Comments | bad_service: Mongolian BBQ and Vegetarian Bowls

invaderscythe in bad_service

Mongolian BBQ and Vegetarian Bowls

Sep 27, 2011 12:29

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herloved_beauty September 27 2011, 16:35:43 UTC

I'm sure the reason was because people who were eating meat would grab the veggie bowl for a cheaper price.

I don't have any suggestions, but I can empathize, I'm sure it does get pretty annoying.

invaderscythe September 27 2011, 16:40:09 UTC

Well actually when you pick out your food you are given a smaller bowl to stuff all your ingredients into and the grillers give you a completely different dish when it's finished cooking. I was suggesting that they leave the grillers some distinguishing dishes to show that this person had a veggie bowl rather than a regular one and so the server could know they weren't just lying to get a cheaper price and really had no meat in their food.

herloved_beauty September 27 2011, 16:50:45 UTC

Ah! Okay, that makes sense :] At the mongolian place I go to, they put it on a plate haha so I was a tad confused about the bowl.

I do wonder why they stopped doing that.

kimerastorm September 27 2011, 16:52:41 UTC

maybe a red skewer or something the chef puts in the bowl?

at bbq's they put red straws in the non alcoholic drinks which is where i got the idea

squidtape September 27 2011, 17:11:40 UTC

I went to a restaurant that sounds pretty similar called Big Chow Grill in Atlanta. They had a separate grill for people with allergies and for v*gans. They had a system where you put a big plastic pick in the bowl so they'd know which grill to cook your food on. Bowls with no picks were just cooked on the big grill and others were cooked separately.

Maybe they could utilize a similar system? This way they can keep them separate but not spend a lot of money on new bowls. The picks just kind of looked like over sized cocktail picks. Maybe the color could help the cashier know which price to charge.

historychick49 September 27 2011, 17:50:02 UTC

OT, and maybe a stupid question, but why did you use "v*gans" with the asterisk?

squidtape September 27 2011, 17:52:00 UTC

Not a stupid question at all! It's just a wildcard word to cover both vegan and vegetarian. :)

historychick49 September 27 2011, 18:00:53 UTC

Ahh, okay. I hadn't seen that before, but it kind of makes sense.

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starrynight September 27 2011, 17:20:16 UTC

Maybe they could like put stickers on the bowls that are vegetarian. It would make it easy to differentiate between vegetarian and meat bowls, and it wouldn't be too costly.

zoemi September 27 2011, 18:31:53 UTC

Would make it a PITA to wash the bowls though.

starrynight September 27 2011, 18:46:58 UTC

Stickers come off rather easily if you use hot water and soap, though.

xfake__smilezx September 27 2011, 20:58:12 UTC

and there are dissolvable stickets for labeling containers and such.

sevenday September 27 2011, 19:15:30 UTC

I would say use a wood skewer or toothpick. A happy little umbrella or something like that. The cooks would know if there's no meat in whatever they just put together, so they pop one of those in, hand it out to the waiting customer. Person who rings you up looks - hey, there's the handy skewer! One vegetarian and one meat bowl, there you go ( ... )