I understand that not everybody is a fantastic gift-giver. Most people are not like me…someone who heard my sister talking about drinking glasses she desperately wanted on the Monday before Christmas and had them wrapped and ready for her to open on Christmas Day. Most of us can’t give gifts to save our lives, so …
Seguir leyendo ‘Every year I get a $15-$25 gift card for a place I don’t go or never visited’: Cheap father gives adult son a Ruby Tuesday gift card despite the restaurant not existing in their city
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“Next we’ll have food rentals”: Stingy restaurant charges bizarre fees for taking food to go
Going out to eat is an expensive venture these days. In my city, you can hardly get away from a dinner with a friend for under $50, and I’m just talking about your portion. Eating at restaurants is one of life’s greatest joys, though. I’m sometimes convinced that it’s the reason I was put on …
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Patient Diners Prompt Disgruntled Thread After Waiting 90 Minutes to Get the Bill at Hotpot Restaurant
Restaurant service is a pretty basic thing, so long as you’re not a douchebag customer. All that most of us hope for is to be served promptly and with courtesy, as well as get any issues sorted out without a hitch. As a server, these objectives can occasionally be harder to deliver than they should …
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Man Expresses Annoyance When His Wife Wants to Dine In at a Restaurant Just Minutes Before Close
If you’ve ever worked in the food service industry, you certainly know the pain of customers coming in right minutes before closing. While it’s still technically appropriate and enforced by management, the last thing you want after an eight-and-a-half-hour shift is to stick around an extra hour for a couple of customers. If you’ve never …
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Stingy Customers Spark Backlash After Trying to Give Server Negative Tip
One particularly negative thing about tipping culture is that it allows customers to be petty. If some entitled person eats at a restaurant and not everything is to their liking, they can hit their server where it hurts when it comes to the check. It might be bad manners to skimp on a tip, but …
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‘I wanna sit at that table’: People Gripe About Infuriating Things That Diners Say to Restaurant Hosts
At this point, we are all aware that restaurant work can be pretty unforgiving. Those long hours and busy shifts take their toll whether you’re in the kitchen or front of house, but it’s those customer facing roles that deal with the most when it comes to the general public. Servers are not shy about …
Seguir leyendo ‘I wanna sit at that table’: People Gripe About Infuriating Things That Diners Say to Restaurant Hosts
Rude Karens Harass Waitress For Wearing Shorts in 100-Degree Heat
Older adults always have something to say about what young people are wearing. When I was 15, I went on a school trip alone with my yearbook teacher and a small group of parents and kids. This was during an era when overalls were coming back into fashion, and I wore my favorite pair of …
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TikToker Shares Pro Tip For How to Stop Paying For Your Friends’ Expensive Orders At Restaurants
We’ve all been there.
Painfully Relatable Restaurant Work Memes For Front and Back of House Alike
Working at a restaurant is kind of bad for your health. I’ve seen both front of house and back of house people succumb to alcoholism, drug addiction, burnout and dark depression. I’ve experienced some of these ails as well. Unfortunately, working a high-paced and high-stress job kind of goes along with those pitfalls. But for …
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Employee Terminated For Refusing to Work When He Wasn’t Scheduled
One of the best parts about being a salaried employee is that you don’t get called in for random shifts on the weekend. At least I don’t, but y’all stay safe out there. There’s nothing worse than preparing for a nice long day of doing nothing, and receiving a doomed call from your manager asking …
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