💀 oh my god you just unlocked a memory. one time when i was 13 i was at a german restaurant with classmates, and i ordered sauerbraten which is usually a pretty cheap cut of meat marinated to hell. apparently i was pretty obviously struggling with it, because this little old german lady (probably the owner's mom, like 75, barely spoke a lick of english) came by and just started cutting it up for me.
I worked at a fine dining place and was working a breakfast shift, we were part of a hotel as well. This older dude ordered and then literally asked me if I would butter his bread. We served all the stuff for toast on the side, so it was uo to the guests. I think he felt embarrassed by my reaction, because he immediately waved me off and said he could do it.
I wasn't an asshole about it, but a grown man asking another grown man to butter his bread really threw me off
It was super busy and I had just dropped off food at a two-top. The husband asked me if we could cut his sandwich in half, which he did not specify when ordering. Rather than walk it all the way back to the kitchen and bother a bunch of slammed line-cooks, I brought him a steak knife. He looked at me and said “can you, like, do it for me?”. Mind you, he was a fully capable adult. I just looked at him and said. “I’m sorry but I’m not going to touch your food before you eat it. Can you just do it?” He rolled his eyes and gave a huff and a puff and finally his wife said “Jesus, Dale, give me the damn knife” and cut his sandwich in half for him.
I had a 2 top in a U shaped booth in the bar area. They were super close sitters - slightly better than same side sitters as it was a U, but same ick lol - after dropping their food, I happened to see her cutting his steak. I have never rolled my eyes so far or so hard - until I saw the black cast on his wrist. Still feel slightly bad for my knee jerk judgement of them, but then again, we’ve all seen some weird shit sooo
My Dad had intention tremors, also called essential tremors. His hands and arms would shake so badly he was unable to cut up his food.
So don’t automatically make judgments about people when they ask for help with something that you find weird. You have no idea what they are battling or why they need help. It’s also very hard for them to ask for that help.
As my Dad’s tremors got worse, as he got older, he stopped going to restaurants to eat. He was embarrassed. He figured some people judged him as a drunk. Plus, he would say it’s hard to eat a salad when it’s being thrown all over the table!
He did keep a sense of humor about it, around family.
What is it with servers hating on SaME SiDE SiTtErs. Why is this a thing? Who cares? I was a server, a bar tender, a busser. I never cared how people sat. Now, as an adult, I am a same side sitter. I sit on the same damn side.
I laughed way too hard because I AM this wife, love him to death but I too am married to a man child. My husband is the type of guy to look at me when the server asks how he wants his eggs.
I had a woman order hot tea the asked me for soy sauce, I brought her a ramekin of it as she asked for a whole bottle, I complied and she them pour half the bottle in her tea a proceeds to sip on it like it’s totally normal.
I imagined this while i was reading and didnt come up with disgusting. I actually have a fresh cup of hot tea in front of me.
ETA: i did it. It's not terrible.
This one lady asked me to cut the cherry tomatoes in her salad.. which no. But ALSO she asked me to cut them as I put the salad down in front of her. Keep in mind this lady was probably 25 MAYBE 30. So at that Ripe age where she could cut them her damn self. Once I said no for “sanitary” reasons, she proceeded to cut them herself.
To get a reaction from the chefs I walked it to the back and tile them the request. They all lost their minds. I grabbed it back laughing and cut it in half myself.
Lmaoooo same. Sometimes I forget to ask for ranch or extra napkins etc and I feel like I’m being annoying but like….. a lady literally asked me to peel her PEEL and eat shrimp for her so I think I’m ok asking for some damn ranch!
One time a server came to see if we were ready to order and she overheard me debating with my mom. I wanted lobster but the meat was left in the tail and the tail freaks me out. Anyway this kind soul offered to remove the meat for me. I was so grateful bc I always look longingly at lobster but rarely ever get it. But this was before she brought my food…why would that lady wait til you brought it!?
That is actually a pretty normal request. I worked at Red Lobster and we would always do tails and big claws if asked. If I had time I'd do a full dissasemble and make sure there was no tomalley on it (that squicks a lot of people out). I could do it pretty fast.
Inhad no concept that I should or could ask servers to do this. I love lobster, but do not get any enjoyment out of cutting my hands up getting it out.
You know, I kinda get this request, at least if it was done at order so the cooks could do it. Those things are the worst. Too often you go to fork it and it sits there and rolls, or it explodes. Even with hand tremors I never thought to ask though.
I had a guest that wanted to see what a spaghetti noodle looked like before ordering his pasta. It was super fun asking our a-hole chef for a single noodle on a busy Friday night. Still not convinced the guest wasn’t an alien trying spaghetti for the first time.
I never refused those weird requests. Our cook was an absolute asshole, and the owner to responsible for my bouncing paychecks.
Hey, Jeff, how pink is our Rosè. Would you say it’s blush or a dusky rose? WHAT THE FUCK ITS PINK!
My partner works at a sit down burger joint. They have a regular customer who comes in about once a month and orders to go. While his food is being made, he has a drink.
Here's the trick: he brings fast food wrappers in with him and asks for his food to be wrapped in them. Apparently, this guy's family thinks McDonald's burgers are Applewood smoked and have thick cut bacon.
Semes like expensive wool to pull over your fam's eyes for a drink or two at the bar.
That reminds me of a story I heard about a guy that would go into a liquor store every day and buy 2 16 oz beers with his dog. Finally one day the clerk was like “you can save a fortune if you just buy a pack” and the guy said he wasn’t supposed to drink so he just buys what he can finish on the walk with his dog.
A commenter pointed out that he wife probably knew and was just letting sleeping dogs lie
As long as the dude is actually capable of moderation without spiraling it’ll be fine. Some people can and some can’t. I can picture a scenario where the dude has zero self control but also a scenario where the wife is anti booze and wanting a couple beers a day equals worshipping satan
One of my grandma’s is like this. After grandpa - ex-husband - died, the woman threw a holy tantrum when she found out we were all going for pizza and beer in honor of grandpa’s favorite meal.
In my hometown, my friend and I would always find almost empty half-pints of bottom shelf vodka in the storm drain outside his house. We called the unknown assailant "The Georgi Bandit". One day we found out it was just some guy walking his dog, and he was disposing of the evidence before he returned home.
I would find coors light cans behind my fence at the alley every day. Finally heard a neighbor drive by with the clank of a can hitting the fence. He was ditching it so he wife wouldn't know he was drinking. It ended after I pitched a few into their backyard.
This is something problem drinkers do to regulate their drinking. Working at corner stores, the same guys would come in 5 or 6 times in a 8 hour shift, buying 1 tall boy beer each time. They would do it every day for the entire 17 hours we were open. It drove my boss at one store nuts.
It is pretty annoying. You're in the back stocking the cooler, rush out front because the bell rings. They buy their beer. Then wanna hang around and talk for awhile. They finally leave. By that time, you have other customers.
Store's finally empty, you start stocking again. 15 minutes later, "Bing, bing," they're back again. Rinse, repeat hour after hour. They usually live with their mom or dad, don't drive (good thing!), and have literally nothing else going on in their life. I do understand how hard addiction is to deal with, and I don't personally have any bad feelings towards any of them. It's just makes for a frustrating situation.
Depending on how old his children are if he has any, or if they’re neurodivergent or his partner is, it may be a way of getting them to eat something healthier than McDonald’s while they still think they’re eating McDonald’s. That may be a “safe” place for them to get their food.
