What is the dirtiest/nastiest thing you have ever done to someone else’s food out of revenge? For instance if you have had a rude customer, have you ever purposely dropped their food on the kitchen floor, spit in it, or worse?
After watching the movie Road Trip, when the skinny guy sends back his french toast because it has powdered sugar on it, and the waiter brings it back to the kitchen and sticks in between his underwear and his sweaty ass before reserving it, I sometimes think twice about sending food back to the kitchen.
Has anyone in this forum who has worked in a restaurant actually done anything remotely like this or witnessed someone else doing it? Or have you peed in your bottle of Mountain Dew because someone at your office kept stealing your soda? Or have you even accidentally dropped a plateful of pasta on the greasy ktichen floor and scooped it back up and served it, knowing that no one would ever know?
I’d probably be better off not knowing what goes on in the kitchen since I do eat out frequently, but I’m too curious and want to hear your revenge stories.
If you are looking for criminals and psychotics who prey on the unsuspecting public, I believe you have come to the wrong place. Do you expect people whose objective it is to fight ignorance to be so abjectly stupid that they would do what you have described, and then admit to it on a public message board?
Well, I was mostly referring to these behaviors that were exhibited in the past. For instance maybe somebody is 40 now but got pissed off while working at Burger King at 16 and spit it someone’s soda. Either way, I’m not really looking for specific restaurants, and the scene I described from the movie is an extreme example. I was also asking for events some of you may have witnessed while working in a restaurant. I’ve known people who have accidentally dropped a steak, for instance, and are not psychotic, but served it anyway because steak is expensive. I don’t belive I am inviting ignorance-I just was curious to hear others’ stories, whether they are less extreme or more extreme than any of the examples I mentioned.
This will be really boring but I once told a rude customer at Wendy’s that he was really rude. He demanded to see the manager. He insisted I get fired. The manager asked him why when I was correct?
I never tampered with anyones food. It is always wrong. I was tempted once or twice.
I used to work at McDonald’s. There wasn’t so much intentional tampering, but things like using a dirty container because there was no time to wash it, or dropping a piece of food and picking it right back up, those things happened all the time. Once I was filtering the oil in the vat used for fish filets, and dredged up a very crispy lizard, who probably didn’t dive in there of his own free will. I do recall a time when someone had ordered a 20-piece McNugget and the guy in the grill area only had eighteen fresh ones so he picked a couple out of the trash.
The worst I’ve ever done was microwaved someone’s soup within an inch of its life, and then served it to her as soon as it visibly stopped boiling. I can’t imagine actually spitting (or worse!) in anyone’s food.
OK, I’ll step up to the plate. I was 15, and I’m 38 now. Not the same asshole that I was then (a different asshole now), and I’m sure the Statute of Limitations has expired.
I worked as KP (kitchen porter aka “kitchen pig”) for an unpleasant couple in their pub/restaurant. I fucking hated them and they treated me like shit. Their kitchen was filthy, they let their cat wander around on the work surfaces and the labrador mooch around the kitchen floor. One time the woman dropped a frozen black forest gateau upside down on the dog-and-cat pawed floor, scraped it back together, removed the animal hairs, microwaved it and sent it out.
Another time the guy dropped the extra-sharp knife into my sink so that it was hidden below the suds (a big no-no). I cut myself and got yelled at for bleeding.
So I got my pathetic “revenge” on them by bruising the fruit when I was sent out to the shed to retrieve it. The bruises didn’t show until the fruit had been sitting on the table for a while.
And once, when there was a really obnoxious customer in (who came barging into the kitchen to yell about nothing in particular), I went to the shed to get his steak, and yes, I spat on it. It wasn’t cooked yet so I didn’t really think I could do him any harm.
Not that it justifies my behaviour, but we later found that he and his parter in crime were doing the rounds of all the restaurants in the area, making up spurious complaints so they could storm out without paying.
I worked in a couple different fast food places in high school, and I never adulterated anyone’s food. But I was there when one of the guys served a customer hard-as-rock chicken nuggets because someone wasn’t keeping up the supply. Didn’t fish them out of the garbage or anything, but they’d been sitting out for so long that they’d hardened into rocks.
I worked at McDonald’s for a year and honestly never did or saw anything like that.
I worked at Straw Hat Pizza for a year and two different times had customers that were over the top, extreme assholes for no reason. Both ordered pizzas to go. I wasn’t personally involved but I didn’t do anything to stop it either. One of them got a dose of anchovy juice on their pizza. The other one got a dose of jalapeno juice on theirs.
I worked as a server in a couple casual dining restaurants during the summer of ‘04, but I never did anything nasty to customers’ food. Moreover, I don’t recall any customers being really rude to me, so I never had the motivation spit in food, etc.
I did see an interview on The Tonight Show in which Ryan Reynolds said he actually stirred a cosmopolitan with his penis while working as a server; the lady who ordered the drink was snapping fingers on both hands while telling him to ‘hurry up.’
When I was a kid working at McDonalds, our grill guy had an uncanny talent for snapping flies with a towel. Over the fry vat. This kid was really good!
I’m sure a deep fried fly is of no consequence to the average diner. Apart from the gross-out factor, that is. I mean, I had to eat my fries out of the same vat. We all survived.
I’ve worked in food service on many different levels since 1977, starting as a cook moving up to kitchen manager (HUGE volume chain) Chef, Executive Chef, Fine Dining Waiter…Manager, General Manager.
I can HONESTLY say I have NEVER seen nor participated in anyones food ever being fucked with. That is not to say I have not seen things :rolleyes: that were not entierly correct, but as for delibertly adulterating food…NEVER on my Watch!
Same here. Though we did do some passive/aggressive type revenge behaviours. Like pretending to suddenly be VERY busy with a “rude” customer (who was really an off duty coworker or friend) while we let the true rude customer cool his heels waiting for his drink or what have you. We also did a lot of catty giggling behind our hands and giving them sidelong glances as they were getting ready to leave. Making it obvious, but not obvious enough to get into trouble for, that they were being talked and laughed about.
However, like others have said, I do my level best to be as sweet as can be to those serving my food. If there isa problem that is the server or cook’s fault, I wait until after the food is served and such, and only then do I bring it to the manager’s attention.
After I read the OP I was ready to click on Report This Post to say “What is this doing in the pit? It obviously belongs in IMHO or MPSIMS” I guess it’s a good thing I read the entire thread first, but I still don’t think this is pit material.
I worked at wendy’s for about 2 years and also at a french fine dining place, never saw anything intentional. Not to say that we didn’t serve some stuff that perhaps shouldn’t have been…hehe. Though I did have a friend who was a manager at a taco bell. If someone pissed him off, he’d tell the guy making their food to ‘fuck it up’. From my recollection that usually meant put enough hot sauce on it to make it combustible. Though how you could tell if taco bell food was fucked up I don’t know.
I have to say I’m quite pleased that it looks like fucking with customers’ food in really gross ways seems to be quite an uncommon occurance.
I was a bit worried after reading this:
Of course, I’m no Margaret Thatcher. If I were a famous politician, I might not eat out much, because there’s always going to be people out there who hate you. The semen content of a US president’s average restaurant meal probably rivals that of a Peter North bukkake film.