How Many Times Do You Send Back the Food?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Mojo in the Morning show phone numbers eight four
to four Mojo Live eight four four six six five
sixty five four eight is our telephone number. It's funny.
Shannon has a question to ask, And what is a question? Shanna?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
How many times do you send something back if you're
at a restaurant and you get the wrong thing. It
is so hard for me to even send something back
one time.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah, my answer is, I know, because they'll spit in it.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
So I went up to dinner with Lucy last night
and I ordered a glass of wine. I wanted this
glass of wine so bad. I'd been thinking about it
all day. keV, I did not get your favorite Pinot Grigio.
I got a seven yon blanc. Okay, and it's a
kind It's a brand that I get all the time,
so I know exactly what it tastes like. The very
nice waitress brings me the glass, sets it down in

(00:51):
front of me. I take a sip. I know immediately
this is not what I ordered. And like I said,
I never send stuff back, but I'm thinking, I really
want this and I know I'm going to pay for it,
So I very politely said to her, I'm so sorry,
I think that this might be somebody else's. This is
you know, this is not what I ordered. And she's like,
oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. No problem, brings me

(01:13):
a new glass wine. It is not right either. It
wasn't the same as the first one that was wrong.
It was exactly the same as the first one. So
I'm thinking, Okay, like somebody is mixed up back there.
It's not her fault, you know, I don't think. But
I also don't want to be a pain in her
butt and be like this one's not right either, So
I like took another sip and then I was like

(01:35):
whatever at this point, this this is Jesus telling me you.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Don't drink something, you know what I mean. I just
did not want to be a jerk, but I'm like,
why am I like this? And then I get the
bill and I'm so disgruntled that there's the glass of
white that I didn't even drink.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Do you think your taste buds are off?

Speaker 4 (01:52):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Have you ever had that happen? Yeah? Yeah, you know
it's the wine I buy. It's the one I always order,
So I know, oh what this takes like? So you
you asked a question and I think the thing I
thought right away was it was a food. Drinks are
different than food. Food. I have a hard time with
sending back. And one of the reasons I have a

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hard time sending it back is and I got a
couple of different pet peeves with this one. And I
want people in the service industry or you to share
with Shannon and all of us your thoughts on this food.
I have a hard time send it back, especially if
it's something that's undercooked and they'll say, yeah, you know,
all kind, we'll fix it free, like if you order
a steak or something, because I hate when they send
give you back the exact same thing that you just

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gave back that you because they're just slapping it on
the grill, and then that means what happened with the
other stuff that's on the side of the plate, you
know what I mean? Like it's just sitting there, you know,
off to the side, getting e coli in their things,
and I hate I hate when they do it. Like
I like when places go you know what, will remake
you something because it makes me feel at more comfort.
But also I saw that movie Waiting that came out

(02:59):
years ago with what's his Name? Dane Dane Cook. Yeah,
can you guys hear Zach when Zach's talking that he's
talking about. I can't hear what he's saying. Okay, Zach's
talking in my headphones because Zach's studio, you can't hear it.
Although when Zach talks sometimes I can. I'm some people
think I'm a little crazy because because Zach will say

(03:21):
it in my ear and I can only I can
only hear it, you know. So in that movie, Dane Cook,
Ryan Reynolds was in that movie. Dan Cook is not
in that Bill Oh, Ryan Reynolds is. Okay, that's a
lot like Dan Cook at this point in his career. Probably, Yeah,
he's not as good looking as he is now. So
they when they send things back, he would take it

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and he would give him the famunda. He would give
him a little famunda cheese on that stick. I I
think I could get that. He would take this and
rub it. You do not want to next time that
you send something back.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Everybody remember to be honest with this. I didn't think
that they were going to do anything to it. I
just didn't want.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
To be like that. Right that lady sitting.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Right there is in a hole she's like, not not happy.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
I'll send something back and just pray.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
Luckily, in my life I've never had to well, I
haven't had to send that many things back. But to
your point, there's a clear distinction between a drink and
some food. You can see if somebody spinning your coke,
you know what I mean. You can't see if oh
yourselves like extra fuzz.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
When you really really want something and then twice it's wrong.
You're like it, yeah, that's you can't send it back
a second time.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Drink drinks, though, you know, you can kind of see,
you see where it's coming from. You can kind of
like follow it to the to the bar area or
wherever they're pouring the drinks. I always feel like I'm I'm,
I am a hello. I I always feel like, because
of what we do, you that you can't you can't

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be like that that person, you know what I mean,
piece of it.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
I don't want to. I don't want somebody to think
that I'm high maintenance when really I just want the right.

