Every summer, we have a salad on our menu that people just go freaking berserk over. I think it's disgusting--I'm not a fan of avocado. But it's our biggest seller during the summer months. Those nasty avocados are expensive, though, as is the different lettuce we use for the salad, so every September it gets yanked from the menu.And Jesus Christ do people get upset. If I got that upset over a damned salad, I'd have to seriously re-evaluate my life. They bitch and piss and moan about it and stare expectantly at me, as if I'll flee across the parking lot to the grocery store and purchase all the missing ingredients so that the cooks can whip up this really rather average salad for them.
I had a table of four on Saturday, and three of them were nice and friendly. One was a forty-ish woman who immediately got all melodramatic. "Oh! You don't have that salad anymore with the avocados! (stare)"
"No, sorry! It's a seasonal item."
"Oh, but that's the entire reason I came here! (stare) It's just so good, I was really looking forward to it! (stare)"
"I'm sorry, ma'am, but we don't have that lettuce, or the avocados, to make it anymore."
"Well! (sniff) I just don't know then, there's nothing else I want! (stare)"
"Should I give you a few more minutes to decide, then?"
So five minutes later she finally puts her menu down, and what do you think she tries to order? The lunch special. I very politely informed her that's only available until three, and showed her where is says that in BIG BOLD LETTERS.
"Well! That doesn't leave much to choose from then does it!" At this point the other three people at the table are rolling their eyes. I'm biting my tongue, because it's just such a ridiculous statement. There are literally 50 other things on the menu to chose from (yes, I've counted!)--and that's not including all the variations (such as steak, or chicken, or combination fajitas). That's just straight different freaking items on the menu.
She ended up ordering the most popular regular salad we have, muttering through the entire meal, and leaving me less than five percent on her food and her son's.
What a hag.
6 comments:
ohhh i love new salad ideas! AND avocado, haha sorry but i do. Do you think you could pass along the ingrediants? I just want something new to make for my family.
::::Shaking my head::::::
Like you could wave a magic wand, right?
I can wave my magic fist in their teeth. That's about it. :)
Okay now I'm convinced you work at Applebees. And I guess she ordered the Oriental Salad... with extra dressing. Fat bitch.
I always hated it when people ordered that salad there .... the dressing was so gross and sticky!
Once on a Friday night, this dude wanted a 7up (we only have Sprite.) He complained for a bit, and I was in a bit of a mood, so since I only had 3 other (low-maintanance tables) I went across the street to the gas station and fucking bought a liter of 7up. They ended up tipping $9, but that's a heck of a lot considering the white-trash hellhole where I worked. It was totally worth the look on their faces when I slammed (and I mean SLAMMED) it down on their table.
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