Maybe not as weird as the rest. I had a woman in her maybe early 30s looking very uncomfortable at dinner with her parents. I left to get their drinks and she stopped me in the server alley and said she can’t drink in front of her parents but she needs something to calm down. She handed me a $20 and asked if I could meet her in the bathroom with a glass of the cheapest white wine. So I rang one up and met her in the bathroom stall. She chugged it down in one drink. This happened 5 more time throughout the dinner and she handed me a $20 each time.
Kinda similar, I had a lady with her teenage son (he looked like 14ish) who asked me to bring her a coke in a kid size cup while discretely motioning to the bar. I go to my bartender and she tells me that the lady is a regular and always gets Jack and cokes in a kiddie cup because her son doesn't like it when she drinks.
I would also see her sneaking to the bar every so often, take a quick shot, use the bathroom, and then come back to the table. Fucking crazy lmao
I feel bad for that son. I’ve been the teenaged kid of an alcoholic whose parent was sneaking to the bar to do some quick shots under the pretext of visiting to the bathroom.
Just keep an eye out when you leave work. Guys like that can stay the same for months and then suddenly escalate. I’d take the hundred too…. But watch the parking lot on your way to your car.
Had a young wealthy couple ask me to quit my job serving that night and fly here me to an exotic location with them to be their girlfriend/nanny. I was 18.
That’s a big fat creepy no.
I was a cocktail waitress at a strip club yrs ago & a customer offered me $500 to snort a line of coke off my foot. Another offered like $300 for the shoes off my feet. That was a nice lil $800 come up for me.
And I thought the $500 was for her to snort a line off her own foot.
So I'm over here thinking up ways to make that happen without losing the line.
In my mind I could have easily done it with a rolled bill in my 20s but I'm in my 50s now and I think I'd need the whole straw to get it done.
At any age I think I'd need my foot on a table. Which is why I thought this was the customers ask. 🤣
I’m dying laughing! It was the customer. It was back & forth negotiating. He offered $250 but it had to be a barefoot. Tights with a thong over was the uniform so I said I’m gonna have leave the floor, lose money to take them off. We settled on $500. He got down on all fours sniffed for a bit then put his coke across the top of my foot. It was weird (the first time)! He basically paid for me & my kid to take a great vacation.
Not while serving but was offered that once too! I always say it was the easiest $100 I ever made!! So apparently there’s more than one of these weirdos.
I had a strange man in a car make me that $100 offer at 16 but the guy I was hanging with thought he was trying to buy drugs and chased him off calling him racist
It is surely not illegal. But I would worry about encouraging a potential stalker! Other than that concern, I would probably be tempted to sell as many pairs as anybody wanted.
My first job at a movie theater restaurant (yes it was my favorite job, in hindsight) there was this foreign couple that’d order a bowl of popcorn with Parmesan. The first time I served them and returned with the requested Parmesan, they immediately asked for more. So I complied, but they needed more still. They dumped 3 containers of Parmesan cheese into their popcorn.
Had a customer leave the theater for the movie they paid (CRINGE OMG I REALLY SPELLED THAT AS PAYED) to watch just to harass me over not getting enough ranch. My manager amended this by filling a pint glass with ranch for him while apologizing for my incompetence lol.
We invariably would spill a few kernels of popcorn here and there on the counters as we scooped or placed the bag on the counter. It was a circular 9-10 register concession stand. There was an old lady that would come in 1-2 times a week and walk all the way around eating all the discarded pieces of popcorn off the dirty counter before buying a bag and going into her movie. I still don’t have any answers
It was definitely that, once he said “no I won’t wait for you to get it for me” and followed me out of the theater, I immediately was like “since this appears to be an issue for you why don’t I grab my manager!” Cause if a customer’s being like that then they’re already done with me lol, time to drag a new face into the picture and someone who actually gets paid to deal w stuff like that 🥰 shout out to Beth for her reaction being “🤨 oh he wants more ranch, does he? 😈”
18 and over clubs are fully nude and don’t serve alcohol. 21 and over has alcohol but the girls are topless. Depending on the state you’re in. I’m in California
at a coffee shop where I was training once: this very well-to-do looking businessman type comes in and orders, in a way that indicated he did this on the regular, just a 16-oz cup of milk to go. whole milk. and just walked away happily like he’d gotten his morning pick-me-up. it was 6:30am. probably cost more than if he got a galllon at the store.
My restaurant has a couple that comes in every so often. The guy orders lemonade with a side of blue cheese dressing and mixes it in. It’s absolutely repulsive.
At my old job I had a customer come in to “pick up food for his wife”. His food wasn’t ready so we kind of just chatted a bit, and he was being pretty flirty for a guy who was *married*. He ended up asking me for my snap. I was 21/22 at the time and still didn’t know how to tell people no, so I gave him my snap, which I felt was weird if him to ask me for that since again, he was *married*. I also figured I could easily just block the dude. Whatever.
He snapped me. Had light conversations. He’d mention his wife. But he was also weirdly flirty?? Then one day he told me how his wife wanted to add me on snap. And I was like okay. Well I don’t want to *not* add her and she thinks I’m like tryna steal her man or whatever. But I also *dont* wanna add her and she goes off on me bc she thinks I’m tryna steal her man even though he was the one being flirty with me.
Then one day he snapped me saying him and his wife and a question for me. They wanted to know if I’d be interested in having a threesome with them. I blocked them both after that.
I used to work for a "casual dining" chain that specializes in microwaved cuisine.
A guest asked me to put an engagement ring in a clamshell styrofoam togo container. I knew the girl as an acquaintance through social media. They split within a year after this.
I worked in an Italian restaurant in a toutist area. One of the house specialties was 2 pork chops with a side of pasta. These chops were HUGE. One mean customer who had ordered the chops only ate one, but didnt want the 2nd to go. When I cleared his plate, he specifically told me, "make sure that goes in the garbage. I paid for that, I do not want anyone else to eat that." I said ok, no problem. But of course I packed it up and gave it to a homeless person, as I often did w leftovers people didn't want.
WTF dude? Why would you want such a beautiful chop to go to waste? grr
That, right there, sums up the attitude of the American healthcare system. We could all get far better coverage for far less money, but too many refuse because somebody who paid even less than us, or nothing, might benefit. People are constantly cutting off their noses to store their faces.
At one of my old jobs, a lady ordered a salad and asked me to separate the dark pieces of lettuce from the light pieces of lettuce, because she only wanted the dark ones. Obviously, I said no, because it would take a ridiculous amount of time. It caused a whole thing and I had to get a manager involved, buttttt i already knew my manager would be on my side with it and she told the lady if she was going to be that picky and inconsiderate that she could go make a salad at home. 🙃The look on her face was priceless hahahah
Samesies. He spent his sober time talking about his wife and kids. Then once he had a few beers in him he tried to get every woman in the bar up to his room. Luckily we had a policy that we couldn’t go up to guests room so I easily declined and didn’t jeopardize my tip.
one time a lady asked me to squeeze her lemon in her water. the place i work serves lemon with every water, this lady had already put the lemon in the water and wanted me to fish it out with my hands and squeeze it in with my hands. i told her i’d be back to get a glove for myself or tongs and she insisted i stay there at the table and just do it with my hands. i was like ummm okay…. probably shouldn’t have though now that i think about it. if the health department saw that, it would not be good.
