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17 People Admit the Worst Thing They’ve Done To a Server

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At a local pizza joint when I was in high school, a buddy of mine and I would often do what we called “Sending the waitress”. I would finish my glass of Mt. Dew, and the waitress would get me a refill… when she comes back to the table with my refill, my friends glass would be empty. When she comes back with my friends refill, my glass would be empty. Our record was 16 back-to-back refills (8 for each of us) before she brought out 2 pitchers and told us we could get our own refills from then on.

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Red Robins. We’d been there 15 minutes, hadn’t been served. The waiter finally walks over, we see him accidentally drop cutlery on the floor about 10 feet away from us, pick it up, then put it on our table. He says he’ll be back for our order shortly. 15 minutes pass again – we put 2 pennies on the table and leave.

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I demanded a new waiter after ours forgot to bring out a course on a tasting menu, fucked up the liquid nitrogen/sorbet demo, and then after the chef fixed it, took so long to deliver it that it melted. I said some pretty bad things about the waiter to the manager. Keep in mind that this is a ~200 a person restaurant.

Written by Irvi Torremoro

Irvi Torremoro is an Austinite by way of Las Vegas. She's worked in various outlets in food & beverage and is now focused on writing, eating all the things, talking about Beyonce, and petting all the puppies. She runs flavorandbounty.com, a lifestyle blog about people in the service industry.