'I had a customer so awful our manager almost cried': Ranch diva customer throws Karen-level tantrum, husband still tips 35%

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    Product - Posted by u/ghosteagle 11 hours ago I had a customer so awful our manager almost cried. Medium
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    Font - So, busy Sunday afternoon. I had just got on, when I get triple sat. No biggie, I was expecting that. First table orders salads, which usually fly out the window. As normal, they do this time too. So as I got drinks for the other two tables, I'm setting down 2 salads for table 1. The lady there complains there isn't enough ranch, so I tell her I can grab some.
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    Font - However, the table next to her (a family of 5) wants to order, and flags me down. I get the order, run back to the kitchen, and grab her a side of ranch. By this time her pizza was already out, amd being run(I have no idea how tbh, usually our kitchen is a glacier, but this afternoon things back there were lightspeed). So I turn back around and ask if everything looks okay.
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    Font - She immediately screams that she doesn't want the salad anymore, as she was supposed to eat it before her meal, and it was unedible without extra ranch. She also yells that the waiter running her food (who had full hands mind you) didn't get her an extra plate. She immediately grabs a slice of pizza, and I shit you not, she,
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    Font - rather than waiting the 30 seconds to get a plate, puts it on her husband's dirty salad plate, then yells at me that it's unacceptable that she has to resort to this to eat her food. She demands a refund for the salad, at which point I get our manager. As I'm trying to get table 3s order, I can hear her screaming at the manager, saying
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    Font - things like "how can you not understand what's wrong with this place", and "I didn't say that the salad was made wrong, I said I never got extra ranch, how do you not know that?". After that fiasco the manager told me to "cash them out and get them the fuck outta there", and told me they made her almost cry. They then tipped 35%.
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    Font - U SingingLobsters. 10 hr. ago Earned every penny of that tip Reply Share 153 PoetryOfLogicalIdeas 2 hr. ago I'm guessing that the person paying was mortified by the behavior of Ranch Diva. 94 Reply Share
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    Font - Jimmybuffetkol. 8 hr. ago As a manager, I would've told them the salad was free and it was time for them to go. No you don't need to pay, no you can't take the pizza. Goodbye.
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    Font - hopscotch1818282819 2 hr. ago 100% need to normalise kicking customers out who don't treat staff with respect.
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    Rectangle - sugarNspiceNnice. 9 hr. ago So... husband paid. Did he have a kind of awkward/ constipated smile pasted on his face with a kind of laser focus stare at his wife the whole time she was loosing her shit too??
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    Font - . rileyyj001 8 hr. ago More like husband paid because he watches his wife, in pitiful embarrassment, do this every single time they go out.
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    Font - OkOutlandishness1363. 4 hr. ago This whole thing sounds exhausting. Imagine the husbands internal reaction, every single time, when she tells him, she wants to go out to eat.
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    Font - 00 www w ajahanonymous 4 hr. ago If that's how she acts in public imagine what he puts up with at home.
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    Font - Dr_StrangeloveGA . 3 hr. ago I haven't eaten out with a couple I know in probably five years because of the wife's behavior. I have never eaten out with them that she didn't send something back on her plate or try to find something wrong with someone else's at the table.
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    Font - She's not even asking for comps, she IS going to find fault with something and send it back. It's embarrassing and I just don't go out with them anymore.
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    Font - 5.9 Telomera 4 hr. ago . I've seen that exact couple at a restaurant before. She stormed out and he sheepishly paid. I wanted to tell him to run.
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    Font - Sushi GodOfTheWest 6 hr. ago Some people really are willing to cause a f.king SCENE over something as small as a cup of ranch lol. Over here thinking they're the ducking Czar expecting every little thing to be 10000% perfect. May as well give them a foot massage while your at it

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