Jamie Bates
Deciding what you want to eat at a restaurant can sometimes be tricky business. The decision comes with many choices and often times leaves you making a decision as the waiter or waitress asks what you would like. Do you order seafood, pasta, steak, chicken? What comes with each dish? Do I want past and seafood? Shrimp or fish? Almost every time you read a menu these questions come to mind, however, many times answers conflict with one another because in reality you wish you could have everything. Maybe one day you would sit down at a restaurant and order a little of everything, but for now you can't make your meal more expensive then everyone else's. The best way to avoid these troubles is to pre-think what you are desiring that day. Decide in the car what you want and take care of the details later. Ultimately, whether or not you have trouble deciding what to order comes down to your preparation.
Going from one destination to a restaurant is the most important time in the decision of what to eat there. It is the time where you fantasize about what you want the most. In order to stop indecision during the ordering process at a restaurant I find it important to take note of what I am thinking about during the car ride. Then when you get to the restaurant you can actually choose which dish to get. Basically, you think about and take note of what you want during the ride over and then use the menu to guide your mind to the dish that most accurately portrays what you were fantasizing about during the car ride. By going through this process restaurant indecision will be almost completely eliminate.
When deciding what to order at a restaurant there are two items that sway your way from one dish to the next. The first is what type of dish you want, like seafood, steak, or chicken. The second is sides that come with the dish. There may be five steak dishes on the menu; however, you don't know which to choose. Often times, if the sides aren't desirable you will find yourself completely changing your mind about what you want. For this indecision, there is one key element to ordering at a restaurant that will solve this problem. This element is that many times in a restaurant you can change which sides come with your dish. Basically, you can choose steak, chicken, or pasta, and then add whatever sides you want. The key to beating indecision during the ordering process at a restaurant resides with thinking ahead and thinking beyond what they offer you on the menu.