While waiters are always ready to accommodate guests’ needs outside of a restaurant menu, sometimes their requests are downright…bizarre.
Below are 22 stories of the strangest thing someone has ordered. Check them out!
22. No sperm in my egg please!
I worked at a breakfast place.. Took a table’s order and get to the wife. She ordered a meal and I ask her how she’d like her eggs. She replies “unfertilized”. Having heard this joke from drunken men before, I brushed it off and chuckled, but she was serious. She said ” you know when you crack the egg, and you see that little white bit stuck to the yolk? That’s the sperm, and I don’t want it in my eggs.” Still dead serious. I glance at the husband looking for answers and he just shrugs his shoulders and makes an “I’m not getting involved” sort of face.
Weasel_Cannon
21. Makeshift lemonade?
I work in a fancy restaurant, so I don’t get a lot of super weird, but what’s annoying and weird to me is coming to a restaurant that’s around $50/person and ordering water “with LOTS of lemons and some sugar packets” and then attempting to make your own lemonade there at the table to save two bucks. Either just drink water or just order a drink!
GetOutTheWayBanana
20. Plate color matters.
I worked in a restaurant in high school and although not very strange I had a table where after I delivered the food I did the “everything all good” check up and noticed a woman was staring at her plate like it was about to jump off the table. I asked her what was wrong and she told me the plate color was just too off and that she needed an orange plate.
I went back and got a different color plate and you could see the instant relief on her face when the food moved plates. I guess she really had something against green plates.
haffbaked
19. Plate of Mordor.
Isn’t strange, but anytime they ask for a hot plate, I get crapped on cause the chefs will always go, ‘oh they want a HOT plate do they now?’ And I’m always the fucker that has to take out the plate that’s been cooked in the depths of Mordor.
jack2873
18. Is that even a sandwich anymore?
I worked at a fast-food sandwich place in highschool.
One lady ordered a sub sandwich with just cucumber. She wanted the bread hollowed out, meaning all the…(Continued)
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All the inner bread scooped away. So it was just crust and cucumber.
At this shop we charged .30 for each three-piece ‘serving’ of cucumber. So this lady ended up with a sandwich that was more expensive than anything else on the menu and that was essentially a sad salad with croutons.
serenii
17. You’re a crazy man!
I was at subway one day getting a tuna sub. I get to the topping part, ask for lettuce/tomato/black olives/green peppers, and finish it off with some hot sauce. The girl behind me says “hot sauce?? You’re a crazy man!” And then proceeds to get her toppings. Just mayo. On an Italian BMT. Mayo. That’s it. But I’m the crazy man for putting hot sauce on tuna salad.
ipod_waffle
16. When the waiter gets it just right.
Not a waiter, but years ago I was in Denny’s with my dad in Niagara Falls. (I went to college at Niagara University) It was, of course, full or tourists. There was a middle eastern family that spoke only broken English at best that came in and took issue with a whole lot of the menu.
After what seemed like 30 minutes of looking through the menu and haltingly trying to figure out what half the menu meant, the waiter suggested that he would have the cook prepare a vegetarian plate. To his and the chef’s credit, they presented this family with a large, beautifully arranged vegetable and fruit plate. The father was so impressed, he clapped and took the waiter’s hands, kissing them. Waiter had a HUGE smile on his face the rest of the time they were there.
Bmac1977
15. I think I misheard you…
I’m the customer in this story. One time at an Indian Restaurant, I ordered a bowl of mushroom soup as a side dish to my main meal. The waiter looked very confused and said, “Are you sure?” I replied that was sure that I wanted mushroom soup. He said, “I don’t know if we can do that. Let me find out.” He rushed off to the kitchen, and then he came back with a relieved look on his face and told me that they had what I wanted. I was very confused as to why the mushroom soup that they had on their menu was such a difficult thing to produce. A few minutes later, he proudly presented me with a small bowl of… (Continued)
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Small bowl of mustard seeds. He must have misheard me and thought that I wanted whole mustard seeds as a side. I couldn’t bear to correct him, so I just poured the seeds onto my meal and thanked him.
cucumbermoon
14. The ‘no-meat’ cheeseburger.
Kid would come in with his mom once a week and order a “no meat cheeseburger.” The first time was weird.
