Karen Has To Learn What Omelette Is After Causing An Embarrassing Scene At A Restaurant For Being Served Exactly What She Ordered
If you’ve ever worked as a server, you know how bizarre food orders can get. From burgers without meat to pizzas with extra cheese (which means your crust is drowning in a sea of melting dairy), nothing seems off limits to customers who know what they want a little too well. Just take a look at our previous articles with shameless food orders here and here.
This particular story comes from Redditor Weasel_Cannon who worked as a server at a very popular 24-hour breakfast diner/chain in his first job. One morning, a lady arrived who said she wanted an omelette. Nothing unusual here but a regular morning meal.
“We have a list of pre-built omelettes, or you can build your own, so I ask her how she’d like her omelette,” the author wrote. “Just a regular omelette, please”, the customer said. And although Weasel_Cannon made sure she wanted an omelette “with nothing inside”, the lady kept insisting.
Now, imagine her face after “a 5-egg omelette with no fillings and no toppings” comes out. I don’t know if ‘shock’ is the right word, but let’s say the customer was far from impressed. Read below for the full story!
A server at a breakfast diner shared how a customer ordered what she called ‘a plain omelette’ despite being warned it has no fillings
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People found the incident very intriguing and shared their thoughts in the comments, to which the author responded
Shame on you you're supposed to be a mind reader and know she wanted a ham and cheese omelette
Scrambled eggs and omelette are two very different dishes. And unless they're quail eggs, a 5-egg omelette is going to be massive! I can't imagine how you'd eat something that size, especially if it has nothing else with it!
Once i ate a 6 egg omelette, i needed to get rid of them and honestly eggs are delicious.
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The authors are at least as messed up as the Karen here. They say in the first paragraph: that a pizza with extra cheese is as as "bizarre" and "shameless" as this woman or ordering a burger with the meat removed. What a couple of ignorant judgemental assholes! At least one chain I know of skimps on cheese to save money, extra cheese gets the pizza where it should be to start. And who the hell thinks more mozzarella is horrifying instead of delicious?
Extra cheese on pizza makes me gag and it tastes bad. I LOVE cheese ...I just don't want tons on my pizza 🤷🏼♀️
Load More Replies... If you sit at a desk barely moving all day, I can see a 5-egg omelette bring too much for you, sure. If you're working a physically demanding job(like when I was a mover after HS or pouring steel 60 hrs/wk) or exercise regimen, or perhaps just a teenager-it's closer to a snack. Seriously, my best friend from HS is a physical trainer and he eats a lot of high protein meals throughout the day. High metabolism, protein fueling muscles. Feel free to dunk on Americans, we overall have it coming, but I suspect those doing the dunking have an indolence problem also.
As an American...unless you're having something else *with* your eggs I don't see how two can be satisfying. 2 eggs is like a snack to me...
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Can we please stop the Karen thing now? The name is going extinct and thousands of innocent Karens have their name hijacked for insults.
Thank you! It’s awful! I can’t even say my name out loud anymore because I instantly get made fun of.
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I think she had multiple issues. Ignorance, poor communication skills and a bad f*cking attitude. If you just stand back and smile at them, it pisses them off. But like Artsy said, “now I want an omelette “.
LOL. Reminds me of going with my then boyfriend ( now husband) to a Cajun restaurant. I knew he could not do anything too spicy so was really surprised when he ordered the Escovitch trout. Are you sure you want that? Yes. Me: It is the spiciest thing on the menu? Yes, but I love trout. Me: Ok ,if you insist. As he starts sweating trying to eat the Escovitch Trout. Me: I tried to warn you. Him: I thought when you said spicy you meant lots of seasoning not a ton of hot peppers! Still makes me laugh when I think about it over 30 years later!
Surprised he married you after that, the kind thing for you to have done would be to explain that very hot peppers would be on the trout (which you knew but withheld). Do you still approach advice in this manner? I noticed you said “me” not “we” when you laugh about it.
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Who compares a burger with no meat to an extra cheese pizza? Where is this author from? Or just a super judgy vegan?
TIL what the word omelette actually means and that it's French. Bring on the extras!
omelette actually derives from a word meaning "flat" and has to do with the shape, not the eggs.
