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Nothing teaches empathy better than working at a restaurant. Only after you separate a mile-long check in the middle of the dinner rush do you start fully appreciating the way others serve you. Sure, you may like working with people, but everyone has their limit of bullsh*t they can take before they admit themselves to a mental hospital. Bored Panda has compiled a list of brutally honest memes that prove only the strongest can survive working in the kitchen. Scroll down to check out the struggles everyone who works in the industry go through way too often and upvote your favorites!
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Soozie Poozie 7 years ago
I could just pinch the cheekies of that cute little colt! He is ADORABLE!!!
Caroline Driver 7 years ago
Not a restaurant, but I did have something similar happen in a stationery shop I worked in, when a customer insisted that he'd bought something in our shop and I said we'd never sold it. He then asked the manager, she checked and told him the same thing. I worked very hard not to do this ^ to him!
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Sky 7 years ago
When someone without a job comments on job related things XD ^
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Coco! 7 years ago
When someone asks you something and you didn't hear. Then they ask you another time after you say "What?" And you still can't hear them and this goes on for 10 minutes and you feel like an idiot saying WHAT for 10 minutes straight, so you just stand there and nod your head and then they say. "Do you?"
Nevi Løvfelt 7 years ago
"I know you have to take that picture, but couldnt you just give that treat now, I promise to sit"?
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Laugh Fan 7 years ago
Aw!! Cute! If this dog was serving my food I'd definitely shower him/her with compliments!
Janina Prado 7 years ago
and if he completely spilled my food order all over my lap and on the floor, i would STILL shower him with hugs and kisses.
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Carrie Sullivan 7 years ago
This dog looks eerily similar to mine... Like it could be his twin
Daniel Tinelli 7 years ago
I love this one. It conveys, in a really adorable way, that exact feeling. I want this dog, now.
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Cassandra Soncrant 7 years ago
Or they just think of you as their work horse.
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Coco! 7 years ago
And I thought I had lost my golden watch, but then I go to grab my pile of cash from my pocket, and I find it was there the whole time!!!!!! Waiter stands next to him trying not to pour the jug of water down his shirt. "Would you like to order now sir?" I'm sorry about this. I tried to resist.
Kelly 7 years ago
No tips are compulsory in my Country. But why should a customer tell a joke?
Soozie Poozie 7 years ago
As a customer, using humour is one way to make pleasant conversation, especially if the server has been really friendly, competent and attentive. In order to bring a smile to his/her face because the service they provided was excellent! It depends on the situation, though. I guess the customer would also have to be an extrovert with, hopefully, a good sense of humour!
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Lucy C 7 years ago
I think the idea is not that this person believes them, it's that he or she couldn't care less about them and their threats
Load More Replies... Daniel Tinelli 7 years ago
Someone might just hate both their job and their customers? Maybe? I worked at the Four Seasons in my 20's and would have been mortified if it had gotten to that point. Just sayin.
Lisa Shelton 7 years ago
It's the best thing when you learn to say "I'm so sorry to hear that" with a straight face.
Mama Panda 7 years ago
I really wish I could do the happy dance right in front of them when they say that lol
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Caitlin Smith 7 years ago
I actually worked with a dude who I haaated working with. When I quit we became best friends.
Grant Hop 2 years ago
resturant biz: manager is 27. dishwasher is 57 servers: all girls until 1 guy gets hired 16 yr-old me has been working 6 months and has to show new girl a year older than me how the place works. 16 yr-old me has lasted longer than three adult dishwashers put together there's nothing like it, tell you what
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Calypso poet 7 years ago
Omg, my husband does the “winning lottery numbers”! I have told him so many times that it’s so annoying.
Mama Panda 7 years ago
I used to carry around the fake money you buy as a play set for your kids. One of them had a pack of million dollar bills so I would carry those with me at work and give them out with a complimentary eye roll haha
Christina Sersif 7 years ago
I work in a call center and get that or what's the winning lottery numbers all the time. I simply say, sir if I knew that we wouldn't be talking right now.
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Zanthe 7 years ago
My mom always complains they didn't put enough milk on her coffee. I make the exact same face to show the waiter they're not alone.
Christina Sersif 7 years ago
my mom is straight up embarrassing at restaurants. I hate eating out with her and when I do, I pray her food is right
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Blue Cicada 7 years ago
Does anyone else slip back to the table to ADD to the tip after dining out w their parents?!
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Gryffindor4ever 7 years ago
Oh no, oh no, oh no no no no. I can't get that image out of my head
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BlackestDawn 7 years ago
Well, you are supposed to vacuum artificial grass but considering the brownish patches I doubt this is artificial. However vacuuming is most likely gentler on the grass than raking it, and most likely more efficient with so little leaves and such on it.