So we brought him a bun with cheese and lettuce tomato mayo and onion.
He sent it back. Saying he didn’t want any of the other stuff on it. Just the cheese and the bun. He wouldn’t call it a grilled cheese for some reason.
So the next week he comes in and gets a different server. I happened to be next to the POS when she put the order in so the kid was spared another round of burger toppings on his grilled cheese. But man that boy was different.
PM_ME_2DISAGREEWITHU
13. That is literally impossible.
Not me, but a friend of mine said that a customer once wanted to order a steak that was medium rare with no pink in the middle. The customer was dead serious.
YourHumbleCashier
12. Who needs it to be cheaper anyways?
A lady would come through around 2pm daily and order a large iced tea for herself and a “hamburger but remove the toppings and bun”
First time I heard her order, “Pardon me, mam. Just so you know just ordering a patty is about half the cost of a hamburger.”
“I realize that but I only want the patty for my dog.”
“Right. Please come on through.”
She needed to see “hamburger -everything, special no bun just patty” on the viewscreen in the drivethru.
For weeks she did this. Then she never came back. Maybe her dog ate her.
yeah_one_666
11. Like eating a shoe.
I haven’t waited tables in nearly 10 years but the weirdest order I got was from a guy who wanted a steak so well done that…(Continued)
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So well done that no juice would come out of it. Took like a half hour to grill it up that way and, surprise surprise, it was really bad. It looked like I was giving him the sole of a shoe.
panascope
10. Best way to order garlic bread.
I was picking up my (normal) pizza when a woman came in and ordered a white pie (i.e. no sauce) with no cheese and garlic.
“So”, the guy behind the counter says,, “round garlic bread?”
“Yes”
NoAstronomer
9. 13 fries. No more. No less.
I worked at a small town diner place last summer. This guy came in every single day for lunch, and would order a plate of 13 french fries. If there were any more or any less, he would politely send it back for us to fix it.
One time, he noticed a fry that was really small and sent it back because we gave him 12 and a half fries instead of 13.
We would get annoyed by him, but he was a really good tipper so we dealt with it.
kycrane
8. Breakfast champions.
I remember when I was waiting tables many years ago these two guys came in and ordered the entire breakfast menu, multiple orders of several things- they spent most of the morning (from about 8:30 am to about 12 noon) at the restaurant eating it all. It was something like a large order of pancakes each (those things were huge too, about 3/4 very big pancakes) with eggs (several of them cooked several ways) and omelette and bacon and mushrooms and waffles (also huge) and sausages and french toast and regular toast and homefries and a few other things that I can’t remember off the top of my head. I remember thinking that they must have been ordering for a much larger party that just hadn’t shown up yet, but no! Just these two guys, they also consumed several pots of coffee between them.
They weren’t even huge guys, I’d say they were pretty big stocky, maybe a bit chunky, but not obese. I have no idea how just the two of them ate that much food. I kept an eye on their table too while I gave them their many refills, they weren’t taking leftovers for later either, just eating all of it as if they had never seen food.
I seem to recall their bill was a fair bit more than my paycheck. I was just baffled by the whole thing and wondering how they were not totally sick from all of that grease.
Bambooteacup
7. That green stuff…yikes.
Worked at a decently pricey restaurant, and one time a woman ordered just plain pasta noodles for her teenage daughter. Insisted she just wanted nothing but noodles in a bowl. The chef garnished the dish with some parsley and the girl threw a fit because “she hates… (Continued)
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“She hates green stuff!” . I had to go back and get some PLAIN noodles.
vomirrhea
6. Mayo no mayo
Not a waiter, but I used to be a car hop for Sonic. Someone once ordered a footlong coney with extra mayo (I took the order myself) then got absolutely furious when there was mayo on it. Got me written up for 4 different reasons and I’m no longer allowed to work at sonic.
CaptainRex501
5. Who needs to actually LOOK at the menu?
Not exactly, but I used to work food service in an Indian takeaway. The number of people who’d call up and seemed to just order whatever the hell they wanted as if they’d never even looked at the menu.
