Now here's a topic for lively debate -- Restaurants that don't allow YOU the valued customer certain substitutions

Example. Suppose you're sitting in The Spotted Pig in NYC. Now, suppose you're not a fan of the Roquefort cheese their burgers come with. You can have your burger at The Spotted Pig with Roquefort or without Roquefort but don't even ask for a different cheese. A couple more examples of the customer not always being right:

*Murray's Bagels (A Johnny fave) in the West Village and Soho will not ever toast your bagel. Never. You can get it a million ways but never toasted.

*At French restaurant Le Relais de Venise L’Entrecôte, don't bother asking for medium-rare meat. It doesn't exist in France and therefore you can't get it here.

Have a gander at the article, from places that don't allow ketchup to others that don't put salt and pepper on the tables, it's a fine walk inside certain kitchen across Manhattan that long ago stopped worrying about your special dietary inclinations.

If you plan on using a coupon at the 'Crisp' restaurant in Manhattan, be prepared

The website Midtown Lunch points out a customer used a coupon for a buy one get one free falafel that the Crisp chain put out and apparently the restaurant at 110 W. 40th St. wasn't all that enthused that the coupon was actually used.

How lacking in enthusiasm were they? Click here but maybe not from your work computer. If you're dying to know and only access JCD from work we'll clue you in. The computer receipt print out calls them the slang name for a female dog for using a BOGO (buy one get one) coupon, or BOGO B****.

Think about that the next time you feel the urge to stop in at Crisp.