Fast food server gets wholesome payback on 19-year-old regular when he shows up to the college student's cashier job: 'Nice customer service!'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Sep 24, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

Always be careful when you talk back to customer service. This fast food worker served up some wholesome revenge on a regular customer, who ended up getting a taste of his own medicine!

When you choose to take out your frustrations on a worker in a customer-facing role, whether it's over the phone or in person, you are actually taking a big risk. Yelling is not necessarily going to get you what you want. Sometimes, the worker's hands are tied and despite the fact that the customer is being inconvenienced, it's not the worker's fault. This is a mentality that occasionally needs to be projected and repeated over and over again for folks of a certain generation. You know, we're talking about the ones who were taught that the customer is always right no matter what. 

As we all know, however, entitlement is not just relegated to one age group. We often see this kind of behavior from young folks who should also know better. This 19-year-old college student was a regular at his school's local fast food establishment. Yes, he certainly had the diet of your average college-aged man. One day, he decided to mock the fast food server's tone and call it "nice customer service" as he collected his food. 

Now, the worker never forgot this story and knew that he was bound to run into the student again at some point, especially considering that half of his diet came from this restaurant's menu. However, that sweet moment of achieving reciprocity surprisingly came in a different environment. The fast food worker was shopping at a store with his wife when he saw the college student working as a cashier. The student did not recognize the worker at first, as he was not in uniform and was in a totally different setting. When the time came for the worker to check out, he did not hesitate to seize the opportunity to give this naive dude a taste of his own medicine.

Thankfully, it turns out that the student possessed a good sense of humor. When he recognized the worker, both men had a laugh and shared a look of commiseration regarding the annoyances of their workplace environments. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for some reactions from members of this online community!

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  • So this is more of a positive "revenge". Just good vibes all around. I used to work in fast food and had a repeat customer.
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  • At the time, a young man; college aged I assumed. He was always pleasant; but one day, he turned it up a notch. I was taking his order as usual using my typical customer service voice. After
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  • completing his order, he said to me || 1, nice customer service!" and held his hand up for a high-five. I obliged and thanked him.
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  • A middle-aged man prepares fast food at work.
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  • One day I went shopping at Ross with my wife and got in line when we were done. I noticed that my customer was actually a cashier there. I was praying that I would be helped by him so I could get my "revenge"; and as luck would
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  • have it, they were answered. We all just stood there in silence as he rung up our stuff; and after he said how much was owed (and to my wife's surprise to what seemed to her as a random outburst from me), I shouted
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  • ! Nice customer service!" and he laughed out loud and gave me the high five.
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  • CoderJoe1 · 18h ago • You really showed him
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  • jelly_cake 18h ago This is cute as. Thanks for spreading joy and silliness in the world.
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  • MsSamm 16h ago We need to see more like this
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  • Major-Check-1953 • 15h ago Best form of "revenge". Well done.
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  • martphon 13h ago Served him right!
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  • Auriel_Nyra • 10h ago . Lol, that's such a boss move. More people should get in on this "positive revenge," world'd probs chill out a bit. Karma's a birch, ain't it?
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  • EightiEight 16h ago • Awesome sauce
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