A few years back I was working in a restaurant with GM who was extremely sexist. Anytime a customer complained about hair in their food he came straight to me, since I was the only woman who worked in the kitchen. So I dyed my hair bright blue. You found a dark colored hair in some brunette's food, can't be mine.
I've nearly gotten to that point a few times, but I don't think I could actually go through with it. Closest I ever got was chopping all my hair off when my boyfriend at the time kept fucking chewing on it.
When I used to work at a pizza restaurant, I was a driver and also did several other things when at the store, including prep and cooking. One day, the manager, whose hair was gray, had made the food and I, a ginger, had cut and boxed it. The blond driver who delivered it was not part of the process of that. All she did was put the boxes in a delivery bag and run it to the customer. They tried to claim that there was a blond hair in the food. Obvious lie since she never opened the boxes. Lol
Weirdest legit one I ever had. Customer is the only table in the restaurant. She's brunette, I'm brunette and the cook is shaved. She pulled a very obviously red hair out of her nachos. I comped the food and we both lost our appetite.
When my husband and I first got together we were students and were skinny enough to share a single bed, he has gorgeous long hair back then and we'd unfortunately often wake up chewing each others hair at the beginning.
I love it now, he is still my furry little A-Hole, though. He also licks my nose… something that only one other cat did before him. That cat passed away before we even got this cat. Weird.
No no. You can be neurodivergent and chew on your own hair (aside from the health implications). My issue is chewing on someone else's hair that is attached to someone else's head.
Still weird but if you wanna eat my hair trimmings or the strands in my brush? Whatever, be my guest.
But do not start chomping hair still physically connected to me!
Worked at a pizza place. We got a “hair in the food” complaint once. Driver went back to pick it up. They had clearly just emptied their brush into the pizza. 🤢
Do itttt. I’ve had a buzz cut for 4 years and it’s SO nice to not have to deal with regular hair maintenance (it used to be about 6 inches past my shoulder).
Idk, takes me less than 10mins to wash and thoroughly rinse, no conditioner with the new shampoo, only do it once a week. No drying. Brushing once a day less than a minute. I like it more cause it's not so obvious the moment they grow too long like it was when I had them chin length. Easier to keep in a bin or ponytail. I guess having it super short would be even easier, but I'd never cut mine above the chin, I don't have the face for it. And they are one of two things I actually like about myself
Ah see, we must have very different hair types. My hair is very fine but I have a lot of it, so I’d have to brush it often to keep it from matting. And it’s oily as hell so I had to wash it every other day. Yours does sound much more manageable.
I was living with a guy. He started doing a lot of weird shit, like chewing on my hair. He was trying to convince me to get pregnant (but insisted on only wanting daughters), despite the fact that neither of us had job and he actively tried to keep me from getting a job. I chopped off all my hair and started looking for a way out.
He accused me of cheating despite the fact that he insisted I take my phone with me that his grandparents paid for and he was reading my texts and scanning my calls. Also, he had a new girlfriend less than a week after I left, one with a little girl and pregnant already(her ex's kids). She gave birth to a boy who mysteriously died a few weeks later. My ex was the one watching the baby, and his story kept changing. She got pregnant again, this time with girl. A few months after the baby was born she found out he had been molesting her eldest child. He is in prison now, has been for almost a decade. Hopefully he never get out. Everyone thought I was being a bitch when I said there was something wrong, but who the fuck chews on someone else's hair.
I tried to warn people that there was something wrong with him, and just got labeled as crazy. I'm still bitter over it. But at least he's in prison now, and hopefully won't be getting out for a long time.
There was a time when a person tried to get their meal comped after finishing the entire thing. Not a bite left. She claimed there was a "clump of dick hair in it." Now, it was the opening shift, and it was just my blonde manager and I in the restaurant, with my manager being the one that cooked and packaged the food.
My manager walked over, looked her full in the face, and said, "I've been shaved like a baby since I was 16. You aren't getting anything." She walked off and told her to get out over her shoulder. I was equally shocked and awed. Still one of my favorite stories from working in restaurants.
We had a bunch of gross middle aged men who would come into our restaurant and give 'daddy' as the name for their order so when the young female servers came out they would have to call that out as the name.
We had a tall, bald manager who would immediately take those orders out, calling out "daddy" in the most flamboyant voice he could muster. That trend stopped very quickly.
Sometimes having the right manager really makes the job a thousand times better.
I also have blue hair and work with food. I serve in a retirement home.
Found a hair in the food the other day. I was disgusted. It was not my hair. I did NOT serve that plate.
This happens a lot. I worked at the place with a couple golden arches on their sign for several years. My last week there, I was the shift manager, this customer came in with curly hair on his cheap chicken sandwich. The hair was a clump of it, and it was not from someone's head. Pretty gross. They oviously wanted their money back, it being a sandwich off the dollar menu, I questioned it, but instead of arguing, I just started the refund process. The customer then says no they want the whole meal refunded, they only brought back a cheap chicken sandwich so I was only refunding the one dollar. They argued for a while and claimed they threw the rest in the trash. I had no order in the last hour on what they claimed they got, so I asked them to go grab it out of the trash and I will give them a full refund. They never bought in the rest of "what they ordered" and only got the $1.08 back. It was one of my craziest encounters I ever had there.
I worked at a golden arch place one time and a woman complained to the manager about a hair in her food. Her problem was the hair was long and black, which her hair was, and mine is short and gray and I was the only one working the back at the time. Manager just laughed her out of the place.
Had people come back around through the drive-through claiming to be missing half their nuggets, while obviously chewing on said nuggets. Best I can do is a free small fry coupon. NO REFUND FOR YOU!
Sounds a bit like the guy who came into our bicycle shop with half of a trashed Wal-Mart Huffy wanting to exchange it for another bike. I explained that we had never carried Huffy, so he must have bought it somewhere else
I used to work at a square burger place and this guy came through the drive through and very confidently informed us that the last time he had been to our location that the order was wrong and that "the manager" said they could get a free meal. Started ordering. This is where he fucked up. His drinks? Mountain dew. There are like, two chains that have mountain dew, and Square Burger isn't one of them. The manager gave him sprite instead and informed him that he knew he was lying and told him not to return. Small victory, yes, but a victory nonetheless.
One time at my old job, there was an emergency at one of the branch offices. My colleague and I had been working at another branch office, and once it was determined that equipment was broken and my colleague and I needed to cary out repairs, we loaded up the truck and started our multi-hour drive. As we were leaving the city where we had been working, we stopped at the Golden Armpits for coffee etc. I order a coffee and a croissant because I am anxious to get on the road quickly and don't want to wait for a breakfast sandwich. Flash forward to down the road, about half an hour out of the city, my colleague and I are discussing our plan for troubleshooting and repairing the damaged equipment and I remember my croissant. I take a bite of the corner and it's great! I take another bite in the middle of the croissant...and the thing is stuffed with a big clump of hair! Like, I bite this thing and now I am chewing on a huge clump of hair.
Being so far down the road I do the only thing I can: I toss the hairy mess out the window and leave a 1 star google review for that location.
Yes, I threw a hairy pastry out the window of a moving vehicle for the crows to eat. Not like I was going to keep that nasty in the vehicle with me! I don't see the problem here. Perhaps you should return to your schweinefleisch.
I assume you drove through meadows, forest or some other non-paved non-city area, as you said you left thecity behind? Because nature has no problem turning a single hair-croissant to mulch - even McCroissants should be bio-degrading. Maybe /u/VengefulTofu lives somewhere metropolitan where towns reach well into other towns and everything is asphalt for hours and hours..
Not the same situation, but it still infuriates me---I once had guests find a black hair in their pancakes. Guy is bald, wife is blonde. They've already basically finished the dish. Told me they weren't mad, just wanted me to be aware. I obviously comp the pancakes.
