'I completely ignored the fact that most of their table is now taken over with little dishes of ranch': Impatient customer asks 4 workers for more ranch, petty server maliciously compiles

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Isabella Penn
Jun 23, 2024 6:00 PM EDT

Servers have to deal with it all. Mainly irritated customers. Whether it's dinner rush, the kitchen is backed up, or you are dealing with a Karen customer, you have to know how to maintain your composure, even in the most ridiculous of situations. In this story, a server is dealing with an impatient customer who wants more ranch (why is it always ranch?). The server heard his request the first time but still had multiple other tables to check on. She had a system going, and she'd get the impatient customer to his ranch in due time. Well, the customer didn't find this acceptable and needed to be served his extra ranch immediately. So much so that he asked four, yes, four more workers if they could get him ranch. So, each worker was obliged to bring him extra ranch. The table's main server, seeing this happen and growing irritated that this man had to pull various other busy workers from their hectic roles to cater to his immediate needs for more ranch, so the server decided to get petty. Keep reading to see what happened next. 

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    r/ r/MaliciousCompliance tanksandthefunkybun I can definitely get that sauce for you
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    I'm a server and I take great pride in my ability to efficiently run my section. The key is maximizing each trip to and from the kitchen. So, rather than getting table 31 a refill, then table 32 more salt, then drop
    via u/tanksandthefunkybun
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    the check at 33, you check in at each table on your way to the back, grab everything in one go and head out to the dining room cutting down three trips to one. As long as the customer trusts me to do my job we're all going to have a great experience.
    via u/tanksandthefunkybun
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    That said my biggest pet peeve is when a customer asks every employee that passes their field of vision for the same thing. For example extra ranch (why is it always extra ranch). Im not talking
    via u/tanksandthefunkybun
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    about when you ask me for the ranch, then see me come from the back and it's clear I've forgotten it. I'm talking about when you ask me for more ranch, then 3 seconds later ask the food runner who just dropped off your fries for more
    via u/tanksandthefunkybun
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    ranch, then the manager who topped off your water for more ranch, then as the three of us are in the back clamoring for the squeeze bottle like a bunch of religious zealots desperate to touch the hem of our ranch God's buttermilky robe turns up a fourth
    via u/tanksandthefunkybun
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    telling us that table 32 wants more ranch. My MC in those moments is I make sure every single person that was asked drops their own ramekin of ranch off at the table. Then I come up last with the final ramekin and
    via u/tanksandthefunkybun
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    the biggest eating grin you've ever seen. I completely ignore the fact that most of their table is now taken over with little dishes of ranch, rearranging some if need be to make room for my final contribution. Because, hey, if you
    via u/tanksandthefunkybun
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    asked 4 people for ranch you must want a lot of ranch and isn't it great that you have it now :):):) meanwhile the look of embarrassment, or shame, or even anger I get from the customer is enough to keep me from running headfirst full speed into a brick wall the next time someone yells at me because their ahi tuna poke appetizer has raw fish.
    via u/tanksandthefunkybun
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    conmanmurphy • 2d ago Lmao double down on this, when you're putting yours down say "Ooooh SOMEbody loves ranch"
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    Individual_Mango_482 2d ago Last restaurant i worked you had to deliver any ramekins on a side plate because people like to hold stuff by the top edge and that's gross to people even though servers should be washing hands all the dang time. So showing up with each ranch on a separate plate and finding room is even funnier to me. Don't let them combine onto one plate before walking away.
    via u/Individual_Mango_482
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    • Inshpincter_Gadget ⚫ 2d ago Sounds like you gave them quite the dressing down. Down on their table. In a little cup thingy.
    via u/Inshpincter_Gadget
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    MQQSIE • 2d ago Can you charge them for each ranch, too? 00
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    Pizza_Lvr • 2d ago As a server, yes this is very annoying... (was a server for a while and the list of annoying things guests do is never ending lol) As someone whose husband always asks for ranch (when he orders his food, in hopes that it will come out with the food) and 9/10 times doesn't receive it or gets its once the food is cold.. you can't blame the customer lol although he doesn't ask every person, he will ask the food runner and eventually the server when they check in on the table. Als
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    Sassy Bonassy • 1d ago When multiple people ask if i need anything else and im still waiting on X sauce or Y item from the first person, i say "yep all good, i think the first person is off grabbing me X/Y?" So that if the first person has gone on break or just forgotten, the followup people will check with them and then get it for me if needed
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