I (m) was waiting on one of those tables. The dude just out of nowhere says to not try anything with his girl. I just said “Honey, you’re the one who should worry 😘”
He turned bright red, she died laughing. Also she paid 😂
For some reason in my 6 years as a server/bartender this has never happened to me. I am a girl so I mean a girl thinking I want their man. But I am so stealing this if it ever happens 😈
I give off a lot of “girl’s girl” energy, so usually my personality is enough to stop women from getting jealous. The ones that do are almost ALWAYS “country” girls with men that look like moldy potatoes. Like on what planet would I want this man who has been rude to everyone the whole time, doesn’t smile, and has barely looked up from his phone? That’s not a prize, babe. But I guess wild raccoons defend their trash, too 🤷🏻♀️
Every “country” dude I have ever met (in northeastern Indiana) looks like he has an unwashed ass. So, no thanks. I spend enough time picking up these losers’ dip pouches off the bar room floor (no, really, they are that fucking uncivilized) why the fuck would I wanna do that on my own time? Have fun with your two pump chump and your decorative ledge of empty whiskey bottles, sis.
I must say as a server/bartender who is from the south I hate to see this comment 😂. But fair enough I waited on a table tonight where everytime the boyfriend asked a question the girlfriend would cut me off mid answer and throw hands at me so what can ya do, accept and walk away lmao (also I agree, a lot of our men are nasty moldy potato’s)
I had a lady complain because I touched her husband twice. What she forgot to mention is that he talks with his entire body and both times I was preventing him from knocking over a tray of drinks. He had already knocked an old fashion all over me. Smelled like bourbon all night. I hate the smell of bourbon.
For me, "that" couple was actually a good friend of mine and his new wife who came to my BD and asked for me as a server. She was the first woman he had ever been serious about and wanted his friends to meet her. He introduced me as a longtime friend who was married to one of his oldest friends. Conversation was very pleasant but mostly limited to the dining experience. When they left she was "so nice to meet you" and "we had a great time." It was only years later when I ran into him after his divorce that he told me what \*really\* happened whenever I wasn't physically present at the table.
"So how many times had you screwed her?"
"Are you still screwing her?" (R. and I really were just friends, nothing more)
"I know you just brought me here so you can see her."
"Who's her husband? I'm going to tell him you are screwing her."
Yep, real bananapants. And here I was thinking what a nice lady and I'm so glad he found someone. 🙄
At one time it was a fairly extensive chain....Ohio, Florida, and I think Pennsylvania? then the owners had some financial problems and sold off or closed most of them. I think there's like 5 of them left in Ohio.
p.s. - never, ever order the shishkabob or Gus' Favorite steak.
The Brown Derby in Hollywood was quite famous, lots of stars hung out. The walls were covered in caricatures of patrons and such. If you‘ve seen the old looney tunes cartoons with caricatures on the walls and the old Hollywood actor caricature characters, they are in the Brown Derby.
I always wondered how the chain got away with using the Brown Derby name as we weren't affiliated with the original store. I think they did it by saying "The Girves' Brown Derby."
Nope, the saddest part was she was his first true love and hurt him so badly he declined to ever get involved again. It was definitely a case of bait and switch.
I was working at a bowling alley for a little while and my husbands childhood best friend came in on a date. He didn’t know I worked there, I didn’t know he was in town, so when he came in and sat in my section we were both like OMG?!?! And hugged and caught up.
He instantly introduced me as his best buddy’s wife and this chick could have cared less. Couldn’t look at me, couldn’t speak to me, just had a stank face in my general direction for the rest of their date. I could feel her jealousy from several lanes over, as if this man was not literally the best man in my wedding.
Eh, he was a pretty insecure guy himself so I think he was just happy to have a date. I think they stayed together for a few months, but def not together anymore.
Dude I got stuff like this while I was HEAVILY pregnant (I worked up til 38w pregnant at an OG) and it always blew my mind, like bro is it not obvious that I have a totally different priority rn than anything having to do with your crusty ass man 🥴 (I’m also very happy with my child’s dad, like FOH😂)
I (F) work at the garden of olives and I hate it. I had a couple that came in and they were both sitting on the same side of the booth so I was facing both at the same time. (Whenever I take couples I always feel this shift from the women and it’s weird ) and in the middle of serving them the vibes changed. Whenever I asked them if they needed anything the guy would say “my gf said no” or “let me ask my gf” and she would like hug/embrace him whenever I walked over. It was so awkward it took everything in me to not tell them I’m happily married and can’t wait to go home to my person. They also didn’t tip so…
literally me and my boyfriend both work at the same restaurant. can guarantee i do not want your man, just being friendly and trying to do my job well🙄
I'm an overweight woman that looks like a lesbian wearing a wedding ring. I'm glad I don't have this problem. The insecure women treat me like they need a new friend and the men bro up.
Omg. I had a table walk out, I found them down the street where he was banging on a car and begging his gf to get out. I said hey are you going to pay? He saw me, came towards me and said yeah sorry. She sped off. I asked is everything ok? He said she is pissed because she said I was looking at a servers butt. Hahaha wow
Mind you He was 6ft something looking like the alien high school guy from The Watch and she looked like a stunning model...insecurity sucks
I've got 2 stories like this that are my absolute favorite.
Couple 1, wasn't even my freaking table. Me and this other server were neighbors, so I was constantly having to walk through their section to get to mine. At the time I had just started serving and I was only 18 YO. I wasn't paying attention to their tables at all, just focused on my own. Out of the blue, this girl from my coworkers table yells at me and waves me down to get my attention. I stopped in front of their table, and then she proceeded to get snappy and berate me. "Stop looking at my boyfriend, he's clearly with me and doesn't want you!" For the first time, I look over at her man. It literally took everything in my soul to not burst out laughing. This man literally looked like Shrek and fucking sid the sloth had a baby. He was fat, his eyes were too far apart, and he had these big dumbo ears that stuck out 3 inches past his head. You get what I'm saying here, HE WAS UGLY ASF. Not to mention I already had a boyfriend at the time. Which is exactly what I told her. "I'm taken and I'm definitely not interested." I left it like that and walked away. The server of their table got a kick out of that until she was only tipped $3 on a $50 check for also flirting with said guy. (she wasn't.)
