I Want A Restaurant That Can Deep-Fry A Cow In Forty Seconds And I Want It NOW.
Another manager is the winner of the Monday contest, this time her name’s Margaret and she managers a self-described “high-end restaurant”. That means no microwaves to reheat grilled-cheese sandwiches. No bottles of Hershey’s chocolate syrup to pour over bowls of cheap ice cream. In other words, not my type of restaurant, but probably good nonetheless. It’s short and sweet, but it’s such a common occurrence in the restaurant industry (and I had a boring week of emails from you guys). Enjoy!
A family of six are seated – and the father at the table looks at the menu and says very loudly and with a heavy southern accent:
“I can’t eat here, they ain’t got nothing fried!”
He then proceeds to ask the waiter if we could deep-fry something for her. She couldn’t believe that we didn’t have a deep-fryer. They ended up leaving, but not before informing the waitstaff that they were now in search of a restaurant that knows “how to properly cook food”.
Sad, really.
Again, anyone with stories should submit them to iserveidiots@gmail.com and I’ll put each week’s winner up on the site every Monday.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:34
Hey! I just made the switch from Hershey’s ice-cream deserts to non Hershey’s - It’s a world of difference in how you’re treated by management. More demanding on things that matter, and not as much on things that don’t.
I do love it when people tell you how they SHOULD make the food. If you don’t like it, don’t come back. I am the last person in the place to control how the food is prepared!
September 18th, 2007 at 5:19
I guess you didn’t like my story about working in a kitchen as a sous chef
September 18th, 2007 at 5:51
Why is this “Sad, really.”?
The customer didn’t see anything on the menu that he liked. He asked if you could prepare something he did like. You said, “No.” and he left. Seems like a polite way to treat a profound difference of preferences.
If anything, it’s you’re amug attitude that’s “Sad, really.”
September 19th, 2007 at 12:28
I think this one was made up.
September 19th, 2007 at 8:35
Why all the Ryan hating? You all can shove it!
Besides, everyone knows the correct spelling is “Allen”. And WTF is a Praxeus?
September 19th, 2007 at 10:36
Look it up. There’s only one accepted spelling of Alan. The rest are subordinate.
On your knees, bitch!
September 20th, 2007 at 6:45
LOL
September 20th, 2007 at 9:08
Who’s hatin’ on Ryan ?
I just think the story sounds made up.
September 20th, 2007 at 11:52
It’s not my story. It’s the week’s contest winner.
Shit, this journalism class I’m sitting through right now is boring as fuck.