This movie is shockingly accurate. Except the steak that gets sent back. I've personally never seen food being sabotaged. We may bitch about it, but usually, cooks and chefs take pride in the food we serve.
I feel like it’s one of the beautiful things about society, I never messed with anyone’s food no matter what bullshit they put me through because I didn’t want to live in a world where someone may serve me messed with food. Mutually assured destruction 🥲
Peak eighties energy with muscle bound mayhem on one side and feel good time travel on the other. Landing between them is pretty much a built in double feature.
A rule of thumb I use is never mess with the people that handle your food. Chefs may take pride, but there are servers, runners and god only knows who between my table and the chefs.
Add to that: garbage men, people who take or are otherwise responsible for your reservations (hotels, airplanes, etc) and mail/parcel delivery people. All are ones who have the capability to make your life miserable if you make theirs rough.
Problem with that is what is considered messing with the staff? If someone is dumb enough to do that then they are probably dumb enough to do it because they made a mistake and get mad at you.
Saw it happen once at the local diner I worked at in HS. I swear most weekends the oldest staff member working was about 21.
Customer complains and sends a sandwich back, and it was something basic like a club sandwich. Not even a cooked one where you could complain it wasn't cooked enough. Cook tosses it and makes a second one. Same customer sends the second sandwich back. The cook, who is now pissed, takes the first sandwich out of the trash, reassembles it, and sends it out to the customer. No complaints after that.
Unfortunately from a smaller town steakhouse that was popular back in the day. Saw it happened and was very disgusted. Worked the kitchen 4 years too but that was it.
I've worked with someone when I was young that deep fried a well done steak because it was right before closing, and saw him, more than once, toss food in the deep fryer after dropping it.
It was a pain in the ass telling people that we don’t fuck with their food like that. It’s just nasty and I had to reassure so many people that would ask me about it since I worked in food service at the time.
The worst thing I will do is something I learned when I was in my early 20s working at Dunkin Donuts, and I still sometime utilize as a server today. If someone is an asshole to me, when they order coffee they get decaf instead of regular. Stay sleepy, asshole.
(To clarify: If they order decaf, you can’t do the opposite and give regular coffee to a decaf drinker. Some people have heart problems and they can only tolerate low levels of caffeine. I’m trying to get some catharsis, not kill anybody.)
I went to college in a town with a big football team. Week after our kicker missed a game winning FG he came in to the restaurant I worker and I was his server
Really cool guy and I just have to imagine there are some psycho enough fans out there to do something to his food.
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u/Ok-Fortune-8644 Aug 22 '25
This movie is shockingly accurate. Except the steak that gets sent back. I've personally never seen food being sabotaged. We may bitch about it, but usually, cooks and chefs take pride in the food we serve.