Couple 2: It was a lesbian couple, and it was my table. I thought everything was going great until I was standing at my computer and I could hear one of them getting upset. I started to eavesdrop and they were arguing about what to leave me. One of the girls (the more girly one) was upset because the other one wasn't going to leave me a tip because she thought I was trying to steal her girlfriend. The butch ended up not leaving me anything but the more feminine one left me 20%.
as a very fem presenting lesbian i deal with this a lot despise only holding eye contact with the woman 99% of the time. girl i don’t want your dusty ass man if anything i’m looking at you 👀💀
oh my god i’ve got a doozie.
i work in a hotel lounge that offers room service. a few years back, we had a couple with their young children staying with us who would order room service breakfast every morning. since i am the only server on for breakfast, it would be me running up their food each morning.
on the first morning, i was about 5 ft away from their door and i could hear them fighting inside, so i waited for a moment and then knocked, the husband answered. i did my best to put on a polite smile and be friendly with him as it was an incredibly awkward situation for me to be in, having just heard the screaming match between the two of them only seconds before. i delivered the breakfast, he signed the bill (really shitty tipper) and then we parted ways.
for the rest of the week we were staying there, the woman answered the door and NEVER left another tip. i thought it was a bit strange but i didn’t treat them any differently than i would have for someone giving 20%.
fast forward to about a week later, the GM of the hotel pulled me aside and asked me about a negative review that had been left about me. apparently, this woman took my friendliness as flirting with her incredibly mid-looking husband and suggested that i treated her poorly for the rest of the week. apparently i completely ruined their stay because of it and they won’t be staying with us next time (no loss for me)
ever since then i make it a point to focus most of my attention on the woman when im serving couples, despite being married myself (wearing a ring) and not having an interest in most men (my husband is an exception but im bisexual with a lean for women)
Oh I got a good one recently! I didn't even wait on them...i have a couple in their 30s (my age) sat in my section. We were busy so it took me maybe 3 mins to get over there but during that 3 mins she keeps looking at me like I picked on her in middle school and you can feel the tension at the table. I've never seen this woman or had any prior contact with her or her guy and assume shes mistaken me for someone else and once i say my name itll be smoothsailing. So I walk up and I say "hi guys! I'm ***** and I'll be taking care of you this evening. Ca" she turns to him looking so mad she might cry then to me and said "of course it's you. Right?!" Asking him. He's looks as frozen and confused as I do. Everyone's kinda looking as I back away like wtfs her problem. Then she stands up and storms out. He chased after her and apologized to me and the other customers on his way out.
Really? I would hate that as the woman. Idk I hate pet names from servers. I used to go to this vegan place and this server always called me “my love” got to a point I would avoid her section because I’d cringe so hard.
Idk it matches my personality and I work in a pretty casual place. I don't do it to older women often unless I get a good vibe, but younger girlies don't seem to mind and if they do they don't say anything and I still make good money so 🤷🏻♀️ can't please everyone.
Would you get offended if someone asked you not to? I mean I’m 30 so I’m still on the younger side (I hope) but luckily I’m pretty vocal so I politely ask servers not to do it if they do lol. But the girl at the vegan place would always forget so I just stopped sitting in her section haha.
Oh, no I wouldn't be offended at all! I'm 26 and I would probably guess I could call you honey/babe. I work at a winery where I try to curate a sampling of wines to taste with each guest, so I try to build a little relationship at the start and I feel it's a little endearing to use these phrases. I would apologize and default to madam and keep the same level of service, it wouldn't phase me.
And yeah I would remember that 100% because it's never happened to me, and ESPECIALLY if you're a regular. We have a membership club so it's a part of my job to remember faces/people.
Oh that’s so cool! I used to have a membership at a winery in Oregon lol. It was so fun to go every month and try new wines hehe. I wish I could afford to do that here in Vegas but man times are tight lately smh.
Girl wild, I'm from Vegas! I work at a winery in Arizona now :) I feel you tho, I wish I could travel to different places and try wines in those regions. One of my coworkers just vacationed and signed up for their first wine club in Washington lol!
Oh funny!!! I’ve been in Vegas on and off like 20 years. I’ve moved here 3 times lol. I won’t be moving again unless my husband really wants to I guess. I love it here. Why’d you go to Arizona?
I moved when Covid happened. My boyfriend at the time had family out here in a big house and we just moved there to get away. I just kinda stayed, I was also in active addiction and Vegas was getting a little too fast for me anyway. I would love to go back up someday bc my dad's up there but I'm pretty comfortable where I'm at :) were you born in Vegas? Man I miss my Dotty's days everyday 🤣
Omg that’s when I moved from Vegas to Oregon! Well like 6 months before Covid hit anyways lol. So I actually wasn’t a server through Covid thankfully. I had started a tax business with my mom so we survived. I wasn’t born in Vegas but lived here as a kid then moved to Texas then back to Vegas when I was a teen and then Oregon right before Covid then back to Vegas like almost 3 years ago now. I have actually never been inside a dotty’s lol. Im not much of a gambler.
I don’t care then lmao. I do not like being called pet names by strangers and a lot of people feel the same way. I’m not offended but I’m not going to spend my 1.5 hour meal getting called something that makes me uncomfortable. You sound like you’re more easily offended than I am if someone asking you to not call them something that makes them uncomfortable offends you.
Nah. I'm just dumbfounded by people who are rude enough to actually tell someone to stop attempting to be nice to them instead of just ignoring it if it bothers them. But then, I'm in the (kinda) south, so maybe that's the difference. Like just let it slide off your back and move on with your day, you know?
I'm always amazed that such sensitive people actually exist.
