They have chosen the meal for the group. You have a continental today, no you can not have steak and eggs with mango juice that was freshly squeezed by ....... (insert your own fantasy here)..
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Yup, I hate this as well! How about the "I have a life threatening allergy" bomb! If you have a life threatening allergy I want you to be my first or last table! If you come in in the middle of the rush you are going to be waiting for a long time!!! I am NOT your personal chef!
I once had a nut allergy, dairy allergy and a shellfish allergy all get ordered at the same time in the middle of the rush! I have nuts, dairy and shellfish everywhere on my menu! I almost lost it... Let's just say pans where flying! :biggrin:
Fantastic pet peeves dear Chefy!
And well expressed!
CAN I ADD PEOPLE WHO SNORE TO MY LIST?
Or is that not smoke & wine related enough?
Cheers to the weekend all!
Today's smoked bluefish over brown rice spaghetti was terrific!
Many smiles, Leah
Well chef, fully comprehend your thoughts. While not involved in that field I have attended large catered events. At the table frequently is your fully described person. I have sat back and just grinned know exactly what you have described is about to happen. To that end, the "guests" comments about how these affairs alway give them problems...." Bang zoom...to da moon, Alice " ....maybe dated but you Honeymooners fans will understand that.
As for the people I work with, you comments are just universal. I'd bet in any field you could make these same claims and be 100% correct.
In New York in June eating at a great little Basque place recommended by Dis 1 a Gen Y female near us had a complete tantrum :hopmad: because the vegetable dish wasn't vegan.There was some anchovy in it. Demanded to speak to the chef ,is nasty to the young waitress,the whole 9 yards.
Chef points out he is a Basque cooking traditional food & he hasn't claimed anything on his menu is vegan in the first place. You can't win arguing with idiots,she is crapping on about her rights as a consumer that her veganness has been disrespected blah blah blah.
He says if you had asked or actually read the menu in detail maybe, then gives up.
Vegan is not an allergy ,you aint going to bust out in lumps if you eat bit of anchovy, Princess.He didn't sub a great big lump of chargrilled beef for your sautéed greens or stick blood sausage in your broccoli :laugh1: . The place is full,its serving authentic food someone else will walk in & take your table, go elsewhere.