8 orders that drive chefs ab-so-lute-ly crazy #3

In restaurants, chefs sometimes get completely overwhelmed by the nonsense that comes out of the receipt printer during the rush, but the Facebook comments on the article Orders that drive chefs ab-so-lute-ly crazy show that employees at fast-food restaurants and sandwich shops also have to put up with a lot. Frikandel speciaal without onions and sauce?

Orders that drive chefs crazy

Cheeseburger minus cheese is a burger?

Dymphy: ‘At McDonald’s, a customer ordered a cheeseburger without cheese. I said that was just a regular hamburger. No, the lady didn’t want a regular hamburger, but a cheeseburger without cheese.’

Plain frikandel

Debby: ‘I’ll have a frikandel speciaal, without mayo, curry and onions.’

Truly a white lady

Filiep: ‘Dame blanche. Without chocolate sauce, please.’

Do we want more or less fish?

Jeffrey: ‘Fish and chips, but without the chips and with an extra portion of fish.’

Salmon sandwich, stripped bare

Lisette: ‘Salmon sandwich. Without salmon, without lettuce, without cream cheese. So just a plain slice of bread? No, a salmon sandwich with nothing on it.’

Vegan is even healthier

Shoshanna: ‘Healthy sandwich, but vegan. Uh, so a lettuce sandwich?’

Or a vegetarian carpaccio?

Casper: ‘Carpaccio without carpaccio. So just rocket, truffle mayo, cheese and pine nuts.’

A classic

Regina: ‘A Hawaiian toasted sandwich, without pineapple.’

Repainting Rembrandt

Remko sums it up nicely: ‘I think it’s improper to ask for a menu item to be altered in a restaurant because you don’t like something. It’s an insult to the chef, who has done their utmost to put together a beautiful menu. (…) You wouldn’t repaint a Rembrandt either, would you?’

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