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Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers I had this couple come in with their own tea set. The man asked me if had a few minutes to "learn a few things"? They were the second table sat so I humored him. He showed me a very specific way of steeping and pouring the tea over a sugar cube and had me try it a couple times with water. The whole thing was sort of neat. He then asked if I would mind serving them their tea this very particular way. They were super kind, even tough the man had sort of an intense vibe to him. I filled the pot with hot water carried it out like he showed me and poured their cups of tea exactly how he showed me. He seemed extra pleased but never said a word or even looked at me. It was no problem and I felt super fancy doing it. I did refill their tea one time while they were there, and he also asked that I keep his wife's water glass full at all times. I knew it was going to be a good table when the first time I came by and refilled her water glass and inquired if they needed any more tea, the man handed me $20 and sort of dismissed me. He did it twice more that afternoon. At the end they paid with no tip (I thought) but $60 and a cool lesson was enough for me. My manager found me about an hour later and handed me and envelope and said they told him they only will come in when I am working from now on. The envelope had $100, business card, and hand written thank you note. Apparently they had put this request up for many fine dining places and I was the only to get it right and do it "graciously". It was very odd, because after the first lesson they treated me as if I was almost invisible, backed up by the fact they didn't tip me in person. On every return trip it was the same. If you didn't know the deal they would seem like cold a******s, but they tipped really well and I treated them like VIPs everytime.

Sub_pup , Content Pixie Report

Final score:

245points

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Zephyr 1 year ago

Nice people but it gives me the vibes of the first 10 minutes of a horror movie

107points

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers Once a very thin, middle aged woman came in. She couldn't have weighed more than 100 pounds soaking wet. She asked what our biggest steak was. I told her it was the 24 oz. ribeye. She said, "okay I'll have that." Our steaks came with two sides, so I asked which ones she'd like. She said "I don't want sides." I told her they were included in the price, and she still refused them.

I bring out her steak and she begins eating. She's about a third of the way through when I ask, "How is everything?" She says, "Great. Bring me another steak." I say "Is there anything wrong with that one?" She says, "No, it's great. I want a second one."

I go back to the chef and tell him, and he couldn't believe it. But we served her another steak. She ate all 48 oz. of steak and left me a $40 tip.

shadowgnome396 , Hanxiao Report

Final score:

235points

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Wax0nWax0ff 1 year ago

#constipated

76points

The surprises servers face at work often call for lots of patience and nerves of steel, especially when it comes to rude customers. The OP told Bored Panda that they have worked as a server themselves for four years, and the main reason stopping them from quitting earlier was their co-workers.

They added that unbearable customers can be both, though, a pain in the neck and a source of entertainment. “I think the best thing [about the job] is the crazy customers that just are so crazy it's funny. Worst thing is rude customers acting like I'm the reason they didn't get their burger three minutes earlier,” they said.

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers I used to work at a family restaurant and we had this regular we called the “iced tea guy”. He would come in and order a meal with iced tea and the iced tea was always refillable. Long story short everyone knew after his meal was done he would camp (stay for a long time) and continue to ask for refills of the iced tea. Iced tea guy would then ask permission to get up and go to the restroom.. and if you said no he would give you $5 each time. In retrospect I think it was some sort kink dom s**t. It started getting getting weird lol eventually he wasn’t allowed back because of a certain situation…

Iced tea guy was in my station one day for a couple hours and he had a new request for me. Iced tea guy wanted me to choose a piece of pie for him to eat with his hands… but he wanted to do it with shoes on his hands! He asked me to help him buckle the straps on a pair of Mary Janes he busted out of a backpack and put on each hand. So then he ate a piece of Dutch apple pie a la mode with the shoes that were buckled on his hands. Anyways he wasn’t allowed back after that day and I never saw him again.

There that’s my story of the strangest thing someone has ever asked me for when I was a server.

lioncorazon , Alex Boyd Report

Final score:

200points

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SheDeM 1 year ago

You win!

82points

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers We had a woman send a grilled chicken salad back because it was cold. So we cooked some new chicken and made sure to send it back while still warm. She sent it back again. The entire salad wasn't hot enough for her.

We microwaved her salad. She ate it. I don't know man.

