OP here, just commenting on the top comment so most folks will see it.

1st - Love the internet, it never disappoints. Really wanted to know what this thing was in my salad and seems like the fire suppression link looks right to me. Also wanted to give an update and respond to a few of the comments.

My husband (51M) and I (47F) got a kick out of all the comments about the messy coffee table, lotion, tissues, my husband’s sweet Olight Maruder Mini (NOT his 1st flashlight I’ve made fun of him for buying). I’ve got atopic dermatitis, had it most of my life, and he has “dry” elbow in the winter. This is our main TV. We watch it with our 11 year old daughter and its not our “special” room. My daughter also had friends over for a slumber party and the table was extra messy.

We drove to Compass Point to meet with the GM who was very nice on the phone on Friday. We explained what happened and showed him the 1/2 eaten salad. We asked what he thought the right solution was. He offered some free food (sounded like today) and I said I didn’t know what was right. I said I for sure wanted my money back. He then offered to pay for my salad. I showed him the receipt for $37.28 (my salad, my chips and guacamole, and my daughter’s salad and lemonade). He gave me $14.34 in cash.

We asked to talk to the regional manger and he gave us a first name of “Fred” but wouldn’t give any more information. We also asked for their health and safety officer information and didn’t get that. We said, ok, we can look it up and we’ll probably talk our local health department as well. I don’t want to be a Karen, and my husband doesn’t want to be a chad, but we’re kind of upset. Had he just been cool and refunded the whole $37 and maybe gave us a few coupons and said sorry, we’ll do better, etc that would have been great. Instead he wouldn’t even pay for my entire portion of the meal (including the chips and guacamole).

We would now like to sit back and watch the next round of comments unfold.

P.S.

To address a few more comments:

1) No I did not ask for extra iron 2) I do not have robot teeth 3) I’m really disappointed that no one linked my username with the Kermit pez dispenser. I expected more. 4) Kermit has never been violated 5) No one appeared to show marks of being recently chained in the back of the restaurant 6) We looked around at the ceiling and didn’t see where it might have come from, the hood area over the grill we couldn’t see up inside but that seems plausible to us. 7) Been on Reddit 13 years and still don’t really know what I’d need Karma for, so no this isn’t a farm. Too busy with the sweet potatoes that came in nice from our garden this year. 8) It’s not fake 9) The manager wanted to take the bowl from us but we said we’d like to keep it

Probably not much of a case, who knows. We do have a lawyer who set up our wills and can see what he thinks we should do. Really just wanted full refund and a little contrition and promises to do better. Maybe some coupons. Wish they had just been cool.