Speaker 5 (05:12):
I don't think you'd be a high maintenance. You want
the block and they bring you out. I know when
I see one, what's up?

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Jason looks like.

Speaker 6 (05:22):
In that movie.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
I thought so Yeah, no, I thought so he was.
He was the cook.

Speaker 6 (05:29):
He's the one that's all tanned up and pierced at
the end, just before they gave him the goad, he
pointed at him at the very corner.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah, hey, Jason, let's let me ask you this question.
To go to Shannon's thing. What about sending things back?
How often? How many times can you send it back
before you finally just give up?

Speaker 6 (05:48):
You know, once that's it man, After that, it's.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Your fair game. Yeah, that's what I worry about. Do
you ever work in restaurants? Is that me?

Speaker 6 (05:56):
Uh no, Thank goodness.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
So I worked in a restaurant. I had two different jobs.
I started off as a dishwasher and then I made
it to appetizer chefs. Okay, see, I would make would
make it was a restaurant that it was a restaurant
that served you know, the fried mushrooms, the fried zucchinis,
the onion rings. I worked the fryer. I did all
that potato skins like for days after. Let me let

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me just tell you that that smell is still on me.
And no matter how much like my car smelled like it,
it was awful. This is why I didn't get laid
when I was like eighteen years old, you know, because
I was working at Hackney's. I worked at Hackneys in Chicago.
But when people would send stuff back to us, like
I would get potato skins sent back, and they would go,
these things are too overcooked. Now that I'd have to

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remake the whole thing. If they said they were undercooked,
I can't put it right back in there. It's got
freaking you know, cheese and everything. So I would always
just sit there, put it under the heat lamp for
a little bit, and then send it right to them
and see if they nine. At ten times, they didn't
even know the difference. What's up, Jordan, how you doing?

Speaker 6 (07:01):
Okay? So I was out to dinner with my family
and great meal. Finish the entire meal, and the waitress
comes over with the bill, goes, wait, that meal is
not on the like, dude, you wanted something different. So yeah,
but this was great.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
They gave you the wrong bell and.

Speaker 6 (07:24):
She goes, oh my gosh, your things still up in
the in the window. Hold on a second, we'll make
a new one and we'll cut the meal.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, man, that that's that.

Speaker 6 (07:36):
I will never said anything back.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, you seem my guy, Jordan. You seem like a
very passive guy. You don't seem like the type of
guy that stands up for your rights. You're not a Karen.

Speaker 6 (07:48):
I ate a meal that wasn't mine, of course.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
Joe, what's up? It's Mojo in the morning. Hi Joe,
good morning.

Speaker 7 (08:00):
Whenever I order a steak, I always order it medium
rare because apparently nobody in this whole metro Detroit area
can really cook a medium steak.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
It's so true. Overcook you know what, Joe, you need
to meet Chelsea. My wife, Chelsea and I have conversations.
She says that all the time, nobody knows how to
cook a medium, so you have to order it a
medium rare. You're right, there's you know, or because what
ends up happening sometimes is you'll get too rare, or
you'll get too cooked and it's not medium. Right.

Speaker 7 (08:33):
Yeah, nobody wants to I don't care how well done
it is.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's terrible as kevlikes with his girls. You want a
little pink, that's all you want? Right? What's going on?

Speaker 8 (08:46):
Amy?

Speaker 1 (08:47):
How you doing? How are you good?

Speaker 2 (08:52):
So?

Speaker 9 (08:53):
I am the same way.

Speaker 6 (08:54):
I hate to send stuff back.

Speaker 9 (08:56):
Even if it's not my fault. It's just awkward and
you feel bad because it was probably an accident. No
one means to, you know. But ironically, I'm also a server,
so I also feel.