Tor Rolf Strøm 7 years ago
Realistically pretending to work is one of the most important skills in jobs.
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Calypso poet 7 years ago
Yes! I worked in a small cheap clothing store for a brief time. I was usually the opener. It would be a half hour before opening and I’d be going over the night deposit and setting up the registers. I’d keep the minimal amount of lights on but customers could still see me and would be banging on the door! They think that just because there’s someone inside they should be let in. Then they are rude when you try to explain why you couldn’t let them in.
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Christina Sersif 7 years ago
the complete opposite reaction when a customer walks in 5 minutes before closing
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Janina Prado 7 years ago
ok. he wore that to a wedding - that he was in as the groom. or bride, or the pastor...
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Janina Prado 7 years ago
you owe me some paper towels. i just spit up my drink on the table.
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Josiane Roy 7 years ago
This is actually what they would put on a family member at the funeral home.
RitaGG 7 years ago
Oh really? The mortician would dress up Uncle Melvin in a bra and thong? SMH.
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Jessica Gunn 7 years ago
When your hands are full and the customer asks if you forgot their plate....
Skylar 7 years ago
That happened to me last night. I was cleaning the tables, re-setting them, dealing to other customers, and other things, and this one person at a completely different table sticks their hand in the air and waves it around while saying "excuse me, waiter, hello". I don't know if anyone who hasn't worked in a restaurant realizes this, but that is VERY annoying.
Janina Prado 7 years ago
as a customer, i hate seeing when others do that.
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Kahlo Smith 7 years ago
Best part is that this resolution makes it almost impossible to find him! If you look up Where's Wally or Waldo, one of the first image results is this page, and you can find him (with hat and glasses and travelling pack) behind the green-striped screen to the left of the red-striped rectangular pop-up stand, right above the woman with a hole in her towel. Also, catch Wenda popping up behind the red and white umbrella!
Tyler Cook 7 years ago
Right in the middle of the page about 2/3 of the way up behind the green towel fort. Straight up from the red beach ball being popped by the umbrella.
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Atlasheld 7 years ago
Agreed. They have the courage to come and say, "hey I forgot but want to make sure you get what you asked for.". I mean, not literally, but, in the sense that they care about the outcome.
Load More Replies... Calypso poet 7 years ago
I’ve been out of the restaurant/bar industry for 15 years and I still have nightmares about this!
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Nicole Rosandich 7 years ago
A table of women - no thank you. I will help anyone else. I can already see the order. I want the sandwich with soup, but instead of soup I would like a salad with vinaigrette on the side, a water with a lemon wedge and can you get that so there are no seeds that fall into the water. I would also like this to be on separate checks, but if my friends order a drink I will pick that up for them.
ZombieGirl5591 7 years ago
and you forgot the 1 dollar tip you get as a reward, lol
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Mama Panda 7 years ago
I always ask to speak to a manager. Being one myself in the retail setting, I appreciated good remarks moreso than bad ones (opportunities to fix a problem). So when dining out, if I have good service and/or good food, I always give a good review to the manager, the wait staff and the cooks.
RJ BERG 7 years ago
Not always true on the old women part. I was in the industry in my 20's and started off working at TGIF, where back then we wore buttons with all kind of sayings... mine was "Tipping is not a city in China" and due to being in the service industry to this day I tip well, and I'm not an A whole to people. So this is going to get me into further trouble... but few notes, Those women are just rude witches with a B,who think they are superior and you are their servant, confused on the word "Service". And sorry the WORST tippers at the time sadly were the following: Yes mostly that type of table, most women sadly, and please forgive me but there were always certain races that were notorious for never tipping. Finally to this day if I go with someone and they say they can't afford to tip, than I say to them I can't afford to go out with you in the future, if you can't afford the tip than maybe you should stay home....
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Kayla Welch 7 years ago
This one should be higher upvoted. This is spot on. Like, you know how I'm doing so don't ask me just to show a front that you care.
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Ruth Neighbor 7 years ago
Loved that movie! I have all the comics and movies!
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Binxyminxem 7 years ago
"Oh why yes thank you very much" LATER IN THE KITCHEN "Mwahahahahahaaaaa MYYY CAAAAAAAKE!"
