Entitled People Who Just Didn’t Get Their Way at Restaurants
Anyone who says that the customer is always right has clearly never worked in the service industry. Restaurant patrons can be obnoxious, greedy, and downright rude when things don’t go exactly the way they expect.
Here are some true stories of entitled people in restaurants acting like absolute babies.
Enjoy Your Mints
I had been in the industry for over 15 years and I have seen a lot. However, my favorite incident occurred when I was the manager at a steakhouse. My host at the time was a smart-alec 20-year-old who had a good sense of humor.
As a customer was leaving, he scooped at least 50 mints in his arms, so the host said, “Enjoy the mints”! This infuriated the guy, and he started yelling and cursing.
I heard this from the front of the restaurant. As I was walking up to see what was going on, I saw a guy dressed in business casual attire holding a bucketload of mints two feet away, yelling at this kid.
My host just had a huge smile and was saying, “No, I’m not apologizing”. I calmly asked if I could help the gentleman out while being completely lost as to what was going on.
He yelled that he wanted me to make the host apologize. I asked him to please calm down and let me talk to the host to see what happened. The host told me, “I told him ‘Enjoy the mints’”!
I then turned to this guy, and his face was priceless. It was now completely red, and he was so mad he was shaking. The mints were practically falling out of his arms. I just couldn’t take it.
I was trying so hard not to laugh in his face, and all I could manage to say was, “Sir, please enjoy your mints”. Needless to say, he left in a hissy fit, called corporate, and then I had to explain it to my boss. We got written up, and we had to give this guy and his wife a free meal. SlamminSumBs
Egg on Your Face
Once, when I was working at this insanely popular breakfast joint, my first table of the morning was a seemingly adorable old couple.
After going through our specials, at their request, she ordered the duck hash special, and he ordered 2 boring poached eggs on toast.
All good. I bring them their food and the guy starts freaking out. You see, I didn’t bring him a tablespoon for his eggs.
Granted, he didn’t ask for one, but according to him, everyone knows that poached eggs are supposed to be served with a tablespoon.
I’ve been a waitress for nearly a decade, and I’ve served a LOT of poached eggs, and I’ve never heard this rule. Nonetheless, I apologize profusely and tell him I’ll go grab him a spoon. “No!” he yells.
“My breakfast is ruined now!” and then, this grown adult throws his plate of food at me and storms out. His wife gives me a sympathetic smile as she slinks out behind him, and I work the next 8 hours with egg yolk stains all over me. [deleted]
Door Drama
I had an old man yell at me because the only table left was too close to the door. I told him there was nothing I could do unless he wanted to wait for another table.
He yelled this was unacceptable and went and sat at it anyways. He only ordered a hot water and sat there glaring at me while I worked.
When he finally left I said it was free and he yelled ”yeah right!” and stormed out. The bonus was that all my other tables sympathy tipped really well because of him! alyoopboop
Spaghetti and Mayo
My ex wife worked at an Italian restaurant chain in the American south.. American Italian food, not real Italian food. Anyway, this one night she came home and was telling me this story. A guy came in and ordered spaghetti with meat sauce.
She brought out their plates and the guy asked for mayonnaise. She tried to explain that they don’t have any mayo, and she said the dude flipped out.
Threw the plate on the ground, and screamed “HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO EAT SPAGHETTI WITHOUT MAYONNAISE?!” and then left without paying. Anyone ever hear of spaghetti with mayo? [deleted]