32 People Are Sharing Their Funniest Or Most Bizarre Customer Encounters In This Viral Thread

Lady mad that we didn't have grass-fed salmon. What-

Had a lady order an egg sandwich. I told her she had her option between one or two eggs on the sandwich. She kept saying she didn’t understand and I was running out of ways to explain “one or two eggs”. I even explained that we cook eggs in egg rings on the flat top grill so they fit the sandwich perfectly. She then sighed like I was dragging out an unfunny joke and went “WHAT DO YOU MEAN ONE OR TWO EGGS?” “I mean you get to choose how much egg you want on the sandwich.” “scoffs again How big are they?” “….egg. Sized?” “WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT”. I ended up going to the kitchen and taking a raw egg out of the carton and bringing it to her. “This is an egg. This is the standard size. We will cook one or two of these and put it on your sandwich depending on which option you order.” “This makes absolutely no sense. I want to talk to the manager”.

Apparently she ended up telling my manager that the way I pronounce egg was what was throwing her off. It should be said as eh-g and never as aig. She would be dining elsewhere from now on

It was a saturday night and the restaurant is full windows, on a busy corner. A car didn't make the turn and drove into a house, but there was a drop so you couldn't see the car. The police/firetruck/ambulance all came. They were there for at least over a hour trying to figure out how to get the car out, and the police cruisers kept on their lights. So a saturday night dinner with red and blue lights covering the whole restaurant. Most guests found it entertaining except one table called me over.

"Could you do something about the those lights?"

I thought she was kidding and laughed but her face was dead serious. I'm also clearly the only server on, also making all the drinks, with a full room. "That's police ma'am, i'm not going across the street to tell them to turn off their lights. You can go ahead, though." The rest of the table giggled but she wasn't amused lol.

Lady asked for her salad with the dressing on the side. After taking a few bites, she went up to the GM and said "this salad tastes quite bland. Could this be because I haven't put in the dressing?"

Yes. Yes it could be.

So many, but one that sticks out is a couple I was waiting on had two credit cards out when they were paying so I asked “splitting 50/50?” and the customer VERY angrily said “NO we want it split in half!”

I worked room service at a hotel on the water in San Diego. Very upscale and we provided excellent service. Had a woman order breakfast and then start to complain that she had not seen the sun the whole time she had been at our hotel.( June in CA no suprise.) She then proceeded to ask how I planned to fix it. "Ma'am if I could fix the weather I wouldn't be working here but I am happy to include a bloody mary to drown your sorrows" she did not understand and honestly thought I could fix it. Once she realized I couldn't she started asking us to comp her room............ due to the weather not being to her liking.

I had a family of 6 try to get their entire meal for free because we were out of the (non-edible) decorative garnish on their 4-year-old's dessert. Literally yelled and screamed and called me racist.

So I took $0.05 off of their bill and i personally tipped the server out of my own pocket.

A woman complained that there was too much lobster in the lobster bisque.

I had no words.

A customer sent back a dozen wings because "these wings are too big. There's too much meat on these wings". During the same shift, a guy sent his ribs back for being too tough. He demonstrated their toughness by showing me that he couldn't cut through them. He has been trying to cut them longways, through the bone

I once had a lady freak out about her child inhaling secondhand smoke in the restaurant.

It was from the fajitas being delivered to the next table over. No smoke reached her table.

Had a guy ask me how we got such realistic looking fake fire. In our (real) fireplaces. That he watched me add wood to.

Oh, and the woman who’d insisted that we’d changed our crabcake recipe from fresh to canned crab and that she could taste the difference and refused to pay. Yeah, we’d always been using canned crab. She did not get out of paying.

"What is eggplant? Chicken?"

I got an A+ that day for keeping a straight face. It was 100% a serious question, and it took everything in me not to burst out laughing.

Lady wanted us to blow out all the candles in the restaurant because "they were using too much oxygen"

I worked at Red Lobster and had a repeat lady come in and insist I take all of the crab meat out of her crabs legs for her and just bring it on a plate. Every damn time she came in. And the shi**y manager made me do it.

Had a guest order a chicken Caesar salad. I rang it in. A few minutes later she pulls me over and complains that I never asked what dressing she wanted.

Last week I had a woman who was convinced I was lying to her when I said there was no way to make a virgin Sazerac. After ten infuriating minutes of back and forth she finally gave up and said, "Fine, make me a virgin Old Fashioned."

Upside, I got to use my fancy hit the bricks line of "I'm sorry ma'am it seems as though I won't be able to meet your expectations tonight. Take care!"

I have a few:

1. Lady tried to pay me with Monopoly money and didn’t understand why I couldn’t take it. She’s a regular

2. Lady asked me for “a bundle” of sugar packets. I brought her 6. She needed more. I ended up bringing her 20 sugar packets that she proceeded to dump into her salad.

3. Lady asked me to peel her breadsticks.

4. Lady didn’t understand why I couldn’t connect two 4 seater booths together to make an 8 seater booth. She couldn’t understand that they are glued into the wall.

5. Lady who choked out her kid in the middle of the dining room to prove a point to another table

Back when you could smoke in bars ~ I Had just opened my bar, guy sits and orders a burger and fries. When I brought it out I Also set down a bottle of ketchup. He grabbed a empty ashtray and put ketchup in it to dip his fries into. Said I could get him a side plate. He said What's the big deal? It's clean. I then showed him the black rag used to wipe them out. He just shrugged. Yuck!!

I had a lady order soda water with olive and a lime. I wasn’t sure I heard her right so I asked her to repeat. She gets a little angry and repeats “soda with olive and lime” so I bring her that. She death glares at me when I set it on the table and says she asked for a sprite. I’m still not sure if she was just f**king with me. She had to be f**king with me, right?

Is the boar pizza vegetarian? (No, it has boar)

Is this pasta vegan? (No, it has egg, cheese, and bacon) Oh, that's fine.

Being unable to understand that a well done steak takes longer to cook than a rare steak.

Nothing too crazy, I've been lucky!