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50 Times Restaurant Clients Reached New Heights Of Evil (New Pics)
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Every job has an ugly side. Customer service advisors get yelled at a lot. Fire lookouts have to be all but alone most of the time. And while the fast-paced environment of restaurant work might be appealing for some, there are infuriating customers that treat staff like garbage to drain all its joy.
Ranging from fake $100 bills as a tip to absentee parents who let their children run wild in the restaurant, shrieking and running into waiters' legs to their heart’s content (ugh!), these types of customers are pretty common. And they deserve a special place in hell. Today, Bored Panda has collected some of the most horrible examples from all over the internet to demonstrate exactly what servers have to put up with. If you thought leaving a 2% tip is evil, the photos on this list will make your head spin.
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#1
This Rude Lady Left A Review To Mislead Customers At The Restaurant I Work At
Kim Lorton 3 years ago
Perfect! People like this, need to be banned for life. Even if they come in as an individual. Just listen to them explain to their wives why they cannot eat there anymore ..
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#2
Restaurant Owner's Instant Karma
#3
Left One Star Review On The Super Bowl Sunday
#4
This Couple Were Blasting Baby Shark And Other Kid Music To Their Children In A Restaurant We Paid Tons Of Money To Eat In
#5
A Generous Tip For Someone Working At A Restaurant
#6
People Who Leave This Instead Of A Tip
#7
Parents At The Restaurant Allowing Their Children To Walk On The Table. Also Saw Them Sticking The Salt Shaker In Their Mouths
#8
A Review Written About A 15-Year-Old Server At My Work Place. This Guy Was In His 50's And Made Her Cry In The Middle Of The Restaurant
Anna Ekberg 3 years ago
Hmm, 50 year old guy going to personal attacks and commenting on a 15 year old girls body. Disturbing on so many levels.
#9
Leaving Diapers Behind You In A Cafe
#10
The Customer Left A Note On The Receipt Telling The Waitress To Call Him Cuz She Has "Beautiful Nipples"
#11
To Think I Really Did Dream Of Being A Waitress
Justin Thyme 3 years ago
Since they didn't sign the receipt, that makes it credit card fraud and theft. Prosecute.
#12
A Mother Letting Her Child Drink Syrup Directly From A Communal Syrup Bottle While Watching Street Outlaws On Her Phone
Lady Z Azrael 3 years ago
Gotta be from here in the South. Only explanation. See it all the time... especially at Waffle House and Dennys
#13
I Work In A Restaurant. A Customer Just Left An Unusual Tip
#14
Customer Ordered All This Food On Uber Eats And Cancelled The Order The Moment I Finished Making Everything
#15
McDonald's In Finland
Jesse Setliffe 3 years ago
Oh so it's not just in America; every other person that goes to McDonald's the world over is gross.
#16
So Inappropriate To Let The Dog Sit On The Table Where Everyone Eats
#17
This Military Spouse Was Demanding To Have Her Next Meal For Free
#18
Stealing Art From A Restaurant Bathroom Wall
#19
I Took My Kids To McDonald's Drive-Thru. I'm Guessing The Person In The Car In Front Of Me Asked For No Pickles
#20
My Pizza Hut Was A Target Of Prank Orders Today. All Of This Food Now Has To Be Thrown Out
#21
Someone Shaved In The Sink At A Restaurant And Left It Like This. This Isn't Even The First Time Someone Has Bathed, Hotboxed, Shaved, Rolled Blunts In The Bathroom
#22
This Woman's Disgusting Feet On A Cafe Table
#23
The McDonald's At Queen And Spadina
#24
This Lady With Her Shoes On The Counter At McDonald's. She Then Proceeded To Shout At The Staff
#25
This Guy Was Staring Through The Cracks At The Girls Working At McDonald's
Sarcastic Jock 3 years ago
Bit of an assumption. Maybe the dude wanted to look at the kitchens. Maybe he's neurodiverse and wanted to know the inner workings. Maybe he knows someone and was waiting and checking if they were done yet. All mine are assumptions, your assumption went straight to the worst option.
