'I worked at a pizza place and I got a complaint that we delivered sushi': 20+ fast food workers share their worst customer service experiences

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    "Ma'am, we just fry what came in the bag from a warehouse in California.
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    r/AskReddit Posted by u/YangWenli1 Fast food workers, what is your "Sir, this is a Wendy's" moment?
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    PremiumRecyclingBin I work at a chilis and when I was hosting old people would constantly come in and talk about how weird it was that we redecorated so suddenly and where did the salad bar go?? They thought we were Sizzlers which was two buildings away from us. Happened at least four times. 34.9k Share
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    [deleted] Work at Panera. Guest calls in from car, several people in background, all giving orders for a pick up. First order is something simple, next order is an item we don't carry. A salmon dish of some kind. I know there are some regional Paneras that have or have had salmon. We are not one of them. So I let them know, "Hey, I'm sorry but we don't carry salmon. Maybe-" and the person on the other end of the phone cuts me off and starts getting really aggressive. "Yes you do! YOU DO!" they s
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    So then I'm like, "Hey, maybe you're thinking of another chain. We are very similar to-" and I start to list off some other places, and they cut me off again screaming, "I KNOW YOU HAVE SALMON! WHAT THE ATE IT JUST THE OTHER DAY!" !I And at this point I'm just being honest with them and say, "Hey man, I don't really need this attitude. We don't have salmon. I can't make the dish for you. You have us confused with someone else."
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    There's a long silence and finally someone (not the person who's been yelling) says, "Wait, this isn't *insert some totally not Panera sounding place that I don't remember here*?" "No." And then everyone in the car starts yelling at each other, and I hang up. Customer service is the worst. 34.2k Share
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    Dewy_Wanna_Go_There. First of all making me relive this. you OP for Now, working at McDonald's, every single day at the same time, 16:00 this old guy would come in and order his food, most people knew that he wanted a special order, over cook the out of the patty. Started up right when he walked in.
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    Anyway that's not the problem, that was easy, the problem is this dude was forgetful as all , and would demand a ceramic plate to eat on every time. So that's when we would explain it to him. Dude this is McDonald's, we don't have plates. And he'd usually be like oh right, right. But, Sometimes he would just rant about how we SHOULD have plates. I saw him absolutely flip the out, because a girl stepped outside the breakroom with a plate of food she brought from home. I KNEW YOU E ; HAD PLATES an
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    CadburyOvaltine Dette Dude came to drive thru. I open the window, "sir, how can I help you." "I'm outa checks." He replies calmly. "Not sure I follow you." I say. "I'm outa checks." He says again more impatiently. "Right, I heard you but I don't know what you want me to do about it. You can pay with cash or card too." Dude gives me a weird look then says, "Oh this ain't the bank." And peels out away from the window. I'm a pharmacist. 33.6k Share ...
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    AmpdVodka It wasn't me involved but I witnessed it. I worked at Burger King when I was a teenager. We are short staffed one day, and the the drive thru was on break so our manager stepped in to cover her. He was pretty old and didn't have the best hearing, so most customers were pulling around to the window to talk to him as he was struggling to hear through the headset. Anyway this one guy rolls up to the window and shouts "I want a large big mac meal with a coke PLEASE! Is that so hard?!"
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    My manager very calmy says "my apologies sir, that won't be difficult." he leans out of the window and points down the road "there's a McDonald's about miles in that direction. They'll be able to help. Have a nice day sir." Then he just closes the window and walks around the corner out of sight. I laughed so hard!! 31.3k Share
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    BigOlSmelly I used to manage a del taco during my highschool teenage years, we had an older man come in once a month and drive straight through the speaker to our window. At said window he'd look at me until i came over, start ordering starbucks, then midway through realizing it was a del taco and drive off. Once a month, every month, for 2 years 27.1k Share
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    Yodajrp I used to work at Target and they hired a new girl (who had previously worked at Walmart) to work the fitting rooms - and by default the intercom system. A few days after she started she was about to make an announcement over the intercom and I guess habit took over because she started the announcement with "Attention Walmart shoppers...". She realized her mistake and made a good recovery with "...you are in the wrong store". 25.1k Share
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    CUT UniverseBear. Worked at a small roadside produce place. My boss had a few different stalls so I was often left to run the stall myself. I remember this lady walked up. "Do you have any tomatoes." "Sorry we don't." "But the place down the street has them." "Then go there." 23.0k Share
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    ov CringyWhiteGirlDance Worked at a Dairy Queen. Had a lady saunter in all frustrated, bag in hand. Whipped out her receipt and without giving me much context said, "there's supped to be a Baja Blast." I told her "m'am this is for Taco Bell." She quickly said "my bad" and sped out of the restaurant. I think she was making up a story and did it in the wrong store. Also the number of people who asked "do you serve ice cream" is way too 1 I high 22.6k Share
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    [deleted] I worked at the concession stand at a movie theater in high school. This guy orders a popcorn and large diet pepsi. Comes back to the counter like 10 mins later complaining that his soda is carbonated. I explained to him that all of our sodas are carbonated and he asks me if we had a microwave. We did, so he wants me go into the back and microwave his soda. He wants it warm but not too warm. Went to the back and had to pour the soda into two different cups because the original wouldn't
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    Paging MrsDrFlam I worked at a Wendy's! Had one guy try to order McNuggets over the speaker. When I asked what size they wanted, they got all defensive that I wouldn't call them MCnuggets. "Fine, fine, fine, I'll take a whopper" "...uhhh, a Dave's Double? Or Baconator?" Needless to say, they screamed at me and zoomed off into the smogset. Worst year of my life. Edit: Holy cow, this blew up! Thanks for all the updoots, and to the 20 kind redditors who awarded this <3 I'm glad my misery paid off!
