Post interesting retail/food service customer experiences.

[Psyber]

I was just thinking how we meet the most interesting people in foodservice. I'll start...

Well I was helping out at the family restaurant business this weekend (not my full time job), and when I was vacuuming I noticed one of the outlets was sealed with electrical tape. Well I asked my mom about it and it turns out she taped it up because this guy comes in every so often, requests the same seat in the restaurant, and gets a 1 bowl of soup. Well, she noticed he often sat for quite a while with just ordering 1 bowl of soup and thought it was kind of strange. Turns out the guy was charging, not one, but 3 of his cell phones everytime he came in to order his soup. Just unbelievable how cheap people are, stealing electricity of all things....

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

electricity is 10 cents a kwh. I'm sure you made your money back on his soup.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: Gnote
electricity is 10 cents a kwh.

If that much.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: Psyber
I was just thinking how we meet the most interesting people in foodservice. I'll start...

Well I was helping out at the family restaurant business this weekend (not my full time job), and when I was vacuuming I noticed one of the outlets was sealed with electrical tape. Well I asked my mom about it and it turns out she taped it up because this guy comes in every so often, requests the same seat in the restaurant, and gets a 1 bowl of soup. Well, she noticed he often sat for quite a while with just ordering 1 bowl of soup and thought it was kind of strange. Turns out the guy was charging, not one, but 3 of his cell phones everytime he came in to order his soup. Just unbelievable how cheap people are, stealing electricity of all things....

She just lost a good customer. Electricity is cheap and he PAYS for the food.

 

[Psyber]

Originally posted by: Gnote
electricity is 10 cents a kwh. I'm sure you made your money back on his soup.

I'm sure we did, I'm just surprised how cheap some people are. The same guy comes in with a friend (who isn't quite as cheap) sometimes and he(his friend) told us he orders a bowl instead of a cup of soup because his cheap guy insisted on paying him 50 cents for half of his bowl of soup. Cheap guy was insistant that his friend was getting ripped off because for 50 centes more he would get double the amount of soup.

 

[Psyber]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

She just lost a good customer. Electricity is cheap and he PAYS for the food.

Nah he still comes, I think my mom was just upset about the fact that the guy was stealing electricity; he didn't even ask or anything.

 

[rubenswm]

Originally posted by: Psyber

Originally posted by: Gnote
electricity is 10 cents a kwh. I'm sure you made your money back on his soup.

I'm sure we did, I'm just surprised how cheap some people are. The same guy comes in with a friend (who isn't quite as cheap) sometimes and he(his friend) told us found out his friend orders a bowl instead of a cup of soup because his cheap guy insisted on paying him 50 cents for half of his bowl of soup.

Is it just me or does any one find it ironic that this guy is calling people cheap?

 

[Psyber]

Originally posted by: rubenswm

Is it just me or does any one find it ironic that this guy is calling people cheap?

Well cheap guy didn't feel comfortable that his friend was getting ripped off when his friend could get double the soup for only 50 cents more.

anyone else have any stories?? I have a few more (better ones), but this was the most recent and I wanted to hear some others before I post my other ones.

 

[chrisms]

Some guy got the wrong pizza delivered and threatened to come down to the store and shoot my manager with a shotgun.

Another time a hobo came in and stuffed his face with pizza waiting to be run out to a table. He ran away afterwards.

And then some guys with baseball bats came in looking for a delivery driver... my manager chased them out with a chair.

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: chrisms
Some guy got the wrong pizza delivered and threatened to come down to the store and shoot my manager with a shotgun.

Another time a hobo came in and stuffed his face with pizza waiting to be run out to a table. He ran away afterwards.

And then some guys with baseball bats came in looking for a delivery driver... my manager chased them out with a chair.

Ahh, good times, good times.

One night we went out for sushi with some of my parents' friends. Well they spoke Japanese so we told them what we wanted to make ordering that much quicker. (This was a real authentic Japanese place) None of us ordered anything particularly notable except my little brother, (a 6'2" 15-year-old) ordered 8 rolls of Kappa Maki. (Cucumber rolls) That's 64 pieces of sushi. So the friend is ordering the food, and the waitress (this damn hot Japanese babe in a Kimono) is writing it down when suddenly she stops him and says in shock, "you want how many?!?" Colin (my little bro) had to tell her twice, slowly, before she would believe him. And he ordered more afterwards.


The best story though comes from my friend, who worked at the Dining Commons for a university. He and his good friend were on staff that night, cooking food. They put a couple things in to cook, then go out back to take a smoke break. Well they get back in, take the food out and are putting it in the appropriate trays/bins/whatever when suddenly they smell something burning. It takes them a minute before my friend realizes where it's coming from, and he opens up one of the ovens and pulls out what used to be Chicken Strips, now burnt and blackened. "Well s%$#, this is coming out of my paycheck." "Naw dude," his friend says, "you should chuck some red pepper on them and call 'em Cajun Strips." My friend stops and considers this. "You think? I mean they're pretty burned." "Yeah, true," his friend replies, "you'd better charge a buck extra so people don't notice." He cautiously hand writes a sign that says "Cajun Strips, $2.49 each" and puts it out in front of the tray of burned, blackened and now peppered Chicken Strips....

Not a single one was left. They sold out within 45 minutes. Of course nobody came back for seconds, though one girl did come up and ask for some to go because, "I think my roommate might like them."


Oh yeah, once the same friend ate a deep-fried grilled cheese sandwich on a dare. He said it was like eating butter. There, there's a short story for you lazy readers.