The Onion Fiasco

We ate at Applebees a few nights ago and ordered their delicious cheeseburger sliders WITHOUT onions. Of course when our food arrived there were about 1000 diced onions on every burger. After my husband told the waitress what happened she asked if the kitchen should take the onions off of the burgers... really? I am perfectly capable of removing onions from a burger! Just removing the onions does not get rid of the onion taste on my burgers! I don't know why it seems so difficult to not put things on food. At least 40% of the time I order food, it doesn't matter where I am, they can't seem to keep there hands off of the ingredients I specifically don't want with my meal. I don't get it.