30 Of The Best Acts Of Delicious Compliance (New Pics)

Even though my introverted fellows can feel hesitant to ask for food customizations, it’s a common practice for others while dining out or ordering takeout. More picky eaters and people with allergies or dietary restrictions may ask to remove an ingredient or swap it for some other option. 

While those who enjoy a particular topping, sauce, or condiment may ask for extras, and if they are lucky, they get served with delicious compliance.

To find out how food service workers or establishments generally respond to customers requesting food customizations (like asking to remove, swap, or add an ingredient), Bored Panda reached out to Tim Tobitsch, a restaurateur with more than 20 years of hands-on ownership experience and founder of Food Truck Insight. Having spent over two decades in the industry, he knows all the ins and outs about it.

"This primarily depends on the type of service being offered. As a general rule, the faster service is designed to be, the more interruptive it is to take special requests. A food truck operator may have the goal of serving scores of people in an hour just to break even. In this situation, anything that disrupts the operator's efficient assembly line process may be seen with great annoyance," he explained.

However, if a customer is dining in a more expensive place, their requests may be honored more easily, said Tim. "This, of course, may still be limited by what that request is and what cooking and prep methods are required."

But sometimes, no matter the restaurant, the chef's ego might become involved in such a way that they could flat out refuse to alter their culinary masterpieces.

"There is no place for that in my kitchen," said Tim. "It all comes down to attitude first, and the literal feasibility of the request second. If you see guests as an annoyance or their requests as a hindrance to profitability, you are unlikely to consider honoring them. If you see guests as people you have the opportunity to help make whole through the sacred act of sharing food in community, you are likely to be inspired to work with their customization requests whenever possible."