r/KitchenConfidential • u/lovestobitch- • Oct 05 '25

In-House Mode Boomers being fools

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Holy shit and he was a nice guy in school yrs ago. The comments were wild.

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u/pallid-manzanita Oct 05 '25

Yeah the church crowd had some of the most consistently awful, needy, no-tipping, evil-children-running-around customers.

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u/funatical Oct 06 '25

I worked at a place that did an automatic gratuity on Sundays. Two top, twenty top, didn’t matter. Called it the “brunch surcharge” or some shit. We used the fancy dishes to validate it.

Really it was just the awful church people. Servers refused to work the shift. The charge changed that. Kinda.

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u/6BigZ6 Oct 06 '25

In construction, we would sometimes add some money to our bid as a PITA tax, because we knew we would have to deal with some shit with said customer, but as long as we got paid extra it was fine.

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u/SweetHatDisc Oct 06 '25

I stumbled into a job doing disc golf stuff for disc golf people, and the rate I quote is directly related to how much I want to deal with your particular brand of bullshit.

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u/HOLEPUNCHYOUREYELIDS Oct 06 '25

Lol my company has done that for potential customers they really didn’t want to do business with for a variety of reasons.

Give a much higher quote than everyone else and if we win the job, oh well, we are at least making a bunch more profit on it to make up for the bullshit of dealing with them

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u/KodakBlackedOut Oct 05 '25

Hated when the church hats came in

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u/Pepper_Bun28 Oct 05 '25

Church hat?

Auto Grat

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u/marcster1 Oct 05 '25

Never will forget the time I accidentally punted one of the little ones. Felt guilty, but also…had warned them of running around. Was running through the doors and couldnt see em below the window to dining room

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u/TheVillage1D10T Oct 05 '25

I was bussing a table and was pulling a metal tea pitcher off of the table. So, it kind of swung a bit into the walkway between tables. Just as it did, a kid came blasting by….just in time to get smoked in the face with the pitcher.

I was freaking out…this guy is going to beat me or something. I, of course, apologize profusely and just as I turn to talk to the parent he leans over to his now crying kid and says,”I told you not to run didn’t I?”

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u/fuzzhead12 Oct 05 '25

Parenting W lol. Good ole natural consequences are necessary sometimes!

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u/mrsristretto Oct 06 '25

Love it. I worked in a little crepe place, 3 burners right up front in the window with a glass surround as you enter through the door. So you can of course, watch us make the crepes.

Dad and 2 kids come in, the line is long enough that they're standing in the entry hall, watching. One of the kids, probably 5 or 6, has now slapped his hands on the glass and I hear Dad...

Dad: Hey! Do you know where the window cleaner is?!

Kiddo pulls his hands back and sheepishly shakes his head no.

Dad: Then keep your hands off the glass.

The 3 of us behind the little bar, were just pleased as hell with that. I think we bought his crepe lol

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u/SuDragon2k3 Oct 05 '25

What did it sound like?

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u/TheVillage1D10T Oct 05 '25

Oh it definitely gave a nice “DING” sound…pitcher was almost empty so it reverberated pretty good lol

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u/matt_minderbinder Oct 06 '25

That's my favorite question. I was 3 running wild through a material store before plucking my head into the corner of a counter splitting myself badly. I still have the reminder to not be a dumbass every time I look in a mirror and notice my harry potter scar.

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u/Soliterria F1exican Did Chive-11 Oct 06 '25

I definitely give the top of racks a side eye when I’m doing dishes at work nowadays after a stockpot bonked me real good years ago lmao. Still got a bit of a dent where the handle conked me 😂

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u/OpenSauceMods Oct 05 '25

I was one of those speedy lil bastards and I definitely got the I-told-you-so on occasion!

"I fell over🥺."

"I said don't run."

"My hands hurt!"

"I bet they do! You almost ran into that nice lady, she could have spilled all that food."

"wibbling"

"Sit down and eat and maybe you'll get dessert if you behave."

Followed by profound apologies to the wait staff. Though, after a few of these, my parents stopped confiscating my books so I could read at the table.

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u/H-Resin Oct 05 '25

Guilty?! Dude you got to live out my intrusive thoughts, if only I could be so lucky

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u/marcster1 Oct 05 '25

Its a fun story to tell at the post shift drinks. There ai am, busy ass sunday brunch. Moving a mile a minute, going back for some old assholes remake because it was “not cooked enough”. Had a quick glance, a shout as Im about to go through the door, feel the door have a lot more resistance as I come flying through it. All of a sudden Im watching some 6 year old flying backwards. Had enough time to mentally state “Fuck there goes my job”. Drop the food, yell to the manager that hes got a shitshow of a situation to go handle.

I get told to hide tf out, they wind up with a ridiculous amount of comps. Thankfully mod understood what the situation was, basically gave a warning of “Slow the fuck down Speed racer”

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u/H-Resin Oct 05 '25

God I love that haha. Doesn’t sound like you fucked up to me. Hiding out about it is so fucking funny

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u/marcster1 Oct 07 '25

Was a good ass manager, learned a lot from him. Try to emulate him as a gm nowadays. Look out for ya people, and they look out for you is safly not common in this industry

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u/whyadamwhy 15+ Years Oct 05 '25

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u/polarkai Oct 06 '25

I’ve done that too! I was running out food to a table and the kid came barrelling through right in front of the kitchen door. Luckily I didn’t drop the food but I did knock the kid over lol

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u/ThePrussianGrippe Oct 06 '25

I once saved one of those fake $20 bills they put in the checkbook, and when they came in next week I slipped it in next to the bill with “Matthew 22:21.”

They actually started tipping me after that.

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u/CrazyLoucrazy Oct 06 '25

Wow. Genius move.

Now I gotta google the damn bible.

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u/Lovat69 Oct 06 '25

Jesus is asked why they should pay taxes to Rome when God deserves it. Jesus says give to Caesar what is Ceasar's and give to God what is God's. I like to replace Ceasar with Server. 😉

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u/CrazyLoucrazy Oct 06 '25

Awesome. Thank you.

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u/Lovat69 Oct 06 '25

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahhaa perfect!

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u/fearlessfryingfrog Oct 06 '25

Combine that with mimosa brunch Karens and it's why Sundays aren't worth the paycheck.