Ridiculous things customers say!

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I was in an Italian restaurant today in the UK. The menu was in English. The woman at the next table asked the waiter if the prawns were cooked! He said yes of course they are. She then said that it didn't specify on the menu- it just said 'King prawns with baby tomatoes in a creamy sauce'.

The waiter then said, well it doesn't specific that the chicken is cooked- but most people realise it is. DH and I starting laughing to ourselves. It made me wonder, what other bonkers things have you heard customers say?

Totally unrealistic in a McDonald's.

Oh yes.
Had a customer complain about this last week. "I can buy it cheaper elsewhere ".
I just said OK and asked if he'd like me to open the door so he could make his way there.

They’d still go pink, they get cooked from the acid in the lime/lemon.

Doubt it, still orange as opposed to sparkling orange.

Thankfully my nearly 19 year old niece feels no pressure whatsoever and is still a virgin, and very proud of it. Whereas her friends have carried out various seed acts in front of a party full of people

I was in my local butchers yesterday. An old lady asked for gluten free curry sauce. Was told sorry we’ve stopped doing it. She replied I always buy it here, I got it here before Christmas! Was told again they have stopped doing it as the supplier went bust. She then went round the butchers asking every member of staff if they still sold it!

Invite them to swim with the fish then close the lid. On the accident form, tick natural selection.

When I worked in retail it was ‘have you got any xxx in the back as there is none on the shelf/in the fridge etc’………….yes of course, we keep loads of xxx in the back because we don’t want to fucking sell it 🤦🏼‍♀️

Yes - and do it in your best Italian mafiosa accent

I get that people can be unrealistic in their hopes, but I don't think it's automatically stupid to even ask at all.

Presumably, you do have a large space at the back where all deliveries are unloaded, processed and stored until there's space on the shop shelves for them and/or an available member of staff with an opportunity to put them out on the sales floor?

@DalzielOrNoDalzielAndDontPascoe back in the day when I was in retail, we operated a system whereby we had staff on the rota and ready to shelf fill and the aim was to get all the delivered stock out on the shop floor asap. We didn’t actually have a huge warehouse at all and it wasn’t practice to leave any food in the warehouse unless it was bulk stuff like loo rolls. Can’t comment as to how it works now. However it was infinitely annoying and amusing how customers thought we were holding a secret stash of everything from the shop floor duplicated in the back; it used to drive me crazy as some people were insistent you must have more in the back and you were lying if you said no.

I used to work as a waitress as a Saturday job. I was accused of "ruining a meal" because the diner had ordered cottage pie before (for unfathomable reasons) going to the sauce counter and adding ketchup along with Mayonnaise...
That mix obviously wasn't desirable and so they blamed me (as waitress) for "offering such disagreeable sauces and ruining their meal" ...

I applaud anyone working within the food industry frankly. Hats off to you! THEY ( the customers) went to the sauce station and added at will - it wasn't as if I was there recommending ketchup and mayonnaise with cottage pie - or else placing such things on their table!

It was, by all accounts, MY fault (according to them) that they made bad sauce choices...

I can't read your menu, it's all in Spanish. In Spain 🙄

I actually heard that

In Burger King in a tourist trap in Spain, a bloke was ranting and raving because he couldn’t order as the server didn’t speak English. “Why work in here if you don’t speak English blah blah blah”

I don’t speak Spanish, but I looked at the menu and carefully but probably butchered the language a little and ordered my food. It was obviously enough because I was served quickly and the food was correct. He was still ranting when I left

Who on earth thinks hot and cooked are the same thing?

Not all cooked things are hot, but most, if not all, hot things will be cooked.

I agree, @DalzielOrNoDalzielAndDontPascoe - and even if stock levels are kept as low as possible out the back, it’s possible that the staff might not have got all the stock onto the shelves yet.

I guess it comes down to how you ask, and taking it politely when/if the staff say No.

Still would mean not fizzy

Thank you

Sorry I see there is a balance those who need the MH protection and those wanting easy access to more than 32 tablets at a time for pain. Anyway I’ve disrailed an interesting thread so will end discussion here.

This. It's like carpaccio, it undergoes a transformation although not by heat. It's a good way of preparing foods that benefit from very little cooking

Although DH was in Japan and had a Dancing Prawn, that was most definitely raw.

Was in a coffee shop the other day and the lady behind me in the queue asked for a latte. Extra milky 🤦

My DF (aged 91) wanted a hot water bottle as he had some back pain. He asked at our local Tesco and the assistant thought that no, they didn't.

Another staff member overheard and said 'Actually we've just had some special stock in for Valentines Day, I'll go and look'.

DF is now the proud owner of a hot water bottle with a shocking pink fluffy cover!

Some people appreciate the hard working staff.

I think some of them think that the staff won't care enough to challenge them and will just let them get away with it, even though it all has to go through the computerised system.

Thanks for clarifying. However, a lot of customers (like me) wouldn't necessarily know that, as we see lorries coming to the back door and cages of food going back and forth.

No excuse whatsoever if anybody is rude, or doesn't accept a "Sorry, no - everything we have is already out"; but I don't think you can necessarily blame somebody for politely asking the question.