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I worked at CB in 2001. A lady ordered their egg whites, over medium. Let that sink in. I explained that there's no yolk and they come scrambled. She said she didn't want them scrambled and they need to be over medium. I desperately looked to her husband for help, but he appeared too scared of her to intervene. I relayed the request to the cook. He poured it in a pan, let it cook a bit, then folded the runny mess onto a plate. You guessed it. Karen asked for the manager.
Reminds me of my kid brother who ordered a portobello burger w/ no mushrooms. Luckily me and a couple of my friends were there to make fun of him instead of getting into it w/ the server.
You're talking about the one that's basically just a big a*s piece of mushroom? Yeah, that nasty as hella!
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Someone never watched The French Chef and saw Julia Child make a classic omelette.
Often, a customer like her never comes back again. And that's the biggest tip of them all.
People who expect others to always read their minds and “just know” what they want/mean, are destined to have deeply unhappy lives.
They couldn't decide if they wanted to be British or American today.
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On the other hand...I walked into a restaurant that had a big sign greeting us at the door stating they had blueberry pancakes w/blueberry syrup. I ordered it. I received blueberry pancakes with maple syrup. She walked away so fast I didn't get a chance to tell her the order was wrong. Later she came back, asked why I wasn't eating and I explained about the blueberry syrup I was expecting. She told me This restaurant doesn't have blueberry syrup, you are thinking of the place down the street. With that she grabbed my plate and loudly threw it in the trash. When I realized she wasn't coming back, I put a couple dollars on the table to pay for my coffee and left. I rechecked the sign on the way out - yep, blueberry syrup! I wonder how long she kept her job?
Problem would be easily solved if she asked: no cheese or other toppings, then? Just eggs?
I never understood those people. The definition of plain is clearly understood, obvious, simple or not complicated. An example of plain is using basic language to describe something. An example of plain is unflavored yogurt. An example of plain is a woman without make-up. Plain = eggs only like unflavored yogurt
Up until he was about 8, my son didn't like the way pizza cheese tasted, so when we ordered pizza, I would order him a small cheese pizza with no cheese. He loved it and I got no grief at the pizza place.
But you understood him, ordered accordingly, and he appreciated that. You're a good parent.
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Food service in America is an absolute nightmare. Had the most condescending man say he wanted his eggs sunny side up but well done. I’m no fool, I know he meant he wanted the whites fully cooked and the yolk runny, but his attitude forced me to correct him and explain that what he was asking for was impossible. Don’t treat your servers poorly. Seems like that would be obvious, but some people love that power trip of treating someone “beneath” them poorly.
America is a very large place. Seems wrong to make that statement based on one experience. 😕
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And Swiss cheese, please say with Swiss cheese!!!!! 🤗
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I mean shouldn't you be able to just know what i mean??? Working in breakfast
Proves my theory that people are stewpid. But you have to say it properly. Steeeuuu-pid.
My regular breakfast is a 1 egg omelet (I get jumbo eggs), an english muffin, and a banana. I just like the texture from the folded over eggs. I've been considering getting a specialty pan to make the Japanese style folded eggs.
5 eggs may not be that much. Some of these chains use medium or small eggs.
First time I had an omelet, I had the brains enough to just read the menu to figure out how I wanted it to be. Many omelets, and decades, later I can order a custom omelet without the menu, whether at iHOP, Denny's, Waffle House, or any other restaurant. It isn't rocket science, doesn't require a Master's Degree in Food Sciences, doesn't even really require that a person be literate (my son was able to order his own omelets by the time he was 3 1/2 years old).
Stupid people don't need to wear signs, they just start talking to remove any doubt.
If I was the customer and the waiter/ess asked what I wanted inside, I would have gone "huh - what do you mean" and a conversation would have happened. I would have pointed to the picture, s/he would have explained and everyone would have been happy. it's called communication..
Worked at a Burger King and someone wanted a California burger once. They were really stingy with what that was as if this little worldly Minnesota kid would know what that is. I later learned that a California burger is actually pretty close to what is on a whopper.
In her defense, I really thought a plain omelet had cheese in it, but no filling. I mean, why invent a second word for scrambled eggs? BTW I only like eggs in cake anyway lol.
A “nice” person would realize their mistake afterwards and just eat what she ordered, or asked nicely for a few toppings to be put on loosely. You didn’t mention saying to her that all she would receive is a folded plain egg, with nothing else included, which might’ve helped. But either way, leaving no tip is classless and trashy.