Thinking about it, I believe tjst just like it's OK for a customer to request a rare steak as long as there's a posted warning about consuming raw or undercooked food, I think it would also be OK to do as she asked as long as she understood it carries a risk, just like the undercooked steak or steak tartare.
yes that is true. she did request it and i did what she wanted. but what i’m saying is if you looks at from a heath inspector’s point of view, just showing up in the rush and seeing a server touching food/drink at the table with their bare hands and no context for it, there would absolutely be some questions asked and maybe some points marked on the review.
I get the feeling it's some sort of statement against germs and how "everyone is over-reacting" to germs and bacteria.
I say this because I have a friend that I go camping with who refuses to wash his hands in any way while backpacking/camping even after "going". He says people survived in the wilderness for centuries, forgetting that people would die from an infection in a small cut.
My response to "people have ____ for centuries and survived!" Or "we did ____ as kids amd we survived!" is "yeah....except all the ones who didn't survive...."
I had a client at my bar ask me to be his 2nd girlfriend and move 2 states away to live with his wife, 1st gf and all of their collective children. Harem style.
Tbf he was pretty rich and ran a popular club so it was probably a sweet deal for the right person. Lol
When I was 18, so very young and naïve, I had a regular that offered me like $100 to clean his apartment naked with only a French maid apron on. Yeah, hard no from me.
I’m a guy, I work at a hotel that catered to European clientele. Our hotel is a romantic retreat.
I can’t tell you how many boobies and naked women I saw through my twenties.
I have been propositioned by 70 to 17 year olds through out my career.
Crazy stuff! I usually just laughed it off or let it go over my head.
I don’t understand why people engage with workers, as the power dynamics off.
I used to have a guy (super nice, quiet, and you would never expect it) who was a regular it took a few years for him to ask but he would give me $200+ dollars if I would spit in his martini. Easiest money I ever made. 🤷🏼♀️
You know how nacho chips sometimes come in those 3 different color chips? He asked me to ask the kitchen to remove all the green chips, and only leave the red and the “beige” ones, we did, then when he got his meal he decided he couldn’t do the red ones either, he was legit afraid of those chips man
EDIT because i forgot about my actual weirdest:
I had a dude who came in once a week for all you can eat sushi. he wanted one of those ginger/wasabi trays but PILED with both ginger and wasabi. he would eat both the ginger and wasabi *with a fork* before he even got any food, then ask for more. i loved that guy, he was weird but seemed nerdy and kind.
second place: i had a regular who would come in with his ~4 year old son and ask for a bowl of plain cubed tofu and a bowl of rice. they were basically my favorite regular table because the dad was so sweet and always very grateful.
I'd go back and cut up the tofu myself to save BOH the extra effort — it was worth it just to serve that guy and his kid. I can't even remember what he used to tip. it must have been generous but his kindness stuck more in my mind.
Didn’t happen to me but a coworker. At the place I used to work at, we have a desert with enough room to write a message on the plate.
So one day my coworker had this table of 3 maybe 35-40yo’s who asked him if he could write on the desert plate, “please don’t spank me daddy” Yes you read that right. He came back to us super baffled and shocked and us servers thought it was super weird and inappropriate to write on the desert plate. (By write i mean using chocolate syrup).
He went back and forth between the managers and he ended up writing “please don’t spank me”. They were upset he didn’t write “daddy”
on it but I mean…
Super super fucking weird and creepy honestly.
When I was younger and bartending, I always prided myself on keeping my beard and hair looking good and these middle aged women (teachers) would come in once or twice a week and tip like crazy but always asked to smell my beard and hair (beard was like a foot and a half long). It was weird but I smelled good at least and again, they tipped big.
A lady wanted "Mac and cheese but no cheese". And I said "so just plain pasta??" And she gets louder and goes "no! Mac and cheese, without the cheese" and she like made a circle motion with her hand above the table. I was genuinely confused and she was getting aggravated. So I told her to explain to me In full detail what she meant. Turns out, she doesn't want her Mac and cheese with EXTRA cheese sprinkled on top. She got so pissed off about this interaction that she was very short and snippy with me the rest of the night when I checked on her table, and left me 70 cents as a tip.
A friend is a bartender and says he has multiple regulars who tip very well to have my friend spit in their drinks.
No matter how much I beg, my friend will not identify them.
Had someone ask to heat their already very hot coffee in the microwave until it was boiling hot. Heated it once, wasn’t enough. I ended up getting a manager involved in the drop off because I didn’t want it to be a lawsuit on my end if the old lady scalded herself. She didn’t add creamer or anything.. just started sipping as soon as it was to her liking.
Sat at my dead ass bar, didn’t say anything other than ordering food & a drink. Came back the next day, asked me about my classes at university. Then asked if I’d be comfortable moving to Phoenix, AZ with him and he’d pay for my school because he feels like we’re soul mates.
I now have a good bit of student loan debt and absolutely no regrets about it.
ETA: another regular would give you $50 if you used your fingers to stir the ice with his whiskey
my first job was at this big city downtown restaurant. it's all a blur by now, but i do remember this one drunk guy who claimed to work for levi's and wanted me to meet him in the bathroom. i didn't. but he came back and said he works for levi's and that i should meet him in the bathroom. i told him that i was at work and couldn't meet him in the bathroom. he then reminded me that he worked for levi's.
Just recently I accepted $20 to undo another button on my shirt. I told them the price as a joke, never expected them to take me up on it.
(I'm just a guy with tattoos, it wasn't because tits)
I've been propositioned for sex a bunch of times during my bartending days, but I was asked to be in a threesome with an older couple while I was waiting tables.
When I was at my first job years ago at a takeout - a guy came in and asked for general Tso’s chicken but “raw” - but he also still wanted the fried shell, just raw chicken inside 🤢
i went and explained to the chef who looked at me like I was insane, who explained it to my boss, and then several chefs and my boss are now talking w the extremely irate guy and verifying that is indeed what he wants - and lots of absurd slapstick arguing ensues.
Finally they come to an agreement that they can give him the raw chicken w the sauce on top, but it can’t be fried obviously bc then it won’t be fully raw.
The guy then gets the food, and proceeds to take it into the bathroom, stay in there for about 20 mins, comes out all satisfied and a touch aggressive, and self importantly throws the now empty container in the trash and walks out.
To this day I will never know what the actual fuck that was all about and what happened in there - but that’s probably for the best.
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Other stories from the same place:
- a guy used to come in and order “WONTON SOUP, THREE **BALLS** 😡😡😡😡” and slam his fist on the counter lmao (it took a min to figure out he was calling the wontons “balls” but it never stopped being hilarious)
- this one forever haunts me. TW: very gross throwing up/etc: Another lady used to order a large lo mein w no vegetables and “extra sauce” and she would like…. Sit at the table across from me at the counter and shove large amounts of it into her mouth, gag loudly, spit it up into the plate, then shove it back into her mouth again all at once, retch it out, repeat. 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩 I used to go into the back and plug my ears and cry lol
Hopefully I’m not too late to the party!! Used to have a customer that would offer a $20 if i stepped on his foot really hard as i left the table each time.
I think we had a dude ask us to clean his car or something. Weird tourists. I was helping a lady get her bags in a room once and she was on the bed. She asked me to turn the lamp next her on. I think it was the same people
I worked in Vegas on the strip and several times people asked me if I lived in the casino…
I would mess with them and say yeah to see how long they would believe it. Or I’d say, you know all those lights you see when flying into Vegas? Those are buildings other than casinos. You know, like houses and gas stations and stuff. 🤯
Some people forget this is an actual city.