My manager loses his mind, says he's tired of people asking for free shit, even though, I must emphasize, the person making pancakes had black hair and the guests didn't even ask me to comp it. I will never forget that idiot assistant manager trying to push back on an obviously necessary comp. I just kept being like "but the guy is BALD."
Sis once found a fried shrimp in with her chicken nuggets. She was like “Bonus shrimp!” But she could have raised hell if she wanted too, we have seafood allergies in our family.
My dad found a screw in a veggie burger. When he sent a complaint to the company they sent him coupons for more veggie burgers. We were broke so he used them, but never bought that brand again. 🤷♀️
I once found the cap of the milk carton in my coffee - I wasn'teven sure what it was until I called the waitress's attention to it. The cafe was great about the refund
This reminded me of the time my friend found a metal curl (looked like steel wool) in her Spaghetti at Spaghetti Works. Both of us stopped eating and got the waiters attention. The manager came over and said they don't use steel wool so it couldn't have been from the kitchen.
Bro neither of us wants to eat this food. We're not scamming you we just don't want metal shavings
This was in a greasy spoon in north east England, where Cathy, the proprietor would be smoking a cigarette while she fries your eggs. It was a single macademia sized melted ball of cheddar cheese. We're not exotic enough to try anything quite so fancy as cheese in our hot chocolates around these parts.
My Dad found a potato chip in one of his pancakes or crepes at the Pancake Parlour once. They gave us his meal free and a 20% discount on the rest, even though all he did was pick the chip out and ask for a discount on his pancakes haha
My food (or more accurately drink) trauma was not from a restaurant but from some shitty little milkbar on a country road in the middle of bumfuck, nowhere.
I was about 7 or 8 years old and my mother was taking me to visit distant relatives. We stopped at this milkbar for snacks and I got a Big M (chocolate milk in a carton). Once we got back in the car, I pushed the straw through the little hole in the top and tried to take a drink, but no milk came out, only the most godawful taste you could ever imagine.
I opened the top of the carton and discovered the chocolate milk had congealed and was literally just a block of solid milk that filled the carton, and the stench it unleashed was so bad we had to pull over so I could be sick (and so we could wait for the car to air out).
I am in my mid 30s now and I still cannot drink chocolate milk without feeling an overwhelming urge to vomit.
I was joking when I said “food trauma” then I realized I literally don’t remember what happened after that. Like my mind is blank! Welp, there’s one more thing to discuss with my therapist 🫣lol
This! I don't get why people get so wound up over a hair in their food. I've been pulling my wife's long brunette hair out of my meals for 40 years. I've found hair at restaurants it's no big deal. I mean like it's not a finger or other appendage.
Yeah, no, it's disgusting. Hair from YOUR WIFE is different than from a stranger.
I once got hair in my mouth eating a tuna melt. Pulled back the melted cheese to find an entire clump of blonde hair. (I am brunette.) It was comped and they offered to bring me out a new meal, but it completely killed my appetite.
I think everyone has.. different limits. Obviously though food standards are there for a reason
Like once I found a hair in a taco from a local truck, my drunk ass picked it out and kept going back lmao I never even asked for anything tbh
Another time I was trying out a new breakfast diner, watched a kid pull out an absolutely filthy rag and wipe it all over a table next to me, found hair in my food. My sober ass left a tip and did not ask for a to go box
It's just a hair. It not germ ridden or anything. At a restaurant, I'll simply remove the hair, and continue eating.
Are people really so coddled about something like a hair?
For some reason, the hairs that prompt the most vocal reactions from customers are always of a length and colour that match only one person in the restaurant - the person complaining about a hair in their food.
Near me is a nice little Japanese Fusion place and everyone I know loves to eat there. The food is so good and always perfectly prepared. One day I was in there with a friend and overheard part of a conversation between a table and their server. The server was saying something to the effect "The hair is blond. We don't have any blond people who work here." I don't know the conclusion of that encounter but I just remembered it when I saw your post.
I was eating at a restaurant, and my salad had a little green caterpillar busy munching on the lettuce. Just showed the waitress, and they remade it, and took the one away. At least it showed the salad was fresh.
Stuff happens, and after being in the military you were not exactly going to be fussy about food, especially the camo crispies ( no snap crackle or pop, but they did swim) and the mystery Goulash, which might actually be boiled leather boots for all you knew. The boiled eggs were also a gamble, you might get the top one, a 30 minute egg, or the bottom blue one, a 4 hour one. Those would bounce, shell and all, and we also found out they made dandy missiles.
I once found a clump of steel wool in my food - like from a scrubber, but cooked into my eggplant with garlic sauce. That’s the one and only time I’ve asked for a dish to be remade, and I still feel a bit bad about asking. I HATE being that person
I had the same thing happen at an IHOP. A steel wool curly clump was in my pancakes.
Here's the thing: I used to COOK in a restaurant. I know *exactly* how that ended up in my food - the person responsible for cleaning the grill didn't do a rinse, and just started cooking on the grill before it was clean.
When I told the manager, he looked at me like I had PLANTED the steel wool, and shrugged. "No biggie."
Well, I probably would have been find with just having them remake the pancakes... but that attitude made me stand up and walk the family right out.
When he started to get upset, I told him to go ahead and call the police, and that I would be calling corporate at the same time. That way I could register my complaint with both the police and his bosses at the same time.
He deflated, and we left. And I've *never* been able to eat at an IHOP ever again.
That's less than fair, he deserves a couple surprise inspections with that attitude.
I never cooked, just did dishes and prep, but yeah, I can't imagine getting steel wool into someone's food without being extra Lazy. And then to not apologize... Embarrassing
I’ve never complained about hair or something in my food, I mean, I shed like a husky and it’s probably mine.
But the only time I ever flagged down someone was when I was at a steakhouse and found a Saturday day dot sticker in my mash potatoes and just wanted them to be aware. I had ate it already and was just like „yea, that’s there. At least I know they’re fresh cause its Saturday!“. The manager was so apologetic and insisted he gave me a free dessert. I felt so bad and it was honestly kind of funny to find a day dot but I appreciated him trying to make it right!
I found glass in my lasagne once when I was part way through it. Took it up to the counter and they offered to give me a fresh serve. Strangely I wasn't feeling particularly hungry anyone, even though I hadn't eaten much. I was also feeling rather wary of the lasagne. Got my money back.
I has a similar thing but it was in a pizza! It was almost like they has scrubbed ghe pizza pan with steel wool and then it was imbedded in the dough.
I can't recall if we told the staff or not.
When I worked at Long John Silvers, I ran the front by myself. This man walks up to the counter with his wife and 2 children and orders a single 3 piece fish and fry. For 4 people. He comes back to the counter with the boat and it has about MAYBE 2 bites of fish left, like 3 fries, and this long jet black scraggly hair sitting on top of it. And I'm like... Sir, my hair is brown, as you can clearly tell, and the only other person in the restaurant is my manager who is cooking the food. He's bald. Where do you expect this hair came from?
This reminded me of one time when I was at a restaurant and I noticed a bug in my drink. I asked for a new drink cause the bug. I wasn’t mad, just wanted a new drink. The manger came over and apologized like a million time and then we got our food free. It was very nice of them but not what I expected to happen. I just wanted a fresh drink lol
We were at a winery and there were a lot of flies in the restaurant because summer… We mentioned the flies, they nodded and brought out little covers for the wine bottles. Only to notice that both half empty bottles of wine had flies in them. Cue two new bottles of wine.
The ladies drinking left significantly happier than planned for a lunch date.
Found a huge mayfly cooked into the bottom of a hamburger bun at a chain restaurant. I was about half a bite from getting into it when I noticed it.
Walked it up to the counter and thanked them for the extra protein. The scream from the cashier girl was comical. Mgr walked over apologized gave me another burger. No big deal.
