>Went to Applebees tonight >Ordered a burger, waitress

>>8497476
I've had servers ask me that before in other Applebee's-tier restaurants. So, did you go for pink or no pink?

>>8497502
no pink

>>8497506
Good choice. You my have really dodged a bullet

It's common here in Maryland, I think it's to skirt around some beaurocratic "you can't let people order burgers medium-rare" shit.

It's also the way they do it here (Colorado)

I went to applebees about 8 years ago and I remember the waitstaff asking questions that seemed strangely worded or unnecessary, as if they were talking to a child. I assumed it was because they have a lot of poor people as customers who don't know how restaurants work.

a lot of darker skinned people don't realize that "well done" has a very specific culinary definition and would get extremely upset when their meat came out dry and tough. so restaurants that have a large dark-skinned clientele have started using "pink or no pink" to avoid confusion and anger.

>>8498650
>darker skinned people
People who are tanned? Native Americans? Micronesians?

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>>8498670
People from New Jersey

>>8497476
>Applebees
I bet the waitress is just tired of retards not knowing how to order a well-done burger so she simplifies it by asking 'pink or no pink.'

Not implying that you look like an idiot to the waitress or anything, OP.

Applebee's in PA let you choose between medium-well and well-done.

Your selection doesn't change how the burger is cooked.

Applebee's is shit. The girlfriend and I went there about a month or so ago. I hadn't been in years and I remembered why. Everything sucked. Except for the Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale on draft. If I'm gonna go to a chain, it's gonna be Chili's.

Red Robin does this. I assumed it was because there's people who don't know what "well done" means, akin to what
>>8498650
has said

>Work in restaurant as waiter
>Walk up to table and ask if theyre ready to order
>Man asks for steak
>Ask him how he woulf like it cooked
>Man.exe has stopped responding
>Finally says "I want it juicy, tender, and well done"
>Bring steak out to him
>he calls me over
>says steak is brown all the way through, not juicy at all
>Seppuku him with a steak knife for being an disgrace to steak eaters everywhere
>Blood everywhere, people screaming in horror
>Use his blood and fat to marinade a steak
>Cook it medium rare like an respectable human being
10/10 would work at Longhorn Steakhouse again

>>8498721

>juicy, tender, and well done

lel

I always order pink

You gotta tale risks sometimes

The restaurant I work at only does pink or no pink on burgers. It's mainly to streamline the process- on a $15k night, we don't have time to be any more specific.