This customer sounds exactly like my mother, she did exactly the same, order a " Plain Omelet" No Cheese No Bacon, no anything! The restaurant staff looked at her like ??? But did exactly as she asked. My mother could have ordered scrambled eggs, but no. It was a Plain Omelet! She was ok with it! Paid more!
Sometimes you just want your egg folded and not scrambled. Especially depending on the restaurant there could be a big difference
Load More Replies... I'm french and no, omelette is not Scrambled eggs, that's "oeuf brouillés". And yes the difference is that it have cheese in it... 😉
No it doesn't have cheese in it that is a ommelet du fromage. An omelette is eggs stired together with herbs and spices salt pepper, then poured into a hot pan. Left to kook while you loosen the eggs from the rim inwards but keeping the omelette intact. After some time you rotate the omelette and cook the other side until ready. You serve the omelette on a plate flat or folded.
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The real story here is you act like ordering extra cheese on a pizza is ridiculous when it's a pretty normal thing.. lol
First guy to cook omelet: here, enjoy my new egg creation... Person eating it: wait, but IS IT PLAIN? 🤯
I like how I got temporarily banned for commentating that someone was a, the white stuff that falls from the sky when it's cold, but having Karen in the title of a friggin article is a-ok. At least a sno#&÷&@ could be any race or gender, while Karen absolutely implies a white woman, so to me if either of those words should be treated like using the n-word, it should be Karen. What the heck is going on with this world?!? I don't understand what's happening anymore...
The best thing to do cook at home that way you can have your cake and eat it too. Then no one get tick off. I like my cooking better because it isn't processed food anyway. By the way I have saved a few buck. No I am not cheap just like eating a home. Everybody is happy a Single Grandma here. Plus you don't get the breakfast like my Mother would cook at restaurant Southern style.
I once had a lady complain her fettuccine Alfredo was "too lemony" AFTER she made me bring an extra plate for her assistance dog so it could eat off of the table with her, & AFTER they ate all of it, but a couple of bites!🤦🏻♀️ I still do not know what was more ridiculous... The absurd reason to get a comp'ed meal, or a 300lb lady with a 2lb service Chihuahua.
I hope there wasn't any garlic in that Alfredo sauce. Poor dog deserves a better family :(
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The waiter was a smart a*s, because all he had to do was say “so an omelet with ham cheese and onion is that right?” I would’ve kicked his a*s for being a wise guy
I agree. Although the customer was wrong, the waiter could have done a better job of explaining. Saying "you don't want one of the signature omelettes" is not very helpful if the customer doesn't know what is on the signature omelettes. The waiter did later clarify by saying 'nothing on it', but I think the conversation had already gone downhill at that point and was too late to salvage.
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Acting rude and entitled to a server for her own mistake and then not tipping is peak Karen behavior.
Load More Replies... Shame on you you're supposed to be a mind reader and know she wanted a ham and cheese omelette
Scrambled eggs and omelette are two very different dishes. And unless they're quail eggs, a 5-egg omelette is going to be massive! I can't imagine how you'd eat something that size, especially if it has nothing else with it!
Once i ate a 6 egg omelette, i needed to get rid of them and honestly eggs are delicious.
Load More Replies... The authors are at least as messed up as the Karen here. They say in the first paragraph: that a pizza with extra cheese is as as "bizarre" and "shameless" as this woman or ordering a burger with the meat removed. What a couple of ignorant judgemental assholes! At least one chain I know of skimps on cheese to save money, extra cheese gets the pizza where it should be to start. And who the hell thinks more mozzarella is horrifying instead of delicious?
Extra cheese on pizza makes me gag and it tastes bad. I LOVE cheese ...I just don't want tons on my pizza 🤷🏼♀️
Load More Replies... If you sit at a desk barely moving all day, I can see a 5-egg omelette bring too much for you, sure. If you're working a physically demanding job(like when I was a mover after HS or pouring steel 60 hrs/wk) or exercise regimen, or perhaps just a teenager-it's closer to a snack. Seriously, my best friend from HS is a physical trainer and he eats a lot of high protein meals throughout the day. High metabolism, protein fueling muscles. Feel free to dunk on Americans, we overall have it coming, but I suspect those doing the dunking have an indolence problem also.
As an American...unless you're having something else *with* your eggs I don't see how two can be satisfying. 2 eggs is like a snack to me...
Load More Replies... Can we please stop the Karen thing now? The name is going extinct and thousands of innocent Karens have their name hijacked for insults.
