Waiters and Waitresses Share the Most Ridiculous Requests They’ve Gotten From Customers

A Mom and young son (maybe 8?) came in to the restaurant I waited tables at for lunch. The Mom asked her son what he wanted to eat, and he replied with “ranch.”

I politely asked if he meant, like, a salad with ranch? Or French fries with a side of ranch?
The Mom looked at me, rolled her eyes in embarrassment, and clarified—he wanted a soup bowl full of ranch dressing…

I walked into the kitchen and discussed with my manager, because I had no idea how to enter that into our POS system. My manager and I came to the conclusion that we should charge her for an entire bottle of ranch, so she paid $10.99 for a soup bowl full of ranch dressing.

Dpg2304

In High School, I worked at a Mexican food court “restaurant.” My very first day on the register, a lady asked for, “Nachos in a cup.” I told her that wasn’t on the menu, and the container we use for nachos is way bigger than the biggest cup. She got irate and said money isn’t an issue and, “just put some fucking chips in a cup and cover it with fucking cheese.” I asked the manager, and he told me charge her double for the special order. I told her it’d be around $15 to do this, she gave me a $20 and said keep it. I filled the large drink cup about halfway with chips, then poured cheese in there till it was almost full, dunked some chicken slices, put the lid on, then handed it to her.

The absurd request: she asked for a straw…

BornNRaised415

I was serving a couple and they were the over lovey type. Like holding hands across the table, kissing across the table and etc. Clearly they were in love. So, that creeped me out a little but whatever.

After their meal they thanked me for my service and etc. I’m clearing the table and I see on check “You’re cute! Please call us for a good time!” Who the fuck goes to a restaurant and tries to pick up a waiter for an awkward 3 way?

SmokingMonkeyPhoto

It was a busy lunch rush on a hot summer day, so the AC was blasting but not enough to keep the whole room cool. Add to this the fact that all the servers are running around as fast as they can in order to take care of each tables every desire. So, one lady at my table approached me at the computer while I was putting in their order. She asked me if I could stop sweating

folkmasterfrog

I haven’t waited tables in about 10 years now but I’ll never forget the guy who asked for his steak “dry.” When I pressed him for what he wanted explicitly he explained that he wanted “no juice” to come out when he was eating it. I told him it would take about 30 minutes to cook his steak that done, he said that was fine and off I went. Our steaks were pretty miserable portions in the first place, and the cut he ordered was the smallest one on the menu, so when I returned with his tiny little 6 oz flat iron that had been absolutely desiccated on the grill he looked understandably disappointed. He took a few bites of it and decided “it wasn’t very good,” which was underselling how bad it looked and almost certainly how bad it tasted.

panascope

I used to work at a private dining club and got the weirdest requests. One lady in particular that stands out: she wanted a martini with blue cheese stuffed olives. We didn’t have blue cheese stuffed olives. I had to personally stuff each olive with blue cheese for each martini she ordered.

throwawayheyheyhey08

Two old ladies come in and after taking forever to order and asking a million questions, I’m about to walk away and one says she has an allergy. 90% of the time people with allergies that come up after you took their order are liars because they would need to inform you before hand in order to figure out what they can and can’t have anyway, so I’m already rolling my eyes. Boy was I right.

Salt. She’s allergic to salt she says. Make sure NONE of my food has salt. Now I did write down no ADDED salt on my pad because A, that’s actually possible, and B, I take customer requests seriously if I can fulfill them.

But her friend was the kicker. She obviously didn’t think I took it seriously enough because before I’m far enough away she calls me back and practically scolds me to make sure I tell the kitchen because her friend is DEATHLY allergic and if there’s ANY SALT AT ALL SHE’LL DIE. And she’s yelling this to the whole restaurant.

redrabbit1289

Working at a chain seafood restaurant, guy comes in with his wife. The lady ordered a dish that included a lobster tail. The man requested that I get a “divider” for the table, because “if he saw the lobster it would make him sick and he would be unable to eat his food.” I got a piece of cardboard and stood it up between a couple of sugar caddies.

We brought out the lobster tail under a cover, and she took the meat out of the shell and gave me the shell. Only then was the man able to get rid of the divider and gaze upon the meat.

cattinthehatt

One lady wanted her salad microwaved so the cheese would melt. I confirmed a couple of times, she wanted the entire salad, dressing, veggies, everything microwaved for melted cheese. It was a disgusting droopy mess, but she happily ate it.

PNW-Tec

I had a woman order two whole tomatoes and a side of ketchup. She cut up and ate them both, dipping them into ketchup.

RUIN570

This happened last week. I had a woman make a HUGE deal that she was on a diet and needed to watch her calories/carbs. She orders a chicken dish that consists of a seasoned grilled chicken breast, grilled shrimp, sauteed mushrooms and onions and a side of roasted red potatoes on a skillet. All together the meal was under 650 calories. She asks to modify it to help her diet so I say of course and listen to her requests. She asked if I can substitute the grilled chicken with a piece of fried chicken and she wanted to substitute the red potatoes for mashed potatoes with bacon cheese and sour cream. She also ordered a side salad with extra croutons extra cheese and 3 4ounce cups of ranch. after her meal was over she asks to see are nutrition menu to see how many calories her dish was after her modifications. She calls a manager over to complain saying she shouldn’t have to pay for her meal when she told the waitress that she was on a diet and needed a low calorie entree and I gave her a meal with over a thousand calories in it.

VinegarPrincess

I was a waiter at a thai restaurent for 6 years here are something that comes to mind. I had a customer who wanted a sweet and sour stir fry to come in its separate components on different plates. Carrot, broccoli, chicken, sugar, soy, salt, ect. It would have been like 10-15 plates if we did it.

Cosmicseas94

I worked at a pizza place. Our medium pizzas had 8 slices; large had 12. We sold pre-made pizza by the slice from 11AM to 2PM, dine-in only.

Lady called in to place an order for delivery. “I’d like a medium pizza. One slice pepperoni, one slice Hawaiian, one slice sausage and olives, one slice plain cheese, one…”

I interrupted to tell her I couldn’t make a medium by the slice; I could only do halves.
She said, “Oh, okay. I’d like a medium pizza. One slice pepperoni, one slice Hawaiian, one slice…”

I interrupted again to reiterate that what she was asking for wasn’t an option.
Rinse. Repeat. I finally told her the best I could offer was a large by quarters. She asked me how many slices a large had. I told her. She said that was too much food, then said she’d changed her mind and only wanted salads and cheese bread instead.

HawaiianShirtsOR

A man asked me how our fish and chips were, said he hated fish then ordered our fish and chips, and was disgusted when they tasted like fish.

tylerdead

When I was 16 I was a bus boy at my local fried chicken restaurant. An older woman, 50’s I think, begged me to have her Dr. pepper warmed up in the microwave. I thought she was messing with me but she was dead ass serious. Told her server and she just told me to do whatever she wanted. I warmed it up took it out, and she said it wasn’t hot enough, I had to take it back and microwave it for over a minute to get it to an almost boiling point. It was steaming. She said it was perfect…. idk, it always stuck with me, but I never tried it.

Kalance45