Is it rude???
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Not rude at all. I used to own a restaurant and we had a customer who would come in daily with her own lunch and order a cup of hot tea. That was pushing it but then she started coming in with her lunch and tea bag and just ordering hot water!! Now that was rude! She was taking up table space that could have been filled with a paying customer. Bring your own dressing!! Not rude at all.0
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You can use a lemon instead of almost any dressing, tastes pretty good , close to nothing as far as the calories go, and you don't have to carry your own dressing :-)0
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Nope. If they don't have what you like then bring what you want.0
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I've bought my own dinners to restaurants. I give zero ****s.
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Definitely not rude. You do wha you have to do to work towards your health goals. The previous suggestions are excellent!0
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All the dressings at restaurants are so bad for you0
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I usually bring a bottle of the wishbone spray dressing. I only think it would be rude if it were a VERY high end, fine dining restaurant. Even then, I would possibly still do it depending on , where I was seated, who was there, who I was with, the lighting, the general feeling if the place, etc.0
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I don't think it would be rude, just rather unusual. I believe most restaurants have a low fat or calorie wise option and as many others have said, just ask for it on the side. Depending on the type of setting I don't think it's the employees at the location that would be phased by it, but more so the company you're eating with.0
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I personally don't think it is any different than sending a steak back because it's not cooked to your liking, or any other scenario. You need to do what works for you, and not worry about what others will think, that's what got most of us in the situation's we're in in the first place.0
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However, depending on the establishment and other factors (prior health code violations and such) they may not allow you to use your own dressing because of health code stuff. Worse comes to worse they will tell you you can't.0
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I don't think it's that rude, but maybe ask your waiter or waitress if it's okay before you order just to make sure.0
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Who are you afraid of offending? Chances are, the hands and face that serve you the food are not the ones that prepared it; so what sh** would the server give? In fact, how awesome would it be were a manager or, even better, a store owner to approach you and ask you why you chose to bring your own? That way, you'd have a chance to voice your concerns over the calorie content of the dressing options, that range from "comparably bad" to "comparably terrible." And yes, I'm looking at you, Ken's Buttermilk Ranch. Were a server to call you out on your choice to..uh...self-dress?... that server deserves to be called to task; they could give a **** less when thier table leaves to smoke or makes all kinds of esoteric dietary requests (Steak Halal? Kosher Onion rings? Gluten-free pizza? All of which I've dealt with in the restaurant biz), I don't see why they'd care, or even notice, when one of the table asks them to do...less, as in, tell the prep cook to leave the dressign off.0
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I keep a banana and hot sauce with me always....I don't see anything wrong with it! lol0
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Keep a small bottle in your purse!!!0
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I have done it before0
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I don't think it's rude at all. I know that there are many times when I have gone out to eat breakfast and wished I had slipped my own syrup in my purse to use on pancakes. Nothing worse then fake syrup once you've had the real stuff. Go for it.0
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You know I was half asleep when I read this and thought you meant 'dressing gown' (bed robe). :laugh:0
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Gurl, I do it all the time. I talk a little plastic ramekin full, rude or not.0
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Due to health conditions I am forced to eat a very restrictive diet.
Last week I went to Portland to Outback and after looking over the menu/nutrition facts I could eat about 2 things on the entire menu I explain to the server my "problems" and he was very understanding and they made me meal out of what they had. Wasnt the best meal I have ever had in my life but at least the server was decent and understood dietary needs0 -
I don't like soda, but I like to have a flavored drink with my meals. When I go out to eat, I take a Crystal Light packet with me and ask for a glass of ice water. I've yet to have a server say anything and I don't imagine that they care.0
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