This has been happening to me a lot lately. On Monday evening I was at a work supper. The meal was lovely, the dessert choice terrible, only one dessert had no alcohol in it. I am thinking about writing to the restaurant. The service was great, the start and main course excellent but the last aspect gave no choice. My dessert was not very good. it was the only one that you could alcohol free. I am very cagey about foods with alcohol in. I knew of a lady who went out and drank after a long period of sobriety after eating liquer chocolates. I had a bad experience with cough mixture, non-drowsy which had alcohol in unbeknown to me, so I feel my system is very sensitive to this. Some say that it is burned off but I could smell the alcohol from the jelly that my colleagues ate the other night. Any tips on what I might do, should I telephone and say it in a nice way?
I think that you might want to file this under "the things that I cannot change". Our job in sobriety is to "live life on life's terms". Great to ask the chef to consider making more alcohol free deserts, without expectation.
I'd write a letter or send an email so it can be passed along to whoever is in charge. I'd use the same tack I use with restaurants that offer poor vegetarian choices: Let them know how much you liked the meal, but that you were surprised and disappointed that considering how many people avoid alcohol, that the alcohol-free dessert choices were so limited. Tell them you won't be back for that reason, and that you'll spread the word among your many friends who also do not drink.
Letting them know they're losing customers because of this will be doing them a favor and helping them understand what potential customers want.
Yea, I guess I would drop them a note. No chance of them changing unless they hear from the patrons.
Sounds like you had a great meal otherwise. The people who ended up at Mcdonalds or Wendy's on Monday didn't have to worry about any alcohol in the apple pie or Frosty
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