It can get even crazier: servers tell us about even stranger orders
If you work in service for a while, you have to develop an incredibly strong poker face. How else can you react cool and collected to the bizarre orders that come your way? On Facebook, people share the strangest requests they have heard at work.
Cuisson: tricky
How would you like your meat cooked? That’s a tricky question. In the kitchen, they hate it when you order your entrecote well done, because then they are basically baking an exclusive doormat. But too rare isn’t always good either, as servers’ experiences show… Robert had someone order a well-done T-bone. Not great, and to make matters worse: “With satay sauce.”
Rare chicken
And this will make eyebrows furrow too: well-done carpaccio, ordered from Ljana by a pregnant woman. Or a medium-rare chuck steak, which Sander had to pass on to the kitchen. Huh? And sometimes a chef comes out of the kitchen to check whether you really understood the order correctly. That happened to Marscha: “A guest wanted the chicken cooked rare… the chef even came to the table to explain that it wasn’t such a good plan.” Although: chicken sashimi?
I’d like this and that, but without this
Nobody in a restaurant is probably surprised by this anymore, but it remains remarkable: orders in which an essential ingredient has to be left out. Cryptic? Vera has a good example: “Mint tea with honey, without mint.” Flip knows one too: “Dame blanche without chocolate.” But wait a minute, what if you don’t like chocolate? “Then you order a vanilla sundae,” advises Flip, rather than complaining about a dame blanche without chocolate. “That’s just bizarre. A dame blanche is supposed to come with chocolate.”
Speechless
It leaves you momentarily speechless when someone orders this. Michelle: “A woman ordered a Hawaiian pizza, gave me a banana and asked if it could go on the pizza instead of the pineapple.” Oh-kayyy.
Cheap or just weird
José often heard this order when she worked at the Golden Arches: “A cheeseburger without cheese. That’s just a hamburger, but people didn’t want that.” Fortunately, people on Facebook who vividly remember the McDonald’s menu and deals calendar from twenty years ago, such as Kayleigh and Noel, have a logical explanation. “The cheeseburger was a one-euro deal. So it was cheaper than a hamburger.” All the puzzle pieces are falling into place now.
Just coffee, or not
Even when people only order coffee, all sorts of things can still go wrong. As Dolf explains: he once had to make a cappuccino without milk for someone. “Oh? Just an espresso, then? No, it really had to be a cappuccino without milk. So I served the espresso in a cappuccino cup.” Creative solution, Dolf. How would Benthe solve this one? The order: “An espresso with five packets of sugar.” Problem: they don’t fit in a cup. Henriette only has to grab a larger saucer for this order: “Coffee with seven cookies, please.” Manon’s poker face was also put to the test when someone ordered a little jug of coffee creamer. “With a coffee spoon to eat it empty.”
Wines, wines!
It’s not on the wine list, yet Anouk had someone order it. “Red wine with a slice of lemon.” Sabrina knows something even crazier: “Red wine with orange soda and bitter lemon.” Maaike beats them both: “Rosé with sweetener.”
Sadness
But the strangest guest of all was absolutely sitting at Eva’s table in a pancake restaurant. “She started crying when I asked whether it tasted good, because her pancake was too sad, and whether we could all discuss it with the chef because she could tell from the pancake that it wasn’t feeling good.”
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