Light Food For Light Thinkers
(My table has just ordered our unlimited soup and salad.)
Me: “Okay, I’ll go ahead a put this in for you and be right back with your salad and bread.”
Customer: “So, where is y’alls salad bar?”
Me: “Pardon me?”
Customer: *speaking slowly* “The sal-ad ba-ar. Where is it?”
Me: “Um, we don’t have a salad bar, sir. I bring it to your table.”
Customer: “You bring the salad bar to the table?.”
Me: “No, sir, I bring out a bowl of salad for everyone at the table to share.”
Customer: “So, it’s not endless?”
Me: “Yes, it still is endless, I bring out as much salad as you want.”
Customer: “How you gonna know how much I want?”
Me: “I bring out as many bowls as you tell me to bring.”
Customer: “Well, how am I supposed to know how many to tell you when I don’t even know how much is in one?”
Me: “After I bring out the first bowl, you can tell me if you’d like some more.”
Customer: “But I want all my salad now!”
Me: “We don’t bring out all the salad at once so you get the freshest product possible.”
Customer: “But I want it now.”
Me: “As soon as I go back to the kitchen, I can bring it out for you.”
Customer: “But I want it now!”
Me: “So, I’ll go and get it for you.”
(As I finally walk away, I heard him say to this to his wife, “So, where’s my salad?”)
Question of the Week
Have you ever served a bad customer who got what they deserved?