Last week, dh and I went and had a late lunch at a local restaurant. I ordered a pasta dish and dh had his usual burger with a heart attack array of goodies on top. I am not going to complain about how salty the pasta dish was, or that the salt inflated my cells so much I was forced to drink water all into and through the night adding on another 3 pounds to my 122 lb frame. I won’t go on and on about how my tongue felt like the salt flats in Utah for 3-4 hours.
However, I will tell you that I complained about the dish to the waitress and made sure she told the kitchen that that was the saltiest food I have ever tasted. She did and the response was slow to come. Before too long though, the waitress came by to say that I could get another similar dish the next time I came to the restaurant and it would be on the house. Free. Non-gratis even. So, I have to give kudos to someone doing the right thing. But, I don’t want to rat them out for making a big mistake on the salt, especially since I ranted about the salt a few months back, so they shall remain nameless for now.
Since my salt rant, I have noticed more and more restaurants returning to putting salt and pepper shakers out on the table. Big risk since people like to take them home as a momento of their good time at the restaurant, or because they are too cheap to buy their own, and apparently too good to use salt and pepper right from the box.
So let me take this opportunity to ask my guilty readers and their really guilty friends not to take glasses, silverware, shakers, or napkins and stuff them in their coats and purses. It adds up for the restaurant owners, because you aren’t the only one doing it and the waitstaff and customers all end up paying one way or the other for your trespass. My advice… get your own or do without! Thank you.