#26
This Guy Watching Inappropriate Video At Starbucks
#27
This Man And His Son Were Watching Stuff On Three Different Devices. All Of Them With Their Volume On Max, In A Public Restaurant
#28
That's Just Disrespectful
#29
Restaurant Closed 15 Minutes Ago, And These People Are Oblivious That The Whole Staff Is Standing Around Waiting For Them To Leave
Mrs Irish Mom 3 years ago
We closed 15 mins ago, would you like a takeaway bag, NO ok well we will have to ask you to leave...
#30
Letting Your Child Do This At A Restaurant And Then Stiffing Your Server
DustTea 3 years ago
My grandma took me and my sisters (9 and 5) to a restaurant, where they were constantly messing with things. My grandma said it was fine any time i tried to stop them. In the end there was a huge mess, and they all ran to the car, but i stopped to clean up. My grandma also didn’t leave a tip, so I, a fifteen year old, found an old 20 in my bag and left it with a note apologizing. My grandmas name is Karen. I wish I was joking.
#31
I Hate This Guy
Kim Lorton 3 years ago
Me. You need a lobotomy as you do not use any of your brain ... so lets just take it out!
#32
When People Do Things Like This
#33
This Dude Brought His Own TV To Watch Movies At McDonald's
#34
I Get That Parenting Is Hard, But Changing Your Baby On The Restaurant Table?
#35
Was Handed This As A Tip
Cyber Returns 3 years ago
Sign the number up with all of the most aggressive telemarketers and scammers
#36
This Guy Hangs Out At All The Fast Food Restaurants In My Town. He Sets Up His Little Cardboard Fort And Uses Their Wi-Fi To Watch Hentai
#37
He Took His Kid To Dinner And Watched A Movie On His Phone The Entire Time Without Headphones At Full Volume
#38
The Guy Behind Me At McDonald's Was Taking Advantage Of The Free WiFi
Rebekah 3 years ago
Side story - my neighborhood was hit with a huge windstorm, and lost power for over a week and it was below freezing. The McD's a couple miles over started welcoming everyone in to use the free wifi. They set up power stations and didn't mind how long you stayed. They would hook you up with chargers if needed. Had movies on the screens for the kids. I ate more nuggets that week than humanly possible, and I've never gone back to the McD's closer to my home since.
#39
How To Use The Tips Line For Free Meals
#40
From A Yelp Restaurant Review In Houston
#41
This Was Left As A Tip At My Restaurant
Jesse Setliffe 3 years ago
Right now? Sure. In a few minutes, after I catch up with you in the parking lot after you left this at my table, well probably not.
#42
Just What I Want To See When I'm Eating Lunch
Lady Z Azrael 3 years ago
"Ummm help, health department, I think we may have a code violation. You should get here asap. Thank you "
#43
1 Star Review
Jesse Setliffe 3 years ago
I heard Veronica said it was a great place to break up with with a whiner at.
#44
"They Don't Know It Yet, But We Finna Dine And Dash." If Only They Had Tagged Themselves At The Waffle House
#45
One Star Review Because They Came After The Restaurant Closed
#46
Someone Cut Their Dreads At A Taco Bell Drive-Thru And Left Them On A Bush
#47
A Friend Got This As A Tip Last Night
#48
At A Wendy's
#49
In A Kentucky Starbucks At Noon. Small Children All-Around
#50
I Work At Starbucks, And Someone Tried To Pay With These $20 Bills Today
ConfusedCub 3 years ago
Bahaha! Aa if the matching serial numbers weren't a dead giveaway. There are so many ways to spot a counterfeit that it surprises me people still try. Good on this person with the keen eye! Bravo
#51
Capital Punishment For People Who Treat Service Workers Like Pigs
#52
Somebody Brought Their Desktop Computer To Starbucks
#53
The Most Insulting Tip. And It Was Contactless
#54
My Girlfriend Received This As A Tip On A $50 Bill. The Woman Stuffed It Behind The Plastic, So She Had To Pick Each One Out
#55
I Appreciate The Extra Tip
Justin Thyme 3 years ago
Good advice-- you already have a tip from the gratuity-- the fact that they are trying to get you to tip twice is annoying as all get out.