Honestnt , Alina Chernysheva Report

Final score:

144points

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Nea 1 year ago

Ewww

45points

The OP said the story in the thread they loved the most was a person asking the server to take all the purple-colored food out of their dish. When it comes to their personal stories, they recalled someone asking for “a burger without the bun or thick stuff” when they worked as a server themselves.

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers A grilled cheese, atkins style (this was like early 2000s)

My boss told me to microwave 3 slices of cheese and charge her $8 for it.

She was thrilled

jjwax , Pixzolo Photography Report

Final score:

131points

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The Doom Song 1 year ago

Sigh. Again people are idiots

43points

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers Two guys came in looking like they were from the CIA. The fat one ordered four fried chickens and a coke and the tall one ordered plain white toast.

m48a5_patton , Akemy Mory Report

Final score:

124points

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Downunderdude 1 year ago

Jake? Elwood? Is it really you?

83points

Strasshole13 , Sam Moghadam Khamseh Report

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers I once had a lady ask for chicken medium rare. I told her we can’t do that and she responded with,

“But they do it at other restaurants for me.”

I promptly told her to go to other restaurants then. I ain’t catching that lawsuit.

Final score:

120points

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The Doom Song 1 year ago

I had this sudden image of Gordon Ramsey. "YOU'LL KILL SOMEONE!!!"

64points

McFeely_Smackup , amirali mirhashemian Report

According to Zippia, there are nearly 1,700,000 restaurant servers employed in the US. It revealed that despite women comprising the larger share of employees (59.2% vs 40.8%), they earn 96 cents for every dollar made by their male counterparts.

It also pointed out that the state with the largest demand for servers is New York, while Arizona is considered to be the best one of them all for servers to work in. When it comes to the worst ones—unfriendly customer-wise, at least—Forbes pointed out that Missouri, Oklahoma, and Georgia rank among the top.

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers Academy award nominated, Hollywood Walk of Fame Star, Father of Jamie Lee Curtis, actor Tony Curtis...the single most miserable a*****e I ever had the honor of waiting on.

He was staying at the resort the restaurant I worked at was in, so I had the privilege of attending to him several times over the week.

He was Insufferably smug and condescending, several times saying ""this isn't' what I ordered"" even though his order had been read back to him and confirmed. How many times can you order in a restaurant and get something you don't think you ordered, before you start to ask if maybe it's you?

The most ridiculous was that he ordered a hamburger, wanted it cooked rare. So the chef cooked him his burger and when I brought it out to him he said ""it's too overdone, redo it"". so I told the chef and he made a more rare burger, Curtis sent that one back too. Now the chef is pissed so he made a patty of raw hamburger and waves a torch over it so it's barely brown and ice cold in the middle.

F****r loved it. said it was the best burger he ever had. Still complained about how long it took to get his meal

I still remember the chef saying ""If that's what he wanted, he should have ordered a tartare aller-retour, is it too much to ask that people learn the name of the weird thing they like to eat?"" (I have to look up that name every time I tell this story)

tony curtis is long dead now, and frankly I'm not missing him much

Final score:

120points

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Reba Jane 1 year ago

It's a wonder he didn't die from food poisoning

43points

#10

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers A middle aged lady insisted she didn’t like soda water or sparkling water so instead asked for a white wine spritzer without the white wine… there are two ingredients to a white wine spritzer. White wine and soda water.

rohothemadlad , Nicole Wilcox Report

Final score:

118points

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Pamela24 1 year ago

Classic from McDonalds. "I would like a cheeseburger without cheese." "So one hamburger." "No, not a hamburger! Cheeseburger without cheese!"

60points

#11

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers Once had a dude order a large garden salad looked me dead a*s in the eyes and very seriously said "No purple in it" and I just acted like ya sure ok with no followup questions. Ended up picking out anything purple colored in the salad and very nervously watched him pick through it. Was satisfied enough and left a decent tip.

I can never unsee purple things in my salad now, but I eat em

waffle-house420 , Jonathan Ybema Report

Final score:

114points

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The Sassy Wife 1 year ago

This would be my daughter. She won't eat or drink anything purple. She hates grape flavoured anything so she relates the colour purple to grape. It doesn't matter if you show her that say, this gummy candy is purple but it's blue raspberry. She's had this odd quirk since she was young. She's 20 years old and still refuses purple food and drink.

