Hil, you can ask where you're going and call the restaurant ahead of time to order. Then you won't have to quiz the waiter in front of prospective employers. I pity your all-day interview. The last time I had one of those, I ran out of personality by mid-afternoon.

When I made it to final interviewers at UCI I had two full days of interviews including all meals both days with people.

I had two full days of interviews including all meals both days with people.

It's possible that's what I'll be doing in hell.

When I made it to final interviewers at UCI I had two full days of interviews including all meals both days with people.

Yeah, one of the weird things about an interview lasting a whole day or more is trying to make a good impression all the time, even when you're eating.

Although 23 years ago I impressed some interviewer folks when I ordered calamari at the dinner the night before the interview.

I startled some interviewers by eating the hot peppers in my Chinese food.

The job is in Southern Maryland. I'm just about positive that they'd try to choose someplace with "local flavor," which would mean seafood. Possibly one of those places where you pound the crabs with wooden hammers.

I feel like just telling them that I'm vegan and letting them choose based on that isn't really fair to them -- someone who isn't vegan or who hasn't really tried to find vegan food before isn't going to know what to look for or what questions to ask.

I feel like just telling them that I'm vegan and letting them choose based on that isn't really fair to them -- someone who isn't vegan or who hasn't really tried to find vegan food before isn't going to know what to look for or what questions to ask.

Can you tell them you're vegan and offer to help in the finding of a restaurant? Maybe give them some questions to ask (if they want to do the search) and also offer to do an internet search yourself?

I feel like just telling them that I'm vegan and letting them choose based on that isn't really fair to them

How is that not fair? If they're going to assume the responsibility of feeding you, they're assuming the responsibility. Don't make it your problem. If you had a food allergy, would that be unfair?

If you had a food allergy, would that be unfair?

Or a religious reason to avoid foods? Like, they wouldn't want to take some who keeps kosher to eat crabs either.

Yeah, I still remember when at my first job we had someone new start, and we were like "yay, reason to go to lunch today!" and suggested a new restaurant near work (there weren't many)...which was a Brazilian barbecue place. Y'know, where they walk around with skewers of meat, and it's all you can eat. We were mostly excited, because we hadn't been there before.

She didn't mention until we were there, wondering why she wasn't eating, that she was a vegetarian. We were like "DUUUUDE. We would have gone somewhere ELSE!!!"