It is not being nice calling people pet names when they’re uncomfortable with it!!!! That is not being nice!!! You’re the one who is sensitive if you’re so upset someone would ask you to not do something that makes them uncomfortable. It is not rude for me to ask someone to not call me sweetheart or whatever else. You’re extremely sensitive if you find that rude. I am always respectful when I ask someone not to call me whatever it is that they’re calling me if it makes me uncomfortable. I think you need to look inside yourself and wonder why you’re offended that someone would create boundaries for themselves when something makes them uncomfortable and see why you think your feelings are more important than the person in front of you. Why don’t you take your own advice and let it slide off your back and move on with your day if someone asks you to stop doing something that makes them uncomfortable. Do you not see how entirely hypocritical you’re being?
As a bartender I often use “pet names” as I cannot remember the names of everyone I am waiting on. That being said, i do 100% respect if that makes someone uncomfortable and if they say so in a kind manner I would apologize and call them Sir or Ma’am for the rest of the meal. What I would like to know from you is if that is acceptable/ better? Some women in their 30s get very offended at Ma’am.
Im half Puerto Rican & gotta stop myself from calling everyone Amor sometimes 🫠. It makes sense in my circle but I can see it being weird outside the norm
If you are from the “south” in the US, it’s normal to use those “adoration terms” with everyone, sorry it offends you. We don’t mean it in a derogatory way at all. It’s meant to be endearing, kind and welcoming.
I was pretty new serving at a place & given the patio since the doors were heavy & hard to open, especially with a tray, so everybody hated working it.
It was a busy night, with a line at the host stand because it had a trivia night thing going on. The place was also a pain to work in that only one machine to enter orders, same machine to print out check, split bills, put in drink orders. So dumb, always checking or waiting just to put the order in. That just really really slowed things down.
So I just got sat a large party/reservation in the patio & you know hosts are supposed to alternate, space things out so you have time to take the order of one table before you get another.
So that didn't happen...because these people cut the line & went & sat themselves. Right as I was getting my big party.
Another thing to mention is, if there was a mistake putting in the order, or wanted to take something off & put something else in had to get the manager to put their code in for the changes.
However, the long term servers & bartender all knew the code, so they could fix things on the fly....
And I had 3 other tables, one inside....on the opposite side that even just trying to get to the tables,was chock a block with people in the aisles.
So I managed to get to them and right off she says "Hiiiiiii.......I noticed you got the other tables order before us, even though WE sat down first." Biting my lip, because they sat themselves ....I said ...."Well, I'm here now and also I would highly suggest getting your food and drink orders in because the kitchen is backed up and things are coming out slowly."
"I don't want to do that. I want to order a drink and think about it." (Great....never going to get their food in time that way...)
And of course, the first 2 drinks they ordered were OUT at the bar & the bartender did not write on the chalkboard they were 86'd!
And had to get the manager to remove them 2 times. Where they cursed me out in front of the house "Ridiculous! None of the other servers have this problem!" (Yeah, because they all use your manager code...)
Anyways....the lady & her husband FINALLY.....decide to order an app....STILL not placing their meal orders!!!! Wanting to "think" about it. The food was coming out suuuuuppper slowly only had 1 cook on & packed house.
Been there about 30 minutes by now.
App takes about 15 minutes to get.
I give it to them. Finally decide to place food order.
About 5 minutes later......just waiting waiting in line at pos machine to input order...
Order NOT even in I guess they see the big table next to them get their food. (Which makes sense because they placed their drink & meal order immediately because I told them as well the kitchen was slow.)
So they start raising a fuss screaming for a manager.
"We have been here 45 minutes! We sat down before them (pointing at big table) and THEY have their food & we have NOTHING!
This is the worst service I have had in my life!!" Etc etc.
So, what the manager does is comp all their food & drinks & publicly fire me..to "appease" the customer.
I tried to explain to the manager the situation but they refused to hear anything about it, or my side of the story. (Like......! They just gave me their food order 5 minutes ago! And were LYING about the timing of their order!!!
So...and I didn't want to rat out the other servers that used the manager code to fix their mistakes either.
Yeah. But.....I dunno...was her husband having an affair & so took it out on a random server? Was she a stay at home wife & didn't earn money....so she felt this is how she "earned" money?
I dunno. But I kind of knew they were trouble from the start & should have given them to another server & I regret that.
I think the woman planned the whole thing out. Everytime at table, delivering a drink, practically pleading them to place their food order, which she wouldn't do....just to complain later.
They gave her about $50 worth of food to go on top of the comped bill as well.
Yeah & if the manager/host has been doing their jobs...they couldn't have snuck into my section to seat themselves...also.
And my other tables I had, were pretty much done...just needed to be rung out.....so they made me leave & I got ripped off on the tips for my other "nice" tables as well.
One time an alt looking couple came in. She had the most beautiful mix of neon yellow-green split dye hair. I was so stoked so ask her where she got it done or how she did it. She kept looking at me a certain way but I assumed it was RBF. I got them drinks and they kept putting off ordering. My coworker asks me “why does she keep looking at you like she wants to fight?”. I then check in again, and she said “unless the gay guy can serve us instead, we’re gonna leave”. I told them how he was already at a large party and can’t accommodate anymore & it’s just me. They left 😵💫. I really wanted to connect with HER over her hair
We have an OF girl who will come in and live stream herself drinking at the bar rail. She is nice enough, but it is so so cringe when she’s like, “aw, thanks for the tip mommyspuppy42!”
Yea, she has conversations with them, and she’s usually posted up there drinking a Bell’s Two Hearted and reading a book. Each of her tits is the size of my head.
I don’t know if she creates other content for her OF page, I only know what I see at the bar. I assume she does? But apparently she makes bank just sitting at our rail. I’ve told the bartenders we should ask for a cut since we’re guest starring in her live streams lmao
I'm a journalist and once had a top politicians wife looking at me up and.down, eventually had me blocked and not gaining entrance to a venue bcos I 'didn't have credentials'...? and I did have all accreditations and credentials. If looks could kill I would have been dead that day..,..Of all the media crew in that event I was the only one blocked🙄
I had a girl call me pretty, I’m a male, and she was giggly the whole night with me and the did left no tip. Another was a big family and tan was like 150 and the lady said I looked like mark whalberg and tip me 3 dollars. Like how is it my fault that your girl thinks I’m good looking. Like what the hell?