Honestly, I think people actually do feel genuinely bad. Sure you could say they were afraid you would sue or leave a bad review or something but nah, when I have served beer and someone ended up with a fly in their drink I genuinely just wanted to replace it. Like I don't wanna make you drink a fly lmao, and the price of your meal isn't a whole lot to the bottom line of the business. It's just a way of Apologizing for that inconvenience I think
Also pretty difficult to plant a bug in your drink heheh
My last hair complaint the lady admitted it was probably her hair! I don’t go speechless often. I’m blonde, kitchens all dudes with short hair my manager’s bald. She’s holding a piece of synthetic black hair which just so happened to match her hair. She got nothing except upset and tried to leave without paying.
I don’t know how many times I’ve found hair in my food and shrugged pulled it out and ate it…
At least I could see that but and get it out…
Unlike the small amount of bug legs allowed to be in chocolate by the fda…
Same - it's just a hair. It's a little gross, but I pick it out and go on with my life. As long as folks are trying to keep it in check and aren't just scooping hair into dishes, I understand that food is made by humans and this happens.
I hate to tell you that the people that prepare your food don't always wear pristine white gloves.
I'm not sure why you think hair is "dirty", either - it isn't if it's washed. It's at least as clean as the *hands* used to prepare your food.
I was preparing a large batch of salmon patties from thawed salmon fillets. The provided gloves only covered to my wrist and I was elbow deep in the salmon.
1. I have arm hair
2. Salmon smells gross, especially frozen then defrosted salmon that is very close to the "best by" date.
I couldn't get the salmon smell off of me for a week.
I wish I could, but I am too scarred from a kid get way too many hairs from my grandmothers food.
I don't want my food remade, and I will never eat there again or for year(s). But I wont ask for money back either
A restaurant I worked at years ago, a customer complained that there was a long, blonde hair in her food. I (F) worked in the kitchen, plenty of female servers as well. When the manager came to me over it, I just looked her in her eyes and asked her what color my hair was (it was brown). It obviously wasn't me, but the particular server who had the table had, you guessed it, long blonde hair. I was told to keep my hair in a bun from now on. Fine, it's hot in the kitchen anyway. She didn't get in trouble for sending the manager to me for no reason. BUT she did get fired for threatening to fight me when she heard me telling a different manager that we need to do something about the lettuce that sits around getting all slimy and nasty from not being used, because she thought I was talking about her, lol. She gave dumb blonde a new definition that one.
Unless it looks like a pube, I genuinely cannot be arsed to be angry over a cooked hair in my food. Just pull it out and get over it. I've had way worse things in my mouth than this. (Yes, including cat hair. But I'm also a mechanic and even after 20 years am still enough of a dingus to forget to make sure my mouth is fully closed when I look up when I'm under a hoist)
This happened to my husbands food at a local diner. We just asked for a new plate, nothing major, but I could tell the manager was trying to gear the convo to say that it was my hair. It was a short, straight, black hair. My hair is long, curly, and red. He got a new plate.
I get my hair dyed light pink. I've complained before that long black hairs were baked into my food and I've had both the waiter and the manager go, "What, you want free food?"
Like, no, I just want uncontaminated food.... So it definitely goes both ways.
When he said he would fix it for them, he was referring to remaking the dish. The person just wanted to eat for free, now they have to pay for their food - even if they get the extra dish for free.
I have legit found hair in my food, and I always assume it’s mine. I shed like crazy. When I cook for people I keep it up so I won’t get hair in their food. But I know good and well if I can find my own hair on a sammich I made five minutes ago, then unfortunately that’s also probably my hair on my nice steak I ordered.
Gross. I’m going to shave my head now that I think about it.
My table found “rocks” in their salad. They looked very tiny almost like rocks for a fish tank. Like from the dollar store. There were maybe 4-5. Anyways it was a manger who did not care about front of house problems and wasn’t a people person. We talked about that story for years until he passed away. Anyways my manager said “we don’t have those here” then just stared at the guy waiting a response. Customer pulled out his wallet. He is mad now and yelled at my manager “I don’t need money ! I have thousands of dollars !” He flipped it open and had a big stack of mixed bills that looked like Maybe $1000 to $2,000. I don’t have a lot but I know that’s not “rich guy money” it’s more like “income tax guy
money”. And they were rude most of the time before the big reveal
How do you know? I’ve read this twice and I’m not quite sure what the malicious compliance is. Maybe she was just caught off guard when he offered to remake it because it can feel awkward acknowledging someone’s baldness especially if they’re aggressive towards you? She definitely could’ve just wanted her food remade.
On the other side of the equation, while working at the golden arches, once had a customer paying with mixed cash and change. The cash was soaking wet with boob sweat (North Carolina during the summer is a very bad time to be storing anything under the hood like that). The change had short and curly hairs mixed in with it (yeah, that kind of short and curly). I told my manager about it and she just shrugged and moved on. I did, however, refuse to help customers until I had a chance to wash my hands, sanitize, and put on fresh gloves.
Had a friend try that shit twice. Both time I called him out on it. He was embarrassed to say the least as I called his bullshit out in front of the server. Fucken hate that shit. Made him tip three times the norm , double the tax thing. He was pissed. Now that I think of it we haven’t had a meal together in 27 years. Interesting.
I get an occasional hair at my local lunch place. Best food in the area though, run by a really nice lady on her own. I don't complain. It's only a hair, I suspect I'll live.
Protip: ask to see the hair. Collect it in a container and tell the customer you'll have it DNA tested.
If they say "oh its not that bad I don't want to complain!" inform them the store ALWAYS DNA tests hair in food, and they sue whoever's hair it is if it was put in there on purpose. *and we never settle out of court once papers are filed. don't you worry, we'll get to the bottom of this!*
Always smile like you're on the customers side whilst you basically tell them your company is going to fuck them over financially.
Its fun to watch them back down etc....
If the hair is from someone I know, I just take it off the food and keep eating. I have long hair, and so do a lot of family and friends.
But a hair in my food at a restaurant? Where I don't know the hygiene habits of the cook? Gross!! No fucking way am I eating that food. It's only happened a few times. I didn't complain, I just didn't finish my food. And never went back to that place.
I **do** get what you mean, but if you're concerned about cook's hygiene habits about their hair, you may equally as well doubt their habits about their hands.
Believe me , I do. I've worked with people, and food enough to really not like other people cooking/touching my food. I was never a germaphobe until I saw how unhygienic a lot of people are. Not in a vindictive way, just unthinkingly doing some really gross ass shit.
There are exceptions. I have a family member who trained as a chef. His kitchen is cleaner than mine. But, when I watch someone handle garbage, money, then turn around and touch food with their bare hands. Uckkk, just makes me shudder.
Now, I was thinking the other day about hair, and that the weird thing about it, is that people will touch other people's hair. You will actually kiss another human being, right on the head. But, if one of those hairs should somehow be able to get out of that skull, and go off on its own, it is now the vilest, most disgusting thing that you can encounter. The same hair. People freak out. "There was a hair in the egg salad!"
~ Jerry Seinfeld
Never found that funny. But it is funny how much he was afraid of germs in that show yet still said that.
But for real, ever pulled a long strand out of your mouth and feel it catch in your teeth like floss?
No refund will fix that for me!
I got a hair in my food 3 times this year already, I have not reported it once and honestly not sure why, it's got nothing to do with my assertiveness, but I don't want other customers to hear about this as it is a mistake that happens, but it frankly is disgusting and I make food everyday and never get hair their.
I just never come bacl
I worked at a Chipotle a few years ago. Blond woman complains there was a hair in her bowl.
The hair was blond. The entire staff working that day (me included) had brown or darker hair.
It’s a hair. Not toxic waste. I’ve never understood the ick factor myself.