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    Upstairs_Cow. Y'all wouldn't believe the amount of disappointed rich people who come to Panda Express and find out we aren't serving authentic Chinese food. Once a well traveled rich woman came into Panda Express and stood at the buffet line for about ten minutes, critiquing our "mistakes" and explaining how Chinese cuisine doesn't actually have fried wontons with cream cheese filling. Ma'am, we just fry what came in the bag from a warehouse in California. 19.6k Share
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    yamaha2000us. Not a worker but a hapless victim of my own drunkenness. My wife and I were walking back to our hotel after a meal where I had about 4 extremely well made margaritas. I wanted a Mocha Milkshake for dessert. And the following happens Walked up to the counter. Employee: What can I get you? Me: I will have a Mocha Milkshake. Employee: We don't have it here. Me: What kind of Arby's is this? Employee: Sir this Hardee's. I completely blank out. Wife: Can you mix some chocolate and vanill
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    sleepyhollow_101. Back when I was in fast food, I had someone who wanted me to remove all the sesame seeds from the top of a bun. The answer was no. Edit: Some people have discovered the solution we went with - two bottom buns. Also our solution for anyone with an allergy, etc. The crazy part wasn't wanting to avoid sesame, it was requesting a top bun with the sesame removed by hand. 19.3k Share
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    TheBeanAndTheBug I worked at a chipotle for four years and got some pretty interesting requests. But I'll never forget the time someone ordered soup. Chipotle doesn't have soup. I promptly reminded her this was a chipotle, but she insisted we could do it. So we made her soup at chipotle! It was the grosses concoction of bean juice, sofritas, mild, medium and hot salsa, and sour cream. She was stoked. 18.3k Share
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    [deleted] I worked in a Jimmy John's. A dude in a military uniform came in asking about a military discount. Told him we don't give military discounts, to which he proceeded to flip out, pull out his phone and start recording a video, ranting about how we won't give him his military discount like he deserves. 14.2k Share ...
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    givemethebeef. I worked at Dunkin and one time a customer came through the drive through and complained to us that the drive-thru was built in a way that made it hard to drive. She started yelling at my co-workers so I just put down what I was doing and told her "ma'am we cannot change the construction of the building." Like seriously though what'd she want us to do I just make sandwiches. Edit:thank you for the awards strangers! I don't check reddit that often but it made my day :) 9.8k Share
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    babytardis I worked at a pizza place and I got a complaint that we delivered sushi. It was a pepperoni pizza. But he could not be convinced. 9.5k Share ...
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    TannedCroissant. Not exactly a fast food worker but I do work in a restaurant and people can get Deliveroo/Uber Eats from us. A couple times a week a driver will show up and show us their phone with an order for a 12 inch sub. Yeah mate, that's the Subway across the street, we're a pizzeria, read the address. God knows how they find the customer's houses. 7.7k ↓ Share
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    Vas Draculesti_Hatter Back when I worked at Burger King years ago, we always used to get people coming in and ordering Big Macs and other stuff from McDonalds. The cashiers just said 'screw it' and put in orders for Whoppers or whatever the closest parallel was for whatever they ordered. There were even a few conversion charts near the cash registers just so we could save ourselves the headache of figuring out what to put in. It's stupid, but nobody really complained about the food they got so I

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