'I'll never forget the guy who asked for his steak "dry"': 20+ Chefs and waiters share the most ridiculous dishes their customers ever ordered

Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor

Sep 1, 2023 3:00 PM EDT

Who actually orders food like this? In a prompt to r/AskReddit, u/Graceful_Swan_Ronson asked waitstaff about the most ridiculous things their customers have ever wanted to eat. The resulting answers are hilarious and strange — and some are even a little bit wholesome.

I have a few friends who order weirdly at restaurants, and dining with them is a delight. Sometimes I'll order a burger and fries, while my friend orders a slice of ham, a fruit smoothie, and a bowl of tater tots. It's like food roulette, and it's always interesting, that's for sure. It's totally fine to go to a restaurant and choose any random assortment of items from the menu to chow down on.

But some people take customizing their orders way too far, making the order difficult for the chefs. Others order food that just isn't on the menu (like one man who kept trying to order oysters from a burger joint). I think some folks get it in their heads that the customer is always right, and so they think that anything they desire should arrive on their table. They expect the waitstaff to go above and beyond, and as you might anticipate from entitled people, they often don't tip well.

These waiters, waitresses, and chefs shared the funniest and most ridiculous requests they've ever gotten while on the job. Check them all out below, especially the last one, which is just mind boggling. Then, this family took it upon themselves to spite their HOA by cleverly avoiding a 24-hour sign rule.