My partner and I generally try to pick it up ourselves so that we can give everything a quick double check, but yeah, even then it’s not like we’re tasting it before we go, so this shit can still happen. A recent example: we got takeout from a regularly visited pizza place to celebrate a new job, and while the pizzas looked nice, when we got home we found out they were thin and floppy as fuck. We found out the hard way that they only give you thicker crust when you order a specialty pizza like one with a calzone built in.

We try to go to the vegan places around us since in the last couple of years, veganism hasn’t been as trendy (to the average treatler, I don’t treat it like a trend myself) and vegan places generally have to keep their quality and quantity up to prevent going out of business. Several places around us that tried to downsize or raise prices have already closed down. A couple even reverted to food trucks since the costs are lower and customers tend to have lower standards while not really having to lower prices all that much.