On Instagram, we asked you to share your worst experience you had working in the food industry and you did not disappoint. Here are some of the best responses that you gave…
“A customer grabbed a knife and chased my manager around the restaurant. The customer had just been shut down by some young ladies and he was very drunk.” – mschwarz17
“I used to work for a major beverage company. I was an admin at one of their bottling/distribution locations…. and I now refuse to drink anything out of a can. These places are dusty, and rats pee/poop wherever.” – stevie.oh
“Lady came through the drive-thru and ordered a hot tea with milk. Opened it and burnt herself (because it’s hot…) And then threw the entire (open) tea through the window at me. Because I didn’t tell her it would be hot.” – zerbunny2012
“Somebody ordered a large vanilla ice cream cone, I made it and handed it to them, they took a huge bite outta the top, gave it back and said: “I actually want chocolate please”…… Like wut?” – zack_driedger
“A huge guy used to come in M-F, order 3 sandwiches, made a mess and then would ask me to “wipe the naughty boy and clean him up” in a baby voice.” – thedamselinthisdress
“A whole large Pepsi thrown at my face by a rude and irrational lady while working the drive-through at Taco Bell!” – chente121
“Deli pro in a small town grocery store which had a popcorn machine, and ppl expected it to be full and fresh all the time, on 9/11, I had a woman yell at me because she pulled her kids out of school and came to get the essentials, and there was no popcorn for them to snack on while she shopped. I got yelled at more over that popcorn machine in 9 months I worked there than my entire 5 yrs I spent in the Navy.” – el_teach
“Walked into the manager and another employee screwing on the flour sacks we needed to make the pizzas. There were shit stains on the bags afterward.” – almostsmoothjoe
“Party of 6 comes in and they each order a 3lb lobster. Bill comes and the guy is shocked at the price as if it wasn’t printed in the menu. He doesn’t believe the receipt, so he begins doing math in sharpie on the linen/tablecloth. After 45 minutes of elementary arithmetic and giving me the silent treatment, he paid the bill and left. Table of 6 with a 3-hour turnover. The worst part was running into him a few weeks later at a different restaurant.” – _i0p3z
“So there I was, minding my own, slinging coffee at a Tim Horton’s. Then without warning a scream from the restroom. A frightened coworker comes out and says I need to deal with something. I spring into action! As I open the stall door in the men’s room, there it is… Someone had emptied the entire industrial sized roll of toilet paper into the bowl and proceed to empty their guts on top. It was sticking out above the seat by inches. If that wasn’t enough, shit smeared all over the walls. I mean, there was shit everywhere! I put on every piece of protective wear we had grabbed a shovel and a bucket of bleach. To this day I can still picture that pile, like a real life poop emoji.” – matthewdegrow
“I was just eating at a restaurant when I got up to go to the bathroom I punted some kid into a table as he ran in front of me. Split his face open. Then his parents tried to give me shit for it until the manager came over and ripped them a new one for letting their kids run around in a busy restaurant.” – big_green_skull
“I almost cut my thumb off in a meat slicer, then my manager said I had to clean up the blood before I went to the hospital.” – ch47pilotbrandon
“I’m a delivery driver for a pizza shop. I went on one delivery to an apartment building at the far end of a half mile long complex. A fire at the nearest building had the driveway blocked, so I parked nearby and hoofed it as the customer hadn’t answered their phone. I explained why I was a couple minutes later than expected but didn’t get much sympathy. I then had to front the dude the 50 cents he was short just so I didn’t have to carry the food all the way back to my car!” – sumacenterprises
“At Noah’s bagels, we’re usually really busy that we only call the name for the completed order out once. But most people didn’t understand that a toasted bagel with cream cheese only takes like 2 minutes so they decide they’ll go to the Starbucks and Jamba Juice next door. And then they proceed to get angry that they’re order is either cold, messed up, or gone. One day, this lady does EXACTLY THAT (orders 1 bagel and then leaves for Starbucks). 30 minutes after her order is completed she comes up to the window asking if we ever called her name which we said yes but her order by then was most likely taken by another customer with sticky fingers. She then proceeds to yell at a BRAND NEW EMPLOYEE that she is disgusting and our entire customer service is disgusting and that she won’t be returning. Makes me laugh now but at the time it was very infuriating. Good riddance” – aquarius_much
“I used to host a yearly “Lobsterfest” deal that would attract all the blue hairs in the city. One particular group of ladies would come every year and only that time, just for cheap lobster. The staff hated them and their demanding entitled nature, I just put up with them since it was a dozen patrons that were guaranteed every fall. Average age around 80, one in particular around 90 I’d say. As I was delivering half the table to help my server, the oldest lady decided to complain about a dirty lobster fork… the really narrow sharp ones. Instead of showing me the offensive smudge on the implement she thought it would be best to stab me in the arm with it as I was placing plates of lobster on the table around her. I stared in disbelief as blood trickled from my arm onto the table. Nobody in the group batted an eye.” – ayve8r
“Guy claimed his steak was not a ribeye when that was the only cut our restaurant served. I assured him it’s ribeye. He says, “My friend is a butcher. I think I know what I’m talking about.” – mstrodtman
“I go to many restaurants for my job. I was in the kitchen at a Chinese place. The waitress brought in a bus pan full of dirty dishes. The cook came and emptied the bus pan, sprayed it out with the pre-scrap then dumped raw chicken in it. As he was mixing this chicken with his bare hands, he was also cooking without washing his hands. He even dropped a piece on the floor, picked it up and threw it back in. All of this was going on with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. Yum yum.” – bigjaybo_jeep_lj