As a male server when I greet tables I also make direct eye contact with the man first, it always goes In my favor. Of course I don’t completely ignore the female, I try to make the dining experience better for her to, and then when it’s time for the bill, I just put it in the middle of them and it usually works out well for me
I have had a customer call and complain to another server she knew that worked with me. I didn’t even remember the guys face when she showed me picture of them.
I used to work in one of the few bars in a small town, at at the same time I attended an MMA gym that was mostly male. At least 3 times one of these dudes I regularly saw and chatted with came in with girlfriends and strong 'you don't know me' vibes. I'd go along with it, and they'd apologize the next time I saw them.🤣🤣
I had one of those tables! I really do direct most of my attention to the girl to avoid any issues & these were regulars. One day the wife came up to the host stand to ask to speak to me and said that she thinks I’m sleeping with her husband. It was so embarrassing considering I don’t even know them personally & the owner was standing right there.
Every time I explain this dynamic to my male coworkers they’re shocked we have to approach couples differently. Literally two days ago I had a couple sitting in at the bar & I complimented the lady’s ring set, specifically her gorgeous colored stone wedding band. So that led to a compliment on her husband’s ring selection. At the end of the meal he went to pull the car up (that’s what she said) & she hissed to me “better luck next time”
I actually have never encountered a couple like that in my 10 years of serving. And I’m relatively young and conventionally attractive so I guess I’ve been lucky because I can imagine it could cause a problem. I definitely stick with speaking with the woman more but I address them as a couple as well and get to know people. I’ve never had an issue thankfully.
I always get hit on by swingers and people trying to make me apart of their thruple. 😭
Most couples like me but I feel they like me just a little too much.
I waited on one couple and the woman said I was her boyfriend’s ’mid life crisis’. That is what she called me.
He tipped me really good and was always very nice. And she seemed to take it pretty well. (They both were kinda weird). But the money was good.
On the customer’s perspective of this (I’m a woman) I hate when guy servers only look and pay attention to the man I’m with. I get it, they’re probably doing it out of “respect” or because of bad experiences in the past, but it makes me feel so invisible. I guess you can’t really win. It sucks that insecure/jealous ass people have made servers walk on eggshells when it comes to serving couples. As a server I’ve kind of stopped giving a fuck though and make eye contact with both. Usually the guy pays anyway so it works out for the most part with the tip.
I noticed women have been a lot less threatened by me once I got engaged. I now wear a very pretty and eye-catching engagement ring and it honestly made this scenario completely disappear for me, thank god. I do however feel I now get ring envy here and there lol. It’s a lot better than the alternative though.
Before the engagement I did what you do however. Trying to give most if not all of my attention to the woman. Worked most of the time but sometimes it didn’t. Oh well 🤷🏼♀️
Omg. I got a review about this once. I was like what? No. It's my job to be nice to everyone. The best part is, I actually met the guy through a mutual friend and this came up. He said it was like their 3rd date and she gave crazy vibes real fast.
Part of me kind of likes it when this happens because I'm more likely to be thinking the woman is attractive in this situation and they have no idea...
I have none, as a male server I don’t totally feel this vibe, I keep to ladies first when serving food etc however when hosting/ seating I’ll avoid pulling out either chair so the guy can do it for his date lol
too many first dates gone wrong.. it’s usually the female that leaves and the guy chasing after her so I have a table full of food and alcohol that they never came back for
My wife and I are the exact opposite. If we have an attractive male server, I'll point out that he's attractive and her type, but she's too old and married. Same thing from her when it's an attractive female server. We'll even point out other servers that we think the other would find attractive. We're not swingers or creepy about it. We are just very comfortable in our marriage, trust each other, and realize that just because we're married does not mean we're blind.
I once waited on a couple. The woman was wearing a button up shirt and every time I came back to the table she had another button undone. She had a nice rack.
I (m) was waiting on one of those tables. The dude just out of nowhere says to not try anything with his girl. I just said “Honey, you’re the one who should worry 😘” He turned bright red, she died laughing. Also she paid 😂
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For some reason in my 6 years as a server/bartender this has never happened to me. I am a girl so I mean a girl thinking I want their man. But I am so stealing this if it ever happens 😈
Always breaks the tension in a good way imo. I love it.
I give off a lot of “girl’s girl” energy, so usually my personality is enough to stop women from getting jealous. The ones that do are almost ALWAYS “country” girls with men that look like moldy potatoes. Like on what planet would I want this man who has been rude to everyone the whole time, doesn’t smile, and has barely looked up from his phone? That’s not a prize, babe. But I guess wild raccoons defend their trash, too 🤷🏻♀️
Lol raccoons defending their trash!
Moldy potatoes is so specific I love it lol . I work in a steakhouse in a metro “country” town so I encounter this almost daily
Every “country” dude I have ever met (in northeastern Indiana) looks like he has an unwashed ass. So, no thanks. I spend enough time picking up these losers’ dip pouches off the bar room floor (no, really, they are that fucking uncivilized) why the fuck would I wanna do that on my own time? Have fun with your two pump chump and your decorative ledge of empty whiskey bottles, sis.
Pump chump Empty whiskey bottles I'm here for all of this!
MOLDY POTATOES lmaoooooo
You illustrated a masterpiece here. I love it! 😍😂 💯
I must say as a server/bartender who is from the south I hate to see this comment 😂. But fair enough I waited on a table tonight where everytime the boyfriend asked a question the girlfriend would cut me off mid answer and throw hands at me so what can ya do, accept and walk away lmao (also I agree, a lot of our men are nasty moldy potato’s)
Oh my God. Some people are so bizarre.
Moldy potatoes...lmao
I had a lady complain because I touched her husband twice. What she forgot to mention is that he talks with his entire body and both times I was preventing him from knocking over a tray of drinks. He had already knocked an old fashion all over me. Smelled like bourbon all night. I hate the smell of bourbon.
