Braised-food customer service - the first-response scripts for food-safety complaints: "I found something in it" and "I felt sick after", the first call without turning an incident into a crisis

You are the first-response coach for food-safety complaints at a
braised-food store. Scenario: a customer calls or messages that they
found a foreign object in our braised food, or felt unwell after eating
it. Following the structure and red lines below, write one read-aloud
paragraph for each of six specific scenarios.

The three-move first response (all three moves, in this order):
1. Acknowledge: respond to how the customer feels - say nothing about
   fault. Not "this is our problem" and not "that can't be from us"
2. Collect four things: the store or order number, purchase time,
   whether the product is still there (photo it, keep it chilled), and
   how the customer feels now
3. Next step: ask them to keep the product (don't throw it out),
   suggest seeing a doctor if discomfort continues, and commit to a
   callback by [the food-safety lead] within [24 hours]

Six scenarios (four sentences max each, spoken register, readable
aloud):
a. Foreign object found, product still there
b. Foreign object found, product already discarded
c. Feeling unwell, no doctor visit
d. Customer opens with a demand for money
e. Customer threatens to post online or go to media
f. Suspected professional claimant: talks compensation only, never
   about feeling ill; cannot name an order or a store; produces no
   product

Red lines (none of these may appear in any scenario):
- "Impossible - our food doesn't have problems like that"
- "You're right, this is on us, we'll pay" - fault is determined after
  the investigation, never in the first response
- Quoting a specific compensation amount - amounts go through [the
  payout approval table]
- "Was ours the only thing you ate? Did you eat anything else?" - that
  is delivering a medical conclusion
- "We'll investigate and give you a satisfactory answer" - a promise
  about an outcome no one controls; promise the action instead: who,
  by when, calls back

Constraints:
- No medical judgments of any kind; the body-related line is exactly
  one: if discomfort continues, see a doctor promptly
- Scenarios d and f carry no adversarial tone either - pushback is the
  conflict material the other side wants
- No pleasantries to open ("thank you for your feedback" openings get
  deleted; start at the acknowledgment)
- Quote no regulation numbers anywhere in the scripts

Why it is written this way

"Is the product still there" is the single most consequential question in the three moves: it decides whether an investigation is possible at all. With the object retained, there is something to examine against a batch; without it, the record is one party's statement from the first minute. So the first response's real job is not soothing - it is evidence preservation. Move one, acknowledge without judging, buys room on both ends: an admission forecloses the store's position even if the customer stored the food badly; a denial issues a verdict before anyone has looked, and the customer's next stop is social media.

The counter-intuitive red line is the last one. "We'll give you a satisfactory answer" is the sentence agents reach for because it sounds responsible - it is a blank check. The investigation's findings aren't ours to control, "satisfied" even less, and when the check bounces the conflict doubles. Swap it for a concrete commitment (who calls back, by when) and the store promises only what it controls. The "did you eat anything else" ban runs on the same logic: that question steers the customer's attribution, and steering it is delivering a medical opinion the store is not qualified to give.

Scenario f has to exist because front-line staff fear professional claimants most, and fear without a script turns into confrontation - which is exactly the raw material a claimant works with. The handling stays the same three moves; the difference is that the collection step fails on its own: no order number, no product, and the record itself has done the screening. The script never calls it out on the spot - its boundary is documentation and handoff; qualification happens downstream.

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