Service staff reveal: these are the weirdest orders ever

Extra salt on the fries, a salad to share between two people or a main course as a starter: sure, everyone has made a request or had a menu wish for the service staff at some point. But some people really take it too far, as became clear when barista Kyle shared on Twitter what he had to deal with at work. ‘Twelve pumps of orange syrup in your espresso? What?’

‘Dear bartenders and baristas, what’s the strangest request you’ve ever had? Mine: an espresso with twelve (!!!) pumps of orange syrup. And that customer downed it in one gulp. Clearly not the first time he’d drunk this.’

That was Kyle’s message on Twitter. And dozens of fellow bartenders, waitresses and baristas responded, each request more ridiculous than the last. Here’s a selection:

• A venti green iced tea with 23 packets of stevia. There was a thick layer of sludge at the bottom of the cup. And the man who ordered it said: ‘thanks, perfect’.
• A woman asked for extra sauce to go with her blueberry pancakes. So I brought syrup. No: it had to be ranch dressing. With. The. Pancakes.
• An old man asked if I could pour coffee into a cup, throw it away and then fill the cup with hot water. It then has a very vague coffee flavor. I didn’t charge him for it.
• As a waitress in a classy restaurant, you hear the strangest requests, Anna says. Water without fat, for example. And caviar, but make sure it doesn’t taste too fishy. ‘I had to hold myself back from laughing out loud,’ she writes.
• At a sushi restaurant, guests asked for a dish of butter. They spread butter over all the sushi and sprinkled sweetener on top.
• At the ice cream shop: a woman ordered a milkshake made with lemon sorbet. ‘I explained that sorbet doesn’t contain milk, so it wouldn’t taste the way it was supposed to. But she replied: ‘I know exactly what I’m ordering, but I’m pregnant and this is what I’m craving.’
• A Margarita with a salted rim, but the guest asked bartender Allie: ‘could you lick the rim of my glass so the salt sticks properly?’ Allie: ‘no’.
• At Dunkin Donuts: a large coffee with 15 packets of powdered creamer and 15 packets of sugar in it. The cup was already more than half full before any coffee could be added.
• A guest at a hamburger restaurant walked into the kitchen to explain how she wanted her hamburger cooked. ‘I want it burnt.’ ‘Seriously, no joke. It needs to be as black and hard as an ice hockey puck.’
• Kitchen ticket: please serve a small plate with two almonds, two dates, two cashews and four walnuts. That was it.
• A pizza funghi, without mushrooms please. ‘So you mean a pizza margherita?’ Robynne asks. ‘No, a pizza funghi’. This guest paid extra for a pizza with mushrooms, without mushrooms.
• A guest ordered an expensive bottle of wine to impress his date. I opened it and poured the wine, but he didn’t want it after all: apparently, it was fizzy. My colleagues and I drank the wine with lunch—it was delicious!
• At a sandwich shop: a cinnamon roll with grilled tuna and pickles.
• A Caesar salad, but not with that classic dressing—with ketchup.
• A beer glass filled halfway with milk. But I worked in a bar…

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Source: Bored Panda