#56
This Entitled Person
ОльхаКинг(AlderKing) 3 years ago
the tables are empty because the people who made the reservations haven’t showed up yet, if they turned you away it’s cos they’re full
#57
A Group Of Rich Girls From Stanford Came To My Bar, Tried A Million Samples, Held Up The Line, And All Tipped Like This
#58
How Some Customers Left A Table Today. Some Of It Is The Food We Don't Even Serve
I_dont_now_what_to_say_here 3 years ago
That's why I like not make my table that messy when am going to eat outside even in my house,I try to clean after me
#59
I Was Told I Did An Excellent Job And Earned An "Early Christmas Gift." Instead I Came Back With A Fake $15 Tip
#60
People Who Leave Tables Like This
#61
McDonald's Is The Walmart Of Fast Food
#62
People Who Don't Understand The Restaurant Industry
David 3 years ago
If you cant afford to tip, go to a fast food place where they get paid minimum and not $2.50. I fully agree laws need to change and I also hate tipping culture but its not the usually teen servers fault the system is the way it is. Stop punishing them when you know the system is flawed.
#63
This Racist Review Threatens To Send Immigration To A Mexican Restaurant
#64
I Got This Lovely Note In My Christmas Stocking From A Wonderful Customer Today. I Love Working At Starbucks
#65
Who The Hell Wakes Up In The Morning And Thinks To Themselves: "I'm Gonna Throw An Entire Roll Of Toilet Paper Into The Toilet At A Public Restaurant"?
#66
Only At The Waffle House
#67
I Work At An Upscale Restaurant. Today A Customer Wearing A Dolphins Jersey And A Wig Left This
#68
Acting Like This At A Sushi Restaurant
Lepakko Neulatyyny 3 years ago (edited)
Don't think she actually did that. Looks like bad photoshop to me.
#69
If You Leave A Table Like This, You'll Have A Special Place In Hell
#70
I Just Got This Dollar From A Customer At My Cafe
#71
The Only Table In This Restaurant That Has A Sign
#72
These People With Their Guns
ОльхаКинг(AlderKing) 3 years ago
just wait til they find out that wearing a flag is technically flag desecration
#73
This Couple At The Upscale Restaurant Getting Handsy
#74
People Who Find The Need To Do This In A Nice Restaurant Bathroom
#75
A Customer At The Pizza Place I Deliver To Paid With Coins Instead Of Euros. Now The Delivery Driver Has To Pay The Missing Money
The Scout 3 years ago
Unfortunately this is a common scam - or might even have been an accident. This Thai coin (10 Bath) is close enough to a 2 Euro coin that even vending machines accept it, looks nearly the same but is worth about 20 cents instead of 2 Euros. As you can see at https://www.muenchen.tv/storage/thumbs/732x/117467.webp. It is quite possible that the cutsomer even did not notice but was given this coin somewhere else and had not been looking at it. Well, at least it is actual currency.
#76
Passed Out Drunk In A Subway
#77
One Of Our Customers At Our Restaurant Came To Us With His Food And A Nail
He said that he found a nail in the broccoli. So either some lunatic was nailing nails into broccolis, or the broccoli had consumed the nail while growing.
Erwin Dillinger 3 years ago
Sure happened while transport or something, once i found a screw in my ordered food Pasta with Bolognese Sauce. The Restaurant replaced it apologized and say they checked the Kitchen equipment for missing screws after i called them. things sadly happens from time to time and it's no ones fault.
#78
These People Smoking Cigarettes Inside Next To A Table Of Children
Justin Thyme 3 years ago
Were they in a designated smoking area? If so, then the parents are wrong-- especially since this looks to be a bar
#79
Thank You To Whoever Let Their Kid Play Around With A Display Piece In My Restaurant
#80
This Is How A Customer Walked In At The Restaurant I Work At
#81
I Work In A Small Cafe, And Someone Came In And Stuck These Posters All Over The Tables
Looks like glue and it is super sticky.