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Rama Llama 7 years ago
Ugh, I do maybe five to ten shifts a year for this one bar where I worked full time five years ago and the owner still thinks that I should remember without asking what all the "usuals" are, who wants what drink without the ice or in a different glass or with a straw and who the hell even are these people
Mama Panda 7 years ago
Here ya go... what? this isn't your usual? Ohhh you want your other usual usual....brings out whatever... nope not right yet? well they don't have your usual usual so I brought out my usual and I think you will love it... *walks away mumbling nasty things under my breath*
Onald Henuk 7 years ago
We run a restaurant and we handle the service by ourselves. Aaanndd this is aaaaalways happen.
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Zanthe 7 years ago
When I'm the customer, I do that before asking for the checks. It's me, my friends and a calculator while the waiter stares in confusion.
Usernameofgag 7 years ago
I do that too... Sometimes I ask bill first and then i'll split it...
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Carmean Armendariz 7 years ago
only a*****e patrons ask for this. if you can't put it into the system that way, i would say, "sorry, no can do." if i was a mathematician, i wouldn't be working as a server!
Random Panda 7 years ago
Where I'm from we usually just ask for the bill and then work out between ourselves how much each person owes.
Jessica Gunn 7 years ago
Yup, you would think everyone would do that...but they don't ...some do, most don't ..
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Brandon Ruiz 7 years ago
They are referencing if a large party comes in and they want to put individual orders on separate checks. It's a nightmare of splitting up how much goes on what card and who owes what.
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Master Markus 7 years ago
Zanthe, you said nothing weird considering it was obviously a joke.
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Michael John Aragon 7 years ago
I think it's better if anyone would just learn how to be a decent human being with compassion and humbleness in and out of work... then the world would be a much better place
Abby Rexroth 7 years ago
What planet are you from...LOL, It's a nice little dream...
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MBZ MetalsmithArtist 7 years ago
100% agree! Once you experience it, you will have more empathy
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Sarcasticow 7 years ago
And for cyclists to learn basic driving rules and if possible, ride in a car from time to time to understand what driver can and cannot see and the way drivers are thinking when driving
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Kelly Murray 7 years ago
Yes...after graduating from high school, you should have to work a customer service job, do charity work, or join the military for a time before going on to college. *nods matter of factly*
Calypso poet 7 years ago
I would say it should be required as part of high school graduation requirements. Some schools in our area have restaurants in them that you can take classes for certain credits and good students not even in the classes get rewarded by getting to eat lunch there. Teaches manners and etiquette from both sides.
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That wouldn't really work. Cause then a lot of people won't have to deal with the rude customers
Lilly 7 years ago
in my younger days, i had a variety of jobs in vastly different fields. my first real job was waitressing & I seriously sucked at it. couldn't remember what went with what, forgot to bring parts of orders; most of the people were cool about it. since then, i have had a long-standing admiration for those that do that kind of work well & keep a great attitude! be kind to your servers--they deal with a lot more than you may realize!
CultOfBambi 7 years ago
I've never worked in a restaurant or bar - I just don't have the temperament for it (I'd be locked up for murdering the first d******d who gave me any kind of grief). I do appreciate the people who do it though and I try to be as generous as possible with tips -even here in the UK & in Europe where servers are usually paid better than their American counterparts. If I'm with someone who insists on paying the bill and they don't tip appropriately I'll put down extra cash.
Abby Rexroth 7 years ago
I think everyone should work retail or some kind to customer service or 3 years. It would make humans out of them. I mean Israel expects their citizens to serve in the military for three years...just sayin'.
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Bored Office Girl 7 years ago
I was at my local pizza place once, getting ready to leave. Clearly they were getting ready to close for the night (sweeping up, etc). This rude couple comes in right then (it's after 10pm) and sits down. I saw the waitress die a little inside, lol. And it is not a quick in-and-out pizza place. I'm sure the couple was there 45 min to an hour.
Stannous Flouride 7 years ago
When I threw pizzas the first thing I'd do, 15 minutes before closing, was to shut off the oven. And even if I hadn't I'd tell the wait-staff to say I had. I regularly let the servers tell customers that their mistake was my fault. I wasn't working for tips so it didn't matter to me.
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Carol Emory 7 years ago
I worked at a 24 hour convenience store where the beer case was locked 15 minutes before the State cut-off time at 2am for liquor sales (starts again at 6am). (This is to avoid accidentally selling past 2am if the customer takes their time browsing before bringing their booze up to the counter.) This couple walks in at 10 minutes to 2 and argues with me that they want the case open because they need beer. I stated our store policy. They said "That's ridiculous! How is a person supposed to buy beer?" I said "Come to the store during the other 19 hours and 45 minutes that liquor sales are open."
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Ohio Hands 7 years ago
Unless its the very end of the night, how is anyone suppose to know when their waiter's shift ends? They are just there enjoying their meal, which they are entitled to do since they are paying for it.
