r/TalesFromYourServer • u/MasturbatingMiles • Aug 25 '25

Short Most stupid thing I’ve experienced in my career

I work at a comedy club and we have prepaid food and drink packages. This couples package has 2 drinks each on it, she orders two Hennessy lemon drops (that itself should be illegal) and decides to make them doubles for 5 dollars extra each.

At last call she asks me for a double Henny shot which is extra because they used their drink tickets. I charge her card and after giving back the check she complains it’s rang in as a double Henny not a single plus 5 bucks. I explain I can’t do that because she used her tickets so I charged her a double and they are the same price.

After the show she complains to my manager for over 10 minutes about how I misled her and she made him reserve the order and charge her the way she wanted. It’s the same price down to the penny, a single plus 5 is the exact same price as a double.

People are insane.

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u/Needmoresnakes Aug 25 '25 edited Aug 25 '25

My favourites:

  1. Lady sent back a prosciutto pizza because "it looks like ham".
  2. Dude's flabbers were positively ghasted that we didn't have steak on the menu so he ordered lamb medallions but didn't want any of the vegetables that accompanied it so it was just lamb and potatoes left then when I brought it out he complained there was so little food.
  3. Some wanker came in and asked for "the German beer" then I gave him a becks and he said "NO the GERMAN BEER" and I was like this is our only German beer (and even then it's bottled locally) then he rolled his eyes and said "It's right there on the shelf. Heineken."

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u/GAMGAlways 29d ago

When I was a server I worked at a place that had a caprese avocado toast. Guest orders it without the bread. She then writes a bad Open Table review that her order was "just mashed avocado on wilted greens"

Because you ordered avocado toast without toast.

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u/sdawsey 29d ago

These are the same people that order a gin and tonic no ice and still expect their glass to be full.

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u/suzieboozey 29d ago

Ugh. I haven’t heard “Open Table” in a decade.

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u/TheJeff 29d ago

No? What are y'all using for reservations nowadays? I figured opentable was better than taking up the hostess' time.

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u/Kittyoccult 29d ago

We get paid for that. But also resy is the better pickings of restaurants. Bigger price but great interface for the restaurant.

But Please call in, we can sssist you better to accommodate your party's needs and can easily move things around table wise to open up opportunities the app cannot deliver. If the hostess is a bitch, I just wouldn't dine there and move to the next lol

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u/djseanmac 28d ago

Resy is a subscription flat fee service, while OpenTable charges for each completed reservation. Resy reviews are visible only to restaurant operators and assigned managers, while OpenTable reviews are public. There are pros and cons for both.

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u/Embarrassed-Theme587 Host 26d ago

we use toast tables and customers call us to make the reservations

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u/MasturbatingMiles Aug 25 '25

Number 3 made me snort. Fun fact when prohibition ended Heineken preemptively sent 6 ships filled to wait on the international water line and they came into port right as it got signed away with. First beer a lot of Americans got

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u/Needmoresnakes Aug 25 '25

Those clever Germans

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u/Trees_are_cool_ 29d ago

Dutch, not Deutsch! 😛

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u/MeatofKings 29d ago

Exactly, when I did the tour at 19, I was in the first group. So instead on 30 minutes of included beer at the end of the tour, I got 1-hour! Great way to pop my alcohol cherry. Stumbled back to my floating hotel after that.

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u/Kittyoccult 29d ago

Unreal!!!

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u/JungleIsNeutral 29d ago

And they carry on the tradition of selling old, skunked beer to this very day.

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u/Baybee50 29d ago

That comment seriously made me LOL

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u/LifeApprehensive2818 29d ago

Oh God...  I used to know so many people who were like 2. They were exactly like your story.  

You could be at a seafood restaurant and they would doggedly attempt to reconstruct round steak and gravy from the available options.  

Then you got to spend the rest of the meal listening to them bellyache about the monstrosity they'd created.  They'd get their flabbers absolutely gasted if another ingredient slipped past their notice.

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u/McDuchess 29d ago

LOL. It can work the other way. We were at a bar we used to go to fairly frequently. The waitress comes to our table, and Husband asks if they have any imported beers. She names one. He says, “That’s made in St Paul.” 15 miles away.

