Drive Thru Take Out

So Friday night I had this old man come in and ask me, "Do you have this?" In his hand was a old bill envelope that had, "Veggie Stir Fry, no fish sauce, no mushrooms!" I'm assuming he was getting it for someone else and I said ohh no sorry sir we only have chopped chicken with vegetables or chopped steak with vegetables we don't have any veggie stir fry. He smiles and says, "okay I'll be back." Being that he's an old man he's walking outside back to his car to go tell his wife that's waiting in the drivers seat. I'm watching them talk and the wife sends him back in. He finally comes back in and says, "What kind of chicken is it?" I tell him it's chicken thighs with teri sauce. He smiles and says, "Okay, I'll be back." Being that the poor man can hardly walk I tell him do you want me to just talk to your wife? lol. So I end up going outside to their car and doing the takeout order with his wife. lol. I tell the wife that it's chicken thighs with teri sauce and she goes, "Ohh chicken thighs are awful!" I go ummmm okay....and she goes, "It is good?" I said yeah it's pretty popular. She goes okay I'll have that and make sure there's no fish sauce (We don't use fish sauce at all). I go okay do you want fried rice, rice or potatoes? She said ohh what's in your fried rice? I say there's white onions, green onions, luncheon meat, and bacon bits. She goes ohh no no no I can't have that and just gets white rice. Then I ask if they want toss salad or mac salad and she goes is there fish in your mac salad and I said yes there's tuna inside and she goes, "Ohh no I can't have that I'm basically vegetarian." Umm lady you just ordered chicken for Pete's sake! But I just said okay Toss it is then! lol. I tell you there's always those few customers that never fail to blow my mind.

NO TIP

I get it that tipping is not mandatory but I get so annoyed when I give such good service and get NO TIP. I don't know if it's the location where my restaurant is or the kind of people that come through but it just happens way too often. Today I had 9 teenagers come in and they were acting immature and singing and laughing super loud. They all ordered drinks in the largest size and when they ordered each person ordered 2 things. Thank god it was one bill! The bill comes out to $118 and there was one girl who paid for the whole thing. They leave and NO TIP! I feel like if teenagers don't know to tip they shouldn't be coming into restaurants that they can't afford. uggggghhhhh :( Okay sorry that's my little vent sesh!

Drop it like it's Hot!

So my restaurant is located in Kahalu'u so there are a lot of locals that come in and never cease to amaze me with the kind of things they do and say. Last night it was getting kind of busy and I had a party of 6 come in. When I got to the table I started placing down all the napkins and putting a fork and knife on each napkin. As I was putting the settings down the uncle on the table goes, "Ho babes, you can just drop it like it's hot no need make nice."(Meaning that I can just put it down and don't need to set it all up for them) I laughed so hard. First thing, never has anyone told me to "drop it like it's hot" and the second is that he was totally serious. He totally said it in moke action to which is what made it so much more funnier.

Runaways

So tonight, I had some really weird customers. There were two ladies and I came up to them and greeted them. I put the settings down and then one lady asked, "What kind of tea do you guys have?" I said we have green or black tea and then she said she wanted green. The other lady asked, "What kind of drinks do you have?" I don't know if it's because I am a waitress that I developed this annoyance when people ask what kind of drinks do we have when the menu is staring right at them with what kind of drinks we have. So I showed her the area where we have the drinks and she asked, "Do you have tea with no caffeine?" and I said no we don't and she says, "Ohh, okay I'll just have a small coke!" Uhh hello lady you just asked for something with no caffeine and now you want a soda!! ugh anways. So then I asked if they were ready to order and she said yes I will have your chicken caesar salad. The "no caffeine lady" says do you guys have anchovies? I said no we don't sell just anchovies but we have anchovies in our caesar so she said ohh okay I'll have your chicken caesar too. I said okay and then went to go put in the order. While the order was going, I went to go clean my other dirty tables and while cleaning my tables I spilt a cup of water and it got on the floor. I went to get the mop and cleaned up the water. Not realizing that I forgot to make the two ladies drinks, their two caesars came out already. As I was getting ready to take the caesars out, the other waitress working with me says, "Aye, do you know that your table with the two ladies just ran out?" I ran out to find them and saw them running away towards Subway which is like 3 stores down. I'm yelling for them saying, "HEEEELLLLOOO! HELLLLO!" And they totally ignored me. Obviously I'm not going to go into subway and be like wtf why did you just leave? So I just went back into my restaurant. I was so confused, I mean idk if they were mad that I didn't bring their drinks out? But usually people just say ohh excuse me can we have our drinks? Or if they change their mind about eating there they usually say excuse sorry can we cancel our order. But I just thought that was so rude. My cooks made your food and you just run away and leave without saying anything. Weirddddd.