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<h2>Anyone who has worked in a restaurant knows that stories of people spitting in food or tampering with a customer&#39;s dish in a way that could cause serious physical harm almost never happens...</h2><p>Food contamination and potentially spreading diseases are not worth the bittersweet revenge of watching a rude customer gag, but the rage caused by someone belittling your entire sense of self and human existence over their missing free-refill of soda is definitely strong enough to fuel some dreams about it.</p><p>So, when a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/mu5e4w/restaurant_workers_of_reddit_what_is_the_worst/" target="_blank">Reddit</a> user asked restaurant workers, 'what is the worst thing you have seen done to a customer&rsquo;s order?' people with secret stories from the kitchen were ready to spill the nasty details.</p><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>If you were a d*ck I guaranteed your bread was over toasted, the lettuce on your sandwich was wilted, the tomato was the butt end with the hole from us removing the core, your onions were little pieces, the meat was the smallest of the portions, and on and on. I wouldn&#39;t tamper with someones food but I damn well wasn&#39;t making them a good sandwich.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>And all of that goes the exact opposite way with the customers I liked, always gave them the best product to the point they would wait for me to help them. - SnooChipmunks9932</p> </blockquote><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>I had a buddy at mcdonalds, a real chaotic type, who every once and a while would say 'oh hey, guess what time it is... PICKLE SURPRISE!' and put a whole handful of pickles on a random cheeseburger. - mattmoney31716</p> </blockquote><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>I gave them what they ordered. We were a pizza/Italian/bar restaurant. Our menu was ludicrously large and essentially anything that was on the menu that could go on a pizza was listed as a topping, probably 40 to 50 topping choices. I would get asked pretty often for 'a pizza with everything on it!'</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I had a usual joke or two to find out what they really wanted. Typically a deluxe but then they&#39;d want no black olives or whatever. No big deal. Until the asshole came in that that ordered 'everything' and then proceeded to ask if I was ret##### when I questioned him.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>My sister has disabilities so I didn&#39;t appreciate his tact... told my boss about it and he smiled and said get him a pizza with everything. Brought it out and gave it to him.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>He flipped out and demanded the manager of course. My manager had my back and gave the guy his bill which at $2 a topping was well over a $100 pizza. Guy refused to pay, cops got called, Yada Yada Yada. I hope he enjoyed his pizza with clams, pineapple, Buffalo chicken, broccoli, anchovies, green olives, cream cheese, cauliflower, jalape&ntilde;os, shrimp... - anix421</p> </blockquote><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>The worst thing I did was to this one guy that I already didn&#39;t like and he was being kind of an as*hole, I overcooked his eggs. - LoneRhino1019</p> </blockquote><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>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</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>Pour the whole tray of drinks over a guest - twice. International trade fair with students as waiters. First time was an accident, second time she was so nervous she was practically shaking and spilled the drinks again on the same guy. - skaffen37</p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>Worked at a 50&#39;s style 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 reseason then and stick them back in the fridge... - d0rf47</p> </blockquote><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>Tampering with food is not that common. I&#39;ve been in the business a long time and only worked with one girl who spat in someone&#39;s food. Another server saw her and she got reported and fired immediately. The only other thing that sometimes happens is when people get cocky and ask for extremely spicy food the kitchen staff turns into evil geniuses.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>A guy once asked me for wings so spicy that they would give a woman a miscarriage. I relayed those lovely instructions to the kitchen and I don&#39;t know what they did but the sauce was burning my nose and making my eyes water as I carried it out. He was not able to finish his wings. - SailorSpoon11</p> </blockquote><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>At my last restaurant job, my coworker would make very ugly sundaes for customers who were rude. For particularly nice customers, she would painstakingly recreate the sundaes in the menu pictures and give them extra cream and sprinkles. - Disobedient_Bathing</p> </blockquote><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>Some Indian guys came in one time and asked for us to make their food as spicy as possible. I told them that&#39;s going to be extremely spicy and wanted to make sure they knew what they were asking for. They went on a long rant about how Indian restaurants are the only places that actually know what spicy is and anything we bring out isn&#39;t going to be close to how spicy they like their food.