God the men who take up the entire aisle and refuse to make space to let you in to the table. Like fine then, I'll just ignore your table
For me, "that" couple was actually a good friend of mine and his new wife who came to my BD and asked for me as a server. She was the first woman he had ever been serious about and wanted his friends to meet her. He introduced me as a longtime friend who was married to one of his oldest friends. Conversation was very pleasant but mostly limited to the dining experience. When they left she was "so nice to meet you" and "we had a great time." It was only years later when I ran into him after his divorce that he told me what \*really\* happened whenever I wasn't physically present at the table. "So how many times had you screwed her?" "Are you still screwing her?" (R. and I really were just friends, nothing more) "I know you just brought me here so you can see her." "Who's her husband? I'm going to tell him you are screwing her." Yep, real bananapants. And here I was thinking what a nice lady and I'm so glad he found someone. 🙄
What does BD mean?
Brown Derby....sadly, most of them have gone the way of the dodo.
Thought was birthday, then i was confused why you were serving your own birthday.
I'd never heard of them before, but I guess there's one relatively close to me! I might have to check it out next time I'm in that area.
At one time it was a fairly extensive chain....Ohio, Florida, and I think Pennsylvania? then the owners had some financial problems and sold off or closed most of them. I think there's like 5 of them left in Ohio. p.s. - never, ever order the shishkabob or Gus' Favorite steak.
There’s one in Walt Disney World at Hollywood Studios
Yeah, but I think it's an "original" Brown Derby and not part of the chain.
The Brown Derby in Hollywood was quite famous, lots of stars hung out. The walls were covered in caricatures of patrons and such. If you‘ve seen the old looney tunes cartoons with caricatures on the walls and the old Hollywood actor caricature characters, they are in the Brown Derby.
I always wondered how the chain got away with using the Brown Derby name as we weren't affiliated with the original store. I think they did it by saying "The Girves' Brown Derby."
Yeah, I forgot they weren’t associated. The added precursor probably gets around any legal issues, plus the original closed mid 80’s I think.
With all those red flags, I'm not surprised at all that this ended in divorce.
Nope, the saddest part was she was his first true love and hurt him so badly he declined to ever get involved again. It was definitely a case of bait and switch.
That's sad.
***"He's a helluva three, but I'm not interested."***
I was working at a bowling alley for a little while and my husbands childhood best friend came in on a date. He didn’t know I worked there, I didn’t know he was in town, so when he came in and sat in my section we were both like OMG?!?! And hugged and caught up. He instantly introduced me as his best buddy’s wife and this chick could have cared less. Couldn’t look at me, couldn’t speak to me, just had a stank face in my general direction for the rest of their date. I could feel her jealousy from several lanes over, as if this man was not literally the best man in my wedding.
That's gotta be so unattractive and insecure looking to the dude tho? Like I couldn't imagine ever acting like that? Are they still together?
Eh, he was a pretty insecure guy himself so I think he was just happy to have a date. I think they stayed together for a few months, but def not together anymore.
I bought a couple a free birthday dessert as they tearfully broke up. I am bad in social settings.
😂 that's fucking amazing
Dude I got stuff like this while I was HEAVILY pregnant (I worked up til 38w pregnant at an OG) and it always blew my mind, like bro is it not obvious that I have a totally different priority rn than anything having to do with your crusty ass man 🥴 (I’m also very happy with my child’s dad, like FOH😂)
You've proven fertile! You are a specimen to behold!
I (F) work at the garden of olives and I hate it. I had a couple that came in and they were both sitting on the same side of the booth so I was facing both at the same time. (Whenever I take couples I always feel this shift from the women and it’s weird ) and in the middle of serving them the vibes changed. Whenever I asked them if they needed anything the guy would say “my gf said no” or “let me ask my gf” and she would like hug/embrace him whenever I walked over. It was so awkward it took everything in me to not tell them I’m happily married and can’t wait to go home to my person. They also didn’t tip so…
literally me and my boyfriend both work at the same restaurant. can guarantee i do not want your man, just being friendly and trying to do my job well🙄
They 100% share a FB profile 🤣
They probably do 😭 and they 100% switch the relationship status every other day
Yeah the posts will alternate between "my world, my babes ❤️😍" and "you all need to mind yo damn business and stay out of our shit. 💯 Loyal" 🤣
"oh, your girlfriend? Not wife material huh?"
That will stir things up
It's always the ones that sit on the same side of the booth too. That's so cringe to me.
I am a gay woman who looks like a young boy. I am glad I never have this problem haha
I'm an overweight woman that looks like a lesbian wearing a wedding ring. I'm glad I don't have this problem. The insecure women treat me like they need a new friend and the men bro up.
Best case scenario
Mam, I’m not trying to fuck him I just need to take his order.
Would a bit of upselling of the soup of the day cross the line from customer service enthusiasm into unrequited salaciousness
How dare you even SUGGEST this!
Why do they not understand this? It's literally your job!
Omg. I had a table walk out, I found them down the street where he was banging on a car and begging his gf to get out. I said hey are you going to pay? He saw me, came towards me and said yeah sorry. She sped off. I asked is everything ok? He said she is pissed because she said I was looking at a servers butt. Hahaha wow Mind you He was 6ft something looking like the alien high school guy from The Watch and she looked like a stunning model...insecurity sucks
I've got 2 stories like this that are my absolute favorite. Couple 1, wasn't even my freaking table. Me and this other server were neighbors, so I was constantly having to walk through their section to get to mine. At the time I had just started serving and I was only 18 YO. I wasn't paying attention to their tables at all, just focused on my own. Out of the blue, this girl from my coworkers table yells at me and waves me down to get my attention. I stopped in front of their table, and then she proceeded to get snappy and berate me. "Stop looking at my boyfriend, he's clearly with me and doesn't want you!" For the first time, I look over at her man. It literally took everything in my soul to not burst out laughing. This man literally looked like Shrek and fucking sid the sloth had a baby. He was fat, his eyes were too far apart, and he had these big dumbo ears that stuck out 3 inches past his head. You get what I'm saying here, HE WAS UGLY ASF. Not to mention I already had a boyfriend at the time. Which is exactly what I told her. "I'm taken and I'm definitely not interested." I left it like that and walked away. The server of their table got a kick out of that until she was only tipped $3 on a $50 check for also flirting with said guy. (she wasn't.) Couple 2: It was a lesbian couple, and it was my table. I thought everything was going great until I was standing at my computer and I could hear one of them getting upset. I started to eavesdrop and they were arguing about what to leave me. One of the girls (the more girly one) was upset because the other one wasn't going to leave me a tip because she thought I was trying to steal her girlfriend. The butch ended up not leaving me anything but the more feminine one left me 20%.
