Help me understand the rationale behind serving produce like this. I get if you have an ingredient you think is essential to your menu item that you wouldn't want to prepare an item without, but if you sell yourselves by talking about how authentic and high quality ingredients are, why wouldn't you just say you're out of tomatoes vs serving something this bad?
This is prevalent, I'm not saying they're the only ones who do it. I guess I wasn't expecting it here and just want to hear why serving something terrible quality is the better option in these cases.
by spotpea