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Daniel Christner 6 years ago
When people come in saying they only have 20 minutes, and 30 minutes later they're still there.
Kelly 7 years ago
So rude when they think you're at a restaurant only to gobble food but you want to have a nice time with friends...
Anne Reid 7 years ago
Camping is when the table already enjoyed dinner and desert and finished coffee...and are still there, holding a table that other customers can’t use. The waitstaff can’t leave. If we ask you if we can get you anything else three times, and you say no, you’re being rude.
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Abby Rexroth 7 years ago
Someone asks what it's like to work where I work and my public response is, "It's a lot of hard work but the benefits are good." What I'm really saying, "This job is killing me, you're gonna die too."
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Lisa Shelton 7 years ago
Looks like a cool super hero but his only power is lying in a darkened room.
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Abby Rexroth 7 years ago
How about sinus? I had that b***h of a cold/flu this spring and even my teeth throbbed.
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Aisha La Gatta Pelirroja 7 years ago
Or when you know that you would never ever eat at this place for some other reasons than too expensive menu.
Abby Rexroth 7 years ago
I would hope the restaurant gives the employees a significant discount. Who better to extoll the delicacies of the chef?
Abby Rexroth 7 years ago
I would hope the restaurant would give employees a significant discount. Who better to extoll the delicacies of the chef???
Isabel Care 7 years ago
My favourite place to eat out was Kingly Vale (a nature reserve) a short hike follwed by a picnic on a burial mound (free). Can't walk that far any more, so it's now off to the top of Portsdown Hill in the car for a picnic (also free)
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Kenny Kulbiski 7 years ago
If you haven't already got an answer in reserve it's your own fault.
Cassandra Soncrant 7 years ago
Don't be afraid to say no. If extra shifts are not a requirement, don't feel bad about saying no.
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Aisha La Gatta Pelirroja 7 years ago
THAT! You would be suprised how often that kind of stories actually happens.
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Maria Ofar 7 years ago
most retail jobs, really haha. i remember being so understaffed for a nightfill shift once, there was literally less than a 3rd of the normal headcount - 2 young women and a young training guy. that night we did not bust our balls. "want more stock put out? put on more people"
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Arianna Gandolfi 7 years ago
I hate that! PUT YOURS GODDAMN HANDS OFF MY TRAY, OR DON'T COMPLAIN IF IT WILL FALL ON YOU
Load More Replies... Skylar 7 years ago
One of our dishes has a little bowl of vanilla essence lit on fire in the middle. It goes out in under a minute. One time, I brought it out, and the old guy at the table was about to try and put it out using his phone (by placing the phone on top of the flame), I was about to tell him not to, but his daughter luckily got there first.
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Skylar 7 years ago
I once answered the phone, and the customer made a really long order, then proceeded to ask if they could have free food because their order was over $100. Sometimes, we might give a big spending customer a bag of prawn chips for free, but because they asked, we weren't going too. After a lengthy discussion (in the middle of the rush hour), they then said to cancel their order and that they were never coming back here for food again. 30 minutes later they phoned up again, but with someone else talking, a different name, and a different phone number, but the same order, and i could here the original person talking in the background.
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Basil 7 years ago
Many reasons to hate on Kanye, but if you are implying that he didn't help Amy Schumer up after she tripped, that is not what was happening here. She's doing a bit.
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criminalgirl 7 years ago
Look at him, completely out of his comfort zone...doesn't know how to handle being a grown up.
Christina Sersif 7 years ago
If it was anyone besides Amy Shumer I would comment on them being rude to just walk past her, but it is Amy Shumer so I'd walk past her falling too.
Tarmin Slingerfinger 7 years ago
she was doing it for a joke. she didn't really trip
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athornedrose 7 years ago
bobs burgers is honestly probably the perfect show for a thread like this
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Ryan-Michele Eagleton 7 years ago
This! I always tip 20% unless the service is honestly horrible. I haaaaaated waitressing and I have so much sympathy for wait staff and the b.s. they put up with.
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Ohio Hands 7 years ago
Honestly, the only time I won't tip 20% is if the waiter is RUDE or has a bad attitude. Mistakes I can forgive, rudeness I cannot.
Daniel Fleming 7 years ago
I always try to AT LEAST tip 15%, typically 20-25. My grandmother on a good day gives 10%
Sky 7 years ago
I hate having a set percentage number, I think you should tip them what they deserve.
