# What are the waiters secretly calling you on the receipt? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 10, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641 "2012-12-10T21:31:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/41 "2012-12-11T03:47:50Z")
I’ve never noticed this kind of thing on a receipt before but I honestly wouldn’t be surprised to see “Fat Adele” or something on my ticket. I’m heavy and I look almost exactly like Adele (you know, if she were heavy) so that would be the most likely nickname I can imagine. ---
**Author:** ![Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speak_to_me_Maddie)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/42 "2012-12-11T03:52:52Z")
Shawshank. I look a lot like Tim Robbins. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/43 "2012-12-11T04:09:46Z")
“Lonely guy” I’m not really lonely. I’m forced to eat alone alot due to my unusual schedule. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/44 "2012-12-11T05:05:19Z")
big ta-tas or some variation thereof ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/45 "2012-12-11T06:24:29Z")
> [@bengangmo](#): > > I’ve never known this on a bill before Yeah, I should’ve added in my post: In the places I go, it would probably only say “Table 4.” ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/46 "2012-12-11T06:29:36Z")
This is easy. Gaijin. ---
**Author:** ![Mops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mops/32/16494_2.png) [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/47 "2012-12-11T08:25:57Z")
I suspect in the places where I am a regular the staff’s mental moniker for me is what I always order and what they know by heart by now: “_Maultaschen_ soup, Greek salad guy, mineral water and Espresso guy” “Tomato soup, pizza bread, small Insalata bell’Italia, San Pellegrino and Espresso guy - when GF comes along she makes him go out of his groove.” “Murgh Madras and dessert guy” “Half sub of the day on wholemeal, w/o pickled cucumbers and jalapeños, no cookies guy” etc. ETA: the actual receipt is by table #, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/48 "2012-12-11T08:44:02Z")
I stopped by a restaurant bar for a hangover curing drink while I was running errands and my check said “Girl Alone.” Methinks it would be a poignant memoir title, if I ever do anything worth writing down. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Universe_Lashes_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/49 "2012-12-11T08:49:26Z")
Gator. Probably because I remind them of Burt Reynolds in “Gator” but also possibly because I’m there in a Florida Gator shirt watching a Florida Gator game. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/50 "2012-12-11T08:53:02Z")
Single guy reading I’ve never noticed this sort of ID on a receipt. I wonder if I’ve missed some interesting ones. > [@tdn](#): > > Hawaiian shirt guy Don’t recall ever seeing you in a Hawaiian shirt. > [@Mnemnosyne](#): > > Crouton Dude might fit in a lot of places. Cause I ask for a bowl of croutons. Just croutons. You order a bowl of croutons? That must be tough, Jack Nicholson couldn’t even get toast. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/51 "2012-12-11T09:21:48Z")
Stroppy woman. ---
**Author:** ![StrangeBird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@StrangeBird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrangeBird)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/52 "2012-12-11T09:22:41Z")
Fat girl with glasses. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/53 "2012-12-11T09:23:09Z")
> [@Scarlett67](#): > > Dyke haircut (if we’re going for offensive) ::fist bump:: ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/54 "2012-12-11T10:26:12Z")
> [@Audrey\_Levins](#): > > I stopped by a restaurant bar for a hangover curing drink while I was running errands and my check said “Girl Alone.” > > Methinks it would be a poignant memoir title, if I ever do anything worth writing down. Sounds like a Zooey Deschanel movie to me. ---
**Author:** ![RealOmegaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/958977/32.png) [@RealOmegaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealOmegaMan)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/55 "2012-12-11T11:44:26Z")
“Bloke with long hair and glasses” probably. or “asshole that complained” ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/56 "2012-12-11T12:43:54Z")
The two I’ve noticed I’ve gotten: Hipster (I wear black framed glasses and often a corduroy jacket) and Guy Studying (when in school, I usually go to a restaurant on my lunch hour at work and do math or whatever). Others I’d expect: Gay Couple when out with my friend Tony. We’re not a couple, but people do often assume we are. Crossword Guy (I do crosswords when eating alone and not studying). ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/57 "2012-12-11T13:45:54Z")
Probably: Guy in Hat. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/58 "2012-12-11T13:54:53Z")
“American.” Not for me, but for a friend: I was eating at Hard Rock Cafe Tokyo once with a couple of friends who played pro basketball. The guys were huge, six ten and sex eleven. One was white and the other was black. We ordered and a girl (not our server) brought the black friend his order. But it was wrong. But she wouldn’t accept it was wrong and it took him insisting that it was wrong three or four times before she took it back. We saw her talk to the server who pointed in our direction and she walked _by_ us to the one other tall black guy in the restaurant. “Tall black guy” ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/59 "2012-12-11T14:14:41Z")
The only one I’ve actually seen and remember is “Spanish chick”. I ain’t Spanish. I don’t look Spanish (IMO). ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/60 "2012-12-11T14:19:47Z")
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