38points

#12

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers Worked at Bob Evans 20 years ago and there were a few.

-Parsley woman, she would order a glass of Milk and a large soup bowl full of Parsley and eat it. No salad dressing or anything just straight Parsley.

-Apple Pie woman, she would order a piece of Apple Pie with a scoop of Vanilla Ice Cream on it, but the pie was almost never hot enough. We finally figured out how to make her happy, instead of Microwaving the piece of Pie for 1.5 minutes you'd Microwave it for SEVEN minutes.

-Fan lady, not food related but the lady would come in every Sunday morning (our busiest time of the week) and demand that the speed of the fans for the whole restaurant be slowed down. She claimed she had a medical condition and got away with it for two months. This stopped when one of the managers determined they also had a medical condition, but it required the fans to be left on at normal speed. This made fan lady very mad and never came back.

-Deep fried bacon guy, no complaint really, turns out deep fried bacon is delicious!

balljoint , Lindsay Moe Report

Final score:

112points

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Shyla Bouche 1 year ago

I want to be friends with deep fried bacon guy!

46points

#13

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers This man told me he couldn’t have anything that has been “ground up” at some point. So like, can’t use anything with flour in it. Not because the gluten, but because it was made small at one point.

My man, that is not a thing.

Saltyseabanshee , Sonia Nadales Report

Final score:

102points

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Jeremy James 1 year ago

Oh man, imagine when this guy finds out that we're all made from stardust.

59points

#14

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers "Chicken is vegetarian."

Lady orders pizza with chicken, for the table. Rest of the table argued with her that they're vegetarians. She can have chicken on her own pizza with chicken. She replied chicken is vegetarian... refused to understand that her friends were trying to get a vegetarian meal.

Sunless_Tatooine , Hoja Studio Report

Final score:

98points

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Hans Georg 1 year ago

This is fortunately a seldom misconception. While it is not red meat, some people believe it is vegetarian. Same goes for fish. Fungi are another case.

40points

horton_hears_a_homie , Metin Ozer Report

#15

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers The place I worked at had little water cups on the table and we kept them filled for customers. I sat a party of two women (who said they were waiting for a third person) and went to fill their water cups. When I asked if I should fill the third one or wait for the third person to arrive, one woman said "Oh, no need, he's trying to quit." I thought it was a joke, and when the third person (a man) got there, I went to fill his water. He said "No, don't fill it, I'm trying to quit water!"

Final score:

98points

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Bernd Herbert 1 year ago

Was he trying to quit life?

79points

#16

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers House salad.... Hold the lettuce and all other vegetables. Extra croutons, extra cheese, extra dressing. Literally a plate of croutons cheese and dressing.

jsphwllr , Monika Grabkowska Report

Final score:

95points

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Caro Caro 1 year ago

So? cheese, croutons, cheese and cheese. Noting wrong with that LOL

49points

#17

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers I used to work at a Japanese restaurant and I once had someone come up to me and ask me if we had any low sodium soy sauce. The request itself was not so strange and I gave him the bottle we kept behind the counter. The strange thing was what he used the soy sauce for, which was pouring some of it into his Pepsi.

-eDgAR- , GoodEats YQR Report

Final score:

94points

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Lakota Wolf 1 year ago

Eh, I'd try it XD

18points

tehvillageidiot , Portuguese Gravity Report

#18

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers I had a couple that told me to wait before I prebussed their table so the man could lick every plate clean first. They had multiple apps and entrees between them and he licked every single one CLEAN before I was allowed to take it.

They weren’t in a private booth or anything. The other guests could see this happening.

Final score:

93points

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Shyla Bouche 1 year ago

Just EWWWWWWWWW.

45points

mrfancypantsssss , Divazus Fabric Store Report

#19

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers A tablecloth! A gentleman shat himself at a booth and asked for a tablecloth so he could walk out with it wrapped around him, I still serve him to this day and that was around 15yrs ago, no shame. Back he comes once a week. We never asked about getting the tablecloth back…

Final score:

92points

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Lakota Wolf 1 year ago

Accidents happen... and he may have been ill or had a condition. No shame, props to OP for helping him out and not ridiculing him :)

124points

#20

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers I once had a woman order a glass of red wine, with a side of creamer. I actually didn’t think much of it at first, but when I brought them to her, she proceeded to pour the cream into the glass of wine. I told her I’ve never seen that before. She said “you’ve got to try it!”