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Memes and more 7 years ago
i tip 30 every time because i served for 6.5 years and i know the struggle
Calypso poet 7 years ago
90% of the time we are 20-25% tippers. I can always tell what’s going on that usually is no fault of the workers- unexpected crowd or large group etc- so as long as they are friendly and apologetic they’re probably going to get a better tip. And even if our service was perfect, if I see them dealing with a particularly terrible table the tip goes up. We don’t eat out a lot but when we do we make sure we can take care of the waiter.
Owl Payson 6 years ago
My mother has tipped 20% or more every time but once that I was with her and remember. I ordered the japleno egg burger without peppers and mayo. Basically I was having a bad day and mom was trying to get me to eat and I’m freaky picky, so I ended up finding a burger place where I could get a cheddar, bacon, egg burger. Our waiter seems pleasant enough although for some reason when we told her no peppers on the burger because I’m very sensitive to spice she neglected to mention peppers were in the Mac and cheese ball side but no big deal, just rip a few bucks(mom can’t eat gluten), I get it long day. My drink still came with ice anyways (I’m hyper sensitive and there’s something repulsive about it to me as a feeling) so I just fished it into moms cup. Food took ages to come out and the waitress forgot the pear sauce on my mom’s burger, you know what you eventually got it without complaint. Then my food arrives, I’m immediately confused, it’s a total plain burger with onions and it’s...
Owl Payson 6 years ago
... a off color and well done so mom asks her to come over for a minute when she finishes the table she’s working with, “What is this? It doesn’t seem like what my daughter ordered.” She gets a prickly tone, “Lady, it’s just the bison burger.” Mom tries to calmly insist that this is not my food and the waiter starts to get angry, “Look your child ordered the bison burger and I do not appreciate you waisting my time. Please just eat your food.” “My daughter is not anywhere near that adventurous. Can you please get your manager so I can figure this out.” The woman finally stalks off and returns with the manager who immediately tells us it’s fine and takes the bison burger away comes back five minutes later with the original order that just got mixed up. I enjoy it awkwardly not quite sure what just happened. After all this do you know what the tip was, a bit over 15%
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Daniel Christner 6 years ago
When your section gets sat 5 minutes before the end of your shift.
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Catlady6000 7 years ago
We had a cook forget to jalapino juice off his hands before going to the rest room.
Sky 7 years ago
First of all you shouldn't be pretending like you know the situation perfectly.
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sh 7 years ago
What if you're serving it to yourself? And who says its bleeding?
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Calypso poet 7 years ago
Yeah, I am the one trying to catch the servers eye and give an ‘I am so sorry I wish I could do something I promise I am not like them’ look.
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Carlos Camacho 7 years ago
I love the lack of control of that situation. I love when it sounds and everybody stares at that person. The problem comes when you are the responsible of that situation hahaha
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Amanda Patterson 7 years ago
I actually hate it when servers don't write down my order. Usually (not often, but enough) it comes back wrong. I've worked retail. I know it speeds things up, but take the time to write it down; it reduces errors.
Daniel Fleming 7 years ago
Typically when they don't write it down, they either have been doing the job for forever, or your at a very nice restaurant. Other times, people just want to look cool
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Daphne Womack 7 years ago
Lolol I was at one serving job for 3 years in a small town and I got to the point where I had whole church groups, like 20 people, come in and about 80% of them got the same things every time so all I would truly have to remember were like 8 things. I never wrote down any orders for like the last year and a half I was there
Catlady6000 7 years ago
This is a parlor trick, it can up your tip a lot, but when it goes wrong, OH. MY. GOD. I never do this
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Leisa Farrow 6 years ago
This was one of the best tings that happened to me when I worked as a server. On more than one occasion, too! It's all you can do not to say, "HA!" right in their face. LOL
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Ryan-Michele Eagleton 7 years ago
One time I was stuck in line behind this obnoxious customer who would not stop bitching and berating the cashier - and the issue wasn't even his fault or anything he had any control over. She was being seriously rude and I wanted so badly to say something; I regret that I didn't. Next time I'm in that situation, I'm for sure speaking up.
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FABULOUS1 7 years ago
This one is my favorite thing to do. I work in customer service and when brokers call in telling me something I know is incorrect I really enjoy proving them wrong.
Janina Prado 7 years ago
i LOVE having providers realize they are wrong regarding forms they have to submit for continued services for their client. i applaud you.
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Marilyn Phua 7 years ago
Most definitely not.... lol!!! She called and asked what time will it rain again...
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Procrastinating Panda 7 years ago
A good waiter would never do that. So unprofessional. I hate sometimes my clients, but I don't mess up with their websites.
Sky 7 years ago
I seriously doubt you've never done anything of the sort. We've all been pissed off or had a bad day. And websites? I never knew your customers got websites, cool!
