Okay so I was wondering... what do you guys do when you eat in omnis restaurants? Do you phone ahead? Do you ask waiting staff? What do you ask? What's the best way to get vegan food in an omni restaurant quickly and painlessly?
I only ask because I don't mind eating in omni restaurants I know, but I hate going to new ones and having to ask a bunch of questions or trying to phone ahead only to get a clueless person on the end giving me useless advice ("oh yes we have vegan options" "great, what are they?" "we have lamb" genuine story).
I find the most useful is just to ask the waiting staff, who generally are either knowledgeable or go to ask the chef. I do worry that sometimes I get fobbed off though, it's never happened to my knowledge in a restaurant but in shops it's happened a fair few times.
I generally ask not if something is vegan, but I pick vegetarian labeled dishes and ask if they contain eggs and dairy (and honey if relevant), as usually I find the word vegan baffles people and they start just making things up or getting confused because they don't understand the word, or get confused. If it turns out the dish isn't vegan I instead ask if they could recommend something that would be suitable, so that we don't wind up going through 10 dishes this way.
But I only really do this in places I'm 95% sure I'll find something I can eat.
Anyway I was wondering what you guys do, what you find works, and if you have any good tips for getting vegan food in omni restaurants as painlessly as possible?
I only ask because I don't mind eating in omni restaurants I know, but I hate going to new ones and having to ask a bunch of questions or trying to phone ahead only to get a clueless person on the end giving me useless advice ("oh yes we have vegan options" "great, what are they?" "we have lamb" genuine story).
I find the most useful is just to ask the waiting staff, who generally are either knowledgeable or go to ask the chef. I do worry that sometimes I get fobbed off though, it's never happened to my knowledge in a restaurant but in shops it's happened a fair few times.
I generally ask not if something is vegan, but I pick vegetarian labeled dishes and ask if they contain eggs and dairy (and honey if relevant), as usually I find the word vegan baffles people and they start just making things up or getting confused because they don't understand the word, or get confused. If it turns out the dish isn't vegan I instead ask if they could recommend something that would be suitable, so that we don't wind up going through 10 dishes this way.
But I only really do this in places I'm 95% sure I'll find something I can eat.
Anyway I was wondering what you guys do, what you find works, and if you have any good tips for getting vegan food in omni restaurants as painlessly as possible?