#waiter problems

[the-restau-rants]

A customer asked he they could have something that's not on the menu. We get this sort of request all the time, so that in and of itself wasn't that much of a red flag. When he followed it up with, "The kitchen has done this for me before", that's when the red flags started popping up. Almost any time that anyone prefaces a request with, "I get this all the time/I've had this before", it's almost always something stupid, and it's almost always a lie.

The customer proceeded to pull out his phone, and told me that he had taken a picture of it. Okay, crisis averted: If he has a picture of it, then he has, in fact, gotten it before. I look at his phone when he holds it up, and what do I see? Do I see a picture of the dish that he asked for, that he took at his table, so that we could recreate it in the future?

No, I do not.

What I see is a photo of the description of the item from another restaurant's menu.

Like, what the actual, literal fuck? Genuinely, I am speechless. I am upset that I lack the creativity necessary to make this up. He had a dish at another restaurant, and enjoyed it so much that he took a picture of the menu, and then took it to our restaurant, and asked us to make it for him.

#restaurant life #server life #waiter life #server problems #customer service #waiter problems #restaurant stories #server stories #waiter stories

[arrowsperpetualcringe]

Headcanon that Mike isn't great at cooking so Ness is the one to cook.

canon.

everything Mike cooks gets burn or set on fire

"better over cooked than undercooked, right?" Mentality

Which is TRUE.....

but also omg sir you can't cook for shit

I'd like to think he'd try to get better at it though.... Having Ness cook when he gets off from a whole day of already doing so and waiting tables has gotta be rough.

So yeah, Mike's not the best at cooking... But I think he'd still try and get better over time as a result

It's cheesy, but it's the thought that counts :)

#omg shut up actually— #imagine Mike sneaking out to take cooking classes #he doesn't tell Ness at first bc not only is he embarrassed— #but he also knows Ness will feel bad about him spending money on this when they're not well off #but ultimately cooking is a life skill everyone should learn so good on my boy!!! #*compliments fictional character for taking action i made them take to fix a problem k created* #fnaf #fnaf movie #five nights at freddy's #mike schmidt #mike x ness #fnaf ness #ness the waiter #securitywaiter #dreamtheory #my art #sketch #ask #anon #headcanons

[transexualpirate]

one fundamental thing you need to understand about troy and abed is that if abed asked for a sandwich with no pickles and he gets pickles, troy is going to complain to the waiter. but also if troy asked for a sandwich with no pickles and he gets pickles, abed is going to complain to the waiter.

#the problem with this is that if one of them goes alone the waiter will never know there were pickles in that sandwich #but also they wouldn't go alone so whatever #i love them sm your honor #mine #not to be taken seriously #community #community tv #trobed

[bitchthefuck1]

One of the things that stands out the most to me about succession on the rewatch is how many hugely significant plot points only happen because at some point someone was feeling petty.

#it reminds me of that jesse armstrong quote where he said the problem isn't that the kids are evil bc they're not they're just very flawed #the problem is that they have so much power that the impact of their shortcomings is amplified to a massive scale and can seriously #fuck up other people's lives #kendall backs mencken in the election to get back at shiv for teaming up w mattson behind his back #shiv only asks for more money in the gojo deal (which put logan on the plane) bc she's mad at logan for giving tom divorce advice #logan snapped at the waiter and got him kicked out (which then put him in kendall's path and ready to leave) bc he was mad at kendall for #the bear hug letter #caroline floated going w sandi and stewy to mess with logan which is why they re-open the divorce agreement #there are like a million of these. you can follow every major plot bit back and at the very start of 90% of them it's just one person doing #something out of spite bc they're pissed off #idk it's just really good narratively #succession #kendall roy #siobhan roy #shiv roy #roman roy #connor roy #logan roy #tom wambsgans

[lemonhemlock]

"romshiv lost faith in ken bc he denied killing the waiter" ok, but, i mean. from a mere practical, self-preservation perspective. what was he supposed to say in that moment? they were in a glass room and they clearly showed that other people could hear them if they raised their voices. i understand him NRPI-ing the waiter as one more notch towards loganifying himself but, similarly, he wasn't about to casually 'fess up to vehicular manslaughter at the waystar royco hq with everyone looking into the fishbowl

#i'm gonna choose violence and also say that if shiv truly had a problem with that #she would have given kendall up to the authorities when she found out #but she didn't #she was just throwing whatever anti-ken arguments she could come up with in the moment bc the real reason was SPITE #kendall roy #succession #it goes without saying that the MAIN problem is that the waiter died as a result of ken's recklessness in the first place #not whether or not he is ceo-material or their little tiff

[benchtrioupdates]

Ranboo posted on Twitter!