Load More Replies... Ryan-Michele Eagleton 7 years ago
Had coworkers who did this occasionally, but not me. If they're rude and you handle it gracefully, that looks good on you. If they're rude and you're petty back, that just makes you look unprofessional, no matter how satisfying it might be in the moment. And I've seen people get fired over this, so it's not really worth it, imo.
Neal Evans 7 years ago
maybe she's thinking " gee , if i give Chris one more chance maybe he might turn out to be a half decent human being"
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Samantha Robinson 7 years ago
I would stop, drop and roll but table five needs their bread sticks ASAP!
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Hotdogking 5 years ago (edited)
#1 for me please. Edit: After two years of living, I'd like to change this to 3 as well
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Dianna Siever 7 years ago
In other places I think it's called "American Dressing", it's white and creamy with spices and salt. We put it on salads, baked potatoes, hot wings, chicken nuggets, and use it as a veggie dip. Probably America's most popular dressing.
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Jack brown 3 years ago
Voice jumping 8 Octaves: Unfortunately we don't have Ranch. I'm so sorry.
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Full Name 7 years ago
This is why I prefer tablets. Sorry. This is way worse at the end of the meal. You get good service until you are well into your meal, then you say you want your food packed up and they come back but without the bill and then quickly take off and then take another 15 minutes to come round to ask if you want your bill. No, I just wanted to sit here with my polystyrene box like an a*****e. I can't tell you how many servers have had a great tip turn to f**k-all because I can't leave the damn place and often have to get up and track them down to pay.
Athanasios Seliotis 7 years ago
This! We get seated and then see our server seat another table, take drink orders and f**k off for 10 minutes. He comes back with their drinks and takes their food order and the seats another table and takes their drink order and we have been ignored the entire time. That is why your tip is zero, get it?
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Kiki 7 years ago
I used to get paid every two weeks and one pay period, I had a 10 day schedule with no days off.
Randomcthulu 7 years ago
At my job, we work 20 days in a row, 12 hour shifts, then 10 days off...we do get paid weekly, but thanks to my schedule I get nothing next Friday :(
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Jessica Gunn 7 years ago
So rude to ask the server to turn the air up....like they are the only person in the building...plus, you're only there for a short time, server is there all day, and most certainly doesn't want to show perspiration!
First Name 7 years ago
I'm assuming you meant heat. Some restaurants are kept unbearably cold. As a former server, I loved when customers gave me a reason to have my manager adjust the room temperature.
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Ryan-Michele Eagleton 7 years ago
"Dracarys" is the command this character gives her dragons to have them set someone on fire in the show "Game of Thrones."
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Kelly 7 years ago
It is, but asking and consuming it would mean no wasted food.
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Carole Dose 7 years ago
Perhaps they're under the shelter of the building?
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Carlos Camacho 7 years ago
DAMN. There is a special energy on dirty tables. People pick them all time.
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Ryan-Michele Eagleton 7 years ago
It seemed like every table I ever had liked to make passive aggressive jokes about the tip. It's really not that funny when you depend on those tips to pay your bills.
#74
Janina Prado 7 years ago
my coworker and i email each other all the time and do this, and at lunch. it can be so glorious.
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#75
Procrastinating Panda 7 years ago
I used to work during all the holidays for 5 years, although it is not a big deal, but still makes you feel kinda sad to see people celebrating and enjoying, without having the possibility to do the same. Sometimes it is not worth the extra cash.
Joannie Goulet 7 years ago
My favorite restaurant closes 2 weeks during the holiday so everyone get to spend time with their family. They also close 2 weeks in summer.
#76
Kelly 7 years ago
I can't understand those people, they can share the bill and collect money. Why should a waiter do this for you?
Jen Sheridan 7 years ago
Often people don't have cash and need to pay with a card.
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#77
DforDorothy 7 years ago
Once I woke in the middle of the night, finding myself sitting, eyes wide open and talking foreign language, dreaming that I am talking order From some foreign costumers.
Merle S 7 years ago
what is "taking a table ranch"? english is not my first language and google isn't that helpful with this one
Janina Prado 7 years ago
"the table" is where the customers are seated and a specific server is assigned to wait on them. "Ranch" is a type of salad dressing made of some combination of buttermilk, salt, garlic, onion, mustard, herbs, and spices, mixed into a sauce based on mayonnaise, or another oil emulsion. as someone in another post commented "americans like to put that on everything." like chicken nuggets, salad, hot wings, various veggies, and sometimes in casseroles. not all americans like it, but more than would care to admit.
