See, it's mostly not a big problem. It's only when we're understaffed that it is.

If it makes you feel better, the salads are almost certainly made up ahead of time, plated, and wrapped in Saran Wrap, and, if you ask for a salad with no hardboiled eggs, assuming that the salads usually have hardboiled eggs, odds are the waiter picks the egg off and throws it out in the kitchen. . .

So you're wasting the same amount of food either way. And picking something off a salad is not very difficult.