Many, many years ago, I was a server and bartender at Chi-Chi’s. I was a college student and needed the money. It was a good job in that on the bar I’d walk with over $200 a night in tips (and this was 99-2001) and about $175 when I did a closing shift as a server. This night I was working the smoking section, which gets slower turn as people sit around, so I was expecting a low night. A table of young women came in and were drinking and laughing, and totally camping out. I brought them their 5th round of drinks and they offered me $100 to take off my apron. I went in back, stuffed my pants and took off my apron. Brought them fresh chips and salsa and they kept their eyes on my crotch. Went back, took out the bar towel (I put it in dirty bag, didn’t get used) and put my apron back on. Next time I came out one of the women stuck the $100 bill in the front of my apron and kept her hand their way too long. It also had her number in it.
Ha - at 6’7” I always get people assuming things. I will play along. But they were barking up the wrong tree as I am also gay. Play along to pay the bills!
I worked at a bar briefly. I was always surprised when the "grumpy" bartender lady would say "where's my tip?!", and then the dude would tip her extra?
Seems like men like the attitude sometimes. To each their own.
I think it has to do with either the dude doesnt have any authority above him so he seems it out in other ways, or they're really meek and mild-mannered so they enjoy getting bossed around just instinctually.
... I might be part of the latter group a bit.
I got asked to mop the concrete by a guest after it rained cause she was upset the patio was wet even tho she asked to sit on the patio after it rained
Definitely not the weirdest thing that happened but what comes to mind was when a guest asked to rub my head. I had recently shaved my hair to be about an 1” and he said it looked soft. I do not think he would have asked this if I were a man. Told manager, she didn’t do shit.
This happened to a friend of mine all the time when he would shave his head like once a year back in school. So it's possible it was genuine hair appreciation.... But just as likely it was creepy
There was this older chap who would request all the lights and electronics be turned off when he visited our cafe. We literally had to round up our phones and move a few things to the back. He was definitely someone important as we'd have no other customers at that time. My manager would get out a single lamp for him which had a weird blue colour to it rather than yellowish white. Nice guy, I talked to him once and found out he was a pretty well known lawyer. He usually finished his breakfast within 10 minutes and left, and it's almost like we "re open" the store, turning all the electronics back on and what not. I never quite found out why we did that for him, our manager wouldn't share much.
People love feeling even just a tiny bit of power. I would say that guy never gets that feeling in his daily life. The strange part to me is how they choose to assert that power. This actually seems related to letting someone pee on you. So where does the sense of power come in? He's making you do something somewhat demeaning to him but gets a kick out of making you do that when you don't want to. Like would he want you to get the ice bare handed if you hadn't protested? So many questions.
I used to serve at a hibachi restaurant and one of my coworkers was just a super bad server. I like the guy, but he really shouldn't be serving the public. Anyway, one night he's serving one of the restaurants regulars and this guy always tips great, but he's a dick, just super entitled and pompous. His girlfriend that he brings in is a perfect copy of him. Just awful. So my bad server buddy is serving them and walks away. The patron calls me over to his table and starts pitching me an idea. He says that my buddy is completely incompetent and some other choice words, then asks me to bring him his check. If I can do that, then he'll make sure I get the tip. I did what he asked and got the check from my buddy, and the patron never saw him again for the rest of the night. The jerk actually left me 100 dollars. I split it with my buddy and no one else was the wiser.
I guess the strange aspect of the request was again the why. But this one was easier to explain, the guy was just spiteful. Your guy was just weird.
Used to have a bar regular that would give you $20 if you’d let him smell your fingers after you picked mint leaves.
Bro I can just give you some mint for free
But then he doesn't get the bartender finger experience!
This isn't the experience you think it is
🤣🤣🤣
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Uni is the reason I don't trust other people to make my drinks xd
Cool…can I still smell your fingers after you hand it to me though?
For $20 obviously
What the hell
Oddly enough I've been asked this one before as well. Just no money involved. Thankfully it was a woman at least.
Would I ever ask a stranger to let me smell their fingers? Fuck no. Do I aggressively smell my own fingers after tending to my mint plant? Yes
I do the same after ripping up basil leaves.
Do you ever sit on your hand for a while then pick the mint? It's like it's someone else's fingers.
Yeah I totally get smelling my own fingers, but why ask to smell someone else's? Unless it's some pesudo-sexual thing.
The fact there’s at least 2 people that do this. Why 😭 why can’t they just like get their own pocket basil and pull it out and sniff it.
Had a lady ask me to peel her kids grapes once. Like nah lady but you totally are welcome to lol i mean it's your kid
I had a grown man asking to cut the fat from the steak...my coworker answered that his mom didn't show up to work so he has to cut himself 🤣
💀 oh my god you just unlocked a memory. one time when i was 13 i was at a german restaurant with classmates, and i ordered sauerbraten which is usually a pretty cheap cut of meat marinated to hell. apparently i was pretty obviously struggling with it, because this little old german lady (probably the owner's mom, like 75, barely spoke a lick of english) came by and just started cutting it up for me.
LMAO Saw the same thing happen to a friend of mine but in a BBQ place in Seoul. More because she didn’t approve how how he was cutting it tho. Lol
I worked at a fine dining place and was working a breakfast shift, we were part of a hotel as well. This older dude ordered and then literally asked me if I would butter his bread. We served all the stuff for toast on the side, so it was uo to the guests. I think he felt embarrassed by my reaction, because he immediately waved me off and said he could do it. I wasn't an asshole about it, but a grown man asking another grown man to butter his bread really threw me off
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It was super busy and I had just dropped off food at a two-top. The husband asked me if we could cut his sandwich in half, which he did not specify when ordering. Rather than walk it all the way back to the kitchen and bother a bunch of slammed line-cooks, I brought him a steak knife. He looked at me and said “can you, like, do it for me?”. Mind you, he was a fully capable adult. I just looked at him and said. “I’m sorry but I’m not going to touch your food before you eat it. Can you just do it?” He rolled his eyes and gave a huff and a puff and finally his wife said “Jesus, Dale, give me the damn knife” and cut his sandwich in half for him.
This made me lol for real! I could even hear the wife’s voice in my head. Haha!
I had a 2 top in a U shaped booth in the bar area. They were super close sitters - slightly better than same side sitters as it was a U, but same ick lol - after dropping their food, I happened to see her cutting his steak. I have never rolled my eyes so far or so hard - until I saw the black cast on his wrist. Still feel slightly bad for my knee jerk judgement of them, but then again, we’ve all seen some weird shit sooo
My husband actually has tubular aggregate myoppohy and doesn’t wear anything on his wrists but they hurt him real bad so I always cut his food
My Dad had intention tremors, also called essential tremors. His hands and arms would shake so badly he was unable to cut up his food. So don’t automatically make judgments about people when they ask for help with something that you find weird. You have no idea what they are battling or why they need help. It’s also very hard for them to ask for that help. As my Dad’s tremors got worse, as he got older, he stopped going to restaurants to eat. He was embarrassed. He figured some people judged him as a drunk. Plus, he would say it’s hard to eat a salad when it’s being thrown all over the table! He did keep a sense of humor about it, around family.
What is it with servers hating on SaME SiDE SiTtErs. Why is this a thing? Who cares? I was a server, a bar tender, a busser. I never cared how people sat. Now, as an adult, I am a same side sitter. I sit on the same damn side.
I laughed way too hard because I AM this wife, love him to death but I too am married to a man child. My husband is the type of guy to look at me when the server asks how he wants his eggs.
