By smokecloud_ - 02/07/2015 06:40 - United States - Ashland

Today, after helping run salads and bread to a table, they demanded I do something about the bug problem. I would've been more understanding if they hadn't chosen to sit outside. FML
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Squee I get my follow up badge!! OP here. :D I'm a server at a chain Italian restaurant that is NOT Olive Garden. There were two servers manning our patio with almost 20 tables, and one of those servers also had to come inside and make all of the alcoholic beverages for the entire patio. Me, being a bored inside server and a selfless team player, ran a couple salads out for the guy tending bar. They seemed annoyed when I walked up and complained that they'd asked for bread. I whisked away and brought back twice the amount of bread for a five top (they just looked the part) when the lady said "UGH!" and pointed to a gnat that had flown into her Caesar salad, on the side of the plate she had already cleared. "Oh no!" I exclaim. "That's terrrible, would you like me to take this back and have it remade?" She declined, and that's when she rather nastily said we should REALLY do something about the bugs. I just looked at her and said sorry, we're outside, there's not much I can do about it. I did tell a manager, and he talked to them, but I doubt they were satisfied by his pointing out that we don't have nets and waving his arms at these imaginary nets. :x Anyways, sorry for the novel, I've been waiting for this day far too long. Thank you FML community, and remember, don't forget to tip your server. :D

Top comments

I bet that really bugged you..... I'll let myself out.

And this is why I hate working retail/restaurants now, there are far too many stupid people out there who expect you to bend over backwards and do what they want, when you can't. It should have been ducking obvious to the dumb bitch that outside + food = insects...

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lexiieeex3 32

I would've stuck them right under a hornet's nest and let them have at it.

Tell them you'll remove the bugs after you finished removing the sun as requested by another dimwit customer.

Yup, I've had that. "Excuse me, it's too bright out here." Even better, as they enter the restaurant (from outside) and the hostess asks if they prefer indoor or outdoor seating, they ask how the weather is outside.

Even though the customers lack common sense, have you guys tried tiki torches with citronelle? Works for our restaurant.

We're a higher scale Italian restaurant, tiki torches wouldn't work. Also, we're corporate so something like that would have to come from the higher ups.

Oh. Well hopefully the rest of your shift didn't consist of dim customers.

Offer to give them one of the smelly mosquito candles or tell them its part of the outdoor charm. So many people are so stupid..... ugg point proven

seems like some customers love to find reasons to complain any chance they get. This is really frustrating, but what can you do. Just ignore it and think about the reason you're there...... Money :)

Tell them sorry but you all chose to sit outside so you deal with the bug problem.

The feelz are real. I got asked to get rid of the flies during the middle of an Australian summer many times while working