Entitled Boomer barges through the employee entrance to ask prep cooks to make a dinner reservation for him: '[It was] 5 hours before we open'

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jun 13, 2024 9:00 AM EDT

The kitchen in a restaurant can be a dangerous place. Hot pans, sharp knives, and fast-moving line cooks lie at every turn–so it's certainly no place for an entitled Kevin to make a dinner reservation. 

The guy in our next story pushed the limits of elderly entitlement when he barged into the backdoor, 'employee only' entrance of his favorite restaurant so he could make a dinner reservation. While many prep cooks would have told him to get the heck out of the kitchen and come back during open hours, the guy in our next story was just too flabbergasted to ignore this guy's request, ultimately making the Boomer a dinner rez and coming away with the most insane story of restaurant entitlement we've heard this week. 

Scroll for the entire ridiculous tale of Boomer tomfoolery that highlights that privileged Boomer behavior we see all too often. After this, here's another story of an entitled Karen–a monster-in-law who tried to kick a girl out of her son's wedding celebration because they were wearing the same dress.

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    "Sorry to barge in"
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    Sorry to barge in Boomer Story Yesterday I was at work, cutting away at some watermelon to make syrup with. My back was turned to the employee/kitchen door
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    and our prep cook was behind me, his back was angled towards the door. All of sudden we hear someone say "sorry to barge in." OK, whatever. I keep doing my
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    thing. We have people walk in through the side from time to time, but usually it is a delivery person or someone working sales from one of our distributors. Then I hear it
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    again "sorry to barge in." So, now I turn around and there is a man standing in our kitchen. The prep cook and I look at this guy and just have this "ok, who are you?" type
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    reaction. Then he says my favorite thing: do you guys speak English? Now, I am floored. The level of confusion I am experiencing is through the roof. I am
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    dumbfounded and three seconds feel like me staring at this man for three minutes. Then we arrive to the reason for this intrusion. "My wife and I are from out of town
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    and we are trying to make a reservation for tonight." Now, I am entirely and utterly dumbfounded. It takes me a second process that a guest came to the restaurant about
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    five hours before we open, came in through an area he is not supposed to come in through, and then wanted to make a reservation. Been working in the industry since 2011, not once has anything
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    like ever happened to me. Sure, sometimes people come in through front door if someone mistakingly leaves in unlocked before we open, but never something like this.
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    I walk him to the front and get his information, tell him we will call him when the person who handles the reservations comes in, and quickly shuffle him outside, double checking that the front door in locked.
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    Nothing to crazy. Just absolutely gobsmacked at this man's line of thinking. Also, apparently, they were at a quick-service restaurant down the block from us right
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    before this asking them how to make a reservation at our place. We don't hide our reservation process. You make a reservation online or leave a voice mail. It is not like we are trying to be some sort of speakeasy.
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    BadChris666 The moment he asked if you speak English, you should have just said, "que" and "no habla inglés"!
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    Genesee William . "I'd like to make a reservation?" "Well there's these things called phones..."
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    Ole_Hickory Sir, you are banned from the building if you return I'll have you trespassed and arrested.
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    AstroZombie1138 "What country you think this is?" - parking attendant Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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    Frequent-Ad-1719. Boundaries don't exist to Boomers. Doesn't matter if they're parents, landlords, etc
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    Goddammitanyway. I would have taken his information and thrown it in the garbage when he left. What a !
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    beaverusiv I would've taken down their name and then said thanks we'll add you to the blacklist, do not come here again
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    notreallylucy My inlaws are very hung up on the idea that they get better service by going to a business in person. The other day my father in law
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    drove 20 minutes out of his way to make a doctor appointment in person. He had alost of reasons why, but it really was that he didn't want to deal with the phone menu.
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    Bobbly 1010257. They think they're exempt from processes like online booking. They refuse to broaden their skills (while criticising the younger generations for not 'knowing how to walk and chew gum' - a favourite
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    insult of an old boss on mine to me and anyone my age) they're dying from embarrassment at how much they stick out in todays world and instead
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    of eating some humble pie and admitting it, their defence is to barrel on through life making themselves look obnoxious and idiotic.
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    This is a classic example of 'Well I don't WANT to book online, I WANT to speak to somebody'... ignoring the fact that the millennial generation
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    don't have time for conversation. We're too god damned busy trying to scrape by and suppress the day to day stress of existence (not living, existing).
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    My mother is the same, rants on for hours about 'not being able to speak to anyone only having online chat options!' And when I point out that this way she has a written record
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    of her exchange, she doesn't like it. Doesn't want to hear it. Won't accept that regardless of the lack of verbal exchange, she got her issues resolved.
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    I hate how they think that youngsters should just sit up and pay attention the minute a boomer waltzes into their
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    midst. Like, no! You're nothing but an infuriating burden on society. Stay at home and learn to text. You'll get a response when WE are ready.
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    Matt MurdockEsq OP. When I was younger, I noticed boomers were trying to make everything more "convenient." Now, we have "convenience" built into EVERYTHING and now most of them are put off and annoyed by things being made more convenient.
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