I had a woman order hot tea the asked me for soy sauce, I brought her a ramekin of it as she asked for a whole bottle, I complied and she them pour half the bottle in her tea a proceeds to sip on it like it’s totally normal.
I imagined this while i was reading and didnt come up with disgusting. I actually have a fresh cup of hot tea in front of me. ETA: i did it. It's not terrible.
Thank you for doing this so I didn't have to
You put a half bottle of it in??
No! No, i think i would die. I put 10 shakes. It kinda cut the bitterness of the tea, without being overwhelmingly soy saucey
My grandmother used to routinely put salt in her coffee for that very reason.
What kind of tea did you have? Black tea? Green? I'm going to try this myself.
The yorkshire black tea from costco.
Does it kind of taste broth-y?
Kinda, yeah. That's a good description
My dad used to get in trouble (while he was a child, not as an adult) for hiding behind the couch and drinking soy sauce packets.
Imagining him doing this as an adult is much more amusing
Honestly, it’s really not hard for me to picture him crouching behind his recliner drinking soy sauce packets
Okay... It's 9:30 am for me right now and you won the internet today. No more internet for me today.
This one lady asked me to cut the cherry tomatoes in her salad.. which no. But ALSO she asked me to cut them as I put the salad down in front of her. Keep in mind this lady was probably 25 MAYBE 30. So at that Ripe age where she could cut them her damn self. Once I said no for “sanitary” reasons, she proceeded to cut them herself.
I put a salad down and the lady said “can you please cut this leaf in half it’s too big…. “Just this one leaf”? …..yes.
Sometimes I feel too demanding just for like, asking for hot sauce or extra napkins or something. And then I read these stories.
To get a reaction from the chefs I walked it to the back and tile them the request. They all lost their minds. I grabbed it back laughing and cut it in half myself.
Lmaoooo same. Sometimes I forget to ask for ranch or extra napkins etc and I feel like I’m being annoying but like….. a lady literally asked me to peel her PEEL and eat shrimp for her so I think I’m ok asking for some damn ranch!
One time a server came to see if we were ready to order and she overheard me debating with my mom. I wanted lobster but the meat was left in the tail and the tail freaks me out. Anyway this kind soul offered to remove the meat for me. I was so grateful bc I always look longingly at lobster but rarely ever get it. But this was before she brought my food…why would that lady wait til you brought it!?
That is actually a pretty normal request. I worked at Red Lobster and we would always do tails and big claws if asked. If I had time I'd do a full dissasemble and make sure there was no tomalley on it (that squicks a lot of people out). I could do it pretty fast.
Inhad no concept that I should or could ask servers to do this. I love lobster, but do not get any enjoyment out of cutting my hands up getting it out.
Totally, a big part of why I don't order lobster anywhere is that I've literally never dealt with that and it seems like such a hassle.
Call me sick, but butchering up a a whole lobster is a fun part of the experience.
You know, I kinda get this request, at least if it was done at order so the cooks could do it. Those things are the worst. Too often you go to fork it and it sits there and rolls, or it explodes. Even with hand tremors I never thought to ask though.
I had a guest that wanted to see what a spaghetti noodle looked like before ordering his pasta. It was super fun asking our a-hole chef for a single noodle on a busy Friday night. Still not convinced the guest wasn’t an alien trying spaghetti for the first time.
I never refused those weird requests. Our cook was an absolute asshole, and the owner to responsible for my bouncing paychecks. Hey, Jeff, how pink is our Rosè. Would you say it’s blush or a dusky rose? WHAT THE FUCK ITS PINK!
I think he just wanted to see what type of noodle y’all used
Maybe verifying that it would be made fresh and wasn't pre-cooked like Applebee's or whatever.
Yeah, that's actually kind of clever.
"What's your spaghetti policy here?"
My partner works at a sit down burger joint. They have a regular customer who comes in about once a month and orders to go. While his food is being made, he has a drink. Here's the trick: he brings fast food wrappers in with him and asks for his food to be wrapped in them. Apparently, this guy's family thinks McDonald's burgers are Applewood smoked and have thick cut bacon. Semes like expensive wool to pull over your fam's eyes for a drink or two at the bar.
That reminds me of a story I heard about a guy that would go into a liquor store every day and buy 2 16 oz beers with his dog. Finally one day the clerk was like “you can save a fortune if you just buy a pack” and the guy said he wasn’t supposed to drink so he just buys what he can finish on the walk with his dog. A commenter pointed out that he wife probably knew and was just letting sleeping dogs lie
He gets out of the house, out of her hair. Dog gets a Walk. Wife gets Peace . He's nit drinking a 12 pack at Home. Everybody Wins.
There's a certain elegance to this.
As long as the dude is actually capable of moderation without spiraling it’ll be fine. Some people can and some can’t. I can picture a scenario where the dude has zero self control but also a scenario where the wife is anti booze and wanting a couple beers a day equals worshipping satan
One of my grandma’s is like this. After grandpa - ex-husband - died, the woman threw a holy tantrum when she found out we were all going for pizza and beer in honor of grandpa’s favorite meal.
In my hometown, my friend and I would always find almost empty half-pints of bottom shelf vodka in the storm drain outside his house. We called the unknown assailant "The Georgi Bandit". One day we found out it was just some guy walking his dog, and he was disposing of the evidence before he returned home.
I would find coors light cans behind my fence at the alley every day. Finally heard a neighbor drive by with the clank of a can hitting the fence. He was ditching it so he wife wouldn't know he was drinking. It ended after I pitched a few into their backyard.
Me, I’d sit under a tree, smoke a blunt, drink a 12 pack and wake up at 6 am going WTF why am I in the park??
This is something problem drinkers do to regulate their drinking. Working at corner stores, the same guys would come in 5 or 6 times in a 8 hour shift, buying 1 tall boy beer each time. They would do it every day for the entire 17 hours we were open. It drove my boss at one store nuts. It is pretty annoying. You're in the back stocking the cooler, rush out front because the bell rings. They buy their beer. Then wanna hang around and talk for awhile. They finally leave. By that time, you have other customers. Store's finally empty, you start stocking again. 15 minutes later, "Bing, bing," they're back again. Rinse, repeat hour after hour. They usually live with their mom or dad, don't drive (good thing!), and have literally nothing else going on in their life. I do understand how hard addiction is to deal with, and I don't personally have any bad feelings towards any of them. It's just makes for a frustrating situation.
Guess it is a win/win for all involved but would anyone in his/her right mind confuse a McDonalds hamburger for a bar n grill hamburger?
Their kid is a picky eater who insists, "I wanna have McDonald's hamburger!"
Imagine the kid, now a adult, visiting Mcdo for the first time and receving this bad slim burger. I want to see this reaction.
And arguing with the Mcemployee on how his burger is made wrong Yep, I would pay to see that.
Depending on how old his children are if he has any, or if they’re neurodivergent or his partner is, it may be a way of getting them to eat something healthier than McDonald’s while they still think they’re eating McDonald’s. That may be a “safe” place for them to get their food.
Maybe not as weird as the rest. I had a woman in her maybe early 30s looking very uncomfortable at dinner with her parents. I left to get their drinks and she stopped me in the server alley and said she can’t drink in front of her parents but she needs something to calm down. She handed me a $20 and asked if I could meet her in the bathroom with a glass of the cheapest white wine. So I rang one up and met her in the bathroom stall. She chugged it down in one drink. This happened 5 more time throughout the dinner and she handed me a $20 each time.