I’m not going to try it.

BitterChill5 , Alex Boyd Report

Final score:

84points

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troufaki13 1 year ago

So... who's gonna try and tell us??

35points

#21

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers Steak boiled in milk with a side of jelly beans. I'll never work in philadelphia again

oooooooooowie , Sarah Kilian Report

Final score:

83points

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Annymoose 1 year ago

Charlie having his milk steak

26points

cannotaccessorize , Rosalind Chang Report

#22

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers Years ago I worked at this amazing Breton French creperie in San Francisco, phenomenal food with a pretty small menu. Guy comes in and orders a sweet crepe with vanilla ice cream. No biggie. Then he wants to add a sunny side up egg and parsley to this crepe. I ask him a number of times if he’s sure he knows what he’s getting and that it’s not 2 separate crepes (1 sweet and 1 savory). He assures me. Of course when I ring it in, the kitchen thinks I made a mistake to which I assure them, it’s not a mistake. I bring out said “vanilla ice cream with sunny side up egg” crepe and the client DEVOURS it.
Weird.

Final score:

82points

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Ryan Oliver Tan 1 year ago

aside from the parsley. a sunny side egg and ice cream is just deconstructed crepe. Egg + Milk + Sugar

42points

#23

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers i used to work at olive garden. there was a lady that would come in at least once a week and she was dubbed by us staff as "pepperoncini lady". she would want you to open a new bag of the pepperoncini's we used in the salads and pour out the juice in a cup, she would literally straight up drink the juice. she would also get a bowl of pepperoncinis and just eat them.

himechans , Arman88 Report

Final score:

78points

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Vicki Doggurl 1 year ago

They’re really good, though!

29points

DJR 1 year ago

Ok pepperoncini lady

7points

Bronze Republic 1 year ago

I just read above about the pepperoncini man. Soul mates!

10points

The Thing 1 year ago

I can't judge. I used to drink soo much sour pickle juice.

7points

Pandapoo 1 year ago

I did also as a kid. The single pickles that were packed in the juice. I’d drink the juice first then eat the pickle. I couldn’t do it now, way too much salt, but as a kid anything goes!

7points

Debbie Convery 1 year ago

Probably good for gut health.

5points

Leoninus Fate 1 year ago

my mom used to strait up drink olive and pickle juice like it was water.... grossest thing i ever seen, and then when she could make them I HAD to.... *shudder*

4points

Eris Kallisti 1 year ago

I love a spicy dirty martini with pepperoncini juice

3points

Nikki Sevven 1 year ago

I was a fan of the Pickleback before it became popular. It's a shot of Jameson's whiskey and a separate shot of dill pickle juice as a chaser. It's delicious, but the looks I'd get whilst downing a shot glass of pickle juice were priceless.

2points

Jeff Holcomb 1 year ago

Sounds amazing. Love pepper juice

2points

karen Young 1 year ago

I do that it home.

2points

Natasha Arruda 1 year ago

We buy pepperoncinis and eat them straight from the jar with salt sprinkled on them.

1point

Mimi777 1 year ago

I do that with lemon slices. I love them. I’ll eat a whole plate of them sometimes I sprinkle some sugar on top.

1point

Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago

I love drinking the juice from jars of pickles and pepperoncinis and olives

1point

Attila Ángyán 1 year ago

I do this with every pickles, except I drink the juice after the jar finished.

1point

chickennugget 1 year ago

that sounds like me lol. i have literally done the same thing (but not at a restaurant lol)

1point

Colleen Glim 1 year ago

Pepperoncinis are awesome! I could also happily eat a bowlful of them

1point

Holly D. 1 year ago

Pepperoncini and/or pickle juice are THE. BEST. CHASERS. EVER.

1point

Joe Blowe 1 year ago

dry pepperoncinis have very little taste, quite a bit of flavor in the juice

1point

Shelli Aderman 1 year ago

🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

1point

SheDeM 1 year ago

Ok, bizarre.