#ranboo #mod jay #id in alt text #'i dont have any problems' sure ranboo. definitely not looking at the waiter tweet /lh

[goatsandgangsters]

the good news is that I finished a book and it got me out of my reading slump where I would start things, not finish, switch to something else, not finish

the bad news is that "yes daddy" by jonathan parks-ramage is one of the worst written books I've read in a whiiiile. bland expositiony prose, flat characters, a bunch of weird plot detours. Written like a 200-page Wikipedia summary instead of an actual book

the worst news is that it has such intensely favorable gushing reviews on goodreads, and the people who hated it mostly hated it for a different reason, and so I'm left alone like oKAY BUT THE PROSE WAS SHIT, HOW DO YOU NOT SEE THIS

#the writing is LAUGHABLY BAD you guys. how did people like this booooook #but most of the bad reviews are like 'I hated this book because it had too many rape scenes and lots of bad things happen' #BUT MY PROBLEM IS it's so badly written that it's like reading the wikipedia of a horror movie where it flatly tells you the grisly bits #very 'and then four grown men lived in a garden shed as waiters/sex slaves. one of them tripped and hit his head. he's dead now.' #just no emotional impact whatsoever bc this guy cannot write and the characters are all made of cardboard #it bills itself as a gothic/thriller but it has NO grasp of any of the conventions of that genre #there's a weird interlude where the protag becomes evangelical?? and starts going on about The Evils of Gay Sex?? #he gets inspiration to commit arson by READING GOOP? AND THIS IS PLAYED AS SERIOUS AFTER HIS FRIEND'S SUICIDE?? #how did ANYONE take this book seriously let alone enjoy it #it's SO awful. this guy CANNOT write his way out of a paperbag #it's even worse too bc the main character is supposed to be a professional writer with an MFA and the book is the character's memoir #which I consider tantamount to a plot hole BECAUSE THE WRITING IS SO SO BAD #the sketchy rich old guy and his butler/ex call him Rebecca and he doesn't get the reference?? he has an MFA in playwriting and yet! #it's been a while since I got to write a REALLY scathing 1-star goodreads review so that's cathartic at least

[hobgobbin]

Thinking abt the other day at work where one of my tables (2 middle aged white women) asked to speak to the manager bc they had to wait like a few more minutes than usual for their food (there was one cook in the kitchen and they got shit that takes a while to cook anyway) and then they said I "disappeared" and never checked on them in the maybe 10 minutes they were eating. bc I was in the back doing backups and silverware. And they tipped me like $3 after getting the manager to discount their $30 bill for literally nothing

And then LATER that day I had a table (3 middle aged or older asian men) who came in before we got busy and then I fucked up their order bc they wanted 3 of everything they ordered and I only put in 1 of everything bc I couldn't hear the guy ordering very well (i thought one person was getting a soup one getting wings and one getting steak not 3 of each) and the other two had to wait an HOUR for their food bc we got wildly busy when I put the rest in and it was like explicitly bc I fucked up and I told them that and they were so nice and still paid the whole like $200 bill and tipped me like $50 without like any complaints at all

INSANE tonal whiplash in one day

#also my memory is bad but im pretty sure i DID go check on those ladies #my manager said that they said i was gone an awful long time for how slow it was like ??? #girl i have to clean up after the fucking morning crew every day sorry i didnt come check on you and your burger you had no problem with #rly rly rly weird and quite frankly im mad they implied i was bad at my job when i was literally doing my job #anyway. wild wild night. #the food service worker post just reminded me of this #the highs and lows of being a waiter #dreki chatters #also if youre rude to a server you should be executed. btw #im not getting paid half min wage to deal with that

[shark-smuggler]

next time i go to a restaurant and ask if something has garlic i should tell the waiter im a vampire instead of explaining that im allergic to garlic

#shark smuggler alert 🚨 #garlic allergy #vampire problems #i don't want yo annoy the waiter tho

[imwritesometimes]

idk just seems like a lot of ppl on here got real comfortable with telling ppl to go kill themselves again which is like ??????