“Uhh can I get a bag of chips?”
“Sorry sir we don’t have chips here we serve Indian food”
“Oh right so… like… what’s the Indian version of chips?”
“…Poppadoms.”
One guy called and tried to order a pizza. I assumed he had gotten the wrong number and told him we were an Indian food place. He was like “Yeah that’s cool, just throw some Indian stuff on a pizza that’ll do!” No sir… it won’t.
DylanDr
4. Small world after all.
Back in summer 2011, I was a server at a small Italian restaurant on the Jersey Shore. I was a college kid, working hard slinging chicken parms and pizzas to afford books. Anyway, so at this one table, the guy ordered chicken parmigiana with a layer of eggplant parmigiana on it. So chicken + eggplant + cheese and sauce. Okay, not a problem, but I must have looked at him weird because I wasn’t sure how to charge for that or if the kitchen would do it.
Well, the kitchen did it, that guy had been there before and the manager showed me how to charge for it, we’re all good, whatever.
Fastforward about 10 months and I’m in my college town, slinging pizzas and chicken parms again for the same reason. I was shooting the breeze with this one table before they ordered, then the guy ordered chicken parm with a layer of eggplant parm on it. I guess I made the same confused look as I thought about how to put it into the computer, then something clicked. I asked him if he’d been at a certain restaurant down the shore that summer, he said he had a house in that town and he was now home, eating at his favorite local Italian place. So we laughed, I served him the chicken eggplant parm, he tipped well, and yeah I served the same guy the same weird off-menu thing at two separate restaurants close to a year apart.
darkwolf131
3. She doesn’t get it.
I used to date a girl that once ordered in a restaurant a well-done steak tartare (minced raw beef). She didn’t know what is tartarem only that it was meat. The funny thing is that the waiter brought to her what she ordered.
Another time, I was with a friend and she ordered a banana cake and asked if it was possible to remove the banana pieces from the cake. I burst into laughter and my friend out of shame changed the order to a lemon pie to which I said “if possible remove any…(Continued)
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“If possible remove any pieces of lemon, please”
pvmek
2. A real performance artist.
I worked the drive-thru at Jack-in-the-box while in high school. Drunks were fairly common on the weekends. Many of them, in their drunken stupor, would confuse our monster tacos with hot dogs and would order hot dogs. One time someone got all pissy with me because he wanted a hot dog. So, we made him a “hot dog” and gave it to him. Three bites into his taco, he said “was that so hard?” I walked away from the window to clean some dishes.
A few minutes later, I happened to look in the direction of the drive-thru. I could not see the window, but above the window was a timer that would go from green numbers (okay) to yellow (need to speed things up) to red (the customer has been there too long). I saw the numbers flashing red because they were at 13 minutes. I did not hear any cars come through on my headset, so I was confused. I walked up to the window, and the guy who gave me shit about the hot dogs was there, passed the fuck out in his car. So we called the cops. They showed up. One cop came into the restaurant so he could talk to the guy. He parked too close to the window for the cop (a portly fellow) to get to his driver’s window. When the cop tapped the guy, while hanging out of the drive-thru window, the guy woke up and started screaming at the cop because all of the meat in his hot dog was mush. Again, it was a taco, and anyone who has had a JIB taco will understand. It basically is meat flavored mush. He was livid and threw the second “hot dog” at the cop. It then dawned on him that this man was a cop, he was drunk and was also driving. I kid you not, he then climbed into the passenger seat and started asking where the driver went, as the car started rolling forward into a bush. He was adamant that he was never driving.
R1CHARDCRANIUM
1. Fryer sauce!
Another server I was working with at the time. Two women ordered a bloomin onion. After it was delivered he went over to see how everything was. The lady asked for a cup of the sauce at the bottom of the plate.
“Ma’am that is actually fryer grease not a sauce.”
She looked at him and said “I don’t care what it is just get me a cup of it”. He went to the back, ladled out a soup cup of fryer grease, and brought it out. The woman seasoned the grease with salt and pepper and went to town. That was probably the most disgusting thing I ever saw working as a server.
Fischera1982