1point

Guacamole86Avocados , Tessa Rampersad Report

#24

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers Guacamole without avocados - the whole reason behind my name.

She was completely serious too...

Final score:

77points

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Wax0nWax0ff 1 year ago

So… pico de gallo?

66points

#25

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers Guy ordered spaghetti, after he finished it he complained that it tasted like cinnamon. I told the owner (who is Greek) and he yelled saying **THATS THE SECRET INGREDIENT AND HE ATE IT ALL** so I had to tell him he couldn’t get a refund because he cleaned his plate, and also that he picked up our secret ingredient :-)

naturallyrooted , Behnam Norouzi Report

Final score:

71points

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Ace 1 year ago (edited)

I often use a blend of cinnamon, cloves and star anise, in small quantities, as a base for Mexican and some other spicy dishes. I would say though that if it tastes of cinnamon then there's probably too much of it.

35points

pollyp0cketpussy , American Heritage Chocolate Report

#26

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers Chili dog, sub chicken noodle soup for chili. She took a bite and said "oh, I made a mistake."

Final score:

70points

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Robert K 1 year ago

mistake or no, you're paying for it

27points

#27

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers I was at a salad bar and a lady put lettuce on her plate and then covered it in ice. She ate it with a fork, attempting to stab the ice like croutons. No one else seemed to notice. She was chatting with the staff like any regular would. I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone!

souponastick , Tomáš Lištiak Report

Final score:

65points

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Tobias Reaper 1 year ago

she is an alien i think

28points

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#28

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers I had a regular that would eat an entree size plate of pepperoncini for lunch. That's it with some soda water. He would take a bite then pour the juice in his soda water. He had to eat like 40 or 50 every time he came in.

lookssharp , Raquel Tinoco Report

Final score:

64points

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SheDeM 1 year ago

We need to introduce him to pepperoncini lady above!!! They're soul mates!!

124points

#29

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers Years ago while leaving a restaurant I saw a guy sitting at the counter seats pouring ketchup into his Sprite, straight out of the glass Heinz bottle. He glanced around to see if anyone was looking and then started pouring it in.

humancanvas79 , Erik Mclean Report

Final score:

54points

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Zedrapazia 1 year ago

Once ate with someone who would use a mix of coke and ketchup for marinade. Doesn't actually taste that bad, but very weird.

18points

#30

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers French onion soup with no onions.

Bigpoppacheese14 , Steve Tsang Report

Final score:

52points

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Shyla Bouche 1 year ago

So, it was just Pierre and Emile swimming in a bowl?

19points

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#31

Shot of fireball, plus hot sauce in a double shot glass. I thought it would be way too much. A half oz of hot sauce just shot back?

So the guy ordered it many a time, and eventually I asked him about it. He told me to try it, which I refused. Not a fan of spicy stuff. He repeatedly told me that it wasn't spicy! Of course I didn't believe him, the thing was like 1/3 hot sauce! He was clearly trying to prank someone who didn't like spicy stuff.

Anyhow after a year of us going back and forth about it, I finally lamented when he told me he would tip me $20 to take the shot.

So I did.

Crazy how its not hot at all. Like its LESS spicy than normal fireball.

Key-round-tile Report

Final score:

25points

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Noname 1 year ago

It wasn't spicy like the op thought it might be because alcohol neutralizes the capsaicin.

5points

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#32

Not too wild but strange.

A woman came in and ordered a meal, she said she couldn't have any gluten, and we needed to be careful about cross contamination etc or she would be ill.

After the meal she wanted a dessert. Informed her the one she wanted wasn't gluten free and she said "yeah, that's fine" and ate it anyway

ineedausername-96 Report

Final score:

25points

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John L 1 year ago

It only takes one to ruin it for everyone else......