#I gotta be honest I don't care WHAT it's abt I'll never tell someone to kill themselves but like. esp over tv. or a movie. #but maybe that has to do with being a full grown over 34 year old adult who actually has spent #most of my life trying NOT to kill myself and was actually hospitalized after an attempt so 🤷‍♀️ #like idk babes. the whole ~this place is better cause it isn't twitter or tiktok~ like lmao idk. I just. don't know. #and I understand it's a specific type of user. I get that. believe me. my block list grows daily. I do not engage I just block #but like. at what point is it just like fuck it. the building's infested gotta demolish it. like holy shit. #I'm not on here as much as I used to be for sure. and like. idk. shit like today it's like...... idk man #I been on here for years. eons. there are parts of this place I enjoy but holy god almighty there are some fuckers on here #that severely need like. a job. a real problem. a responsibility. something. anything. #so tired of the ~I'm too scared to talk to the waiter~ crowd also being the ones calling for firebombings online like bro #shut the whole fuck up I stg #erin explains it all

[the-restau-rants]

I know that I often say that customers seem to view the menu less as a series of composed dishes, and more as a list of ingredients that they can pull from to make their own dish, but today, that literally happened.

A customer looked over the menu, got out a piece of paper and a pen, wrote down a list of various ingredients from the menu, and handed it to the server. "I know that you have all of these things," he said. "Just tell the kitchen to make that for me."

I genuinely wonder where these people come from. They have to be grown in a lab somewhere or something.

#restaurant life #server life #waiter life #server problems #customer service #waiter problems #restaurant stories #server stories #waiter stories

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

i know i spent like an hour correcting their english summary but this does fuck as an intro

#the problem wasnt the writing i just wouldnt have translated it that way thats all #sigh do i need to translate this now. kinda do dont i #do i need to make a french sideblog #i have not enough interesting to say in french yet to warrant that but theres like 3 of you who speak french #so this isnt really working either #directly after this it starts talking about jean-paul sartre talking about a waiter whos of course not really a waiter but a free man who #takes the role of a waiter #or smth like that idk i havent read sartre

[ajaegerpilot]

its so fucked up that i ended up liking the taste of beer but am also a lightweight that doesn't like getting drunk. decaf beer (that tastes the same) NOW.

#misha speaks #alcohol m #hillariously i'm still a buzzkill straight edge even though i drink. #the drunkest i ever got was at my friend's celebration of life and the ferry ride back from it i aggressively was diagnosing a friend of #mine with adhd in front of her two other friends. bc the waiter kept topping up my wine. #but i'm also INCREDIBLY light weight. like i made the mistake of having a drink just now and that's going to be a problem for another hour #at least. #anyway. chaotic to say maybe but beer > most pops. sprite is still king tho.

[lifeon-pluto]

mom: does it bother you that ppl think ur a man just because ur hair is short?

me, a closeted trans guy: naaaah mom, that’s alright :))

#the waiter called me a boy asfldgskgdkagsjdgsk yesss #transmasc #trans guy problems #lgbtqia #is this relatable? idk

[teamseaslug]

Normally I don't mind getting attention but depending on the reception I get it can be really embarrassing in front of new people. I was at a goth meet up with some folks and I've met one of the guys two other times now, and he said passingly "Hey take a shot every time someone compliments her" because our conversation kept getting interrupted.

#or like when versie flew in and we got trapped at a bad restaurant because the waiter wanted to FLIRT #<- im still mad about this its one of my worst dining experiences ever #normally its just like flattering or funny but when im with others and its starting to frustrate them i get so #flustered and embarassed because i dont know what to do i cant turn it off or anything #anyways. HOT GIRLS WE HAVE PROBLEMS TO #sydney talking

[teamfortresstwo]

,,,,,,, au where Gin feels indebted to the baratie after Sanji’s act of kindness so he becomes a waiter there,,,,,,,

#I just love him okay. #Also my original theory was that zoro’s brothers (not actual but y’know the guys who call him brother) were going to like #help fix the ship and then Gin would be like a waiter there #since it solves both the problems that had been set up (the ship being wrecked and out of waiters) #it isn’t how it went but I still think it’s a cool idea. #I just want Gin to be happy. and also maybe get to interact with sanji a bit more. okay.