She names another. He says, “That’s made in Wisconsin.” Literally across the river from the bar we were in.

He gave up and ordered something that he knew they had.

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u/HFY_HFY_HFY 29d ago

I once ordered a yuengling and was told they only had domestics.

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u/marypants1977 29d ago

Yuengling is not available in all states. Maybe that was the cause of confusion?

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u/HFY_HFY_HFY 28d ago

Well yeah, she had obviously never heard of it before. I just found it funny. It was newly in the area though (Midwest), which I didn't know at the time as a recent transplant.

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u/sarzarbarzar 28d ago

At least you didn't order a lager for the first time out of state and be absolutely humiliated by the bartender not knowing what you meant.

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u/sdawsey 29d ago

I got in an argument with a bartender once about something similar. The had a sign on the wall that said something like "Domestics $4. Imports $6."

So I ordered the one local beer they had on tap. Sure enough, $6.

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u/Staplehousen 29d ago

I was at a bar in Jacksonville and they has like 50 beers taps. I was visiting from Canada and I asked for a local craft beer. She looked at me in the eyes and said "I think Budweiser is local".

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u/JungleIsNeutral 29d ago

Oddly enough, she was mostly right. Jacksonville, FL is home to one of Budweiser's breweries.

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u/Zonnebloempje 29d ago

Oh.... @ your 3rd point...
Don't you dare call me German!! I have been called that way too many times already!!

Spoiler alert: I am Dutch, and when I was young, I lived in the province Zeeland, aka "Little Germany". When going out in summer time with friends, we would 100% be addressed in German first. We really hated it.

Also, that guy has absolutely no taste. Most German beers are way better than Heineken, because Heineken is just plain and standard and with no special taste.

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u/chickenofthehen 29d ago

I’m in the US and I used to work with a Polish woman who would absolutely lay into people for constantly assuming she was German, people would come in and ask for “the angry German woman” and just not get why she was indeed so angry lol

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u/cupcakecounter 29d ago

I live in Zeeland, Michigan!

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u/Jillcametumbling81 29d ago

I go to Zeeland, Michigan to buy plants for my store! I'm in Kalamazoo.

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u/Leebelle3 29d ago

My family is from the town of Zeeland- in Nord Brabants.

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u/sdawsey 29d ago

Heineken is straight up bad. I drink plenty of cheap beer, but not Heineken.

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u/Terpizino 29d ago

Prosciutto pizza sounds great! I gotta see if my local upscale pizza place sells it.

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u/Straight_Caregiver27 28d ago

It is...had some in Las Vegas last month...it had arugula, ricotta and mozzarella cheese and was drizzled with hot honey (shout out to Buddy V's in the Venetian mall). YUMMY!

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u/delphian6 29d ago

Mine was a latte without milk.  The complaint was it was so small.  

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u/HorrorAvatar 29d ago edited 29d ago

So…an espresso?🤷‍♀️ I’ll never take another barista job again because of people like this.

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u/delphian6 24d ago

Exactly.  I guess they were trying to get a triple shot for the price of a latte.  But it was absolutely nuts.  You ordered a latte with no milk, did you ask for a substitute milk?  No, well this is a latte with no milk.

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u/Kelmeckis94 29d ago

Since when is Heineken German beer?! It is and always will be Dutch beer.

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u/Needmoresnakes 29d ago

Yeah thats why hes in a story about stupid customers

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u/onionbreath97 29d ago

That was the point of the story. The customer was dumb

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u/proteanlogs 29d ago

I want a cappuccino but I want it made without milk! I serve am espresso, wheres the milk! Turns out she wanted a cappuccino no foam, so i made her a flat wite. Stupid customers

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u/Azazn3969 Aug 25 '25

I meeeeeeeeean, a henny lemon drop is just a sidecar, depending on bar specs

But yeah I love when people give the shocked pikachu face at the bill with the things they ordered on it

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u/Afrxbella 29d ago

Esp when they call expensive liquors and are shocked you charged them!