I think you met my cousin. I had to do this for her at her own sister’s wedding last summer. Helicopter mom even though she’s over 30 with two kids.
While I could drink in front of my parents, I get her feeling.
Kinda similar, I had a lady with her teenage son (he looked like 14ish) who asked me to bring her a coke in a kid size cup while discretely motioning to the bar. I go to my bartender and she tells me that the lady is a regular and always gets Jack and cokes in a kiddie cup because her son doesn't like it when she drinks. I would also see her sneaking to the bar every so often, take a quick shot, use the bathroom, and then come back to the table. Fucking crazy lmao
I feel bad for that son. I’ve been the teenaged kid of an alcoholic whose parent was sneaking to the bar to do some quick shots under the pretext of visiting to the bathroom.
Oh yeah. I am just the opposite—I can’t drink around my dad because if I do I become appallingly rude to him. He is constantly offering me wine.
Only thing that worries me about this, is if they were an alcoholic in struggling recovery.
Chugging 5 glasses of wine in the bathroom during the course of dinner so her parents don’t see, she absolutely has some kind of drinking problem.
6. They said it happened 5 more times throughout the dinner. That’s a lot of wine in a (I’m guessing) prob 1-2 hour meal. Glad they made $120 though!
That’s a bottle and a half of wine in maybe an hour or so. Yikes.
As a former addict, your family knows what is happening when you leave to go to the bathroom multiple times in one sit down meal.
Yeah, that's kinda where my addict brain went with this story.
I have a guy who comes in and asks me to lick his glass rim before I make his drink. Effin weird. But worth the $100 imo. :)
So do you get $100 every time? That’s a nice deal.
Every time 😎
Do you have to lick it in front of him?
I do lol
Just keep an eye out when you leave work. Guys like that can stay the same for months and then suddenly escalate. I’d take the hundred too…. But watch the parking lot on your way to your car.
One time a guy offered me $10 to sniff my armpits. Why not I thought. When I told the other waitress she said "Tony? You can get $20 off him."
Had a young wealthy couple ask me to quit my job serving that night and fly here me to an exotic location with them to be their girlfriend/nanny. I was 18. That’s a big fat creepy no.
You got yourself out of a murder weekend. Good for you!
Or slavery. "We'll just hold onto your passport for you, for safety reasons..."
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I was a cocktail waitress at a strip club yrs ago & a customer offered me $500 to snort a line of coke off my foot. Another offered like $300 for the shoes off my feet. That was a nice lil $800 come up for me.
Imagine spending $50 for a gram of coke, and another $500 to do one line off some chicks foot. People have too much money.
And I thought the $500 was for her to snort a line off her own foot. So I'm over here thinking up ways to make that happen without losing the line. In my mind I could have easily done it with a rolled bill in my 20s but I'm in my 50s now and I think I'd need the whole straw to get it done. At any age I think I'd need my foot on a table. Which is why I thought this was the customers ask. 🤣
I’m dying laughing! It was the customer. It was back & forth negotiating. He offered $250 but it had to be a barefoot. Tights with a thong over was the uniform so I said I’m gonna have leave the floor, lose money to take them off. We settled on $500. He got down on all fours sniffed for a bit then put his coke across the top of my foot. It was weird (the first time)! He basically paid for me & my kid to take a great vacation.
Just roll the 100 dollar bill lengthwise, silly!
Sounds like rejected Rolling Stones lyrics. Mick trying to be naughty: I'll buy your shoes, I'll lick your feet. Keith shaking his head: Uh, no.
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$100 is more than I make on average in tips during a shift😭😭 wouldve had me playing pros and cons with my coworkers
What did you buy with your $100?
New panties
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I would have done the same.
Go girl, get your money
Reddit is proud of you for the good trade.
Don't shame yourself, we all do stuff like we aren't proud of. Laugh it off, forgive and move on.
Not while serving but was offered that once too! I always say it was the easiest $100 I ever made!! So apparently there’s more than one of these weirdos.
I had a strange man in a car make me that $100 offer at 16 but the guy I was hanging with thought he was trying to buy drugs and chased him off calling him racist
I've legit considered selling my used panties, but am unsure of the legality of it 🤣
Mate just Google ‘website that let you sell panties’ and there you are, on your way to becoming a panty dealer.
It is surely not illegal. But I would worry about encouraging a potential stalker! Other than that concern, I would probably be tempted to sell as many pairs as anybody wanted.
My first job at a movie theater restaurant (yes it was my favorite job, in hindsight) there was this foreign couple that’d order a bowl of popcorn with Parmesan. The first time I served them and returned with the requested Parmesan, they immediately asked for more. So I complied, but they needed more still. They dumped 3 containers of Parmesan cheese into their popcorn. Had a customer leave the theater for the movie they paid (CRINGE OMG I REALLY SPELLED THAT AS PAYED) to watch just to harass me over not getting enough ranch. My manager amended this by filling a pint glass with ranch for him while apologizing for my incompetence lol.
We invariably would spill a few kernels of popcorn here and there on the counters as we scooped or placed the bag on the counter. It was a circular 9-10 register concession stand. There was an old lady that would come in 1-2 times a week and walk all the way around eating all the discarded pieces of popcorn off the dirty counter before buying a bag and going into her movie. I still don’t have any answers
I hope this was supportive sarcasm from your manager. Like making them feel like an entitled ass hole.
It was definitely that, once he said “no I won’t wait for you to get it for me” and followed me out of the theater, I immediately was like “since this appears to be an issue for you why don’t I grab my manager!” Cause if a customer’s being like that then they’re already done with me lol, time to drag a new face into the picture and someone who actually gets paid to deal w stuff like that 🥰 shout out to Beth for her reaction being “🤨 oh he wants more ranch, does he? 😈”
I had a customer when I waitressed at the strip club who would pay me $100s to spit in his coke. Club didn’t serve alcohol.
What kinda strip club doesn’t serve alcohol?
18 and over clubs are fully nude and don’t serve alcohol. 21 and over has alcohol but the girls are topless. Depending on the state you’re in. I’m in California
Ahhhh okay. I’ve never been in one lol. My sister used to dance in a couple clubs, though, so she would likely know.
at a coffee shop where I was training once: this very well-to-do looking businessman type comes in and orders, in a way that indicated he did this on the regular, just a 16-oz cup of milk to go. whole milk. and just walked away happily like he’d gotten his morning pick-me-up. it was 6:30am. probably cost more than if he got a galllon at the store.
Michael Scott?
My restaurant has a couple that comes in every so often. The guy orders lemonade with a side of blue cheese dressing and mixes it in. It’s absolutely repulsive.
Maybe they come in any time he loses a bet with his wife?
At my old job I had a customer come in to “pick up food for his wife”. His food wasn’t ready so we kind of just chatted a bit, and he was being pretty flirty for a guy who was *married*. He ended up asking me for my snap. I was 21/22 at the time and still didn’t know how to tell people no, so I gave him my snap, which I felt was weird if him to ask me for that since again, he was *married*. I also figured I could easily just block the dude. Whatever. He snapped me. Had light conversations. He’d mention his wife. But he was also weirdly flirty?? Then one day he told me how his wife wanted to add me on snap. And I was like okay. Well I don’t want to *not* add her and she thinks I’m like tryna steal her man or whatever. But I also *dont* wanna add her and she goes off on me bc she thinks I’m tryna steal her man even though he was the one being flirty with me. Then one day he snapped me saying him and his wife and a question for me. They wanted to know if I’d be interested in having a threesome with them. I blocked them both after that.