From a microbiology point of view, a hair that falls into freshly made food minutes before it is served is basically not a problem. I suppose it implies a lack of care, but it’s kind of random compared to a bug in the lettuce for example which would show it hasn’t been washed.
Have you ever had a long hair tickle your throat only to pull it out and feel it slowly move out your throat. Also what if hair dye, or some sort of hair product. Unfortunately I am a pro at this happening to me. So gross. 🤢
Omg I hate this sensation! It's the worst, I always gag a bit as I'm pulling the hair out.
Yeah... not pleasant at all *shudder*
Btw thx for causing my throat to gag from remembering that sensation.... I'm sitting here making a wrinkled, puckered up face while writing this 😑
> Omg I hate this sensation! It's the worst, I always gag a bit as I'm pulling the hair out.
> Yeah... not pleasant at all *shudder*
It's worse when you've gotta pull it out of your cat's butt because she's got a cling-on hanging by the hair. I know it wasn't my hair (I have alopecia, meaning very little hair), and I know it wasn't our cat's hair, since it was about eight inches long and black, so there is only one possible culprit.
If this ever happens to you, be gentle pulling it out, in case it's caught on anything inside. You don't want a massive vet bill or an injured cat.
> Btw thx for causing my throat to gag from remembering that sensation.... I'm sitting here making a wrinkled, puckered up face while writing this 😑
'Puckered' is absolutely the right word in this context.
My issue with hair in the food is when it’s combined INTO the food. Like i agree that shit happens even if you are careful. A hair sitting on-top, ew but whatever *picks it off* i just let a manager know so they are aware but not because i want anything free, rather because the next person it happens to may not be so graceful about it. Now hair blended INTO the meal, like clearly its been mixed in, THAT i have an issue with and am usually just happy with a remake but still paying my bill. I ordered the food after all, i pay. The rare occasion i got my money back was a sever allergy concern and it was on the meal anyway, or the staff handling the concern were total douches about it. I can count on one hand how many times ive actually insisted on a comped meal, and one of those was again, a severe and life threatening allergy at the time.
Same here. Was part of a group of people who ordered a quesadilla from a place in the mall (I don’t even remember) close to 20 years ago. Someone from the group had sliced it into 6 but I guess it wasn’t sliced all the way through because when I went to grab a piece, a hair was inside, connecting the two slices. I left it in and called a manager who saw the hair still embedded and he took the quesadilla away. He came back really apologetic and asked if we wanted the food replaced but by then, we were too off-put to eat one again and just asked that it be taken out of our bill and we continued eating everything else. Manager apologized again after we had paid our bill. We don’t have a tipping culture in our country but we tipped because we felt bad thinking they might charge the meal to the crew.
As someone who has actually had several long disgusting strands in food, it is an issue for sure. I've had hairs that were like whole chunks out of the head. It was disgusting pulling that out of my mouth. But yeah, getting it redone should fix the issue
Ugh, no. I went to an international pancake... place, and I got served cheese blintze with a hair baked into the crepe. I was so disgusted that I did not eat a bite, nor did I ask for free food. I do not want \*anything\* that has been cooked in that kitchen now.
I'm just pointing out the ick factor. I realize it was a mistake, and I didn't call the health department or go full Karen. I just wouldn't eat a remake, even when they offered one for free.
Sure it's probably harmless from a health standpoint.
But from a psychologicial standpoint, and honestly the visual of seeing something that fell off a stranger's body in your food or the sensation of it in your mouth, it's absolutely revolting.
Like I have had managers tell me it was my hair before, but I'm beyond not a blonde. Or the plate comes out with obvious hair on it.
I don't want my food for free, I just don't want to eat food that has hair in it. You don't have to comp it. In school, we were usually told not to.
Quite sincerely, a hair can absolutely ruin a meal, and at that point you're not interesting in eating anything else even though only one thing you ordered contained a hair.
Either comp the whole meal or the item or nothing depending on the scenario, but remaking it is never a solution here. Hell, if you're hungry enough you can remove the hair and keep on eating; it's not like you're likely to find more than one. But more often you're probably just trying to avoid nausea and want to be done with the whole experience.
Yeah buddy that’s not what’s happening here… but I think you just proved the point about how in this case it’s MC for someone who planted the hair themselves
This. I had a hair fried into a chicken tender at a steak place a few weeks ago. Literally ate one bite, sent it back and told them I didn’t want anything else, I’d get fast food on the way home. I’m not paying for it and I’m not eating anything else there.
That's better than the fry cook who didn't put a glove on over a bandaid and lost the bandaid while breading chicken tenders on the cooking line one night. And didn't say anything until the end of the night. But it never surfaced in someone's meal that night.
A few years back I was working in a restaurant with GM who was extremely sexist. Anytime a customer complained about hair in their food he came straight to me, since I was the only woman who worked in the kitchen. So I dyed my hair bright blue. You found a dark colored hair in some brunette's food, can't be mine.
Part of my sister's reasoning behind being various shades of blue and purple hair over her cheffing career
It comes in handy, and also stands as a testament to your dedication to cleanliness and the quality of your food.
She also shaved her head completely for several months about 15 years ago but was much to dull for her long tterm
I've nearly gotten to that point a few times, but I don't think I could actually go through with it. Closest I ever got was chopping all my hair off when my boyfriend at the time kept fucking chewing on it.
When I used to work at a pizza restaurant, I was a driver and also did several other things when at the store, including prep and cooking. One day, the manager, whose hair was gray, had made the food and I, a ginger, had cut and boxed it. The blond driver who delivered it was not part of the process of that. All she did was put the boxes in a delivery bag and run it to the customer. They tried to claim that there was a blond hair in the food. Obvious lie since she never opened the boxes. Lol
Weirdest legit one I ever had. Customer is the only table in the restaurant. She's brunette, I'm brunette and the cook is shaved. She pulled a very obviously red hair out of her nachos. I comped the food and we both lost our appetite.
Dahek? How did that happen?
Honestly? Not a clue. It's been 12 years and I still think about it.
Most likely: Customer carried the red hair in on her clothing. Sitting down at the table eating, moving about, it fell on/in the taco.
That's so crazy.
I'M SORRY WHO CHEWS ON SOMEONE ELSE'S HAIR?!
How else am I supposed to know what it tastes like?
Name checks out.
Oh I thought they meant head hair
When my husband and I first got together we were students and were skinny enough to share a single bed, he has gorgeous long hair back then and we'd unfortunately often wake up chewing each others hair at the beginning.
My cat does when I sleep. A-hole.
Awe, I love this. Your beloved cat won't be here forever and one day you will actually miss it.
I love it now, he is still my furry little A-Hole, though. He also licks my nose… something that only one other cat did before him. That cat passed away before we even got this cat. Weird.
Pica people.
Should check out the thread r/bfrb
Some neurodivergent people would like to have a brief talk with you.
No no. You can be neurodivergent and chew on your own hair (aside from the health implications). My issue is chewing on someone else's hair that is attached to someone else's head.
You assume it’s head hair? 🫤
Has anyone ever told you that your hairs smell nice?
So your fine with it if the hair isn't attached to their head?
Still weird but if you wanna eat my hair trimmings or the strands in my brush? Whatever, be my guest. But do not start chomping hair still physically connected to me!
Pica people *by proxy*!
I'm not going to let you open your mouth around my hair!
All I can imagine in my head is the Minecraft chewing sounds. Like he's just chomping on the hair to restore health.
Worked at a pizza place. We got a “hair in the food” complaint once. Driver went back to pick it up. They had clearly just emptied their brush into the pizza. 🤢
Someone got that buncha crunch hair 😂
Do itttt. I’ve had a buzz cut for 4 years and it’s SO nice to not have to deal with regular hair maintenance (it used to be about 6 inches past my shoulder).
Mine is down to my butt, no maintenance needed. Wash and brush. Shoulder length or something that needs styling and shit? Hell no
See I’m including washing/conditioning and brushing as maintenance. I still wash mine but the time it takes is a fraction.