Thank you! It’s awful! I can’t even say my name out loud anymore because I instantly get made fun of.
Load More Replies... I think she had multiple issues. Ignorance, poor communication skills and a bad f*cking attitude. If you just stand back and smile at them, it pisses them off. But like Artsy said, “now I want an omelette “.
LOL. Reminds me of going with my then boyfriend ( now husband) to a Cajun restaurant. I knew he could not do anything too spicy so was really surprised when he ordered the Escovitch trout. Are you sure you want that? Yes. Me: It is the spiciest thing on the menu? Yes, but I love trout. Me: Ok ,if you insist. As he starts sweating trying to eat the Escovitch Trout. Me: I tried to warn you. Him: I thought when you said spicy you meant lots of seasoning not a ton of hot peppers! Still makes me laugh when I think about it over 30 years later!
Surprised he married you after that, the kind thing for you to have done would be to explain that very hot peppers would be on the trout (which you knew but withheld). Do you still approach advice in this manner? I noticed you said “me” not “we” when you laugh about it.
Load More Replies... Who compares a burger with no meat to an extra cheese pizza? Where is this author from? Or just a super judgy vegan?
TIL what the word omelette actually means and that it's French. Bring on the extras!
omelette actually derives from a word meaning "flat" and has to do with the shape, not the eggs.
Load More Replies... I worked at CB in 2001. A lady ordered their egg whites, over medium. Let that sink in. I explained that there's no yolk and they come scrambled. She said she didn't want them scrambled and they need to be over medium. I desperately looked to her husband for help, but he appeared too scared of her to intervene. I relayed the request to the cook. He poured it in a pan, let it cook a bit, then folded the runny mess onto a plate. You guessed it. Karen asked for the manager.
Reminds me of my kid brother who ordered a portobello burger w/ no mushrooms. Luckily me and a couple of my friends were there to make fun of him instead of getting into it w/ the server.
You're talking about the one that's basically just a big a*s piece of mushroom? Yeah, that nasty as hella!
Load More Replies... Someone never watched The French Chef and saw Julia Child make a classic omelette.
Often, a customer like her never comes back again. And that's the biggest tip of them all.
People who expect others to always read their minds and “just know” what they want/mean, are destined to have deeply unhappy lives.
They couldn't decide if they wanted to be British or American today.
Load More Replies... On the other hand...I walked into a restaurant that had a big sign greeting us at the door stating they had blueberry pancakes w/blueberry syrup. I ordered it. I received blueberry pancakes with maple syrup. She walked away so fast I didn't get a chance to tell her the order was wrong. Later she came back, asked why I wasn't eating and I explained about the blueberry syrup I was expecting. She told me This restaurant doesn't have blueberry syrup, you are thinking of the place down the street. With that she grabbed my plate and loudly threw it in the trash. When I realized she wasn't coming back, I put a couple dollars on the table to pay for my coffee and left. I rechecked the sign on the way out - yep, blueberry syrup! I wonder how long she kept her job?
Problem would be easily solved if she asked: no cheese or other toppings, then? Just eggs?
I never understood those people. The definition of plain is clearly understood, obvious, simple or not complicated. An example of plain is using basic language to describe something. An example of plain is unflavored yogurt. An example of plain is a woman without make-up. Plain = eggs only like unflavored yogurt
Up until he was about 8, my son didn't like the way pizza cheese tasted, so when we ordered pizza, I would order him a small cheese pizza with no cheese. He loved it and I got no grief at the pizza place.
But you understood him, ordered accordingly, and he appreciated that. You're a good parent.
Load More Replies... Food service in America is an absolute nightmare. Had the most condescending man say he wanted his eggs sunny side up but well done. I’m no fool, I know he meant he wanted the whites fully cooked and the yolk runny, but his attitude forced me to correct him and explain that what he was asking for was impossible. Don’t treat your servers poorly. Seems like that would be obvious, but some people love that power trip of treating someone “beneath” them poorly.
America is a very large place. Seems wrong to make that statement based on one experience. 😕
Load More Replies... And Swiss cheese, please say with Swiss cheese!!!!! 🤗
Load More Replies... I mean shouldn't you be able to just know what i mean??? Working in breakfast
Proves my theory that people are stewpid. But you have to say it properly. Steeeuuu-pid.