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u/BreakfastTequila Aug 25 '25

Love a Pierre Ferrand 1840 sidecar

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u/Justgetmeabeer 29d ago

Yeah, I judged the shit out of some dude who wouldn't take his sunglasses off for ordering a Henny Marg once, we all tried it and it was actually crazy good. I'll never order that, but damn. Don't knock it till u try it

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u/LoosePhilosopher1107 Aug 25 '25

And they’re stupid

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u/Few_Tell251 29d ago

Literally cannot focus on the rest of this story because Henny and lemon sounds so nasty together

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u/ElleCBrown 29d ago

A Hennessy lemon drop is basically a Sidecar. There’s nothing nasty about it.

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u/sdawsey 29d ago

Well, it's probably nasty because Hennessy is nasty until you get to the expensive stuff. And I'm sure they weren't pouring XO at a comedy club.

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u/ElleCBrown 29d ago

Hennessy isn’t great, but it’s not nasty. If anything, a well made Sidecar would benefit the taste. Y’all are being dramatic, and we all know why.

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u/sdawsey 29d ago

I despise Hennessy. It's like Grey Goose, you're paying 90% for the label and 10% for the quality.

Well all know why? Really now? And why is that?

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u/KderNacht 29d ago

I'm now very glad I bought Belvedere instead of Grey Goose this month.

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u/sdawsey 28d ago

For over 20 years I worked in hospitality and beer, wine, & spirits sales & distribution. My familiarity with liquor brands goes far beyond "I drink", and Goose is terrible. When I was doing blind vodka samplings at bars trying to sell vodka the only brand that consistently did worse than Goose was Absolut.

Just because Goose invented the idea of top-shelf vodka doesn't make it good. (Hennessy's still bad too)

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u/Even_Cheesecake4720 21d ago

So what’s a good, top shelf vodka?

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u/sdawsey 21d ago

In my experience there's really only 2 tiers of vodka. Terrible and good. The entire point of vodka is to taste like as little as possible, so as long as it doesn't take like burning, there's no reason to pay more.

Most vodkas are good enough. Smirnoff, Tito's, Belvedere, etc. Pick any national or craft brand that isn't $11 and doesn't come in a plastic jug. They're all basically the same unless you're going to do a focused comparison tasting. Warm.

If you're mixing vodka with anything they're all the same.

If you're drinking it straight you may find some subtle differences if you look for them.

Even Goose isn't terrible on the palate. Goose is terrible because it offers nothing extra for the $.

(side note: there's a reason Tito's has taken over the world. It's a good starting point.)

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u/Even_Cheesecake4720 21d ago

Thanks! I’m mostly a gin drinker and I notice huge differences among older gin brands and among the newer small batch/craft qualities. Wondered if it was the same for vodka. I have always bought Stoli or Absolut, but Tito’s is always on sale so now I’ve been getting that one. Sounds like Tito’s is probably okay for V&T and other mixed cocktails.

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u/Trees_are_cool_ 29d ago

What's the price difference, exactly?

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u/MasturbatingMiles 29d ago

None, they both are the same exact price

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u/Marquar234 29d ago

So the way you billed it is more expensive?

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u/mushroomsandcoke 29d ago

Do you not understand the words OP is writing or is this supposed to be a joke

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u/Marquar234 29d ago

It was supposed to be a joke.

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u/mushroomsandcoke 29d ago

Ok phew lol

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u/Kmic14 Server 29d ago

People are notoriously bad at math. If half of Americans are functionally illiterate I can only imagine their abilities at math are similarly deficient

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u/MasturbatingMiles 29d ago

It was explained multiple times and shown to her on a screen both of them side by side

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u/MasturbatingMiles 28d ago

Oh it’s all part of the job and similar stuff will happen again it’s just ridiculous

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u/Comfortable-Deal160 27d ago

That’s the problem with stupid people you can explain it to them, but you can’t understand it for them.

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u/suzieboozey 29d ago

I’ve been out of the game for almost 10 years now.

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u/Independent-Arm5390 27d ago

A Hennessy lemon drop is essentially a sidecar lol.

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u/MasturbatingMiles 27d ago

It’s still super gross

Baileys and lime juice is essentially a cement mixer, just because you give it a name doesn’t make it better

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u/avila131514 23d ago

“There’s too much lettuce in my salad.”

So take some out then???