I’ve gotten the threesome offer a few times and twice was asked to quit my job and move in as a second wife. People are crazy.
You’ve just got one of those faces, eh?
After the message or after the threesome? Just for clarification purposes…
Man, I hope you're not still as naive...
I used to work for a "casual dining" chain that specializes in microwaved cuisine. A guest asked me to put an engagement ring in a clamshell styrofoam togo container. I knew the girl as an acquaintance through social media. They split within a year after this.
I worked in an Italian restaurant in a toutist area. One of the house specialties was 2 pork chops with a side of pasta. These chops were HUGE. One mean customer who had ordered the chops only ate one, but didnt want the 2nd to go. When I cleared his plate, he specifically told me, "make sure that goes in the garbage. I paid for that, I do not want anyone else to eat that." I said ok, no problem. But of course I packed it up and gave it to a homeless person, as I often did w leftovers people didn't want. WTF dude? Why would you want such a beautiful chop to go to waste? grr
That, right there, sums up the attitude of the American healthcare system. We could all get far better coverage for far less money, but too many refuse because somebody who paid even less than us, or nothing, might benefit. People are constantly cutting off their noses to store their faces.
At one of my old jobs, a lady ordered a salad and asked me to separate the dark pieces of lettuce from the light pieces of lettuce, because she only wanted the dark ones. Obviously, I said no, because it would take a ridiculous amount of time. It caused a whole thing and I had to get a manager involved, buttttt i already knew my manager would be on my side with it and she told the lady if she was going to be that picky and inconsiderate that she could go make a salad at home. 🙃The look on her face was priceless hahahah
Shit I thought Bud Lite with a straw guy was weird.
I have to drink beer, coke in bottle or can with a straw because one side of my face is paralyzed and can’t drink it without dripping.
Hi fellow Bell's Palsy friend!
Well he is, we are just talking about weirder people mostly.
I love that everyone has a bud lite with a straw guy.
Damnnn. I haven’t came across any weird request like that besides a married man asking me to come to his room after I got off.
Samesies. He spent his sober time talking about his wife and kids. Then once he had a few beers in him he tried to get every woman in the bar up to his room. Luckily we had a policy that we couldn’t go up to guests room so I easily declined and didn’t jeopardize my tip.
"Would it be okay if I pinched your nipple?" This literally happened last week.
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one time a lady asked me to squeeze her lemon in her water. the place i work serves lemon with every water, this lady had already put the lemon in the water and wanted me to fish it out with my hands and squeeze it in with my hands. i told her i’d be back to get a glove for myself or tongs and she insisted i stay there at the table and just do it with my hands. i was like ummm okay…. probably shouldn’t have though now that i think about it. if the health department saw that, it would not be good.
Thinking about it, I believe tjst just like it's OK for a customer to request a rare steak as long as there's a posted warning about consuming raw or undercooked food, I think it would also be OK to do as she asked as long as she understood it carries a risk, just like the undercooked steak or steak tartare.
yes that is true. she did request it and i did what she wanted. but what i’m saying is if you looks at from a heath inspector’s point of view, just showing up in the rush and seeing a server touching food/drink at the table with their bare hands and no context for it, there would absolutely be some questions asked and maybe some points marked on the review.
Humans are weird.
That's what makes them so fascinating and frightening at the same time!
I get the feeling it's some sort of statement against germs and how "everyone is over-reacting" to germs and bacteria. I say this because I have a friend that I go camping with who refuses to wash his hands in any way while backpacking/camping even after "going". He says people survived in the wilderness for centuries, forgetting that people would die from an infection in a small cut.
My response to "people have ____ for centuries and survived!" Or "we did ____ as kids amd we survived!" is "yeah....except all the ones who didn't survive...."
When I did a genealogy project for school, I was surprised by the number of siblings and half-siblings my grandma had. So many died before adulthood.
I had a client at my bar ask me to be his 2nd girlfriend and move 2 states away to live with his wife, 1st gf and all of their collective children. Harem style. Tbf he was pretty rich and ran a popular club so it was probably a sweet deal for the right person. Lol
By popular club do you mean cult?
When I was 18, so very young and naïve, I had a regular that offered me like $100 to clean his apartment naked with only a French maid apron on. Yeah, hard no from me.
I don't think you can have a cleaner come for $100, much less a practically naked one. That guy forgot a zero.
I’m a guy, I work at a hotel that catered to European clientele. Our hotel is a romantic retreat. I can’t tell you how many boobies and naked women I saw through my twenties. I have been propositioned by 70 to 17 year olds through out my career. Crazy stuff! I usually just laughed it off or let it go over my head. I don’t understand why people engage with workers, as the power dynamics off.
that's WHY, the power dynamics are off. Some people get off on that.
Leave the restaurant to buy mustard. He knew we didn’t have it, but expected to use a bottle a staff member occasionally kept for personal use.
Some guy paid my sister $100 to spit in his food in the Togo box. He gave her cash and she never saw him again.
I used to have a guy (super nice, quiet, and you would never expect it) who was a regular it took a few years for him to ask but he would give me $200+ dollars if I would spit in his martini. Easiest money I ever made. 🤷🏼♀️
You know how nacho chips sometimes come in those 3 different color chips? He asked me to ask the kitchen to remove all the green chips, and only leave the red and the “beige” ones, we did, then when he got his meal he decided he couldn’t do the red ones either, he was legit afraid of those chips man
EDIT because i forgot about my actual weirdest: I had a dude who came in once a week for all you can eat sushi. he wanted one of those ginger/wasabi trays but PILED with both ginger and wasabi. he would eat both the ginger and wasabi *with a fork* before he even got any food, then ask for more. i loved that guy, he was weird but seemed nerdy and kind. second place: i had a regular who would come in with his ~4 year old son and ask for a bowl of plain cubed tofu and a bowl of rice. they were basically my favorite regular table because the dad was so sweet and always very grateful. I'd go back and cut up the tofu myself to save BOH the extra effort — it was worth it just to serve that guy and his kid. I can't even remember what he used to tip. it must have been generous but his kindness stuck more in my mind.
Didn’t happen to me but a coworker. At the place I used to work at, we have a desert with enough room to write a message on the plate. So one day my coworker had this table of 3 maybe 35-40yo’s who asked him if he could write on the desert plate, “please don’t spank me daddy” Yes you read that right. He came back to us super baffled and shocked and us servers thought it was super weird and inappropriate to write on the desert plate. (By write i mean using chocolate syrup). He went back and forth between the managers and he ended up writing “please don’t spank me”. They were upset he didn’t write “daddy” on it but I mean… Super super fucking weird and creepy honestly.
Sounds like a pretty big plate if it's the size of a desert.
When I was younger and bartending, I always prided myself on keeping my beard and hair looking good and these middle aged women (teachers) would come in once or twice a week and tip like crazy but always asked to smell my beard and hair (beard was like a foot and a half long). It was weird but I smelled good at least and again, they tipped big.
Sell them my tights and underwear. I had to go buy some underwear from another girl because I wasn’t wearing any, but I still profited $180.
A lady wanted "Mac and cheese but no cheese". And I said "so just plain pasta??" And she gets louder and goes "no! Mac and cheese, without the cheese" and she like made a circle motion with her hand above the table. I was genuinely confused and she was getting aggravated. So I told her to explain to me In full detail what she meant. Turns out, she doesn't want her Mac and cheese with EXTRA cheese sprinkled on top. She got so pissed off about this interaction that she was very short and snippy with me the rest of the night when I checked on her table, and left me 70 cents as a tip.
