Aimeé
Working in a restaurant requires many skills, like efficiency and multi-tasking. We don’t talk enough about auditory comprehension in the server and customer relationship, but I might never stop thinking about it and laughing to myself after reading this thread started by Twitter user @lilyannatrnr.
“My bf told me when he was 17 he worked in a posh hotel and at breakfast some bloke asked him ‘is this crème fraîche?’ and he replied ‘yeah we don’t serve out of date food’ and I can’t stop thinking about it,” she wrote.
my bf told me when he was 17 he worked in a posh hotel and at breakfast some bloke asked him “is this crème fraîche?” and he replied “yeah we don’t serve out of date food” and I can’t stop thinking about it
— lilyanna (@lilyannatrnr) September 2, 2020
There are literally hundreds of responses from either servers or customers who had similar issues with ordering that they still think about ages later. In one case, it seems like both the server and the customer replied, reunited at last. Many of the responders sound like they’re from the U.K., and in some cases, I don’t even know what they’re referring to while reading it. Can’t imagine how hard it was to communicate in a noisy pub. Thanks for turning your cringiest moments into personal amusement for the rest of us:
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this reminds me of when I was a waitress at a luxury restaurant on the ocean when I was 18 and a guy asked for a sea breeze and I opened the window…. he gave me a disgusted look then told me it was a drink
— mar (@mariissanicole) September 3, 2020
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I worked at Olive Garden and some real winner of a turd wanted to know if “your mussels are wild or farm raised.” He chose to use the pronoun “your” and I distinctly forgot that we had mussels on the menu. So I thought he was asking about my muscles and I said “Wild, I guess.”
— Michael Douglas Hall (@hallmiked) September 3, 2020
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I worked in a shop and a guy asked if we take Amex and I had no idea what he was talking about so I said “It’s just American Express we don’t take”. He looked at me as if I’d spat on him and informed me that Amex is American Express. I think about that regularly.
— Chelsea Jade (@ChelseaJadeL) September 3, 2020
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I think you owe them an apology https://t.co/Q7QlCscU89
— Emmaleigh ✨✨✨ (@EMMALElGH) September 3, 2020
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I used to work in a Cafe and when little old ladies used to ask for a pot of tea and a pot of extra hot water, I’d say “ we use boiling water love. That’s the hottest water you can get “
None of them got it but I love laughing at my own jokes
— Dom (@dommer14) September 3, 2020
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My mate worked in a wine bar for a bit an a customer asked her for “a Chilean red wine” an she went to mix the house red with Tabasco sauce
— skinnylegend m8 wbu? (@granolapooicide) September 3, 2020
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When I was about 19 or 20 I went to a posh restaurant with a friend and tried to order the scallops, ‘no you can’t have that, you’re vegetarian’ said my friend. ‘no it’s fried potatoes – my mum makes it all the time’ said I.
— Rachel Mann (@RachelMann123) September 3, 2020
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My favorite thing about this is that working in food service ppl ask such random stuff and you just like don’t question it bc you just need the tip money. Like smile? Yeah sure
— Lydz (@Lyddlemami) September 3, 2020
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I was once serving a man some scones and when I said the word scone he told me he could tell I’d been ‘dragged up’… I think about that all the time. Nice to know my pronounciation of ‘scone’ tells all
— Kerry-Leigh (@Kerryland101) September 3, 2020
It is an insult yeah! Referring to your upbringing, saying you’re badly brought up basically!
— Kerry-Leigh (@Kerryland101) September 4, 2020
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I had never heard of an Arnold Palmer until I started serving. Someone ordered one and I asked to see her ID because I assumed it was one of our bar drinks♀️
— ✨ⓐⓑⓑⓘⒺ✨ (@abbieeezimmm) September 3, 2020
