Do you ever send back food?

• Smosh
• Is the diner always right?

I dine with people who have varying degrees of tolerance for server or kitchen mistakes. That degree of tolerance is often in direct correlation to whether they’ve ever worked in the service industry. It also doesn’t help that many of us, myself included, revert to a state of toddler irrationality when we’re hungry.

Lifehacker has put together a guide to sending food back “without pissing off your waiter,” which suggests that the most common reason for something being wrong is user error: our generally inability to read menus properly or closely. While that’s debatable, the question it raises is an interesting one. Do you ever send food back, even if it turns out that you were the one who made a mistake?