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New York restaurateur David Chang is notoriously outspoken, which is why we were psyched to read his latest interview over at Details. After he spilled his opinions on everything from anger management to the fallacy of "farm-to-table" dining, he gave the mag his list of the 5 most annoying things diners do. Get ready for some honesty.
5. Bloggers who don't know sh*t. The top one is to say you're a blogger, right off the bat. That always gets a good laugh from the chefs.
4. Being fu**ing drunk. It's just so annoying.
3. Fake allergies.
2. Special food requests.
1. Saying they're right when they're wrong. Like when they ask for a steak to be medium-rare and it's medium-rare and they say it's not medium-rare.
Get the whole David Chang interview at Details.
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4-28-2011 @5:43PM tracy_molly said... #3 scares me. I have had a shellfish allergy all my life, not fake, life threatening. I carry an Epi Pen. If chefs assume I'm faking it they can kill me. I understand "allergies" is overused and confused with food sensitivity but even food sensitivities should be taken seriously.
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4-29-2011 @7:17AM gobo said... Restaurants, including Momofuku, take food allergies very, very seriously. They don't exactly want to risk a lawsuit by casually sending someone some shrimp who told them in advance about their seafood allergy. But people like yourself are often in the minority... I can't tell you how many times I've been to dinner with someone who says "I have a dairy allergy" or "I have a soy allergy" when it turns out they just don't like tofu very much and want an important-sounding excuse.
4-28-2011 @12:36PM Heelbiter said... "Get ready for some honesty"? Surely you mean "get ready for some medically-inaccurate bigotry." My sincere hope is for this manchild to develop a life-threatening food allergy, which he will then have to ask bigots like himself to accommodate lest he become ill or die. That's probably what it would actually take to teach an ableist bigot like this charmer the error of his beliefs.
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4-28-2011 @12:45PM gobo said... I think you need to dial back your use of a loaded term like "bigotry" against someone who is correctly pointing out that a lot of diners do indeed have fake allergies. Chang didn't say he doesn't accommodate his customers -- he definitely does -- but people who use a pretend food allergy as an excuse for customized food trivialize people with genuine, life-threatening allergies. It's a problem in all restaurants.
4-29-2011 @12:15AM Tara said... @Heelbiter I also hate when restaurants aren't more accomadating to food allergies "fake" or not.
5-03-2011 @10:30AM talon8 said... My wife has a severe (read: potentially deathly) allergy to onions. If you don't like onions... don't lie and say that you have an allergy. It pisses me off to no end, when I hear someone say they have an allergy, then whisper to their friends later, that they lied just to get no onions. Here is the difference. If someone cooks a burger on a grill that has touched onions, YOU won't notice. My wife however WILL. She will notice when the PAIN starts to hit. My wife and I are extremely clear and we politely give all restaurants to choice to refuse to serve us, and many take us up on that. We then go somewhere else. But if you are LYING about an allergy, you are endangering my wife by grouping her with the asses who lie about it.
4-29-2011 @12:15AM Tara said... So much for the customer is always right, lol.
I never say i'm a blogger, unless asked, otherwise it's fishing for some special treatment, not classy, I agree.
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4-29-2011 @9:39AM Andrew said... The one that really rubbed me the wrong way was #2. I hardly ever make special requests at restaurants, and in fact can't think of a time I ever have at the moment, but if I am shelling out big bucks at a nice restaurant for somebody with years of culinary experience and training to make my dinner, then I also expect to get my monies worth. What good is all that talent/equipment/food if I can't get what I WANT?
I'm not paying $100/200/300 a plate to indulge some chef's artistic interpretation of what should be on my plate. I'm paying for their skill and time, and I expect it to be put to use the way I want. Chef's need to get over this idea that we are paying for an end product, and customers need to realize that we deserve what we pay for.
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5-04-2011 @8:40PM Chase said... As someone with several food allergies, I'm gonna extend a "f**k you" to David Chang.
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5-09-2011 @6:36PM Kimberly said... No kidding. I take offense to the "fake" allergy comment. How does he know what my reaction might be? I have one severe allergy and two minor ones. I say minor because it won't kill me but it's incredibly unpleasant. I suppose I could let him serve me and I could prove how ill I become by the full-body rash.
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