Restaurant owner gets even with entitled customers who are impolite to new hire: 'We don't want customers like that anyway'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
May 30, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

The best bosses are the ones who have their employees' backs, no matter what. They trust their employees' judgement, respect their actions, and when customers get snippy and out of hand, the manager is there to explain to the customer exactly why they can't treat staff members so impolitely. 

This type of manager is rare to find. Many managers automatically side with the customers. If they think the customer is always right, they'll bend over backwards to give that diner a good experience. What the saying actually means is that customers are right in matters of taste. That means if a customer asks for a soda with a carrot and mustard inside, well, you should give that disgusting drink to them. They're paying you money, so they're correct if they want to pay for something you disagree with. It doesn't mean that the customer has the right to be impolite or harsh towards waitstaffers, but the saying gets twisted around constantly. 

Next, have a look at some people who are definitely having a worse day than you, like one person who witnessed as "someone bumped into this guy who was holding like 15 milkshakes." 

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    "The owner of the restaurant kicked out one of my tables for yelling at me about a receipt"

    It was my first day at a pizza restaurant. This place was always SLAMMED... it's really where I learned how to be a good server, before that I worked at over staffed burger joints or Italian restaurants. Things were moving pretty fast but I was doing surprisingly well. I had about 10 tables and I was used to 3-4 table sections. I will never forget this couple that came in and sat down at table 24. They were an old couple. I'm talking both gray
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    haired and over dressed to be at a pizza restaurant. I will say I did give them excellent service despite my frazzledness of starting a new job. I was feelin it, and felt great about handling all of my tables...until I did mess up. The man at table 24 handed me his card to close out. I'm BUSY.. like didn't even have time to pick a wedgie if I had one, busy. I go to the computer and swipe his card. Admittedly I forgot to print out the itemized receipt, which I
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    get can be very frustrating. Man at table 24 had every right to be upset. But instead of asking me to grab the itemized receipt, he began to LOUDLY, in a small room, with a deep and firm tone tell me how horrible I am at my job. That no wonder I only got as far in life as working at a pizza shop. He kept going on with these TERRIBLE comments and wouldn't let me walk away when I tried. So now all of my other tables just saw me get ripped a
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    new a hole, and I'm in the weeds after wasting time getting yelled at by this guy. The owner of the restaurant must have come in at some point. He saw this man yelling at me, came up to the table and did the most bad a thing I've ever seen. Owner: "Excuse me sir," he says to the man at table 24, "I am the owner of this establishment. I'm not sure what the problem is here and frankly, I don't care. What I do care about is you belittling my
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    waitress. So I'm going to ask you and your wife to leave and not come back to my restaurant." Man at table 24: "Fine but you'll be losing our business." Owner: "I really don't care, and don't want people like you in my restaurant anyway." It was the coolest sh I had ever seen. The owner STOOD THERE AND WAITED for these people to bad a leave. It was
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    After they left the owner came up to me and said: "F those people. You're doing a great job and I wouldn't have hired you if you didn't show potential. If anyone else talks to you like that I want you to tell them to f and get out. I don't want their off money." Coolest. Boss. Ever.
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    sweetrhymepurerea... Awesome story. I had a great boss once who liked to say "the customer is always right, but that guy is not our customer anymore."
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    ScathingThrowaway Got a job in a computer store, 33 stores all over the west coast. Second week on the job, get a hle customer screaming and cussing at me for about ten minutes. Finally tell him to off and take his sh somewhere else, figuring I've also just lost my job. Ah le goes over to the other side of the store, screaming for the manager.
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    Manager is right there, at this desk, has heard the whole thing. Ahle proceeds to describe my utter inability to s k turds directly out of his a, and I'm expecting to hear the "you're fired!" any second. That glorious b rd says to the a h le "He told you to off and get the f out. I suggest you and get the f off out." | could have just did on the spot a very happy man.
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    IronicDespair I love when people threaten to never come back again because they decided to throw a temper tantrum. We don't want customers like that anyway good riddance.
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    Tinabird20 Im lucky my current job is bartending and I work by myself. My boss knows I take a healthy dose of people's sh before Im done. So whenever I tell him this person needs to be banned Im never questioned.
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    KrossCheckN I never understood how anyone could be rode to waiters or waitresses. Like, you could easily stay at home and cook your own food. Instead you choose to go out in public and make an a of yourself? Okay. Good call.
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    Food can't be ready at the snap of a finger if it needs to be cooked. Sit your a down, talk to whoever you're there with, play on your phone if you're there alone, just shut the f instead of screaming at people like a big ol' bag of
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    And what would you even do with the receipt? You're gonna crumple it up and throw it away, let's be honest, stop acting like you want to put it in some high security safe forever. I work in retail, I know what people do with their receipts. Most of them wind up crumpled up in carts or on the floor.
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