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>So I had the owner come over to tell them that we&#39;ll try our best but there won&#39;t be any refund on this food if it&#39;s too spicy. So we made them chicken fried rice with Trinidad scorpion peppers. After 2 bites and about 10 glasses of soy milk later, they ordered something else. - MrCanno</p> </blockquote><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>The worst thing I ever did to a rude customer was give them 'exactly' what they want. Oh, you were a huge b*tch to my staff and ask for extra pickles? You get 25 pickles. - paulw252</p> </blockquote><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>I worked for Applebee&rsquo;s for 7 years, and not until my last year did I witness this act. One of the cooks would drop down to one pair of tongs for the grill station for closing. He used the same tongs for raw chicken, beef, seafood, and cooked food. He would swish the tongs in his sanitizing solution, that looked like soup since he never changed it, claiming that it was &ldquo;good&rdquo; after that.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I called him out on it and he told me that he never told me how to cook, so I should let him be. I told management too and it was swept under the rug like everything else. I quit shortly after - bigeddiespaghetti</p> </blockquote><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>I used to manage a bbq restaurant and I worked opening shift on Sunday&rsquo;s. For whatever reason the church crowd people were the worst. They would come into the restaurant and rearrange my lobby almost every Sunday.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>So when they ordered their food, I&rsquo;d charge them for every single item instead of meals. If they ordered a sandwich and wanted an extra pickle I&rsquo;d charge them the .15&cent; for an extra pickle and the same went for every little petty thing I could find. - Banks_y</p> </blockquote><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>This isn&#39;t really bad, but a lot of the times when people send food back and there&#39;s clearly nothing wrong with it, the chefs will just rearrange the food on the plate, wait a minute or two and then send it out to the table. The funniest part is when the customer says that its better. - Sophie-xoxo</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>I haven&#39;t worked in a restaurant in over 15 years. I never messed with anyone&#39;s food because that is assault. What I used to do to snotty Karen types is give them a senior discount and announce to the table when I dropped the check that I remembered to add the senior discount. - Equal-Independence-1</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

15 restaurant workers share the things they've done to mess with customers' orders.

Kimberly Dinaro

Anyone who has worked in a restaurant knows that stories of people spitting in food or tampering with a customer&#39;s dish in a way that could cause serious physical harm almost never happens...Food contamination and potentially spreading diseases are not worth the bittersweet revenge of watching a rude customer gag, but the rage caused by someone belittling your entire sense of self and human existence over their missing free-refill of soda is definitely strong enough to fuel some dreams about it.So, when a Reddit user asked restaurant workers, 'what is the worst thing you have seen done to a customer&rsquo;s order?' people with secret stories from the kitchen were ready to spill the nasty details.1. If you were a d*ck I guaranteed your bread was over toasted, the lettuce on your sandwich was wilted, the tomato was the butt end with the hole from us removing the core, your onions were little pieces, the meat was the smallest of the portions, and on and on. I wouldn&#39;t tamper with someones food but I damn well wasn&#39;t making them a good sandwich.  And all of that goes the exact opposite way with the customers I liked, always gave them the best product to the point they would wait for me to help them. - SnooChipmunks9932 2. I had a buddy at mcdonalds, a real chaotic type, who every once and a while would say 'oh hey, guess what time it is... PICKLE SURPRISE!' and put a whole handful of pickles on a random cheeseburger. - mattmoney31716 3. I gave them what they ordered. We were a pizza/Italian/bar restaurant. Our menu was ludicrously large and essentially anything that was on the menu that could go on a pizza was listed as a topping, probably 40 to 50 topping choices. I would get asked pretty often for 'a pizza with everything on it!'  