21points

#33

Gluten Free Water

I brought her Evian water and she was fine with that

I'll never forget it.

veedeebee Report

Final score:

24points

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Terran 1 year ago

Well, otherwise she would have been served the pasta cooking water

13points

#34

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers Guy came in with a large group, must’ve had a recent surgery or something cause he asked for his meal to be blended. He ordered a lasagna …

rainysunbun , Ron Lach Report

Final score:

23points

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Wax0nWax0ff 1 year ago

I can think of worse things to eat blended

17points

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#35

Asked for the calamari, when it came she sent it back, didn’t realise it was squid just liked the name

Have had the same with espresso

Hyattmarc Report

Final score:

23points

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Ace 1 year ago

Haha. I actually did order squid rings by accident at a roadside restaurant in a tiny town in Patagonia, Argentina. Thought they were onion rings, hadn't properly translated the menu... I hate squid, and although I was hungry enough to try them I couldn't eat more than two or three.

5points

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#36

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers I once heard a guy in front of me order a sandwich that was entirely "extra mayo, extra pickles" no meat, no cheese, nothing else. Mayo. Pickles.

MSHinerb , Amanda Lim Report

Final score:

23points

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Betsy Ray 1 year ago (edited)

So almost like tartar sauce.

6points

#37

When I was a server, the objects requested couldn't phase me.

The quantities of what was requested had the ability to make me question the customer's sanity.

30 ramakins of whipped butter was pretty impressive. The lady who ate them appeared to be in her 40s or 50s and nothing odd or noteworthy about her appearance. She was a bit on the thin side, if anything. That table was a party of 8 and she seemed to be the center of attention.

High_Horse617 Report

Final score:

22points

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Nikki Sevven 1 year ago

So ramekins come in different sizes, but I'm guessing these were the small size that condiments are typically served in. They hold a fluid ounce (in the US). She ate nearly a kilo of butter.

4points

#38

A whole bottle of fish sauce.

And they used the whole bottle of fish sauce.

Jackal209 Report

Final score:

21points

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Kristof De Smet 1 year ago

You could literally die from that.

3points

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#39

Kind of the inverse but a lady ordered a charcuterie board and when it arrived, with disgust, she asked me to take it away because it had meat on it. I carefully explained that the ingredients were listed in the menu and that the meat was somewhat implied by the name of the dish. She remained unfazed and I returned the board to the kitchen. That was fun.

Final score:

21points

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Annik Perrot 1 year ago

In French, "charcuterie" means meat, originally pork but it can be made with other meat, salted, dried or smoked. What you'd call "lunch meat", I guess. It also includes sausage, like salami or mortadella, and various pâtés. But no cheese or vegetables...

11points

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#40

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers There was a lady who appeared to be a little older but looked like she took care of herself and had some plastic surgery done to her face. She asked me for a coke 0 with extra Splenda on the side. I brought out a few packets but she asked me for a bowl of the sweetener. I then watched her tear open packet after packet to add to her diet soda.
After she left I counted how many she used- 16!
For a 16oz soda.
I replicated the drink to try with my coworkers on shift, just to see what she was thinking. I was trying to slurp a solid through my straw.
I then decided maybe it wasn’t Botox but lots of preservatives that made her appear more…youthful lol

emmmy_em , Liam Hunter Report

Final score:

21points

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Betsy Ray 1 year ago

She may have been taking medication(s) that affected her sense of taste. Very common for certain heart meds.

11points

#41

woman sent a steak back 9 times....not be replaced to eat a bit and have it cooked more ...eat a bit and have it cooked more. The thing was black and still wanted the juiced cooked out . anytime even a drop of juice came out of it she sent it back - eat a little --hit a middle part tiny tiny drop of liquid comes out , sent back... i mean this thing was well well well done and still complaining.....why even have a steak if you hate the meat juice in it...just a dry burnt steak... I mean by the last time she sent it back the part left was maybe the size of a chicken finger to "cook off the juices"

But to each their own.

doglywolf Report

Final score:

21points

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Ace 1 year ago

If that's how she wants it. If there's still pink juice coming out I know it's off-putting to some people. Only problem is that it can be really difficult to cook a thick steak like than - needs half an hour in the oven really, or to be braised for even longer, and in either case it's then not really a steak. Best to butterfly or slice it before cooking.

8points

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#42

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers I work at Dominos. Asked a guy if he wanted any toppings on his pizza, and he 100% seriously asked me “do you guys have coconut?”

Mr_TigerZ , Sarang Pande Report

Final score:

20points

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SheDeM 1 year ago

Add in some pineapple and he could have a Pina colada pizza!