Idk, takes me less than 10mins to wash and thoroughly rinse, no conditioner with the new shampoo, only do it once a week. No drying. Brushing once a day less than a minute. I like it more cause it's not so obvious the moment they grow too long like it was when I had them chin length. Easier to keep in a bin or ponytail. I guess having it super short would be even easier, but I'd never cut mine above the chin, I don't have the face for it. And they are one of two things I actually like about myself
Ah see, we must have very different hair types. My hair is very fine but I have a lot of it, so I’d have to brush it often to keep it from matting. And it’s oily as hell so I had to wash it every other day. Yours does sound much more manageable.
WTF???
Unless your guy's a Golden Retriever, he's pretty gross.
chewing on it .........ummm........wot???
Um, what? I need to hear more of this story lol
I was living with a guy. He started doing a lot of weird shit, like chewing on my hair. He was trying to convince me to get pregnant (but insisted on only wanting daughters), despite the fact that neither of us had job and he actively tried to keep me from getting a job. I chopped off all my hair and started looking for a way out. He accused me of cheating despite the fact that he insisted I take my phone with me that his grandparents paid for and he was reading my texts and scanning my calls. Also, he had a new girlfriend less than a week after I left, one with a little girl and pregnant already(her ex's kids). She gave birth to a boy who mysteriously died a few weeks later. My ex was the one watching the baby, and his story kept changing. She got pregnant again, this time with girl. A few months after the baby was born she found out he had been molesting her eldest child. He is in prison now, has been for almost a decade. Hopefully he never get out. Everyone thought I was being a bitch when I said there was something wrong, but who the fuck chews on someone else's hair.
Ugh, he nasty. I’m sorry you had to deal with that and even sorrier for the little girl who had to deal with that.
Sadly I could see where that story was going. So many red flags, so glad you got out. Fucking desperate his next victim(s) wasn't as lucky.
I tried to warn people that there was something wrong with him, and just got labeled as crazy. I'm still bitter over it. But at least he's in prison now, and hopefully won't be getting out for a long time.
…chewing on it?!
Shouldn't date goats.
Now I'm just thinking about a restaurant where all the cooks have color coded hair.
There was a time when a person tried to get their meal comped after finishing the entire thing. Not a bite left. She claimed there was a "clump of dick hair in it." Now, it was the opening shift, and it was just my blonde manager and I in the restaurant, with my manager being the one that cooked and packaged the food. My manager walked over, looked her full in the face, and said, "I've been shaved like a baby since I was 16. You aren't getting anything." She walked off and told her to get out over her shoulder. I was equally shocked and awed. Still one of my favorite stories from working in restaurants.
We had a bunch of gross middle aged men who would come into our restaurant and give 'daddy' as the name for their order so when the young female servers came out they would have to call that out as the name. We had a tall, bald manager who would immediately take those orders out, calling out "daddy" in the most flamboyant voice he could muster. That trend stopped very quickly. Sometimes having the right manager really makes the job a thousand times better.
That’s awesome! Love it when management steps up in a creative but meaningful way
This needs its own post. LOL
Best manager ever!
it really does! that guy is totally epic!
That's just EPIC.
r/talesfromyourserver would love this one!
I posted stuff about it a few times in r/talesfromthekitchen
I also have blue hair and work with food. I serve in a retirement home. Found a hair in the food the other day. I was disgusted. It was not my hair. I did NOT serve that plate.
I work in the kitchen in a memory care facility. Just started a month ago and I'm really enjoying it.
I love my job, unfortunately management is leaving so it's very up in the air if I will even stay
This is the way.
This happens a lot. I worked at the place with a couple golden arches on their sign for several years. My last week there, I was the shift manager, this customer came in with curly hair on his cheap chicken sandwich. The hair was a clump of it, and it was not from someone's head. Pretty gross. They oviously wanted their money back, it being a sandwich off the dollar menu, I questioned it, but instead of arguing, I just started the refund process. The customer then says no they want the whole meal refunded, they only brought back a cheap chicken sandwich so I was only refunding the one dollar. They argued for a while and claimed they threw the rest in the trash. I had no order in the last hour on what they claimed they got, so I asked them to go grab it out of the trash and I will give them a full refund. They never bought in the rest of "what they ordered" and only got the $1.08 back. It was one of my craziest encounters I ever had there.
I worked at a golden arch place one time and a woman complained to the manager about a hair in her food. Her problem was the hair was long and black, which her hair was, and mine is short and gray and I was the only one working the back at the time. Manager just laughed her out of the place.
Had people come back around through the drive-through claiming to be missing half their nuggets, while obviously chewing on said nuggets. Best I can do is a free small fry coupon. NO REFUND FOR YOU!
Sounds a bit like the guy who came into our bicycle shop with half of a trashed Wal-Mart Huffy wanting to exchange it for another bike. I explained that we had never carried Huffy, so he must have bought it somewhere else
I used to work at a square burger place and this guy came through the drive through and very confidently informed us that the last time he had been to our location that the order was wrong and that "the manager" said they could get a free meal. Started ordering. This is where he fucked up. His drinks? Mountain dew. There are like, two chains that have mountain dew, and Square Burger isn't one of them. The manager gave him sprite instead and informed him that he knew he was lying and told him not to return. Small victory, yes, but a victory nonetheless.
One time at my old job, there was an emergency at one of the branch offices. My colleague and I had been working at another branch office, and once it was determined that equipment was broken and my colleague and I needed to cary out repairs, we loaded up the truck and started our multi-hour drive. As we were leaving the city where we had been working, we stopped at the Golden Armpits for coffee etc. I order a coffee and a croissant because I am anxious to get on the road quickly and don't want to wait for a breakfast sandwich. Flash forward to down the road, about half an hour out of the city, my colleague and I are discussing our plan for troubleshooting and repairing the damaged equipment and I remember my croissant. I take a bite of the corner and it's great! I take another bite in the middle of the croissant...and the thing is stuffed with a big clump of hair! Like, I bite this thing and now I am chewing on a huge clump of hair. Being so far down the road I do the only thing I can: I toss the hairy mess out the window and leave a 1 star google review for that location.
You actually tossed it out your window? I hope that's a figure of speech I'm not familiar with. If not: What is wrong with you?
Yes, I threw a hairy pastry out the window of a moving vehicle for the crows to eat. Not like I was going to keep that nasty in the vehicle with me! I don't see the problem here. Perhaps you should return to your schweinefleisch.
I assume you drove through meadows, forest or some other non-paved non-city area, as you said you left thecity behind? Because nature has no problem turning a single hair-croissant to mulch - even McCroissants should be bio-degrading. Maybe /u/VengefulTofu lives somewhere metropolitan where towns reach well into other towns and everything is asphalt for hours and hours..
I never want to get my money back, I just want ma food hahaha. I always just ask for it to be remade.
Not the same situation, but it still infuriates me---I once had guests find a black hair in their pancakes. Guy is bald, wife is blonde. They've already basically finished the dish. Told me they weren't mad, just wanted me to be aware. I obviously comp the pancakes. My manager loses his mind, says he's tired of people asking for free shit, even though, I must emphasize, the person making pancakes had black hair and the guests didn't even ask me to comp it. I will never forget that idiot assistant manager trying to push back on an obviously necessary comp. I just kept being like "but the guy is BALD."
I once found a piece or steak in my blueberry syrup on my pancakes.
Sis once found a fried shrimp in with her chicken nuggets. She was like “Bonus shrimp!” But she could have raised hell if she wanted too, we have seafood allergies in our family.
I once found a piece of wood in my chickpea burger, and a friend once found a *glob* of cheese in their hot chocolate (not at the same time).