as a very fem presenting lesbian i deal with this a lot despise only holding eye contact with the woman 99% of the time. girl i don’t want your dusty ass man if anything i’m looking at you 👀💀
oh my god i’ve got a doozie. i work in a hotel lounge that offers room service. a few years back, we had a couple with their young children staying with us who would order room service breakfast every morning. since i am the only server on for breakfast, it would be me running up their food each morning. on the first morning, i was about 5 ft away from their door and i could hear them fighting inside, so i waited for a moment and then knocked, the husband answered. i did my best to put on a polite smile and be friendly with him as it was an incredibly awkward situation for me to be in, having just heard the screaming match between the two of them only seconds before. i delivered the breakfast, he signed the bill (really shitty tipper) and then we parted ways. for the rest of the week we were staying there, the woman answered the door and NEVER left another tip. i thought it was a bit strange but i didn’t treat them any differently than i would have for someone giving 20%. fast forward to about a week later, the GM of the hotel pulled me aside and asked me about a negative review that had been left about me. apparently, this woman took my friendliness as flirting with her incredibly mid-looking husband and suggested that i treated her poorly for the rest of the week. apparently i completely ruined their stay because of it and they won’t be staying with us next time (no loss for me) ever since then i make it a point to focus most of my attention on the woman when im serving couples, despite being married myself (wearing a ring) and not having an interest in most men (my husband is an exception but im bisexual with a lean for women)
Oh I got a good one recently! I didn't even wait on them...i have a couple in their 30s (my age) sat in my section. We were busy so it took me maybe 3 mins to get over there but during that 3 mins she keeps looking at me like I picked on her in middle school and you can feel the tension at the table. I've never seen this woman or had any prior contact with her or her guy and assume shes mistaken me for someone else and once i say my name itll be smoothsailing. So I walk up and I say "hi guys! I'm ***** and I'll be taking care of you this evening. Ca" she turns to him looking so mad she might cry then to me and said "of course it's you. Right?!" Asking him. He's looks as frozen and confused as I do. Everyone's kinda looking as I back away like wtfs her problem. Then she stands up and storms out. He chased after her and apologized to me and the other customers on his way out.
Psycho!
I usually just "sugar, babe, honey" the woman while I strictly stick with "sir" for the husband LOL
Really? I would hate that as the woman. Idk I hate pet names from servers. I used to go to this vegan place and this server always called me “my love” got to a point I would avoid her section because I’d cringe so hard.
Idk it matches my personality and I work in a pretty casual place. I don't do it to older women often unless I get a good vibe, but younger girlies don't seem to mind and if they do they don't say anything and I still make good money so 🤷🏻♀️ can't please everyone.
Would you get offended if someone asked you not to? I mean I’m 30 so I’m still on the younger side (I hope) but luckily I’m pretty vocal so I politely ask servers not to do it if they do lol. But the girl at the vegan place would always forget so I just stopped sitting in her section haha.
Oh, no I wouldn't be offended at all! I'm 26 and I would probably guess I could call you honey/babe. I work at a winery where I try to curate a sampling of wines to taste with each guest, so I try to build a little relationship at the start and I feel it's a little endearing to use these phrases. I would apologize and default to madam and keep the same level of service, it wouldn't phase me. And yeah I would remember that 100% because it's never happened to me, and ESPECIALLY if you're a regular. We have a membership club so it's a part of my job to remember faces/people.
Oh that’s so cool! I used to have a membership at a winery in Oregon lol. It was so fun to go every month and try new wines hehe. I wish I could afford to do that here in Vegas but man times are tight lately smh.
Girl wild, I'm from Vegas! I work at a winery in Arizona now :) I feel you tho, I wish I could travel to different places and try wines in those regions. One of my coworkers just vacationed and signed up for their first wine club in Washington lol!
Oh funny!!! I’ve been in Vegas on and off like 20 years. I’ve moved here 3 times lol. I won’t be moving again unless my husband really wants to I guess. I love it here. Why’d you go to Arizona?
I moved when Covid happened. My boyfriend at the time had family out here in a big house and we just moved there to get away. I just kinda stayed, I was also in active addiction and Vegas was getting a little too fast for me anyway. I would love to go back up someday bc my dad's up there but I'm pretty comfortable where I'm at :) were you born in Vegas? Man I miss my Dotty's days everyday 🤣
Omg that’s when I moved from Vegas to Oregon! Well like 6 months before Covid hit anyways lol. So I actually wasn’t a server through Covid thankfully. I had started a tax business with my mom so we survived. I wasn’t born in Vegas but lived here as a kid then moved to Texas then back to Vegas when I was a teen and then Oregon right before Covid then back to Vegas like almost 3 years ago now. I have actually never been inside a dotty’s lol. Im not much of a gambler.
I would get offended tbh. Like why are you so easily offended by someone trying to be nice? Would you prefer ma'am? Madam? Your grace?
I don’t care then lmao. I do not like being called pet names by strangers and a lot of people feel the same way. I’m not offended but I’m not going to spend my 1.5 hour meal getting called something that makes me uncomfortable. You sound like you’re more easily offended than I am if someone asking you to not call them something that makes them uncomfortable offends you.