Speaker 8 (09:06):
Like it's how you go about telling the server, you know,
like she.

Speaker 6 (09:09):
Said really rude sometimes and like that.

Speaker 10 (09:12):
Isn't received well.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
But if someone's like, I'm.

Speaker 9 (09:15):
So sorry, I think I got the wrong line, Like
as a server, I don't mind being like I want
to make sure you're getting the correct thing that you ordered.
It's expensive, you know.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, I like that from you. I don't know where
you work, but I'm coming to visit you.

Speaker 9 (09:29):
Oh you should come see me at Oh Brothers in Montague.
It's phenomenal.

Speaker 6 (09:33):
They smoke all their meat in there.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
We're coming to see Amy.

Speaker 10 (09:39):
Oh my gosh. Yes, I can't wait.

Speaker 9 (09:41):
I work the next couple of nights.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
That's, by the way, the greatest commercial ever for them.
So you go see Amy. Make sure you shout her
out and tell you you're Amy.

Speaker 6 (09:50):
Ayy, I hope to see everyone.

Speaker 8 (09:52):
Amy.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Y'all got a little bit of pink in there. Stop
it now, he got it? What's up? How you doing Charlie,
how you doing?

Speaker 6 (09:59):
I'm good?

Speaker 1 (10:00):
How are you good? Charlie? Are you a person that
sends things back?

Speaker 10 (10:04):
I am a Karen.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
I will say you that, I definitely am.

Speaker 10 (10:08):
I if you I'll send it back once and if
it's just not picked, I'm not going to send it
back again. But it is going to get taken off
the bill.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah. By the way, when you say you're a Karen,
you know what that also means that you have swallowed
a lot of spit. There's a lot, you know, there's
a lot of people spitting in your stuff.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
I probably have.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
I probably have.

Speaker 10 (10:29):
I'm not gonna lie, but I just it's got to
be right. I worked hard for my money to just
be spending it on crap.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
I guess I know. Olivia. What's up, Olivia? How you doing?

Speaker 5 (10:41):
Hi?

Speaker 9 (10:42):
First time?

Speaker 6 (10:43):
Long time?

Speaker 8 (10:48):
So I've sent my stake back three times. It was
my boyfriend sad like work dinner and it was a
nice the restaurant. I ordered that medium rare and I
didn't realize, like a nice restaurant knows how to cook
a steak, so this thing was still moving.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
That's the worst, isn't it? The worst is when when
you cut into it, and I always cut the center
right away, like I don't go to the ends right away.
I cut the center to see what's going on, and
you can't even get your knife into it because it's
so raw. That's discussed exactly what I did. Yeah, it's
the worst, Nancy. What's happening? How you doing?

Speaker 4 (11:33):
Good morning, Mojoe?

Speaker 1 (11:34):
How are you fantastic? Nance? How you doing great?

Speaker 4 (11:38):
So my kids always pray and they say, please, ma'am
when we get there, don't say anything.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
I got a dump that you can't you can't, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, alright.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
Anyway, so then I'm like, no, no, you know, and
we go in and I order everything. Everything starts out okay.
Then it comes to the meal and most of the
time it's okay. Sometimes it's okay, but there's flavoring. So
there was one time I did return the food and
my son said no, wait, and it was that red lobster,

(12:18):
and I returned the food because there was a hair
in it. Then the second time she brings it back out,
I don't know what was wrong when there was something else,
and I just said, you know what, honey, I'm good.
I just don't want it anymore.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 4 (12:32):
Want any food, and you don't have to take anything else.
Just take that my meal up and leave everybody else,
you know.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, by the way, they have your picture up on
the wall, just so you know. Corey. What's up Oojo?

Speaker 6 (12:51):
Long time? We love you, long time?

Speaker 10 (12:53):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
What's going on, Corey?

Speaker 6 (12:57):
What's up with the comments this morning?

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Who waller a day?

Speaker 6 (13:02):
It's just stripping.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
It's Fridays. It's the old fashions for answer, right, hold on?
Are you sending us back? Yeah, don't send us back.
Don't send us back. Enjoy the show.