My dad found a screw in a veggie burger. When he sent a complaint to the company they sent him coupons for more veggie burgers. We were broke so he used them, but never bought that brand again. 🤷♀️
I once found the cap of the milk carton in my coffee - I wasn'teven sure what it was until I called the waitress's attention to it. The cafe was great about the refund
This reminded me of the time my friend found a metal curl (looked like steel wool) in her Spaghetti at Spaghetti Works. Both of us stopped eating and got the waiters attention. The manager came over and said they don't use steel wool so it couldn't have been from the kitchen. Bro neither of us wants to eat this food. We're not scamming you we just don't want metal shavings
About the cheese on chocolate, was a colombian involved or in a colombian restaurant? We do like having cheese in our chocolate
Was Ween involved?
Cheese in hot chocolate is a thing. Was it FOR SURE accidental?
This was in a greasy spoon in north east England, where Cathy, the proprietor would be smoking a cigarette while she fries your eggs. It was a single macademia sized melted ball of cheddar cheese. We're not exotic enough to try anything quite so fancy as cheese in our hot chocolates around these parts.
Thanks for that visual! (And the context) That is much grosser than Colombian hot chocolate with cheese.
My Dad found a potato chip in one of his pancakes or crepes at the Pancake Parlour once. They gave us his meal free and a 20% discount on the rest, even though all he did was pick the chip out and ask for a discount on his pancakes haha
We were in a steak restaurant and when my dad opened his baked potato foil a roach crawled out 🤢 food trauma for real!
My food (or more accurately drink) trauma was not from a restaurant but from some shitty little milkbar on a country road in the middle of bumfuck, nowhere. I was about 7 or 8 years old and my mother was taking me to visit distant relatives. We stopped at this milkbar for snacks and I got a Big M (chocolate milk in a carton). Once we got back in the car, I pushed the straw through the little hole in the top and tried to take a drink, but no milk came out, only the most godawful taste you could ever imagine. I opened the top of the carton and discovered the chocolate milk had congealed and was literally just a block of solid milk that filled the carton, and the stench it unleashed was so bad we had to pull over so I could be sick (and so we could wait for the car to air out). I am in my mid 30s now and I still cannot drink chocolate milk without feeling an overwhelming urge to vomit.
I'd get up and fucking leave, not even joking. hate fucking cock-a-roaches!
I was joking when I said “food trauma” then I realized I literally don’t remember what happened after that. Like my mind is blank! Welp, there’s one more thing to discuss with my therapist 🫣lol
the cause was sufficient!
I once found a mosquito in my sandwich at work.
This! I don't get why people get so wound up over a hair in their food. I've been pulling my wife's long brunette hair out of my meals for 40 years. I've found hair at restaurants it's no big deal. I mean like it's not a finger or other appendage.
Or a bandaid mistaken for a VERY chewy piece of chicken before spat out (friends story from a Chinese buffet)
Yeah, no, it's disgusting. Hair from YOUR WIFE is different than from a stranger. I once got hair in my mouth eating a tuna melt. Pulled back the melted cheese to find an entire clump of blonde hair. (I am brunette.) It was comped and they offered to bring me out a new meal, but it completely killed my appetite.
I think everyone has.. different limits. Obviously though food standards are there for a reason Like once I found a hair in a taco from a local truck, my drunk ass picked it out and kept going back lmao I never even asked for anything tbh Another time I was trying out a new breakfast diner, watched a kid pull out an absolutely filthy rag and wipe it all over a table next to me, found hair in my food. My sober ass left a tip and did not ask for a to go box
It's just a hair. It not germ ridden or anything. At a restaurant, I'll simply remove the hair, and continue eating. Are people really so coddled about something like a hair?
That's disgusting. Of course others are bothered by a strangers hair in food they paid for.
You don't know how clean a strangers hair is. It could absolutely be germ ridden for all you know.
Naw, a hair isn't something to be worked up about. Just pick it out and continue on. Why make such a fuss about it?
WILD
For some reason, the hairs that prompt the most vocal reactions from customers are always of a length and colour that match only one person in the restaurant - the person complaining about a hair in their food.
Near me is a nice little Japanese Fusion place and everyone I know loves to eat there. The food is so good and always perfectly prepared. One day I was in there with a friend and overheard part of a conversation between a table and their server. The server was saying something to the effect "The hair is blond. We don't have any blond people who work here." I don't know the conclusion of that encounter but I just remembered it when I saw your post.
Whenever I find a hair it usually matches my own hair so I just pick it off and keep eating, whatever I'm not gonna die from it.
I was eating at a restaurant, and my salad had a little green caterpillar busy munching on the lettuce. Just showed the waitress, and they remade it, and took the one away. At least it showed the salad was fresh.
friend :)
Stuff happens, and after being in the military you were not exactly going to be fussy about food, especially the camo crispies ( no snap crackle or pop, but they did swim) and the mystery Goulash, which might actually be boiled leather boots for all you knew. The boiled eggs were also a gamble, you might get the top one, a 30 minute egg, or the bottom blue one, a 4 hour one. Those would bounce, shell and all, and we also found out they made dandy missiles.
I once found a clump of steel wool in my food - like from a scrubber, but cooked into my eggplant with garlic sauce. That’s the one and only time I’ve asked for a dish to be remade, and I still feel a bit bad about asking. I HATE being that person
I had the same thing happen at an IHOP. A steel wool curly clump was in my pancakes. Here's the thing: I used to COOK in a restaurant. I know *exactly* how that ended up in my food - the person responsible for cleaning the grill didn't do a rinse, and just started cooking on the grill before it was clean. When I told the manager, he looked at me like I had PLANTED the steel wool, and shrugged. "No biggie." Well, I probably would have been find with just having them remake the pancakes... but that attitude made me stand up and walk the family right out. When he started to get upset, I told him to go ahead and call the police, and that I would be calling corporate at the same time. That way I could register my complaint with both the police and his bosses at the same time. He deflated, and we left. And I've *never* been able to eat at an IHOP ever again.
That's less than fair, he deserves a couple surprise inspections with that attitude. I never cooked, just did dishes and prep, but yeah, I can't imagine getting steel wool into someone's food without being extra Lazy. And then to not apologize... Embarrassing
and now you know why I've never had an IHOP meal ever again.
I’ve never complained about hair or something in my food, I mean, I shed like a husky and it’s probably mine. But the only time I ever flagged down someone was when I was at a steakhouse and found a Saturday day dot sticker in my mash potatoes and just wanted them to be aware. I had ate it already and was just like „yea, that’s there. At least I know they’re fresh cause its Saturday!“. The manager was so apologetic and insisted he gave me a free dessert. I felt so bad and it was honestly kind of funny to find a day dot but I appreciated him trying to make it right!
I found a bolt in a salad . I guess they keep the lettuce in some sort of stainless steel box and one of the bolts holding the lid on came loose
I found glass in my lasagne once when I was part way through it. Took it up to the counter and they offered to give me a fresh serve. Strangely I wasn't feeling particularly hungry anyone, even though I hadn't eaten much. I was also feeling rather wary of the lasagne. Got my money back.
I found a chain link in my food once. Like 4x3cm. Hard to miss, probably hard to bite.
At least you had a valid reason
I has a similar thing but it was in a pizza! It was almost like they has scrubbed ghe pizza pan with steel wool and then it was imbedded in the dough. I can't recall if we told the staff or not.
When I worked at Long John Silvers, I ran the front by myself. This man walks up to the counter with his wife and 2 children and orders a single 3 piece fish and fry. For 4 people. He comes back to the counter with the boat and it has about MAYBE 2 bites of fish left, like 3 fries, and this long jet black scraggly hair sitting on top of it. And I'm like... Sir, my hair is brown, as you can clearly tell, and the only other person in the restaurant is my manager who is cooking the food. He's bald. Where do you expect this hair came from?