My regular breakfast is a 1 egg omelet (I get jumbo eggs), an english muffin, and a banana. I just like the texture from the folded over eggs. I've been considering getting a specialty pan to make the Japanese style folded eggs.
5 eggs may not be that much. Some of these chains use medium or small eggs.
First time I had an omelet, I had the brains enough to just read the menu to figure out how I wanted it to be. Many omelets, and decades, later I can order a custom omelet without the menu, whether at iHOP, Denny's, Waffle House, or any other restaurant. It isn't rocket science, doesn't require a Master's Degree in Food Sciences, doesn't even really require that a person be literate (my son was able to order his own omelets by the time he was 3 1/2 years old).
Stupid people don't need to wear signs, they just start talking to remove any doubt.
If I was the customer and the waiter/ess asked what I wanted inside, I would have gone "huh - what do you mean" and a conversation would have happened. I would have pointed to the picture, s/he would have explained and everyone would have been happy. it's called communication..
Worked at a Burger King and someone wanted a California burger once. They were really stingy with what that was as if this little worldly Minnesota kid would know what that is. I later learned that a California burger is actually pretty close to what is on a whopper.
In her defense, I really thought a plain omelet had cheese in it, but no filling. I mean, why invent a second word for scrambled eggs? BTW I only like eggs in cake anyway lol.
A “nice” person would realize their mistake afterwards and just eat what she ordered, or asked nicely for a few toppings to be put on loosely. You didn’t mention saying to her that all she would receive is a folded plain egg, with nothing else included, which might’ve helped. But either way, leaving no tip is classless and trashy.
This customer sounds exactly like my mother, she did exactly the same, order a " Plain Omelet" No Cheese No Bacon, no anything! The restaurant staff looked at her like ??? But did exactly as she asked. My mother could have ordered scrambled eggs, but no. It was a Plain Omelet! She was ok with it! Paid more!
Sometimes you just want your egg folded and not scrambled. Especially depending on the restaurant there could be a big difference
Load More Replies... I'm french and no, omelette is not Scrambled eggs, that's "oeuf brouillés". And yes the difference is that it have cheese in it... 😉
No it doesn't have cheese in it that is a ommelet du fromage. An omelette is eggs stired together with herbs and spices salt pepper, then poured into a hot pan. Left to kook while you loosen the eggs from the rim inwards but keeping the omelette intact. After some time you rotate the omelette and cook the other side until ready. You serve the omelette on a plate flat or folded.
Load More Replies... The real story here is you act like ordering extra cheese on a pizza is ridiculous when it's a pretty normal thing.. lol
First guy to cook omelet: here, enjoy my new egg creation... Person eating it: wait, but IS IT PLAIN? 🤯
I like how I got temporarily banned for commentating that someone was a, the white stuff that falls from the sky when it's cold, but having Karen in the title of a friggin article is a-ok. At least a sno#&÷&@ could be any race or gender, while Karen absolutely implies a white woman, so to me if either of those words should be treated like using the n-word, it should be Karen. What the heck is going on with this world?!? I don't understand what's happening anymore...
The best thing to do cook at home that way you can have your cake and eat it too. Then no one get tick off. I like my cooking better because it isn't processed food anyway. By the way I have saved a few buck. No I am not cheap just like eating a home. Everybody is happy a Single Grandma here. Plus you don't get the breakfast like my Mother would cook at restaurant Southern style.
I once had a lady complain her fettuccine Alfredo was "too lemony" AFTER she made me bring an extra plate for her assistance dog so it could eat off of the table with her, & AFTER they ate all of it, but a couple of bites!🤦🏻♀️ I still do not know what was more ridiculous... The absurd reason to get a comp'ed meal, or a 300lb lady with a 2lb service Chihuahua.
I hope there wasn't any garlic in that Alfredo sauce. Poor dog deserves a better family :(
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The waiter was a smart a*s, because all he had to do was say “so an omelet with ham cheese and onion is that right?” I would’ve kicked his a*s for being a wise guy
I agree. Although the customer was wrong, the waiter could have done a better job of explaining. Saying "you don't want one of the signature omelettes" is not very helpful if the customer doesn't know what is on the signature omelettes. The waiter did later clarify by saying 'nothing on it', but I think the conversation had already gone downhill at that point and was too late to salvage.
Load More Replies... Acting rude and entitled to a server for her own mistake and then not tipping is peak Karen behavior.
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