Messing with the food
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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. -
timberwolf530 — 16 years ago(June 03, 2009 07:53 PM)
See this Thread: "Waiters should be grateful they get any tip at all." I guarantee that person gets their food messed with all the time. If they knew how many hockers they've eaten, they'd probably change their attitude toward restaraunt workers.
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trapdoorstudios — 16 years ago(June 29, 2009 08:06 AM)
well, based on what you guys have said here then my opinion of restaurant workers is lowered.
If you tamper with someones food then you are scum.
Sure people will piss you off and might seem to you that they deserve it. But really? Grow up don't like your job? Get another one.
I worked as a waiter and barman and never beep with anyones food or drinks.
Whats next, piss of your car mechanic and they'll cut your brake lines? Annoy your doctor and he'll remove the wrong body part?
I agree that some people are beep and could do with being brought down a peg, but thats up to your manager to tell them not to treat their staff that way. Which we used to do in one of the shops I worked in.
If someone is rude refuse to serve them, preferably to their face, until they speak to you politely. If they refuse ask them to leave. If your management don't back you on this then find a company that will. -
Autodidact — 16 years ago(August 02, 2009 10:22 AM)
At the restaurants where I worked, tainting the food was something almost everyone fantasized about, but NOBODY actually did. Like a lot of people have said, you can't survive in the food service business if you easily get worked up to the point where you need to taint people's food.
In fact I remember specific incidents at each place where the topic was brought up jokingly in the kitchen and the cooks or wait staff present would make clear in no uncertain terms that it wasn't even to be joked about.