Puny Portions Down Under at Outback

The last time I was at Red Lobster, which was at least four years ago,
the lunch selections Mom and I ordered were so downsized and puny that
both my mother and I complained about it to the waitress, so she
admitted Red Lobster cut down the lunch menu portion sizes and that
was our last visit to Red Lobster, we never returned.

http://www.menshealth.com/20worst/worstfood.html


Number 1 worst "food" in America.

Very Sad.



Good Day

The restaurant can't win. IF they decrease portion sizes, people
complain. If they keep portion sizes the same but increase prices,
people complain.

Food costs have skyrocketed. Restaurants have a bottom line to
maintain.

I agree, when you said it was much less than usual, they should have
said something about it being downsized, if indeed it was. It is not
right to just beat around the facts.

you said it yourself, if they just signed on they wouldn't know.

you might assume the pass-down of information included this but it
doesn't always.

if anything sometimes they're busy enough with dealing with today's
issue... perhaps too busy to worry about what they served last year or
the year before that.

i mean they're humans... they're not bloody databanks of corporate
history.



and even if they had known that it had changed
would it have mattered? it's not like they're allowed to change it
back or anything.


i mean it sounds like they were polite. They said "Yes that is the
correct size"

The only "wrong" thing I can see that they did was that they didn't
follow the dialogue script you had running inside. but again as they
are not databanks they are also not mind reader. I am sure if they
had known that you wanted a longer or more elaborate answer they could
have delivered one. Maybe even one to make Shakespeare weep.

I'm not sure I'm necessarily in agreement with a previous poster that
the downsized portions should be noted on the menu. Let's face it,
most every place is having to make up for the rising costs in some
manner. Whether it's by raising prices for the same amount of food,
downsizing the portions, changing the ingredients etc. etc. No matter
how a restaurant chooses to cut corners, there's always going to be
some customers that are unhappy about the change.

I do think the server and/or manager should have said something to the
effect of "We've recently had cut the appetizer portions". The OP is
right, if they did indeed cut the portion sizes, they should own up to
it when asked about it.

Everywhere you look, places have downsized their portions. Most of it
is due to the rising cost of food. Charging people the same amount for
less is starting to become the norm. Look in your grocery stores, I'm
sure you'll see a lot of items are smaller, but they're still the same
price.

This practice isn't going to change anytime soon. Ever since the
economy went down the toilet, lots of places have been downsizing a
lot or changing their menus altogether. Places that used to offer two
sides and a salad now count the salad as a side and only really offer
one side.

Places that used to offer bread, chips or other items while waiting
for your meal have now stopped or charge a small fee in order to get
them.

Those things are awful for our health, hopefully they downsized it.



good Day