9points

#43

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers A customer asked me to overcook his chicken breast until it’s extremely dry and rubbery. Said he loves over cooked dry chicken. Literally said I want it to the point it’s tough like leather.

yayishowered , alleksana Report

Final score:

20points

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Ace 1 year ago (edited)

Yes, and? I never understand why people are so intolerant of others' preferred meat cooking. Very well-done steak? Sure, why not, it's not me that's going to eat it.

19points

#44

Had a mechanic in the neighborhood. He was kind of tall and scruffy. Seemed like a pleasant guy though. He would come in almost daily, and order a mustard and onion sandwich. Wonder whatever happened to him.

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Final score:

20points

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Robert K 1 year ago

halitosis man!

4points

#45

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers Banana split with no banana. Wish i was kidding

Dave1587 , Eiliv Aceron Report

Final score:

19points

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Biofish23 1 year ago

This doesn't sound weird to me, especially if it was somewhere that specified certain icecream flavors and toppings for the banana split that would be unique from any other sunday on the menu.

13points

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#46

"can I have the chicken salad please, but instead of corn I want peppers, instead of raisins, dates, and instead of pineapple, apple. Ah, and no chicken, thank you!"

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Final score:

17points

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Betsy Ray 1 year ago

So a pseudo Waldorf salad.

4points

#47

Oh wow something I actually have an answer for. Worked at an all you can eat sushi place and you were allowed one bowl of ice cream (anything more and it would just be an all you can eat ice cream place). Woman asked for chocolate ice cream with… a heaping side of WASABI. SHE ATE IT ALL MIXED TOGETHER. She admitted to it being super weird but said it tasted great. Still the weirdest order I’ve taken to date (granted I don’t work in food service anymore).

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Final score:

17points

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Manusha Kanis 1 year ago

You can buy chocolate with wasabi in it, so not that weird.

10points

#48

Someone Asks Waiters And Waitresses To Share The Strangest Thing Someone Has Asked Them For, And 30 People Serve Their Answers Side salad with ketchup instead of dressing.

r3dband420 , Jasmin Schreiber Report

Final score:

16points

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David Wambold 1 year ago

The original French.

2points

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#49

Ranch with *everything*. Don't get me wrong, I love my ranch dressing too. But people want it on the things you'd never expect.

$60 steak? 'Can I get a side of ranch for the steak?'

Soup. 'Can I get ranch with that?'

Spaghetti. 'Would you like me to grate some fresh cheese on top?' 'No, but can I get ranch for it?'

dr239 Report

Final score:

15points

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microwaved mcdonalds fries 1 year ago

i love ranch on spaghetti

6points

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The Doom Song 1 year ago

When working in hospitality you learn not to bat an eyelid when people order weird s**t. Just a quick confirmation and off we go

10points

shanila.pheonix_ 1 year ago

i saw a cursed tiktok screenshot of this one waiters story where he was asked by a kid for some ranch. The waiter didn't know what to do so he kinda just gave the ranch to the kid in a bowl and watched the kid eat the ranch like soup 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

9points

Depressed Owl 1 year ago

I have one word to describe moat of these: EEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWW

5points

April Caron 1 year ago

In Mexico, it’s really common to go to the movies and eat pickled jalapeños on your popcorn. Not so much stateside. Once, my ex, asked me to go get him a popcorn from the concession stand and ask for extra jalapeños. I happened to be pregnant at the time. The guy had his back to me, but with doubt in his voice, he asked, “Jalapeños? On your popcorn?” I responded, “Yes, please.” He turned around, took one look at my big pregnant belly, and didn’t say one more word.

4points

Sonja 1 year ago (edited)

Well, pregnant women do eat some strange stuff. For my sister it was a toast with Nutella, a fried egg on top and then grilled with a slice of cheese. And she ate chocolate pudding with cold sauce Hollandaise. Her bf at that time though she was eating pudding with vanilla sauce. He tried to steal some. Didn't like it.

1point

MurderMittens 1 year ago

I had a lady send back her "stuffed shrimp" because they were stuffed. I asked if that's what she ordered, and she said yes, but she didn't realize they were stuffed. The manager didn't believe me, but she told him the same exact thing.

