Surly server gives diners’ home the smashed-egg, maple-syrup treatment.
Gee, I’ve never had a problem with the Sizzler that I go to when I ask them to substitute cooked vegetables in place of potatoes because I’m on the Atkins diet. Too bad this particular server in Riverside County went all ballistic about it.
Sizzler uses instant mashed potato flakes?!? That’s it, I’m never eating there again!
Oh wait, I’m a vegetarian, I don’t eat there now.
No, the waiter bought them after work at the grocery store.
They do, however, apparently hire the occassional flake. What an obsessive nut.
Im going to guess there is ALOT more than the article tells. First off, why is this in the paper? Ive done wayy worse to houses (of friends) and didnt make the news. But all well. Yeah, Id say the waiter took it too far, although with some customers Ive been tempted to do the same. As somone in the food industry, I can tell you that our customers will flat out lie to get somone in trouble and a free meal, often yelling at me and then becoming a perfectly nice “reasonable” person when our owner talks to them. I can only imagine how reasonable they’d become if the newspaper interviewed them.
-PSM
[Graham Chapman] Good thing I didn’t mention the dirty knife![/Graham Chapman]
Hi, psychomonkey. I guess this story is in the paper because it makes for interesting reading. It originated in the Los Angeles Times, so the editor of that paper would be able to give you the real answer to your first question.
I’m not sure how reporter dug up this story to report. Maybe she checked out the police blotters and saw a report about someone’s house being vandalized. Let’s say that’s what happened. When the reporter read further and saw that it was by a waiter from Sizzler who targeted some customers he served, well that makes it more interesting than someone who merely eggs his friends’ house. So the reporter may have interviewed the people living in that house and wrote the story. It might have been even more interesting if the reporter had also interviewed the server to get his side of the story.
Or, as an alternate theory, the couple involved were (and are) grifters who called the papers to try to make a federal case out of it all. The publicity is bound to boost their civil judgement.
Grifters? Whose house got vandalized, here?
I think it’s clear that the waiter isn’t the brightest bulb in the drawer, he stuck around hiding either behind a bush or in his car for the cops to come and arrest him.
How did the waiter find out where they live? That’s what I want to know.
Maybe they paid by personal check? Either that or he followed them home. :eek:
Whoops, I missed the quote from the article too:
Read the article, fur. He had his GF follow them home.
Why is it in the paper? Because normally your waiter doesn’t follow you home and vandalize your house, no matter how unreasonable a customer you were. It’s a great human-interest story - it’s not the sort of headline you’re going to skip by, thinking, “same old same old.”
It’s hard to imagine the customers were grifters. You can’t exactly plan for the waiter to follow you home, and vandalize your own house on the hopes that he’ll do so and have money worth suing him for, no matter what you did to rile him. No, there’s no hidden story here.
I’m glad they didn’t send their steaks back…kill their dog!
Tip not enough?? Slash those tires!!
Good help is SO hard to find these days!
I don’t know why, but I’m in fits of laughter at the final quote. “Oh my God, it’s the waiter from Sizzler!”
That’s funny stuff. I wonder how the Sizzler’s PR department is planning to handle the story of their psychotic waitstaff. “Here at the Sizzler, you don’t just get a box to take home! You get the waiter!”
A couple of weeks ago, a waiter at the restaurant I work at got tipped quarters on a large tab, and actually threw them at the customers as they walked out.
And the really sad part is, he still has a job!
Good times.
This has “Coen Brother’s movie” written all over it.
I just have to wonder: What would it take to drive a 17 year old kid that far over the edge? Let’s assume he didn’t stalk all of his customers. The people “got” extra special resaurant service (who makes the manager cook a side dish that isn’t available???). Its not reported as to whether the kid was fired that night by the manager (no manager’s or coworker’s side of the story either: sloppy work). I know I’ve seen a lot of Pushy and Demanding people who seemed to delight in torturing waitstaff at other tables in restaurants in the tri-state area. I know that I’d like to read about Who are the people in the house, What other resaurants do they frequent, and What do those other places say about them. I think that there is more to the story beyond the "stalker’ spin.
Yeah, whatever.
Bottom line: there’s certainly a lot of a-hole customers in the world; that’s not a story, whether or not it applies here. But how often do you hear of a waiter following one home? Never, until now. Hence that’s the story.
WhiteLigtening
Didn’t you mean to say:
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Mmmmm…steeeaak!
Quote from the article:
Apparently, the reporter did try to get the waiter’s side of the story, but for whatever reason, he could not be reached or chose not to speak with the reporter. Perhaps he was advised by counsel to not speak with any reporters.
It would have been interesting to hear both sides of this story.