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    Restaurant Servers Are Admitting The Worst Things They've Done To A Customer's Order, And It's A "Nope" From Me

    Moral of the story: Be nice to the people who handle your food.

    Restaurant workers on Reddit are anonymously sharing the worst things they've witnessed happen to a customer's order — and their stories range from disgusting to horrifying to just plain funny.

    First, there were some truly nasty tales about workers messing with customers' orders as revenge. As a former server myself, I can tell you that contaminating someone else's food is absolutely not okay and most servers would never consider it...but that didn't stop these folks:

    1. "Back when I was 16, a rude customer pissed off my coworker. So she went in the back, licked her cheese, and put it on her ass cheek."

    Sliced cheese

    2. "Dude ordered a well-done steak. He sent it back three times. After the third time, a cook made sure it ended up on the floor."

    badmindave

    3. "Worked at an ice cream shop for a while. First a man was incredibly rude to a girl (we were all 15 to 16 years old), and so when she went back to make his shake, she scraped all the caked-on shit from the past six months off the bottom of her shoe and into his dessert before blending it and giving it to him. She got caught on camera and was fired."

    dearghewls

    4. "I watched a customer order a Diet Coke, and my friend, a server, brought it out to him immediately. The customer complained loudly that it was not Diet Coke (it was) and proceeded to make a scene that the server was lying to him. My friend went to the dish pit and scooped up some of the dirtiest water I’ve ever seen (used to soak dirty utensils before they go in the dishwasher), emptied the glass without washing, and refilled it with Diet Coke again. Dude was probably drinking the germs of about 60-plus people 🤢."

    a Diet Coke in a glass

    5. "I worked at a golf course restaurant. One of my female coworkers had some crude shit said to her by one of the old golfers. Something along the lines of, 'With an ass like that, you should be on the course serving us beers!' Then he ordered a ham sandwich. She licked the fuck out of that ham before putting it on the sandwich, then wrapped it in plastic wrap, punched it, and went out and handed it to him herself."

    imapersonmaybe

    6. "I saw a coworker throw a hot dog onto a greasy floor, step on it, throw it back on the grill, and then serve it. The customer was treating one of our waitresses like total garbage (continually hitting on her and demeaning her). He did clean the grill and utensils after."

    Impster5453

    7. "A female cook put her fingers inside herself, then hand-mixed a salad before it went to a table. Don't be a dick to your server — their friends are in the kitchen."

    hands mixing a salad

    8. "Had a customer complain about an 'ice cold' pizza that was delivered. She wanted another hot pizza AND her money back. The manager begrudgingly did what she asked. He even remade her pizza himself. He also threw the dough on the ground and stomped it flat with his shoes, then finished making it."

    DropmDead

    9. "Worked in restaurants for over 10 years. It’s pretty rare that you see people mess with someone’s food, but it does happen. The most memorable was when a customer made a waitress cry, complaining about their food and sending it back. The chef farted on the remake. It got a lot of laughs."

    TannedCroissant

    10. "I worked with one guy who had no problem tampering with food. A pair of customers came in one day, were giant pains in the butt, and then tipped an insulting 10 cents on the bill. They had the audacity to come in the very next lunch service, and you better believe he spit in their food."

    qbeanz

    11. "I know a guy who pissed in a bucket of pickles. He would never have been caught if he hadn't talked about it."

    a jar of pickles

    Fortunately, not all the stories shared on Reddit were so gross. It turns out that some servers get revenge on their rude customers in much pettier (and safer) ways:

    12. "The worst thing I did was to this one guy I already didn't like, and he was being kind of an asshole. I overcooked his eggs."

    fried egg being cooked

    13. "When I was a pizza delivery driver, whenever habitual nontippers ordered, I wouldn't cut their pizza all the way through."

    Diet_Coke

    14. "Guy was being an asshole at the drive-thru, so I gave him no onions instead of extra onions."

    comik300

    15. "A customer wanted extra mayo, so I maliciously complied by drenching it. Lady thought I would forget her fake $10 prayer 'tip' the last time she was there."

    a jar of mayo

    16. "I have never fucked with a customer's food in any nasty way (and I have never seen anyone else do something like that, either), but I have definitely had fun plating stuff for dickheads — like making stuff on their plate look like a dick and balls or whatever."

    coyote_grundy_666

    17. "Many, many years ago, when I was a barista, if someone was exceptionally rude, I'd make their drink with decaf."

    JoeMondo

    18. "I worked in a very well-known fast-food chain for a while. My favorite [revenge story] actually involved nothing. The person who bought food had been rude to staff on multiple occasions. The server went to get their food, popped around the corner in a noticeable way, then returned having done nothing. He gave the food to him with a huge grin on his face and said, 'Enjoy.' He then watched the person throw it in the bin when he went outside."

    Pete05D

    19. "At my last restaurant job, my coworker would make very ugly sundaes for customers who were rude. For particularly nice customers, she would painstakingly re-create the sundaes in the menu pictures and give them extra whipped cream and sprinkles."

    an ice cream sundae

    And finally, some restaurant workers shared stories that don't involve revenge at all — just a very unhygienic kitchen:

    20. "Worked at a diner. Was prepping the chicken breasts for our burgers and dropped a tray of 50, and they slid right under the grill, easily the dirtiest place in the whole restaurant. My boss saw and had me pick them all up, rinse them with water, and stick them back in the fridge."

    a fried chicken sandwich

    21. "I worked at a popular fast-food chain in my younger years. It was my first time closing, and we were all doing our part to clean and prep the store. I see this lady with a mop and bucket come out of the back, slop it onto the griddle, and START MOPPING IT. I was appalled. I went and told the manager, and she told me that’s the quickest way to clean it, then scolded me for worrying about things that didn’t concern me."

    StellaLuna914

    22. "I saw a waiter pour an orange juice, take a big swig with his lips on the rim, top it up, then take it to the table."

    RegulatoryCapturedMe

    23. "Not a restaurant, but the prepared-foods section of a highly regarded grocery store. Someone forgot to toss the old potato salad that was on its fourth day (it needs to be thrown out at the end of the third day). We were supposed to keep track of this stuff religiously. The manager told my coworker to just mix it in with the brand-new stuff, so people were eventually being given 6-day-old potato salad."

    a prepared foods section of a grocery store

    24. "You have no idea how much french fry sampling is going on. You are not getting all the fries you pay for. Ever."

    Sansa_Knows_Armor

    25. "I worked at a fancy restaurant, only the kitchen wasn’t fancy. So people's food would get dropped and they wouldn’t remake it. They would just replate it."

    ryderpavement

    26. "A cook was making mushroom tagliatelle. The pan fell to the floor with all the tagliatelle. He simply scooped the pasta back into his pan and continued to cook it as if nothing happened."

    spaghetti spilled on ground

    27. "I used to work at a local pizza restaurant. The cook always carried around a dirty, stained brown rag that he would use to wipe his hands, wipe the sweat off his face, and blow his nose. On multiple occasions, I’ve seen him let the rag touch the pizza while he was preparing it."

    TheExecutioner-

    28. "One of the cooks would drop down to one pair of tongs for the grill station before closing. He used the same tongs for raw chicken, beef, seafood, and cooked food. He would swish the tongs in his sanitizing solution, which looked like soup, since he never changed it, claiming that it was 'good' after that."

    a steak being cooked with tongs

    You can read the full thread of responses on Reddit.

    Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.