‘Pay first, then leave’: Server Catches Wind of Family’s Sly Attempt to Dine and Dash, Doesn’t Leave Their Side Until They Pay Their $200 Dollar Bill

Work in the food sector is never simple. It’s more challenging, though, to work in the food industry with clients who are trying to score free meals. The story below is an account of a puzzled server.  The Original Poster (OP) is a server at a local restaurant. As we all know by now, working in …
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27 Bartending Memes for Mixologists Who Care About Ice

If you did dry January, kudos to you. But chances are, you’re deep into February and wouldn’t turn down a vodka cran on a Tuesday. Sure, alcohol isn’t the best for your health, but neither is sadness. So you belly up to your favorite neighborhood gin joint, and you’re taken into the loving embrace by …
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21+ Memes for Bartenders Who Worked New Years Eve

Bartending is already a chaotic storm most nights. Add a party holiday into the mix and it is pure pandemonium. If you have never worked a shift like New Year’s Eve behind the bar, than you may be lucky. Or weak. Only one way to find out… And then there are the senior bartenders who …
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Karen Refuses to Tip Servers Despite Restaurant Continuously Complying With Her Demands

As a former server, I can attest to the fact that ninety-nine percent of customers are Karens. However, it’s our positive outlook that keeps us sane. Though the evidence may seem to contradict our sense of optimism, we, for some reason, hold onto this notion that one day our table will greet us with a …
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Customer Refuses to Tip Waiter After Demanding Menu Be Tailored to His Preferences

In my younger years, I worked as a waitress to support myself. My eight-hour shift at the restaurant would be followed by a job working in retail till the early hours of the morning. To be honest, though, I wasn’t very good at being a waitress, and I didn’t particularly love my work there either. …
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29 Service Industry Memes for Stunning Servers

If you worked in the hospitality industry at any time through the pandemic, you deserve a gold medal. It’s always been a difficult job, but during those times, the tensions were ratcheted up tenfold. Risking illness, dealing with less than compliant customers, not to mention suffering financial losses because of restaurant shutdowns, it was hellish …
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‘[I] really milked it’: Server pulls cheesy dad joke on a large party with a $7,000 bill, pays off big time and table leaves 55% tip in cash on top of the 22% gratuity

Order up! Corner. Behind. BEHIND! Hot plate! Check’s been dropped for 10. Etc. Etc. If any of those words felt triggering to you, then you most likely worked in the service industry. Hello my fellow traumatized people! I worked in a fancy pizza place all throughout college and that place not only gave me lifelong …
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‘I waited on the devil himself’: Demanding customer leaves surprising tip for waiter

A waiter shared an odd day in their life: dealing with some of the silliest and most demanding customers. Servers of America, you have my sympathies. It seems like customers are crazier than ever — but at least these waiters know they aren’t alone in the war against Karens. On r/Serverlife, u/serverforadecade shared an encounter …
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Top Non-Money Tips Servers Get From Customers

The customer service industry is unpredictable; customers range from super kind, to average, to complete wacko human beings. Servers often encounter a variety of strange, weird, odd, and unexpected situations, some of them being the tip that people leave when they are done with their meal. Apparently, not everyone leaves 15%, or any money at …
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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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