4points

Aubrie Allen 1 year ago

Worked at a buffet. A guy would come in every week, empty the whole container of cottage cheese on his plate, then empty the whole container of ranch dressing on top of it. Also, people would fill up the soup bowls full of ranch, and then some would eat it with a spoon like a soup. People really like ranch. Yuck.

4points

Em 1 year ago

I love the blue cheese dressing at Wingstop -- it's a lovely thin, but not watery, consistency with giant chunks of actual blue cheese in it. If there's any left after I've finished the meal, I'll dig around in it for the cheese. I always wonder what this looks like from the outside, but at the end of the day, cheese > shame.

0points

Em 1 year ago

Used to love weird coffee shop orders. I tried nearly every one after the customer left. Many were delicious, though I wouldn't order them on the regular, mostly to avoid annoying the baristas (looking at you, passion tea with 20 pumps of sweetener and heavy cream). The one that has stuck is a blend of the Coffee Bean's cherry blossom and jasmine dragon teas, though I get it as a latte (bit of vanilla and steamed milk) rather than plain hot tea.

3points

Jessica SpeLangm 1 year ago

I don't understand why restaurant staff complains about most of these requests. As long as the customer pays for the food and the request isn't unreasonable (you want your steak to be cooked to shoe leather consistency? Fine by me.), why do you care how they order it? Get over yourselves.

2points

Mimi777 1 year ago

Yeah I’ve always found it weird how some people get personally offended that someone else likes their steak well done I’m not just talking about servers but people in general. I don’t like mine well done I like it medium but why would I give a s**t how someone lease eats their OWN food.

1point

MurderMittens 1 year ago

It will often slow down service as we have to explain the whole thing to the chef/manager. That reduces our income.

1point

Huddo's sister 1 year ago

I agree as far as how much something is cooked, but where I live it is unlikely you can make substitutions or eliminations unless you specify an allergy, especially as most things like soup, dressing etc are premade.

0points

Mimi777 1 year ago

Not a food related request but a different kind. Had a guy offer me money when I was at hooter’s to spend one night with him. He started out at $500 and would go up every time I went back to check on him. I think he went up to $3k. Definitely the strangest request. No I did not take it lol.

1point

The Thing 1 year ago

I worked with a lady who could not taste food, literally. Some kind of accident. Yet she still chose to eat unhealthy. I never understood it.

1point

A Something 1 year ago

I was a chef for. 7 years to this day not one customer has topped the woman who asked “is there tomatoes in the tomato soup”

0points

Dorian Reeves 1 year ago

The 4 chickens and plain white toast is a blues brothers reference

0points

Bec 1 year ago

Worked with a lady whose husband put gravy on his pie

0points

Huddo's sister 1 year ago (edited)

I was about to comment that that isn't strange then realised you probably meant a fruit pie with gravy!

0points

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The Doom Song 1 year ago

When working in hospitality you learn not to bat an eyelid when people order weird s**t. Just a quick confirmation and off we go

10points

shanila.pheonix_ 1 year ago

9points

Depressed Owl 1 year ago

I have one word to describe moat of these: EEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWW

5points

April Caron 1 year ago

4points

Sonja 1 year ago (edited)

1point

MurderMittens 1 year ago

4points

Aubrie Allen 1 year ago

4points

Em 1 year ago

0points

Em 1 year ago

3points

Jessica SpeLangm 1 year ago

2points

Mimi777 1 year ago

1point

MurderMittens 1 year ago

It will often slow down service as we have to explain the whole thing to the chef/manager. That reduces our income.

1point

Huddo's sister 1 year ago

0points

Mimi777 1 year ago

1point

The Thing 1 year ago

I worked with a lady who could not taste food, literally. Some kind of accident. Yet she still chose to eat unhealthy. I never understood it.

1point

A Something 1 year ago

I was a chef for. 7 years to this day not one customer has topped the woman who asked “is there tomatoes in the tomato soup”

0points

Dorian Reeves 1 year ago

The 4 chickens and plain white toast is a blues brothers reference

0points

Bec 1 year ago

Worked with a lady whose husband put gravy on his pie

0points

Huddo's sister 1 year ago (edited)

I was about to comment that that isn't strange then realised you probably meant a fruit pie with gravy!

0points