Just curious as I’ve never been on the other side of the counter, how does this sort of thing tend to work at restaurants? Fast food and fast-casual places are where I’ve heard customers say things “pile as much lettuce on there as you’re allowed to” - is there ever a limit your supervisor instructed you for things like that?
Now obviously with up-charge items like extra meat or certain toppings I know the sizes tend to be pre-portioned to a serving utensil, but something like extra onions or tomatoes that goes uncharged - has anyone gotten into trouble for giving “too much”?
It’s been a long time, but I used to work at a corporate dining place that did a lot of take out business. I once had a man ask for “as much thousand island dressing as possible”.
I was going to just give him two portions, but my coworker convinced me to fill a large soda cup instead. Why not? We worked for tips after all.
The customer was pretty bewildered. He clearly didn’t really want that much dressing.
Man was lying to you. He deserved it.
When you work for tips, you are actually working for the customer since they’re paying you more?
It certainly creates an incentive to act in ways that please the customer at the expense of the business. But the restaurant controls your access to the customer, so it’s best to tread lightly.
Many years ago when I worked at Burger King, we had a regular customer who would order a cheeseburger with extra extra extra onion. She was a very sweet older lady, so we always obliged. We piled two inches of onions on those burgers, easily enough for 8 normal burgers. It was weird to all of us, but she absolutely loved them.
Growing up in the 70s my great aunt used to eat half a yellow onion with dinner almost every night. She’d cut an onion in half and plunk it on her plate with whatever she had made for dinner. I saw her peel an onion and eat it like an apple once.
Iconic and embarrassing, as an Australian
If in GA USA, it’s not any yellow onions. You all have special onions that are sweet.
I’d just give you a regular ass large fry if you ordered that.
If you ask for extra lettuce and get a second leaf for free most places won’t bat an eye. But there’s usually a way things are portioned the way they are. Nobody wants a burger that’s one 1/8th pound patty and 3 inches worth of solid lettuce.
Nobody wants a burger that’s one 1/8th pound patty and 3 inches worth of solid lettuce.
Had regulars when I worked fast food that would order the kid size burger with a fuckton of lettuce and tomato. Just way too much.
There used to be a subway or Quiznos commercial that went something like, “'Cause nobody wants a salad on a bun.” I would see it and think, “Me. I do. I want a salad on a bun.” WTH’s wrong with a burger that’s one 1/8th pound patty and 3 inches worth of solid lettuce?
I’ve asked for extra veggies and it’s been glorious
I’m not a fast food worker, but made the mistake of ordering the biggest order size of nuggets at a McDonald’s in college. I waited 30 mins to get 150 nuggets. I didn’t think I was going to get so many. I had enough to share with an entire class of mine on campus.
Worked at an ice cream store. We had a regular that wanted the largest ice cream with a whole banana and absolutely drowned his order in caramel. Not a huge deal we just charged him for like 8 extra toppings or so
I worked at a Canadian burger place with notably orange trays. Got asked for all sorts of things. Tons of pickles was probably the most common–I think I piled a good 3 inches on one once (probably 30 or so long slices). It didn’t occur often enough to be a problem.
Depends on how things were inventoried, expensive things like meat were down to like the individual patties.
But fries were eyeballed bag/half bag type thing, so if you were nice about it or cute I would take one of our smallest to-go bags and LOAD it with fries lmfao
depends on how busy it was and/or how good of a mood i was in. i worked at a pizza place and would usually try to hook people up as reasonably as possible (not charge someone if they were taking off a topping then adding a topping even tho you were meant to, giving like 8 cheese cups if they ordered 5 (mood/rush/etc dependent), ample extra toppings if they were nice, etc)
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