Messing with the food
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brscth74 — 16 years ago(April 13, 2009 01:09 AM)
I was a chef for 10 years and I never did anything to a persons food. Sure it may happen in some restaurants with low level cooks like Denny's or TGI Fridays sh!t holes like that, but most of us take pride in our work.
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soc_dk — 16 years ago(April 22, 2009 03:43 PM)
It doesn't happen as much as some people believe. At least not enough to walk around worrying about it. Unless you act like a humongous douche off course, then you might get some payback from some people.
You have to remember that people are still mostly humane. Some people might be tempted but would never resort to disgusting things like that. Also people preparing/serving food are mostly around other people all the time. I don't think it's worth the risk getting caught to most people. And this kind of group grossening of the food you see in the movie? Think about it. It's risky even suggesting something like that let alone doing it with other people knowledge. You can never know if somebody feels like telling the manager. I personally would tell the guy/girl doing such things to stop or get reported on it. Not because I'm a 'rat' just because I - like most others - are a normal person with a conscience.
So the odds of something like that happening to you are pretty slim. You are probably more likely to eat something really gross from storebought products as the food is handled otherwise there.
Off course there will be the odd ball who finds some twisted pleasure in doing such things. So there's always the possibility! But then again there's always the possibility that you'll be stabbed tomorrow by some nutcase. So you are never 100% safe from stuff like that. -
imnottellingyou101 — 16 years ago(April 24, 2009 09:45 PM)
I never spit in anyones food or added gross stuff, but I am guilty of letting nasty peoples food fall onto the floor, stepping on it, or handeling it with my bare hands. This was only in the most extreme cases..a la, the nasty beyoutch in the movieand yes, some people do actually act like that.
Only ONE time, did I ever do anything really bad. I am not proud of itGod forgive me..but I will share it with my friends on this board. A man came into the resturant and ordered fettucini alfredo made with angel hair. I was 18, and dumb, and truly was clueless about the types of noodles out there. I requested the change from the kitchen, but they made it the reguar way. I took it to the table and the guy reamed me out in front of the whole place. He SCREAMED, and I quote..i still remember it to this day "What, are you too stupid to know the difference between fettucini and angel hair? Are you really going to tell me you are that freakin stupid!?" I told him I'd fix it and requested a new order from the kitchen. I was in the kitchen, waiting for the food, getting angrier and angrier as the seconds went by. I noticed a piece of dirty grimy toilet paper on a fellow servers foot. I stopped him, picked it off, and palmed it. When the jerks food came up, i rubbed and "tossed" the pasta with the dirty peice of toilet paper. I washed my hands and brought the food out, already really ashamed of myself. When I got to the table the jerk grabbed the food out of my hands and called me an a$$hole. I stopped feeling bad at that moment. In retrospect, 10 years later, I suppose I feel badbut God Damn, he deserved it.nah..I dont feel bad. lol -
psweens08 — 16 years ago(April 27, 2009 07:54 AM)
Ive always worked in restraunts or with food. Ive worked at dq, margaritas, and a pizza place in my town. It doesnt happen often and its not like they line people up to do it, but it does happen. This one time when i was delivering for a pizza place, this woman gave me the wrong address. Thats fine no big deal. But then she gave me the wrong address again and i waited around for a half hour. My manager just told me to come back, and the place was a twenty minute ride from the pizza place. So now its been an hour since i originally went to deliver this beep pizza, and what happens? The beep lady calls back and i have to go out again. on the way there i pulled the veggie pizza out of the pizza jacket and hawked all over it and rubbed it in with my fingers. When i got there she gave me a 2 dollar tipso I dont regret it at all. Like the movie says, "dont beep with people who handle your food!"
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BadgerHayd4 — 16 years ago(April 04, 2010 03:23 PM)
i was very tempted to do something like that when i used to deliver pizzas. This bch called up and ordered a pizza after we were supposed to have been closed and so i was counting tips and organizing the credit card receipts and getting ready to go when my boss answered the phone and asked if i'd stay for one last delivery. I said ok and he quickly whipped up her pizza and i went to deliver it.
I forgot to mention that it was starting to snow so it was a nasty night and this woman lived about 20 mins away. So after about 10 mins or so the pizza is done and ready to be delivered. She also ordered a 12 pack of beer as well. Yes we delivered beer but i could ask to check i.d. if i feel the person might not be 21 but that wasnt the case with this woman because she looked like she was in her 40s. So it takes me about 30 mins to get there. Her driveway isn't shoveled at all (it had snowed 2 days earlier and she clearly hadn't shoveled since then because it hadn't been snowing long enough for it to be covered that much).
So i get to the door, deliver her pizza and beer and she puts it on the table, opens it and complains that it's cold. So she tells me she wants a new one and asks for her beer. I said "ok i'll take it back" and as i was turning away to go back to my car she say, "and don't think you're getting a tip for this." That pissed me off not because she wasn't going to tip me but because she felt the need to warn me i wasn't getting a tip after she was complaining her pizza was cold (it really wasn't cold but it wasn't so hot that it would burn your mouth because she lives 20 mins away so naturally its not going to stay 100% hot, we dont have heat wave stuff like Dominos) plus i was supposed to have been off of work already but was staying special for this woman.
