"I TOLD YOU he wanted meatballs."
Went to Subway. Ordered a footlong meatball sandwich. Girl asks me "what do you want on that?" I said "Provolone and some Parmesan, please."
Got it back home and there was nothing but bread, Provolone and Parmesan.
Her co-worker saw me coming with the sandwich in my hand and said to her "I TOLD YOU he wanted meatballs."
I said "WHY would I order a meatball sub and ask you to hold the meatballs?"
He made me a new sandwich and she just walked away without a word.
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Best part was her knowing I had to come back and walking away without a word. A simple "Hey, sorry man" woulda done it.
Plating is the first concern, obviously, but the second is simply finding a good source of natural light. There are people who wear that you need a lighting rig and reflectors and I use neither and have gotten a pretty good amount of positive feedback here, along with some extremely useful constructive criticism. That means longer exposures on occasion, so the need for a tripod will depend on your ability to be perfectly still while holding the camera.
Occasionally have to do a slight amount of light and/or color balance in Photoshop but I try to do the bare minimum. I'm going for the most accurate and natural representation of the food as possible...what is actually brought to your table.
We're there.
The waitress asked if I wanted lettuce and tomato on it. I said, "That's what the 'L' and the 'T' stand for." She said they didn't put it on unless the customer specified it. 
When I asked the cashier she said with that waitress I was lucky I got bacon and bread with my lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise. 
Got a salad with iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, cheddar cheese, green olives - and caesar dressing. When the waiter brought it, I said, "No I ordered the Caesar." He said that's what this is. So I asked him if he knew what a Caesar salad was and he replied, this is what the chef made. I said, "Well, what's your house salad then?" He said said it comes with ranch dressing.
This was a little salad and sandwich shop, nothing fancy. Still.
That's what to say when told the chef made it.
You always make me laugh!
I have shared this many times on DU, but one of my former clients was a Hispanic gentleman who was running a pizza parlor in a strip mall. He had a pretty good product...he was a real stickler for quality ingredients...but he also sold a "Margherita" pizza with pepperoni on it. I posted the food porn on DU, and my dependable QC crew shouted from the rooftops "THERE IS NO PEPPERONI ON A MARGHERITA PIZZA!"
It's basically the Caprese of pizzas.
And I told him this, and gently as possible suggested selling a Margherita with pepperoni might damage his credibility, and his response was "But people like it."
Que sera, sera...whatever will be, will be...
In the current wake of political correctness, I wonder how that one would play today. I am Italian...as proud as they come, I got the friggin' Italian flag tattooed on my right shoulder...and I loved this commercial back in the day.
You guessed it---that sandwich had tomatoes all over it---and they were cut into itty-bitty pieces......
If you asked to have the middle line taken out, it probably would come back with ellipsis marks.
then you've never browsed through CakeWrecks
It was a graduation cake. They asked for a "cap" on her head. She got a kitty instead.
A "single" with cheese, mustard and ketchup only... The young lady asked if he wanted the meat.
I guess they do have people who only want a sandwich without any meat but it sounded odd to me. Now he always orders by saying "I'll have a burger with meat, cheese, mustard and ketchup, only." (And yeah, he eats like four year old kid!)
It's getting harder and harder to ignore his many faults! 
from my vegetarian construction contractor. That's what he would order from fast food restaurants.
Incredible, hm? The offerings for vegetarians are so slim that that's what they do.
That and he would order pizzas with just cheese and tomatoes.
I said, "You poor thing. You know nothing about how good vegetarian cooking can be." So I started cooking him up vegetarian lunches during the job, and since he was remodeling my kitchen, this was no easy task.
I used to make him these huge vegetarian sandwiches with grilled eggplant, roasted peppers, and chipotle mayonnaise. He'd never seen anything like this. You'd have thought he'd died and gone to heaven.
Like most construction contractors, though, there were days where he just didn't want to show up, but he did show up to eat. Then he'd leave without doing a lick of work.
Amazing.
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advertising people edit the menu.
Recall that not many buildings have a 13th floor.
America: the place where advertising people run everything..
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