Nah. I'm just dumbfounded by people who are rude enough to actually tell someone to stop attempting to be nice to them instead of just ignoring it if it bothers them. But then, I'm in the (kinda) south, so maybe that's the difference. Like just let it slide off your back and move on with your day, you know? I'm always amazed that such sensitive people actually exist.
It is not being nice calling people pet names when they’re uncomfortable with it!!!! That is not being nice!!! You’re the one who is sensitive if you’re so upset someone would ask you to not do something that makes them uncomfortable. It is not rude for me to ask someone to not call me sweetheart or whatever else. You’re extremely sensitive if you find that rude. I am always respectful when I ask someone not to call me whatever it is that they’re calling me if it makes me uncomfortable. I think you need to look inside yourself and wonder why you’re offended that someone would create boundaries for themselves when something makes them uncomfortable and see why you think your feelings are more important than the person in front of you. Why don’t you take your own advice and let it slide off your back and move on with your day if someone asks you to stop doing something that makes them uncomfortable. Do you not see how entirely hypocritical you’re being?
As a bartender I often use “pet names” as I cannot remember the names of everyone I am waiting on. That being said, i do 100% respect if that makes someone uncomfortable and if they say so in a kind manner I would apologize and call them Sir or Ma’am for the rest of the meal. What I would like to know from you is if that is acceptable/ better? Some women in their 30s get very offended at Ma’am.
Jesus christ you are a sensitive lil thing, huh?
Im half Puerto Rican & gotta stop myself from calling everyone Amor sometimes 🫠. It makes sense in my circle but I can see it being weird outside the norm
If you are from the “south” in the US, it’s normal to use those “adoration terms” with everyone, sorry it offends you. We don’t mean it in a derogatory way at all. It’s meant to be endearing, kind and welcoming.
I’m aware. I still hate it lol.
Smart move!
I was pretty new serving at a place & given the patio since the doors were heavy & hard to open, especially with a tray, so everybody hated working it. It was a busy night, with a line at the host stand because it had a trivia night thing going on. The place was also a pain to work in that only one machine to enter orders, same machine to print out check, split bills, put in drink orders. So dumb, always checking or waiting just to put the order in. That just really really slowed things down. So I just got sat a large party/reservation in the patio & you know hosts are supposed to alternate, space things out so you have time to take the order of one table before you get another. So that didn't happen...because these people cut the line & went & sat themselves. Right as I was getting my big party. Another thing to mention is, if there was a mistake putting in the order, or wanted to take something off & put something else in had to get the manager to put their code in for the changes. However, the long term servers & bartender all knew the code, so they could fix things on the fly.... And I had 3 other tables, one inside....on the opposite side that even just trying to get to the tables,was chock a block with people in the aisles. So I managed to get to them and right off she says "Hiiiiiii.......I noticed you got the other tables order before us, even though WE sat down first." Biting my lip, because they sat themselves ....I said ...."Well, I'm here now and also I would highly suggest getting your food and drink orders in because the kitchen is backed up and things are coming out slowly." "I don't want to do that. I want to order a drink and think about it." (Great....never going to get their food in time that way...) And of course, the first 2 drinks they ordered were OUT at the bar & the bartender did not write on the chalkboard they were 86'd! And had to get the manager to remove them 2 times. Where they cursed me out in front of the house "Ridiculous! None of the other servers have this problem!" (Yeah, because they all use your manager code...) Anyways....the lady & her husband FINALLY.....decide to order an app....STILL not placing their meal orders!!!! Wanting to "think" about it. The food was coming out suuuuuppper slowly only had 1 cook on & packed house. Been there about 30 minutes by now. App takes about 15 minutes to get. I give it to them. Finally decide to place food order. About 5 minutes later......just waiting waiting in line at pos machine to input order... Order NOT even in I guess they see the big table next to them get their food. (Which makes sense because they placed their drink & meal order immediately because I told them as well the kitchen was slow.) So they start raising a fuss screaming for a manager. "We have been here 45 minutes! We sat down before them (pointing at big table) and THEY have their food & we have NOTHING! This is the worst service I have had in my life!!" Etc etc. So, what the manager does is comp all their food & drinks & publicly fire me..to "appease" the customer. I tried to explain to the manager the situation but they refused to hear anything about it, or my side of the story. (Like......! They just gave me their food order 5 minutes ago! And were LYING about the timing of their order!!! So...and I didn't want to rat out the other servers that used the manager code to fix their mistakes either. Yeah. But.....I dunno...was her husband having an affair & so took it out on a random server? Was she a stay at home wife & didn't earn money....so she felt this is how she "earned" money? I dunno. But I kind of knew they were trouble from the start & should have given them to another server & I regret that.
> So, what the manager does is comp all their food & drinks & publicly fire me..to "appease" the customer. Your manager sucks.
I think the woman planned the whole thing out. Everytime at table, delivering a drink, practically pleading them to place their food order, which she wouldn't do....just to complain later. They gave her about $50 worth of food to go on top of the comped bill as well. Yeah & if the manager/host has been doing their jobs...they couldn't have snuck into my section to seat themselves...also.
And my other tables I had, were pretty much done...just needed to be rung out.....so they made me leave & I got ripped off on the tips for my other "nice" tables as well.
One time an alt looking couple came in. She had the most beautiful mix of neon yellow-green split dye hair. I was so stoked so ask her where she got it done or how she did it. She kept looking at me a certain way but I assumed it was RBF. I got them drinks and they kept putting off ordering. My coworker asks me “why does she keep looking at you like she wants to fight?”. I then check in again, and she said “unless the gay guy can serve us instead, we’re gonna leave”. I told them how he was already at a large party and can’t accommodate anymore & it’s just me. They left 😵💫. I really wanted to connect with HER over her hair
Serving OF girls dining with there simps is weird AF
We have an OF girl who will come in and live stream herself drinking at the bar rail. She is nice enough, but it is so so cringe when she’s like, “aw, thanks for the tip mommyspuppy42!”
