33 Servers Spill Their Unbelievable Customer Horror Stories (Here’s Why They Deserve Good Tips)

29. Geniuses

A couple orders food together. Man gets a plain hamburger and the female gets a hamburger ketchup only. They come back up together and the man says he ordered it plain but got ketchup and the girl says she wanted ketchup but got a hamburger plain. I still don’t know if they were trolling but all I could do was gesture for them to switch hamburgers as I was dumbfounded.

30. Rubbed it in her face

My girlfriend and I worked at the same restaurant in Savannah, GA while in college. St. Patrick’s day is huge here, about 750,000 people come every year and get very, very drunk. One year an intoxicated customer “didn’t like his reuben,” and proceeded to grab my girlfriend (his waitress) and literally rub it in her face. Myself, a bartender, and a bouncer literally tossed him out the front door.

31. Worse than Sandusky

While working at Subway I had two older ladies come in and tell me how much of a nice young man I was, and how it was so refreshing to have a fast food employee be so sociable. This ultimately led to the conversation “This must be a summer job while you’re in college, right?” I answered yes and told them that I just finished my sophomore year as an engineering major at Penn State. This led to a ten minute session of them screaming at me, claiming that I was a terrible person who supports child molestation. They literally told me I was no better than Jerry Sandusky himself, and said they didn’t know how I could live with myself. They told my manager they couldn’t believe that she could work with someone like me (wasn’t I just the exceedingly nice young man?). My manager told them in the nicest way possible that they could go fuck themselves, and I never saw them again.

32. Classy

A friend worked at a fancy pizza shop and brewery in west philly. I was there one night while he was working, table of 16 UPENN kids, all over 21, racks up a tab of $175. He’s the only server on their table, gets the food out on time and is a really nice guy. Kids leave cash on the table along with a ton of trash and a total mess. Ketchup in their drinks and everything. They only tipped $1.50.