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Strange-but-True Stories of Ridiculous Restaurant Customers
This week, Off the Menu presents more bafflingly confusing restaurant stories. → Read More
Restaurant Customers Who Made Servers' Lives a Living Hell
These might just be some of the worst people to ever enter a restaurant. → Read More
Pittsburgh Is a Fantastic City, and Don't Trust Me When I Say Otherwise
“Never trust anyone who talks up how great Pittsburgh is. It is a garbage town full of garbage food. And like 90% garbage people.” Those words were written by someone as arrogant as they are shortsighted, someone utterly and totally convinced they could never be wrong about anything, for whom their word was the beginning and end of any discussion. Someone so blinded by their own preconceived… → Read More
Olive Garden Parent Company Darden Finds Exciting New Way To Screw Your Server
Olive Garden is paying its workers with debit cards that rack up fees every time you try to actually use them. What's in YOUR wallet? → Read More
Olive Company Parent Company Darden Finds Exciting New Way To Screw Your Server
Olive Garden is paying its workers with debit cards that rack up fees every time you try to actually use them. What's in YOUR wallet? → Read More
Worst Restaurant Customers Ever Start Brawl Over Employee Smiling At Them
Pictured: A crime worthy of physical retribution. We write a lot about terrible restaurant customers; it's kind of our thing. We would venture to suggest → Read More
No Big, Poultry Workers Just Have To Wear Diapers Because No Bathroom Breaks Allowed
Via FlickrHey, feel like being horrified and utterly despairing of the belief that human decency exists today? Well, tough, 'cause now you're gonna be. A new → Read More
Surprise! Banning Tipping Doesn’t Work. Could There Be Another Solution Entirely?
Remember how restaurants have seemed to be steadily moving towards banning tipping? Yeah, not so fast on that one. Back in November 2015, Joe's Crab Shack → Read More
Chinese Restaurant Server In Trouble For Mocking Jerk Hipsters On Receipt. (Hint: The Hipsters Were Jerks)
In which a server at a Chinese restaurant is schooled by an insufferable hipster on the authenticity of serving rice in small bowls rather than large. STOP IT, HIPSTERS. → Read More
New York Mayor Bill De Blasio Suggests Not Cramming Your Throat With Gay-Hatin’ Chick-Fil-A
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio suggests you boycott the homo-haters at Chick-Fil-A. Wingnuts, as always, outraged. → Read More
Maybe Don’t Stiff Your Server Because You’re Mad About Apartheid
Via Flickr What reason is someone using to avoid having to tip now? Oh, Apartheid? Well, that's a new one. Cool. An Oxford University student named Ntokozo Qwabe created something of a viral storm after celebrating his friend's shitty treatment of a server in South Africa. The short version is Qwabe's friend decided to leave → Read More
Wendy’s Now Serving Frostees With Complimentary Side Of Razor Blades
Via Flickr As if Frostees weren't already gross enough (shut up, it's just half-melted soft-serve in a goddamned soda cup, they're disgusting), customers apparently have a new thing to be concerned with: razor blades hidden like depth charges in their iced beverages. YUM! A woman named Aubrey Simonds in Keene, New Hampshire, got a nasty → Read More
Supreme Court Tells McDonald’s To Shut Its Mac-Hole About Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage
Via FlickrWhat's a fast food company to do when duly elected government officials enact a law designed to make companies treat their workers like human beings? In McDonald's case, the answer is → Read More
Starbucks Shocks America, Breaks Streak Of Phenomenal Stupidity On Race Issues
Ugh, Starbucks, really? You're going to try to tackle actual serious societal problems again, now in Ferguson, Missouri, no less? Okay, fine, how are you falling on your face this time? Wait ... Starbucks' plan is actually well-thought-out and appears to be doing actual good? Well that was unexpected. We've all had fun laughing at → Read More
Celebrate The Feast Day Of St. Zita, Patron Saint Of Servers, By Flipping Off A Customer
Did you know today, April 27, is the feast day of St. Zita, Patron Saint of waiters and waitresses? We did not, but let us celebrate it together! Given that I'm Jewish, I had to go look up Catholic traditions to even understand what a → Read More
Study Finds Higher Minimum Wage Does Not Destroy Economy, Wingnuts Gon’ Be SO Mad
Greedy worker Oh hey, a $15 minimum wage is not crashing the economy like opponents said it would. Are you shocked?! We're shocked! (We are not shocked.) So, you guys remember Seattle? Of course you do -- it's that big city in Washington state where they have a giant boner for coffee and maybe the → Read More
Customer Wins $12,000 Judgment Against Steakhouse, Errybody Wants Us To Shout About It
Pictured: the Adversary. Late last week, our inbox was deluged with emails asking us to write about a story from the National Post in Canada, our fair neighbor to the North. The story pertained to a customer who won a $12,000 judgment against a steakhouse, supposedly for refusing to accommodate the customer's germaphobia. The heavy → Read More
Lawyer Sues Over $2.25 Cup Of Soup, Because Sure Why Not
Via Our Place Restaurant/Facebook.Are you an aficionado of pointless, asinine lawsuits? We at Wonkette sure are! And boy, do we have a good one for you today. A Texas lawyer (two words you never want to see next to each other) by the name of Dwain Downing is threatening to sue Our Place Restaurant in → Read More
Stories Of Truly Fantastic Restaurant Bosses
Via FlickrWelcome back to Off The Menu, where we bring you the best and strangest food stories from my email inbox. For our last Wonkette Off The Menu, we bring you stories of fantastic restaurant managers and where to find them (not really the latter, we just really like Harry Potter). As always, these are → Read More
Extremely Disturbed Time Traveler Walks Fourth Dimension To Seek Out Arby’s ‘Food’
We’ve never gotten to use “time travel” and “Arby’s” in a headline before. We feel good about it. Dante Anderson of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was a man on a mission — specifically, a mission through the twisting pathways of space and time. Nearby customers at a local Arby’s were shocked when Anderson burst through the doors, shoved the manager out of the way, and attempted to abscond with… → Read More