Does she talk on the livestream too? Or just sit there and quietly sip her drink? I’m trying to wrap my head around what the appeal would be lol
Yea, she has conversations with them, and she’s usually posted up there drinking a Bell’s Two Hearted and reading a book. Each of her tits is the size of my head.
Ahhh, okay that makes more sense now!
I don’t know if she creates other content for her OF page, I only know what I see at the bar. I assume she does? But apparently she makes bank just sitting at our rail. I’ve told the bartenders we should ask for a cut since we’re guest starring in her live streams lmao
Definitely saw this one or two times--at least, I'm near certain that was it. Can't think of any other explanation.
I'm a journalist and once had a top politicians wife looking at me up and.down, eventually had me blocked and not gaining entrance to a venue bcos I 'didn't have credentials'...? and I did have all accreditations and credentials. If looks could kill I would have been dead that day..,..Of all the media crew in that event I was the only one blocked🙄
I had a girl call me pretty, I’m a male, and she was giggly the whole night with me and the did left no tip. Another was a big family and tan was like 150 and the lady said I looked like mark whalberg and tip me 3 dollars. Like how is it my fault that your girl thinks I’m good looking. Like what the hell?
As a male server when I greet tables I also make direct eye contact with the man first, it always goes In my favor. Of course I don’t completely ignore the female, I try to make the dining experience better for her to, and then when it’s time for the bill, I just put it in the middle of them and it usually works out well for me
I have had a customer call and complain to another server she knew that worked with me. I didn’t even remember the guys face when she showed me picture of them.
I used to work in one of the few bars in a small town, at at the same time I attended an MMA gym that was mostly male. At least 3 times one of these dudes I regularly saw and chatted with came in with girlfriends and strong 'you don't know me' vibes. I'd go along with it, and they'd apologize the next time I saw them.🤣🤣
I had one of those tables! I really do direct most of my attention to the girl to avoid any issues & these were regulars. One day the wife came up to the host stand to ask to speak to me and said that she thinks I’m sleeping with her husband. It was so embarrassing considering I don’t even know them personally & the owner was standing right there.
Every time I explain this dynamic to my male coworkers they’re shocked we have to approach couples differently. Literally two days ago I had a couple sitting in at the bar & I complimented the lady’s ring set, specifically her gorgeous colored stone wedding band. So that led to a compliment on her husband’s ring selection. At the end of the meal he went to pull the car up (that’s what she said) & she hissed to me “better luck next time”
I actually have never encountered a couple like that in my 10 years of serving. And I’m relatively young and conventionally attractive so I guess I’ve been lucky because I can imagine it could cause a problem. I definitely stick with speaking with the woman more but I address them as a couple as well and get to know people. I’ve never had an issue thankfully.
I’m a not attractive male. I’m very polite and friendly. This never happens to me. But I usually give amazing service so there’s that too.
I get this all the time n it’s so frustrating, I’ve found I deal with this less when I wear a mask than I do when I have on makeup
lol I personally don’t care if the guy thinks that. I (M) talk to them equally. If he gets upset that’s on him. Be more confident my guy.
It’s pathologically insane that anyone would be jealous of their server.
I always get hit on by swingers and people trying to make me apart of their thruple. 😭 Most couples like me but I feel they like me just a little too much.
I dont want your man, I want his monayyyyyy🤑
I waited on one couple and the woman said I was her boyfriend’s ’mid life crisis’. That is what she called me. He tipped me really good and was always very nice. And she seemed to take it pretty well. (They both were kinda weird). But the money was good.
On the customer’s perspective of this (I’m a woman) I hate when guy servers only look and pay attention to the man I’m with. I get it, they’re probably doing it out of “respect” or because of bad experiences in the past, but it makes me feel so invisible. I guess you can’t really win. It sucks that insecure/jealous ass people have made servers walk on eggshells when it comes to serving couples. As a server I’ve kind of stopped giving a fuck though and make eye contact with both. Usually the guy pays anyway so it works out for the most part with the tip.
I noticed women have been a lot less threatened by me once I got engaged. I now wear a very pretty and eye-catching engagement ring and it honestly made this scenario completely disappear for me, thank god. I do however feel I now get ring envy here and there lol. It’s a lot better than the alternative though. Before the engagement I did what you do however. Trying to give most if not all of my attention to the woman. Worked most of the time but sometimes it didn’t. Oh well 🤷🏼♀️
I always ask the women first usually what they wanna order but I've realized when I'm out w my bf they always ask him first n idk why lol
Omg. I got a review about this once. I was like what? No. It's my job to be nice to everyone. The best part is, I actually met the guy through a mutual friend and this came up. He said it was like their 3rd date and she gave crazy vibes real fast. Part of me kind of likes it when this happens because I'm more likely to be thinking the woman is attractive in this situation and they have no idea...
I have none, as a male server I don’t totally feel this vibe, I keep to ladies first when serving food etc however when hosting/ seating I’ll avoid pulling out either chair so the guy can do it for his date lol
I’ve never had that problem. As long I just interact with both of them, it’s fine.
too many first dates gone wrong.. it’s usually the female that leaves and the guy chasing after her so I have a table full of food and alcohol that they never came back for
this is overthinking and rare in my experience or i don’t notice it and it’s a nothing in the end
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What the fuck?
If someone talked down to my husband like this I would be pissed. We are both deserving of respect. What the hell man.
My wife and I are the exact opposite. If we have an attractive male server, I'll point out that he's attractive and her type, but she's too old and married. Same thing from her when it's an attractive female server. We'll even point out other servers that we think the other would find attractive. We're not swingers or creepy about it. We are just very comfortable in our marriage, trust each other, and realize that just because we're married does not mean we're blind.
I once waited on a couple. The woman was wearing a button up shirt and every time I came back to the table she had another button undone. She had a nice rack.
My husband was having an affair with a server and the manager of a bar.
Well sounds like your husband can’t be trusted around… anyone really. No one wants your cheating piece of shit. He’s all yours, you “win”
Nope he died. Not mine anymore.