The fish might not be fresh
Your "catch of the day" might not exactly be that day's catch, David Williamson said.
Requests to alter a dish are more of a pain than you might think
"These tiny modifications you would like, such as butterflying your steak, cooking a steak well well done, getting no bell peppers, etc., are often bigger and more time consuming than you think," Quora user and longtime restaurant worker Emily Carver said. "The restaurant preps as much as they can ahead of time and some things come pre-made, so there is no way of taking the jalapenos out of the queso... If you order things like that, be prepared for it to take just a little longer."