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Felix Feline 7 years ago
It is a photo of pro-Russian protesters beating a pro-Ukranian demonstrator during a rally in the city of Donetsk.
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Thinairgal 7 years ago
A little too much reality in this one...imo it's a bit hardcore for the topic
Lisa Shaw 7 years ago
This should be removed. There is nothing laughable going on in this picture.
Janina Prado 7 years ago
this should have not gotten a down vote. this photo is not a joke.
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Jessica Gunn 7 years ago
Cuz it happens to be the very table they want to sit at, in fact, it's their favorite table.
Load More Replies... Thinairgal 7 years ago
Straight past the "Please wait to be seated" sign to the only dirty table in your section. So embarrassing leaning past them to clean it. Maybe that's what they're after?
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Janina Prado 7 years ago
i worked at t-shirt shop with a bunch of snooty girls who treated me with distain because i was the only punk girl there. one day a coworker lamented she couldn't attend a school dance as she had to work that night. i totally blew away everyone when out of the blue i said i'd work her shift so she could go to the dance. you could've heard a pin drop. the manager changed the schedule, took me aside and asked why - i said "now she has to be nice to me, and it's going to kill her."
Sky 7 years ago
I never more than 7 shift in 5 years of working at a restaurant. I don't want to go in on my days off while you go off frolicking somewhere honestly, plus the restaurant can probably handle one worker gone.
#81
bruce westfall 7 years ago
A cup of coffee costs pennies. If I am paying 10x that, why is it wrong to ask for fresh coffee when one cup more than pays for the whole pot? Old coffee is nasty. Instant is worse. I will not eat out when I can have a better experience at home. And yes, I have done food service work and I made sure my customers were happy. Management upset a bit, but I cared - genuinely - about the customer..
Jules Caldwell 7 years ago
17 years of waitressing and i've never once had a customer upset by me saying, "gimme a minute to a get a fresh pot started for you'.
KT Trondsen 7 years ago
Funny, but a total d-bag move! Always give fresh, give what you would expect to be served.
Jana Renner 7 years ago
Oh, tell me! I thought Starbucks is everywhere...
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#83
Amy Rose 7 years ago
What is worse is that fake money disguising a religious tract.
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#85
Sleep Meister 7 years ago
we notice, we are just to polite to say anything or cant be arsed waiting for a fresh dish. If its nice 9/10 wont complain.
Becky Beasley 7 years ago
I have a friend who will try to find ANYTHING that will gain her a free or reduced meal......I don't ever go to lunch with her anymore , it's too embarrassing to watch her insist that they give her something free, when all she found was a tiny piece of toweling on her plate.....after she finished eating.
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Carol Emory 7 years ago
My biggest pet peeve is people that don't tip their waitress because the kitchen screwed up in making the order...like the time I went to Denny's and about gagged on the oatmeal because the chef used buttermilk instead of regular milk to make it. Sour as heck! Blech!
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Anna Culhane 7 years ago
check machine if u r a chef then u know...... u never forget the sound of this....
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Ohio Hands 7 years ago
Me either...wouldnt they be spending their own tips?
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Ellis 7 years ago
Only in the US. In many countries leaving a tip is considered rude, as if you expect the boss to not take good care of their employees’ wages.
Zanthe 7 years ago
Yeah, I said it once in another post, but if you leave money on the table here in Brazil, the servers will go after you and say "hey, you forgot this".
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PickleRick 7 years ago
The fact a tip is expected in US is absurd, you earn a tip with exceptional service, not for doing the job you get paid for anyway.
Ellis 7 years ago
Correct: not for doing the job you OUGHT to get paid for
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Lilly 7 years ago
while i try to be compassionate to my servers when dining out & usually tip a minimum 20%, this 'rule' about tipping them 20% all the time is ridiculous! if you absolutely suck as a server, i'm sorry, but you aren't getting 20%. i've done the job before, so i know what it's like. i also know that if everyone had tipped me the 'mandatory' 20%, i might've stuck with it rather than realize that i wasn't cut out for it.
Anne 7 years ago
I can think of a lot more reasons to not tip a server 20%.. like when a server is rude, gratuity is added as a line item already (yeah, I've been chased by a waiter for not tipping, while gratuity was added automatically to the bill and the complete amount was paid), food arrives cold etc. Each error is a deduction. And each unexpected extra is added on. Simple.
Full Name 7 years ago
Don't b***h at the customers. If you think it's mandatory, then tell the restaurant to put it in the price and be done with the charade. Tipping if the worst. The guy at the shoe store who goes out of his way to be excellent isn't expecting a tip. Makes no sense.