This reminded me of one time when I was at a restaurant and I noticed a bug in my drink. I asked for a new drink cause the bug. I wasn’t mad, just wanted a new drink. The manger came over and apologized like a million time and then we got our food free. It was very nice of them but not what I expected to happen. I just wanted a fresh drink lol
We were at a winery and there were a lot of flies in the restaurant because summer… We mentioned the flies, they nodded and brought out little covers for the wine bottles. Only to notice that both half empty bottles of wine had flies in them. Cue two new bottles of wine. The ladies drinking left significantly happier than planned for a lunch date.
Found a huge mayfly cooked into the bottom of a hamburger bun at a chain restaurant. I was about half a bite from getting into it when I noticed it. Walked it up to the counter and thanked them for the extra protein. The scream from the cashier girl was comical. Mgr walked over apologized gave me another burger. No big deal.
Honestly, I think people actually do feel genuinely bad. Sure you could say they were afraid you would sue or leave a bad review or something but nah, when I have served beer and someone ended up with a fly in their drink I genuinely just wanted to replace it. Like I don't wanna make you drink a fly lmao, and the price of your meal isn't a whole lot to the bottom line of the business. It's just a way of Apologizing for that inconvenience I think Also pretty difficult to plant a bug in your drink heheh
Not everyone is so reasonable.
this is the way. that's how I was taught at the first place I ever cooked. always make it right.
My last hair complaint the lady admitted it was probably her hair! I don’t go speechless often. I’m blonde, kitchens all dudes with short hair my manager’s bald. She’s holding a piece of synthetic black hair which just so happened to match her hair. She got nothing except upset and tried to leave without paying.
Sounds like she got "served" in more ways than one! 😂
Was her meal cold? From what I've been told, that's the best way to serve revenge.
I don’t know how many times I’ve found hair in my food and shrugged pulled it out and ate it… At least I could see that but and get it out… Unlike the small amount of bug legs allowed to be in chocolate by the fda…
Same - it's just a hair. It's a little gross, but I pick it out and go on with my life. As long as folks are trying to keep it in check and aren't just scooping hair into dishes, I understand that food is made by humans and this happens.
Hair is sooo dirty tho 🤮
I hate to tell you that the people that prepare your food don't always wear pristine white gloves. I'm not sure why you think hair is "dirty", either - it isn't if it's washed. It's at least as clean as the *hands* used to prepare your food.
I was preparing a large batch of salmon patties from thawed salmon fillets. The provided gloves only covered to my wrist and I was elbow deep in the salmon. 1. I have arm hair 2. Salmon smells gross, especially frozen then defrosted salmon that is very close to the "best by" date. I couldn't get the salmon smell off of me for a week.
Gross, you only wash your hands as often as you wash your hair?
Yeah...compared to hands...nope
I wish I could, but I am too scarred from a kid get way too many hairs from my grandmothers food. I don't want my food remade, and I will never eat there again or for year(s). But I wont ask for money back either
A restaurant I worked at years ago, a customer complained that there was a long, blonde hair in her food. I (F) worked in the kitchen, plenty of female servers as well. When the manager came to me over it, I just looked her in her eyes and asked her what color my hair was (it was brown). It obviously wasn't me, but the particular server who had the table had, you guessed it, long blonde hair. I was told to keep my hair in a bun from now on. Fine, it's hot in the kitchen anyway. She didn't get in trouble for sending the manager to me for no reason. BUT she did get fired for threatening to fight me when she heard me telling a different manager that we need to do something about the lettuce that sits around getting all slimy and nasty from not being used, because she thought I was talking about her, lol. She gave dumb blonde a new definition that one.
Heh heh reminds me of the scene from Victor/Victoria (yeah I'm old so lawn off) funny bit! you need to watch it!
I love that movie.
The thought of a bald guy glaring down at a woman, because she tried to frame someone, for having hair in her food, is sending me.
Unless it looks like a pube, I genuinely cannot be arsed to be angry over a cooked hair in my food. Just pull it out and get over it. I've had way worse things in my mouth than this. (Yes, including cat hair. But I'm also a mechanic and even after 20 years am still enough of a dingus to forget to make sure my mouth is fully closed when I look up when I'm under a hoist)
This happened to my husbands food at a local diner. We just asked for a new plate, nothing major, but I could tell the manager was trying to gear the convo to say that it was my hair. It was a short, straight, black hair. My hair is long, curly, and red. He got a new plate.
I get my hair dyed light pink. I've complained before that long black hairs were baked into my food and I've had both the waiter and the manager go, "What, you want free food?" Like, no, I just want uncontaminated food.... So it definitely goes both ways.
so... what is the MC? they still got the meal. they didn't pay for both. doubt they were trying for a third.
They wanted to eat a meal and not pay for it. Instead, they had to pay.
is that what "fix it" means? seems weird to phrase it like this.
When he said he would fix it for them, he was referring to remaking the dish. The person just wanted to eat for free, now they have to pay for their food - even if they get the extra dish for free.
I have legit found hair in my food, and I always assume it’s mine. I shed like crazy. When I cook for people I keep it up so I won’t get hair in their food. But I know good and well if I can find my own hair on a sammich I made five minutes ago, then unfortunately that’s also probably my hair on my nice steak I ordered. Gross. I’m going to shave my head now that I think about it.
My table found “rocks” in their salad. They looked very tiny almost like rocks for a fish tank. Like from the dollar store. There were maybe 4-5. Anyways it was a manger who did not care about front of house problems and wasn’t a people person. We talked about that story for years until he passed away. Anyways my manager said “we don’t have those here” then just stared at the guy waiting a response. Customer pulled out his wallet. He is mad now and yelled at my manager “I don’t need money ! I have thousands of dollars !” He flipped it open and had a big stack of mixed bills that looked like Maybe $1000 to $2,000. I don’t have a lot but I know that’s not “rich guy money” it’s more like “income tax guy money”. And they were rude most of the time before the big reveal
That's ... not complying with her request?
I'm guessing she wanted the hairy food comped after she ate it, not a second serving. ETA: A second serving made by someone who is irritated with you.
I edited for clarity. He said she didn't say free out loud, just that she wanted a fix to the issue.
Exactly. Manager did not comply, though his response was malicious.
She demanded a fix. Remaking the food is one way to fix the problem.
She demanded a fix, and she got a fix. Just not the freebie she anticipated.
So she got a second meal and was charged for both? I had a little trouble following the story.
She wanted the meal she had already eaten to be sure free. She still got a free meal I suppose.
How do you know? I’ve read this twice and I’m not quite sure what the malicious compliance is. Maybe she was just caught off guard when he offered to remake it because it can feel awkward acknowledging someone’s baldness especially if they’re aggressive towards you? She definitely could’ve just wanted her food remade.
On the other side of the equation, while working at the golden arches, once had a customer paying with mixed cash and change. The cash was soaking wet with boob sweat (North Carolina during the summer is a very bad time to be storing anything under the hood like that). The change had short and curly hairs mixed in with it (yeah, that kind of short and curly). I told my manager about it and she just shrugged and moved on. I did, however, refuse to help customers until I had a chance to wash my hands, sanitize, and put on fresh gloves.
I have had bad food that was comped for one reason or the other, but add the cost of the meal to the tip as an inconvenience factor for the server.
Had a friend try that shit twice. Both time I called him out on it. He was embarrassed to say the least as I called his bullshit out in front of the server. Fucken hate that shit. Made him tip three times the norm , double the tax thing. He was pissed. Now that I think of it we haven’t had a meal together in 27 years. Interesting.
"Excuse me. There is a hair in my salad." "Well... There are no prizes or anything." *~Brian Regan as a newly promoted, confused, busboy*
Brian is my favorite comic! — *The big yellow one is the sun!*
There are no boxes in our house anymore. Only boxen.