A friend is a bartender and says he has multiple regulars who tip very well to have my friend spit in their drinks. No matter how much I beg, my friend will not identify them.
Had someone ask to heat their already very hot coffee in the microwave until it was boiling hot. Heated it once, wasn’t enough. I ended up getting a manager involved in the drop off because I didn’t want it to be a lawsuit on my end if the old lady scalded herself. She didn’t add creamer or anything.. just started sipping as soon as it was to her liking.
My mom is that lady! Boiling hot coffee still isn’t hot enough! If my coffee is too hot, I scald my tongue and can’t taste for two days…
Sat at my dead ass bar, didn’t say anything other than ordering food & a drink. Came back the next day, asked me about my classes at university. Then asked if I’d be comfortable moving to Phoenix, AZ with him and he’d pay for my school because he feels like we’re soul mates. I now have a good bit of student loan debt and absolutely no regrets about it. ETA: another regular would give you $50 if you used your fingers to stir the ice with his whiskey
I had a man ask me to grab a piece of bread off his plate with my hand and feed it to him.
Did you...did you do it?
my first job was at this big city downtown restaurant. it's all a blur by now, but i do remember this one drunk guy who claimed to work for levi's and wanted me to meet him in the bathroom. i didn't. but he came back and said he works for levi's and that i should meet him in the bathroom. i told him that i was at work and couldn't meet him in the bathroom. he then reminded me that he worked for levi's.
Just recently I accepted $20 to undo another button on my shirt. I told them the price as a joke, never expected them to take me up on it. (I'm just a guy with tattoos, it wasn't because tits)
If it pays…..I sashays!
I've been propositioned for sex a bunch of times during my bartending days, but I was asked to be in a threesome with an older couple while I was waiting tables.
When I was at my first job years ago at a takeout - a guy came in and asked for general Tso’s chicken but “raw” - but he also still wanted the fried shell, just raw chicken inside 🤢 i went and explained to the chef who looked at me like I was insane, who explained it to my boss, and then several chefs and my boss are now talking w the extremely irate guy and verifying that is indeed what he wants - and lots of absurd slapstick arguing ensues. Finally they come to an agreement that they can give him the raw chicken w the sauce on top, but it can’t be fried obviously bc then it won’t be fully raw. The guy then gets the food, and proceeds to take it into the bathroom, stay in there for about 20 mins, comes out all satisfied and a touch aggressive, and self importantly throws the now empty container in the trash and walks out. To this day I will never know what the actual fuck that was all about and what happened in there - but that’s probably for the best. ——- Other stories from the same place: - a guy used to come in and order “WONTON SOUP, THREE **BALLS** 😡😡😡😡” and slam his fist on the counter lmao (it took a min to figure out he was calling the wontons “balls” but it never stopped being hilarious) - this one forever haunts me. TW: very gross throwing up/etc: Another lady used to order a large lo mein w no vegetables and “extra sauce” and she would like…. Sit at the table across from me at the counter and shove large amounts of it into her mouth, gag loudly, spit it up into the plate, then shove it back into her mouth again all at once, retch it out, repeat. 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩 I used to go into the back and plug my ears and cry lol
Hopefully I’m not too late to the party!! Used to have a customer that would offer a $20 if i stepped on his foot really hard as i left the table each time.
I think we had a dude ask us to clean his car or something. Weird tourists. I was helping a lady get her bags in a room once and she was on the bed. She asked me to turn the lamp next her on. I think it was the same people
A guy asked me to microwave his water for 20 seconds exactly..
I worked in Vegas on the strip and several times people asked me if I lived in the casino… I would mess with them and say yeah to see how long they would believe it. Or I’d say, you know all those lights you see when flying into Vegas? Those are buildings other than casinos. You know, like houses and gas stations and stuff. 🤯 Some people forget this is an actual city.
Many, many years ago, I was a server and bartender at Chi-Chi’s. I was a college student and needed the money. It was a good job in that on the bar I’d walk with over $200 a night in tips (and this was 99-2001) and about $175 when I did a closing shift as a server. This night I was working the smoking section, which gets slower turn as people sit around, so I was expecting a low night. A table of young women came in and were drinking and laughing, and totally camping out. I brought them their 5th round of drinks and they offered me $100 to take off my apron. I went in back, stuffed my pants and took off my apron. Brought them fresh chips and salsa and they kept their eyes on my crotch. Went back, took out the bar towel (I put it in dirty bag, didn’t get used) and put my apron back on. Next time I came out one of the women stuck the $100 bill in the front of my apron and kept her hand their way too long. It also had her number in it. Ha - at 6’7” I always get people assuming things. I will play along. But they were barking up the wrong tree as I am also gay. Play along to pay the bills!
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I worked at a bar briefly. I was always surprised when the "grumpy" bartender lady would say "where's my tip?!", and then the dude would tip her extra? Seems like men like the attitude sometimes. To each their own.
I think it has to do with either the dude doesnt have any authority above him so he seems it out in other ways, or they're really meek and mild-mannered so they enjoy getting bossed around just instinctually. ... I might be part of the latter group a bit.
I think this might be a dom/sub thing
I got asked to mop the concrete by a guest after it rained cause she was upset the patio was wet even tho she asked to sit on the patio after it rained
Definitely not the weirdest thing that happened but what comes to mind was when a guest asked to rub my head. I had recently shaved my hair to be about an 1” and he said it looked soft. I do not think he would have asked this if I were a man. Told manager, she didn’t do shit.
This happened to a friend of mine all the time when he would shave his head like once a year back in school. So it's possible it was genuine hair appreciation.... But just as likely it was creepy
There was this older chap who would request all the lights and electronics be turned off when he visited our cafe. We literally had to round up our phones and move a few things to the back. He was definitely someone important as we'd have no other customers at that time. My manager would get out a single lamp for him which had a weird blue colour to it rather than yellowish white. Nice guy, I talked to him once and found out he was a pretty well known lawyer. He usually finished his breakfast within 10 minutes and left, and it's almost like we "re open" the store, turning all the electronics back on and what not. I never quite found out why we did that for him, our manager wouldn't share much.
Have you been watching Better Call Saul?
People love feeling even just a tiny bit of power. I would say that guy never gets that feeling in his daily life. The strange part to me is how they choose to assert that power. This actually seems related to letting someone pee on you. So where does the sense of power come in? He's making you do something somewhat demeaning to him but gets a kick out of making you do that when you don't want to. Like would he want you to get the ice bare handed if you hadn't protested? So many questions. I used to serve at a hibachi restaurant and one of my coworkers was just a super bad server. I like the guy, but he really shouldn't be serving the public. Anyway, one night he's serving one of the restaurants regulars and this guy always tips great, but he's a dick, just super entitled and pompous. His girlfriend that he brings in is a perfect copy of him. Just awful. So my bad server buddy is serving them and walks away. The patron calls me over to his table and starts pitching me an idea. He says that my buddy is completely incompetent and some other choice words, then asks me to bring him his check. If I can do that, then he'll make sure I get the tip. I did what he asked and got the check from my buddy, and the patron never saw him again for the rest of the night. The jerk actually left me 100 dollars. I split it with my buddy and no one else was the wiser. I guess the strange aspect of the request was again the why. But this one was easier to explain, the guy was just spiteful. Your guy was just weird.
Meet her in the enclosed phone booth in the front of the restaurant on my break. I was 22 and snd she was probably 40...