First Name 7 years ago
The guy at the shoe store likely makes commission. My brother in law made 60K selling shoes at Nordstrom. You think he'd rather have a flat $12 an hour wage? Heck no. Servers should always make faaarrr more in tips than they would if given a standard wage.
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Ruth Neighbor 7 years ago
Omg I know those mannequins! They’re the ones that the devil uses, right? The ones to scare THE LIVING HELL OUT OF US?!
noah jin 5 years ago
SHUT UP #$%@ NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU SAY YOU @#$@#!!!!!
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Notsoswift 7 years ago
As an ex Chef all I can say to servers is.................Your food is dying in the window!!!!!
Full Name 7 years ago
So the customer gets cold food and then complains like you prepared it cold.
Load More Replies... Calypso poet 7 years ago
This was one of the better posts I’ve seen. Funny and informative from either perspective. And some great comments! I don’t think I’ve liked so many comments in one post before!
Vonskippy 7 years ago
You ever wonder why you're "how come they get the good tables or they get the good clients or they get the good tips" and you're stuck giggling at stupid customer demeaning server memes? It's because you think these meme's are funny or justified. You get out of serving what you put into it. The good servers treat EVERY client as their best and the poor servers are upset when their work calendar with one extra shift in two weeks comes out. If you don't like being a server - get the f**k out - there are 8 wanna be's for every position - so move along now.
Valereee 7 years ago
Both of my adult children & one grandchild all work at restaurants or bars...I understand all of these...I always taught them to take pride in whatever they do! As a result they ( for the most part ), enjoy what they do & always keep their customers in mind...except for the unruly or disrespectful !
Kayla Welch 7 years ago
I can't believe they didn't have a meme on when someone you hate sits in your section.
Blue Cicada 7 years ago
I ask for the manager and let him/her know the name (if possible) of the wait staff and bussers who are calm, professional, helpful etc. with a difficult customer. Saw 3 19/20 year olds stay polite and smiling to a nasty, loud rude asshat in 3 separate encounters one evening. As waitress calmly walked him through sliding his own credit card through the on-table card reader, she explained that it was asking what % tip he wanted to add to the bill. None, he said, because the government already takes too much of his money. She smiled and asked him to sign the bill. I pointed out to the manager that the stereotype is that youth are lazy and rude, but his young staff were awesome. Also, the waitress was owed a tip for the $75 bill.
Snowhoepandapro 7 years ago
Working as a kitchen manager, who has worked up to this position, I can totally relate to a lot of these! Made me laugh so much!! Some even reminded me of my shift today! Haha
Notsoswift 7 years ago
As an ex Chef all I can say to servers is.................Your food is dying in the window!!!!!
Full Name 7 years ago
So the customer gets cold food and then complains like you prepared it cold.
Load More Replies... Calypso poet 7 years ago
This was one of the better posts I’ve seen. Funny and informative from either perspective. And some great comments! I don’t think I’ve liked so many comments in one post before!
Vonskippy 7 years ago
You ever wonder why you're "how come they get the good tables or they get the good clients or they get the good tips" and you're stuck giggling at stupid customer demeaning server memes? It's because you think these meme's are funny or justified. You get out of serving what you put into it. The good servers treat EVERY client as their best and the poor servers are upset when their work calendar with one extra shift in two weeks comes out. If you don't like being a server - get the f**k out - there are 8 wanna be's for every position - so move along now.
Valereee 7 years ago
Both of my adult children & one grandchild all work at restaurants or bars...I understand all of these...I always taught them to take pride in whatever they do! As a result they ( for the most part ), enjoy what they do & always keep their customers in mind...except for the unruly or disrespectful !
Kayla Welch 7 years ago
I can't believe they didn't have a meme on when someone you hate sits in your section.
Blue Cicada 7 years ago
I ask for the manager and let him/her know the name (if possible) of the wait staff and bussers who are calm, professional, helpful etc. with a difficult customer. Saw 3 19/20 year olds stay polite and smiling to a nasty, loud rude asshat in 3 separate encounters one evening. As waitress calmly walked him through sliding his own credit card through the on-table card reader, she explained that it was asking what % tip he wanted to add to the bill. None, he said, because the government already takes too much of his money. She smiled and asked him to sign the bill. I pointed out to the manager that the stereotype is that youth are lazy and rude, but his young staff were awesome. Also, the waitress was owed a tip for the $75 bill.
Snowhoepandapro 7 years ago
Working as a kitchen manager, who has worked up to this position, I can totally relate to a lot of these! Made me laugh so much!! Some even reminded me of my shift today! Haha
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