I had a usual joke or two to find out what they really wanted. Typically a deluxe but then they&#39;d want no black olives or whatever. No big deal. Until the asshole came in that that ordered 'everything' and then proceeded to ask if I was ret##### when I questioned him.  My sister has disabilities so I didn&#39;t appreciate his tact... told my boss about it and he smiled and said get him a pizza with everything. Brought it out and gave it to him.  He flipped out and demanded the manager of course. My manager had my back and gave the guy his bill which at $2 a topping was well over a $100 pizza. Guy refused to pay, cops got called, Yada Yada Yada. I hope he enjoyed his pizza with clams, pineapple, Buffalo chicken, broccoli, anchovies, green olives, cream cheese, cauliflower, jalape&ntilde;os, shrimp... - anix421 4. The worst thing I did was to this one guy that I already didn&#39;t like and he was being kind of an as*hole, I overcooked his eggs. - LoneRhino1019 5. 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 6. Pour the whole tray of drinks over a guest - twice. International trade fair with students as waiters. First time was an accident, second time she was so nervous she was practically shaking and spilled the drinks again on the same guy. - skaffen37 7. Worked at a 50&#39;s style 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 reseason then and stick them back in the fridge... - d0rf47 8. Tampering with food is not that common. I&#39;ve been in the business a long time and only worked with one girl who spat in someone&#39;s food. Another server saw her and she got reported and fired immediately. The only other thing that sometimes happens is when people get cocky and ask for extremely spicy food the kitchen staff turns into evil geniuses.  A guy once asked me for wings so spicy that they would give a woman a miscarriage. I relayed those lovely instructions to the kitchen and I don&#39;t know what they did but the sauce was burning my nose and making my eyes water as I carried it out. He was not able to finish his wings. - SailorSpoon11 9. At my last restaurant job, my coworker would make very ugly sundaes for customers who were rude. For particularly nice customers, she would painstakingly recreate the sundaes in the menu pictures and give them extra cream and sprinkles. - Disobedient_Bathing 10. Some Indian guys came in one time and asked for us to make their food as spicy as possible. I told them that&#39;s going to be extremely spicy and wanted to make sure they knew what they were asking for. They went on a long rant about how Indian restaurants are the only places that actually know what spicy is and anything we bring out isn&#39;t going to be close to how spicy they like their food.  So I had the owner come over to tell them that we&#39;ll try our best but there won&#39;t be any refund on this food if it&#39;s too spicy. So we made them chicken fried rice with Trinidad scorpion peppers. After 2 bites and about 10 glasses of soy milk later, they ordered something else. - MrCanno 11. The worst thing I ever did to a rude customer was give them 'exactly' what they want. Oh, you were a huge b*tch to my staff and ask for extra pickles? You get 25 pickles. - paulw252 12. I worked for Applebee&rsquo;s for 7 years, and not until my last year did I witness this act. One of the cooks would drop down to one pair of tongs for the grill station for closing. He used the same tongs for raw chicken, beef, seafood, and cooked food. He would swish the tongs in his sanitizing solution, that looked like soup since he never changed it, claiming that it was &ldquo;good&rdquo; after that.  I called him out on it and he told me that he never told me how to cook, so I should let him be. I told management too and it was swept under the rug like everything else. I quit shortly after - bigeddiespaghetti 13. I used to manage a bbq restaurant and I worked opening shift on Sunday&rsquo;s. For whatever reason the church crowd people were the worst. They would come into the restaurant and rearrange my lobby almost every Sunday.  So when they ordered their food, I&rsquo;d charge them for every single item instead of meals. If they ordered a sandwich and wanted an extra pickle I&rsquo;d charge them the .15&cent; for an extra pickle and the same went for every little petty thing I could find. - Banks_y 14. This isn&#39;t really bad, but a lot of the times when people send food back and there&#39;s clearly nothing wrong with it, the chefs will just rearrange the food on the plate, wait a minute or two and then send it out to the table. The funniest part is when the customer says that its better. - Sophie-xoxo 15. I haven&#39;t worked in a restaurant in over 15 years. I never messed with anyone&#39;s food because that is assault. What I used to do to snotty Karen types is give them a senior discount and announce to the table when I dropped the check that I remembered to add the senior discount. - Equal-Independence-1 

Anyone who has worked in a restaurant knows that stories of people spitting in food or tampering with a customer&#39;s dish in a way that could cause serious physical harm almost never happens...  Food contamination and potentially...