When i got back to the pizza place she had apparently called back up and complained to my boss and accused me of drinking on the job. Now THAT really pissed me off and my boss knew i hadn't had a single drink because he saw me all night and he knew this woman was a complete bch. I told him what happened and he said "don't worry about it i'll deliver it myself."
That was a smart choice for him because if i had went back there i would have spit on her food and i would have given her a piece of my mind because she was already drunk before i got there (i could tell just by how she was moving) and she was ordering another 12 pack and she was accusing ME of drinking?!? I was pretty pissed about that one and just thinking about her now is pissing me off.
Ive dealt with some jerk customers before delivering pizzas but this woman took the cake. I'm a pretty nice guy and would just let people say or do what they want and wouldn't say anything back but i've dealt with some crazy poor black people and snobby rich people that usually complain to me that it took too long (i have to wait for the food to be cooked and i deliver based on who ordered first unless one of the other stops was on the way and i was usually pretty fast except when i first started). I don't mean to sound racist with that last line but its just that this one section of town is really run down and poor and is all black people and everytime i delivered over there i knew i might not get a tip or hardly get a tip at all but they were also some of the biggest complainers.
Bottom line is like the movie says, "dont screw with people that handle your food." Human nature people don't like to be treated a certain way and if you're a big enough a-hole you will push a person to the point that they can't take it anymore and since verbally or physically doing something would get them fired and be obvious, they'll do something to your food where you don't know it or they won't get caught but they'll have the satisfaction of knowing they got the best of you in the end. -
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nadaht — 10 years ago(March 27, 2016 09:11 PM)
I think angel hair is really thin but I don't see why he would ask for angel hair when they all taste the bloody same.
Actually they don't. There are different textures, thicknesses and stuff like that. Also it's about which pasta to what sauce. All sauces doesn't stick to all kinds of pastas and you don't want to take a fork full of pasta and sauce just to have sauce drip off down on to your plate again.
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trancerufus — 16 years ago(May 17, 2009 01:17 AM)
Yes. And yes, it happens often.
I used to be a cook at a really busy Chili's and if any group of idiots came in within half an hour of closing, their food got beep with, and beep with hard.
This movie pretty much nailed it, from the singing and cursing at servers to kicking food across the floor.
If you're worried about it, though, just be sensible. If you're craving food past ten o'clock at night, you shouldn't be eating at a sit-down joint, you should be getting fast food. -
elliot73 — 16 years ago(May 17, 2009 03:57 PM)
It's odd that when some people go out to eat, they get that Henry VIII complex and feel as if the wait staff is slave labor. Think about the lady who played the "Biatch" in Waitingthe one who was showing off for her friends. That actress did a GREAT job in that role by the way. Basically, if you have even been in a restaurant and acted in that manner or sat at the table with someone who did, you ate snot and food that had been "tainted." Such retribution is quite universal.
I went to a nice Italian place with a friend a couple of years ago and this person, somewhat politely, complained about the pizza we ordered and asked to have a new one cooked because the pizza contained one topping we didn't ask for. I refused to eat what was brought back out. I watched my friend eat snot, spit and who knows what else. I warned the friend that they were making a mistake but they insisted "no one would do that." -
Lennon_McCartney — 16 years ago(May 18, 2009 07:11 PM)
If you order something and they get it wrong, will they mess with your food if you ask for another one like not in a super nice way but just a normal way?
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afrochicken-1 — 16 years ago(May 19, 2009 01:41 AM)
yeah, there's been incidence everywhere and it is not a stretch to imagine everyone at one point or another has eaten some kind of messed up food. The domino's pizza scandal just a few weeks ago is a great example of this happening EVERYWHERE.
I've known of people putting visine in food at middle of the road sit down restaurants, taking out the trash with gloves on and using the same gloves to make sandwiches at subway, dropping food at jack in the box, people spitting in pizza and cooking random things off the floor in the pizza.
The majority of the time it's when the person is a jack ass, but unfortunately there's lots of instances where the kindest of customers will still get "mishandled" food. The domino's video scandal is like I said, a great example of this. -
yousofunky2712 — 16 years ago(November 22, 2009 09:03 PM)
Most servers (and I am a server) are sane, normal people. If I go out to eat, I expect to get what I ordered. So usually if someone's food is wrong, I'm on their side. I have no problem taking it back and getting it right.
On the other hand, if you're a jerk and yell or act rude to me, that's when sh(t might happen.
But like I said, don't be afraid to tell your server you didn't get what you ordered. A lot of times they're busy and might not even notice if you don't let them know.
One exception is steaks. Everybody has a different idea of what Medium or Medium Rare is, so it's never going to be perfect. If you have to send back your steak 3 times, beware of floor seasonings or spit gravy coming out on steak number 4.