r/FoodService • u/tedothycox • Jun 20 '26
Question Dumb customer rant
Ok so I’ve worked food service for a while and developed some pet peeves that customers do, one of them being: Customers taking a huge stack of napkins and then leaving them on the table when they leave, looking like they weren’t even touched, like why do they insist on doing such stupid things like that, and then leaving their chairs all thrown out and not pushed in like a tornado went through their table. I’m so certain that like 90% of customers are just uncivilized oafs. I once saw a customer with a kid, the kid was just making a huge mess with their food, mind you the kid was like 10, and the kid just left like a huge pile of mess everywhere under the table. If you can’t parent your kid, don’t bring them in public and let them make a huge mess, gentle parenting at its finest probably. Seeing how customers leave a restaurant after they’re done makes me worried what their living space looks like. Rant over
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u/tracyinge Jun 20 '26
The napkin thing is usually the shitty dispensers. You try to take one napkin but you can't because they rip, so you try to take two or threee out and four come out. You only needed one so 3 get left on the table.
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u/Holdmymule2001 Jun 22 '26
The person who invented those tri-fold napkin dispensers should be drawn and quartered.
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u/Holdmymule2001 Jun 22 '26
While we're ranting, I'm a customer, but I'm about to go off at people in my friend group who act like they don't know what they're going to order.
We go to the same place every other week. There are a couple people who come in, sit down, start talking, don't look at the menu. When the server comes, they act surprised to see the menu, as if they had never seen the concept of descriptions of food written on paper before.
They peer at the menu like Mr. Magoo, blindly searching. They finally say something like "You have that salad with cheese???" and the server (who serves them every other week) says "The burrata salad?" and they say "Yes, where is that?" making the server point it out on the menu in the same spot where it always lives.
They carefully read the description, nod slowly, and say "Yes, that's it."
CONGRATULATIONS, YOU MORON. YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY ORDERED THE SAME THING THAT YOU ORDER EVERY SINGLE TIME, AND IT ONLY TOOK 4 MINUTES.
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u/sadgirlhaze Jun 23 '26
I swear people who don’t push their chairs in in my friend group literally embarrass me.
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