Is being a waiter or waitress really that hard?

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

I love that he showed them on TV like that, lots of folks would have edited out the ghetto nonsense.

The show was so popular and cheaply made that they probably let him have the final say on almost everything. I’m assuming the guy got reimbursed for the few thousand dollars that this publicity stunt cost too.

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

When I started waiting tables I had 0 racist inclinations in my body. I thought the older waiters were being dicks/exaggerating. I quickly had some terrible experiences. Some bad ones:

Towards the beginning of doing that job I had a seemingly normal, non ghetto lady come in with her daughter. After I dropped their change the mom was laughing. I didn't know what was up and assumed nothing to do with me. After they left looking at the check book and realized I had kept what was supposed to be the change and gave her back her bill total. And this gross cunt thought it was hilarious to steal money from a kid waiting tables.

They give you endless refills on fries if you order something that comes with them, so it was normal to have a couple bitches come in with a pile of stupid kids, order two burgers an ask for 100 fry fills. Also Freckled Lemonades had free refills, so they'd order two of those and dump them down their kids heads over and over. Tipped shitty every time and were total bitches.

Had a really ghetto family come in at the end of the night, I was the only waiter left and they were the only table. Hung out forever, ran me around, complained about their food demanded I sing happy birthday, I think left me less than a dollar.

The second Red Robin I worked at had almost none of those hardcore ghetto shitheads come there but I was tired of working there and provided complete chaos to the restaurant/managers/everyone around so was making less from mostly normal because I didn't give a shit anymore, was stoned and wasted all the time. I threw silverware away instead of rolling it up, I stole food supplies including whole packages of burgers and sliders/etc. I figured out how to open and tilt the top of a liquor bottle in the storage cage to dump into cups. Highlighted with pen the alien outline on the back of every dollar bill I put in the machine with little messages on it at the top. Threw out the main managers line check book when it was laying around and that completely fucked their whole system of keeping track of everything. As bad as customers could be, managers could make it worse. I was a great employee(up until then) and always showed up, never had a customer complaint, and never fucked up food orders. I should have been held up as a god there and they treated me like shit so I figured I'd fuck shit up til I left.
A few months after I was done working there, I had a morning where I ate a mystery pill and went to the nearby casino to drink straight whiskey and ran into a bartender who also loved Brian Jonestown Massacre, so he was pretty much pouring it straight down my head. A former employee called and asked if I could get shrooms so I asked my buddies daughter if she had some and her friend did, so her and I headed to that RR. Apparently on the way I was eating shrooms to that was supposed to go to this chick. I got there and came in the side door and started fucking shit up. It was busy, family's eating there...I walked up to a table and grabbed some dads glass and held it up and announced to the whole restaurant "anybody wanna see something funny?" and threw it at the ground. The one manager that did like me (til then) happened to be working there and told one of my friends that was waiting tables there still to get rid of me. I said "I ain't leaving til I get a coke!" so she made me a to go one and I took a sip and spat it in her face. Can't remember if that was before or after I licked her face Rick James style. Luckily they didn't have cameras there at the time and my buddies non drivers license having friend drove me out of there.
I still called a few days later(after recovering from the alcohol poisoning and puking all over my buddies floor for 12 hours) and talked to that manager to apologize. He wouldn't accept lol. My friend whose face I licked thought it was hilarious but everyone else thought I was a complete asshole, which I thought was nuts. I would have loved nothing more than something interesting to happen at work that I didn't cause but that shit was their lives lol.

Anywho I digress...one time I did get a great tip from some black folks. They probably wouldn't have been the stiffing for no reason/$1 type but I definitely did way better because I made them laugh all night. The main dude asked me something about "can you ask your manager if you can do such and such for a table of black folks?" I said "yeah, let me just go ask my WHITE manager" and they started dying and we were rolling the whole time. They tipped great but that's the only such experience I remember.

I still remember one night this black couple came in like 30 min before we close and the lady proudly told us she was gonna stay long so we would all have to stay late and delay us from going home on time. She was a cunt to the server and after making us all stay late her card came up declined on a bill that was not even 40 bucks.

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

Weren't those the grossest bitches you ever seen "I gotta go brush my teeth". Just kill them Nathan! I love that he showed them on TV like that, lots of folks would have edited out the ghetto nonsense.

I bet they were told to include the one white lady so they don’t look racist. I remember having to deal with that kind of overdramatic shit - it’s burning my throat and I can’t breathe but I ate it all and want my money back.

 

[ミスタースパーコル]

It really fucks with your mind even after you go home with how mean some people are for no reason

And then you log onto the opie and anthony forums.

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

I still remember one night this black couple came in like 30 min before we close and the lady proudly told us she was gonna stay long so we would all have to stay late and delay us from going home on time. She was a cunt to the server and after making us all stay late her card came up declined on a bill that was not even 40 bucks.

What actually happens if you can’t pay a check? I’m assuming the washing dishes thing is a myth. When we were young kids my uncle would always jokingly say, “I hope you can pick up the bill because otherwise you’re going to have to wash dishes.” I mean you can’t really call the cops over $40, right? What recourse do you really have besides banning them?

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

What actually happens if you can’t pay a check? I’m assuming the washing dishes thing is a myth. When we were young kids my uncle would always jokingly say, “I hope you can pick up the bill because otherwise you’re going to have to wash dishes.” I mean you can’t really call the cops over $40, right? What recourse do you really have besides banning them?

I took her information down and gave it to the GM the next day. Not sure what he did but I made a copy of the card as well. I think we could have called the cops since it’s theft but it was already like an hour past closing time and she didn’t even bother calling her card company about it.

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

I took her information down and gave it to the GM the next day. Not sure what he did but I made a copy of the card as well. I think we could have called the cops since it’s theft but it was already like an hour past closing time and she didn’t even bother calling her card company about it.

I understand that you can snap a picture of the card when it won’t run but I’m astounded that she let you take her information down voluntarily. “Awwwww hells no! That meal should have been free anyways.”

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

I understand that you can snap a picture of the card when it won’t run but I’m astounded that she let you take her information down voluntarily. “Awwwww hells no! That meal should have been free anyways.”

Then again, I don’t know if her phone number was working that she gave. I once had someone back into my car and leave a note with a number - of course the number didn’t work.

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

Then again, I don’t know if her phone number was working that she gave. I once had someone back into my car and leave a note with a number - of course the number didn’t work.

Did she give you her license or just her phone number?

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

Did she give you her license or just her phone number?

I got her license and phone number - like I said not sure how (or even if) my GM ended up getting money from her. Luckily the restaurant was in an area that had security driving around in some kind of small car / cart so I told her it was the police or some shit and she gave me the info.

 

[johnnynoname]

I still remember one night this black couple came in like 30 min before we close and the lady proudly told us she was gonna stay long so we would all have to stay late and delay us from going home on time. She was a cunt to the server and after making us all stay late her card came up declined on a bill that was not even 40 bucks.

....bro

 

[Uncle Floyd]

it was normal to have a couple bitches come in with a pile of stupid kids, order two burgers an ask for 100 fry fills

I get it. Them fries and Campfire sauce are bussin. Not even decent White folks can resist them.

 

[Africa.com]

Another memory of Vegas Mark... he didn't realize that ceviche isn't some unknown thing. Comes into work early to show off his idea for an app. Shrimp Ceviche served in a short rimmed plastic wine glass. Didn't even make tortilla chips to showcase his exotic dish.

 

[Smeckler's Powder]

I get it. Them fries and Campfire sauce are bussin. Not even decent White folks can resist them.

Sure, but fry fills for 9 kids from 2 burgers is......something...