Cyber Returns 3 years ago
Call the number on the poster and tell them you are sending them the cleaning bill and any cost of repairs
#82
Stealing From Whole Foods Just Went To A Whole New Level Of Classy
#83
My Family Of 5 Couldn't Find A Table To Sit At Because Of People Like That. There Were Plenty Of 2 Seaters
Martine Nicolay 3 years ago
And what if these 2 ladies came in before you and all the two-seaters we're taken at that moment?
#84
I Should Have Just Quit After This
#85
I Found This At My Local Wendy's
#86
Mom Of Six Steals A $4000 Bottle Of Cognac From Behind The Bar At A Restaurant
#87
We Had To Throw Out Six Heads Of Lettuce At Jimmy John's The Other Day Because A Customer Complained That It Was "Too Brown" And Demanded We Make Him A New Sandwich
#88
This Person At Wendy's
Erwin Dillinger 3 years ago (edited)
So what? Maybe she had a stone in her sock or something, she not even touched the Floor with her foot. Just mind your own business.
#89
What I Got For A Tip. So Confused
#90
A Lady Guest At Our Restaurant Just Left This On The Seat. A Sweat Stain
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What do you think ?
AlanandLeila Hoyt 3 years ago
As a Christian, I always found the fake tips/scripture deplorable. If you want to leave scripture, that’s great, but it better be next to at least a 20% tip, preferably 40%. Leaving the fake stuff is just going push people away and it’s a jerk move.
Rose the Cook 3 years ago
So many concerning tips. Why don't American employers just pay staff a decent wage?
Disgruntled Pelican 3 years ago
Gee, why didn’t we think of that? It’s not like that’s been a major source of contention in the country for decades and millions of us have been calling on the politicians to fix this system, or anything. So, glad you brought this to our attention for the first time ever. We’ve definitely never had this discussion on BP a hundred times. Now that we know, I’m sure they’ll change the laws immediately! Go ahead and downvote me, but I’m tired of people ignoring the actual problem we’re having and acting like this is some simple fix. That’s not how our government works. We have far less control than the rest of the world seems to think we have. A lot of us are trying to get this changed, but, until that happens, not tipping your servers only hurts them and doesn’t change anything. They have less power than anyone, so stop advocating for us to punish them by not tipping. If a restaurant owner has to make up wages from non-tipping, they fire the server. They don’t suffer, and...
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Randy Sanders 3 years ago
I always tip, but I tip in cash. That way, the server gets to keep the whole amount, with no taxes taken out.
AlanandLeila Hoyt 3 years ago
As a Christian, I always found the fake tips/scripture deplorable. If you want to leave scripture, that’s great, but it better be next to at least a 20% tip, preferably 40%. Leaving the fake stuff is just going push people away and it’s a jerk move.
Rose the Cook 3 years ago
So many concerning tips. Why don't American employers just pay staff a decent wage?
Disgruntled Pelican 3 years ago
Gee, why didn’t we think of that? It’s not like that’s been a major source of contention in the country for decades and millions of us have been calling on the politicians to fix this system, or anything. So, glad you brought this to our attention for the first time ever. We’ve definitely never had this discussion on BP a hundred times. Now that we know, I’m sure they’ll change the laws immediately! Go ahead and downvote me, but I’m tired of people ignoring the actual problem we’re having and acting like this is some simple fix. That’s not how our government works. We have far less control than the rest of the world seems to think we have. A lot of us are trying to get this changed, but, until that happens, not tipping your servers only hurts them and doesn’t change anything. They have less power than anyone, so stop advocating for us to punish them by not tipping. If a restaurant owner has to make up wages from non-tipping, they fire the server. They don’t suffer, and...
Load More Replies... Randy Sanders 3 years ago
I always tip, but I tip in cash. That way, the server gets to keep the whole amount, with no taxes taken out.
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