What kind of customers are the most annoying?!
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Nope, I know I would have been horrible at it.
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Foreign tourists who don't tip. They are such interesting people and then they tend to leave you 16 cents. I worked at a very touristy restaurant for a while. I know that they had no idea that I only made $2.30/hr, but it was really hard to work so much knowing that I'd have nothing to show for that table!
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I used to work at a restaurant close to Wrigley Field, so I think really drunk people after baseball games were the most annoying.
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All of them. I hated waitressing!
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@Ash: good point!
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@Mrs. Jacks: I think it's the world's most awful job.
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@Ash: oh no... My worst jobs were dishwasher in a cafeteria and dry cleaner person. Oh my god, I've had some bad jobs. At least as a waitress I pulled in 200-400 a night in tips
But I'll never think of Italian dressing and sour cream going through the dish sprayer the same way. The smell was so gross!
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@Mrs. Jacks: lol! I don't know why I hated waitressing so much. Money was good but I just despised it.
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@Ash: I just remember how badly my feet hurt at the end of my shift, especially after working a double. It was exhausting!
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Nope. I haven't been one. Both my sisters were, though. I don't think I would be a good one either.
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@Mrs. Jacks: I still feel that way with my current job! Lol!
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I don't think I could do it. I drop everything!
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@Ash: @Mrs. Jacks: so we went out to eat tonight and the restaurant wasn't busy but the people at the table next to us were really impatient...they got up to get more napkins, refill their drinks, and looked for an extra fork. The waiter looked pretty irritated...lol!
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I was a waitress/bartender throughout university. I loved it!! the money was great! The people I couldnt stand were the people that ordered water and a soup or side salad (low tab) but would stay for hours and were uber high maintenance. The type of customer that every time you went back to their table with something they asked for something else (another straw, more napkins, extra sauce, origami napkin folded into a swan..you get the idea) and then barely left a tip. Overall though I worked at a great place with a ton of regulars that knew I was working my way through a tough program and always treated me very nicely
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I worked at a mid priced Italian chain restaurant throughout college. Most of the time I really enjoyed my job talking to people and it was good money. The people that annoyed me were the people who were rude, snooty, and super demanding about things I couldn't change. I'm a waitress- I am not in the back cooking your food, mixing your drinks, controlling the radio, managing the thermostat, or regulating the amount of time you had to wait.
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I mostly enjoyed my waitressing stint. I am fairly type A, so I was good at it. I think the low-tippers (anything under 10%, because nothing ever went horribly wrong on my watch!) with big demands--i.e., found something wrong with everything, made a huge mess (sorry, but these people were often parents), or we're generally rude--were the low point.
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I wasn't a waitress, I was a hostess, and honestly our worst customers were the Sunday church crowd. There were two women once who got so angry that their server was spending more time with a table of five that they left $.27 and the nastiest note about working all your tables instead of just flirting with men.
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I was a waitress helper all of a day and a half the summer I left before college. The customers were fine, but my the owner/ manager was not. The restaurant was a breakfast-lunch place, so I guess he was a short order cook with a very short temper. The minute he yelled (really, blasted) at me the way not even my father spoke to me I knew that was not going to be the job for me. He apologized, but I did not go back.
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I did, up until I had ds. I liked the money, and for the most part the general public was ok, but yeah, there were those people that can ruin a night. Now, I'm a great tipper and really aware of my server when I go out to eat. I don't need to add myself to the list of jerks that person has dealt with all day.
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All through college. The Sunday church crowd on all you can eat Sunday was the worst!!
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Yup, every summer during college. I made decent money but I hated it bc I would always finish covered in food and so tired! I think the worst customers were the cheap tippers, especially if I did a good job!
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People with kids were generally the worst! They tipped poorly and their kids made giant, giant messes. A large majority also had no manners., They'd shake their drink at you to refill it, that kind of stuff.
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@blackbird: Really? I think parents are generally apologetic and pay up through tips for their mess. Maybe that's just my crowd though.
After being a waitress, my base tip starts at 18-20%.
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I worked in a pub when in university and the most annoying situation is where someone comes up to the bar to order a single drink, then just as you've given it to them, they order one other thing, and then as you give them that, they order another solitary drink, and so it goes on!
This was in the UK and so the whole tipping thing wasn't even an issue.
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I was a baker in a small cafe/bakery, but once the baking was done, I was a server as well.
For me, the toughest customers were the tourists. We lived in a tiny touristy town, and people drove up from the cities and expected us to cater to their every whim. People would order their lunches with every possible alteration and exception, get mad when we didn't have the same coffee-based drinks as Starbucks, and then not leave a tip because we "weren't a restaurant".
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OMG yes. I worked in 3 different restaurants in HS and college: Outback steakhouse, Olive Garden, and a place called the Jekyll and Hyde club (still exists in NYC and gets abysmal reviews--no wonder!).
The worst job was hands down, Olive Garden. I can't tell you how many times I had huge families come in and the parents would inform me that the kids "weren't hungry" and wouldn't be eating. So then the parents would order soup and salad, and feed the kids off their plates, make me run back and forth for millions of breadsticks, taking up all my time for 1-2 hours. And walk out with a $12 check. I literally had families with 4 'kids', ranging up to 14 years of age, who "weren't hungry".
These kids were starving and would eat 15 breadstick each. And keep me running for the free waters, too.
Worst. job. ever.
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I was a waitress at a chain steakhouse. I was surprised sometimes at how some people were just so miserable and grouchy, not necessarily to me, but I'd walk over to the table and it looked like the couple or family were just giving each other death glares. I didn't know why they would bother going out to dinner if they loathed each other so much. It always made it awkward.
And the guys who purposefully tried to make you feel awkward by saying inappropriate things.
I worked in Food service at a retirement home and golf club too. I cried the first day after the retirement home because it was soooo much work and my hands kept getting scalded from the dishwasher. It was by far the least pay but I ended up really enjoying it (especially after I figured out how to better work and get out of dishwasher duty). And I got to talk to all the residents and they were really funny, lovely people. The golf club was the most money for hardly any work so I liked that a lot. -
I haven't but it seems like a very demanding job. I try to be a cordial patron and tip well, unless they're just truly awful at their job. I was out to lunch with coworkers and our waitress would turn her head when she walked past our table. She never refilled our drinks, never came by to see if we needed anything (like ketchup for fries or whatever) and the place wasn't even busy. She was hanging out, flirting with another waiter the whole time!
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@mrs jacks, definitely. They would sneak food off the salad bar for their kids and they definitely did not compensate for the mess. It was a casual chain restaurant though, in a tourust town. I would generally make about 10% off those tables.
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I was a hostess at Disneyland, which I really enjoyed, It was fun meeting people from around the world.
Then I became a waitress at a sushi restaurant for a few months. All in all, it was fun, but the worst was when a customer would ask what kind of sashimi was on his plate. I would answer, and then he would say that I was wrong. What do I say to that?
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