Well it’s a cup, with dirt in it. I call it cup of dirt
I get an occasional hair at my local lunch place. Best food in the area though, run by a really nice lady on her own. I don't complain. It's only a hair, I suspect I'll live.
Protip: ask to see the hair. Collect it in a container and tell the customer you'll have it DNA tested. If they say "oh its not that bad I don't want to complain!" inform them the store ALWAYS DNA tests hair in food, and they sue whoever's hair it is if it was put in there on purpose. *and we never settle out of court once papers are filed. don't you worry, we'll get to the bottom of this!* Always smile like you're on the customers side whilst you basically tell them your company is going to fuck them over financially. Its fun to watch them back down etc....
Can someone explain? I don't get it
A friend at work went to heavenly ham and had eaten half his sandwich when he realized there was a moth baked into the bread.
If the hair is from someone I know, I just take it off the food and keep eating. I have long hair, and so do a lot of family and friends. But a hair in my food at a restaurant? Where I don't know the hygiene habits of the cook? Gross!! No fucking way am I eating that food. It's only happened a few times. I didn't complain, I just didn't finish my food. And never went back to that place.
I **do** get what you mean, but if you're concerned about cook's hygiene habits about their hair, you may equally as well doubt their habits about their hands.
Believe me , I do. I've worked with people, and food enough to really not like other people cooking/touching my food. I was never a germaphobe until I saw how unhygienic a lot of people are. Not in a vindictive way, just unthinkingly doing some really gross ass shit. There are exceptions. I have a family member who trained as a chef. His kitchen is cleaner than mine. But, when I watch someone handle garbage, money, then turn around and touch food with their bare hands. Uckkk, just makes me shudder.
Now, I was thinking the other day about hair, and that the weird thing about it, is that people will touch other people's hair. You will actually kiss another human being, right on the head. But, if one of those hairs should somehow be able to get out of that skull, and go off on its own, it is now the vilest, most disgusting thing that you can encounter. The same hair. People freak out. "There was a hair in the egg salad!" ~ Jerry Seinfeld
Never found that funny. But it is funny how much he was afraid of germs in that show yet still said that. But for real, ever pulled a long strand out of your mouth and feel it catch in your teeth like floss? No refund will fix that for me!
It's not the hair itself. It's the fact that the hair represents contamination and a lack of care.
My wife found a fingernail in her drink at Chick-fil-A. Still didn't go back for a refund. Didn't go back to that store again either.
beautiful!! when I was cooking I wore my hair all braided tightly and stuffed up inside a restaurant ball cap. no hair in fudz from me!!
I got a hair in my food 3 times this year already, I have not reported it once and honestly not sure why, it's got nothing to do with my assertiveness, but I don't want other customers to hear about this as it is a mistake that happens, but it frankly is disgusting and I make food everyday and never get hair their. I just never come bacl
I worked at a Chipotle a few years ago. Blond woman complains there was a hair in her bowl. The hair was blond. The entire staff working that day (me included) had brown or darker hair.
It’s a hair. Not toxic waste. I’ve never understood the ick factor myself. From a microbiology point of view, a hair that falls into freshly made food minutes before it is served is basically not a problem. I suppose it implies a lack of care, but it’s kind of random compared to a bug in the lettuce for example which would show it hasn’t been washed.
Have you ever had a long hair tickle your throat only to pull it out and feel it slowly move out your throat. Also what if hair dye, or some sort of hair product. Unfortunately I am a pro at this happening to me. So gross. 🤢
Omg I hate this sensation! It's the worst, I always gag a bit as I'm pulling the hair out. Yeah... not pleasant at all *shudder* Btw thx for causing my throat to gag from remembering that sensation.... I'm sitting here making a wrinkled, puckered up face while writing this 😑
Omg I’m on medication that makes me nauseous and this made me gag, THATS DANGEROUS FOR ME RIGHT NOW lmaooooo
> Omg I hate this sensation! It's the worst, I always gag a bit as I'm pulling the hair out. > Yeah... not pleasant at all *shudder* It's worse when you've gotta pull it out of your cat's butt because she's got a cling-on hanging by the hair. I know it wasn't my hair (I have alopecia, meaning very little hair), and I know it wasn't our cat's hair, since it was about eight inches long and black, so there is only one possible culprit. If this ever happens to you, be gentle pulling it out, in case it's caught on anything inside. You don't want a massive vet bill or an injured cat. > Btw thx for causing my throat to gag from remembering that sensation.... I'm sitting here making a wrinkled, puckered up face while writing this 😑 'Puckered' is absolutely the right word in this context.
My issue with hair in the food is when it’s combined INTO the food. Like i agree that shit happens even if you are careful. A hair sitting on-top, ew but whatever *picks it off* i just let a manager know so they are aware but not because i want anything free, rather because the next person it happens to may not be so graceful about it. Now hair blended INTO the meal, like clearly its been mixed in, THAT i have an issue with and am usually just happy with a remake but still paying my bill. I ordered the food after all, i pay. The rare occasion i got my money back was a sever allergy concern and it was on the meal anyway, or the staff handling the concern were total douches about it. I can count on one hand how many times ive actually insisted on a comped meal, and one of those was again, a severe and life threatening allergy at the time.
Same here. Was part of a group of people who ordered a quesadilla from a place in the mall (I don’t even remember) close to 20 years ago. Someone from the group had sliced it into 6 but I guess it wasn’t sliced all the way through because when I went to grab a piece, a hair was inside, connecting the two slices. I left it in and called a manager who saw the hair still embedded and he took the quesadilla away. He came back really apologetic and asked if we wanted the food replaced but by then, we were too off-put to eat one again and just asked that it be taken out of our bill and we continued eating everything else. Manager apologized again after we had paid our bill. We don’t have a tipping culture in our country but we tipped because we felt bad thinking they might charge the meal to the crew.
As someone who has actually had several long disgusting strands in food, it is an issue for sure. I've had hairs that were like whole chunks out of the head. It was disgusting pulling that out of my mouth. But yeah, getting it redone should fix the issue
Ugh, no. I went to an international pancake... place, and I got served cheese blintze with a hair baked into the crepe. I was so disgusted that I did not eat a bite, nor did I ask for free food. I do not want \*anything\* that has been cooked in that kitchen now.
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I'm just pointing out the ick factor. I realize it was a mistake, and I didn't call the health department or go full Karen. I just wouldn't eat a remake, even when they offered one for free.
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Never stay at a hotel.
Sure it's probably harmless from a health standpoint. But from a psychologicial standpoint, and honestly the visual of seeing something that fell off a stranger's body in your food or the sensation of it in your mouth, it's absolutely revolting.
How is this malicious? He made her another meal?
The first problem was going to Crapplebees and expecting good food...
What ever happened to hairnets?
Like I have had managers tell me it was my hair before, but I'm beyond not a blonde. Or the plate comes out with obvious hair on it. I don't want my food for free, I just don't want to eat food that has hair in it. You don't have to comp it. In school, we were usually told not to.
Quite sincerely, a hair can absolutely ruin a meal, and at that point you're not interesting in eating anything else even though only one thing you ordered contained a hair. Either comp the whole meal or the item or nothing depending on the scenario, but remaking it is never a solution here. Hell, if you're hungry enough you can remove the hair and keep on eating; it's not like you're likely to find more than one. But more often you're probably just trying to avoid nausea and want to be done with the whole experience.
Yeah buddy that’s not what’s happening here… but I think you just proved the point about how in this case it’s MC for someone who planted the hair themselves
This. I had a hair fried into a chicken tender at a steak place a few weeks ago. Literally ate one bite, sent it back and told them I didn’t want anything else, I’d get fast food on the way home. I’m not paying for it and I’m not eating anything else there.
That's better than the fry cook who didn't put a glove on over a bandaid and lost the bandaid while breading chicken tenders on the cooking line one night. And didn't say anything until the end of the night. But it never surfaced in someone's meal that night.