What's the strangest thing you've seen a customer do at a quality restaurant?

Question

I work in a high end steak house. After serving a group of 4, they all flossed, and then threw their used floss on the table. Bizarre!

Answer 1

As you know- Money doesn't buy grace & good manners.

I was enjoying my palet cleansing-pre entree' dessert and noticed the people at the table across from me, being served the same.

They immediately started- Dipping their fingers in the "lemon sorbet" instead of eating it. OKAY?!!!

They were watching another table who was using a "lemon finger bowl" after eating oysters. rinsing their hands and just followed suit. TOO bad it wasn't the right thing to do.

Guess they didn't know, which to do, eat or wash with the dish......

I watched the waiter in HORROR rush to the table with is asst. waiter with fresh dishes of sorbet, and he gentley removed their hands and washed them and handed them a spoon.

I would have DIED of embarrisment. Not them, they thought they were "more special" than the other table. The waiter never made a face or anything. He was a total professional on the floor.
I was so impressed by him. I actually thanked him.

Answer 2

Wow what a fun question!
I had two very dressy business ladies after a 3 maritini dinner pick stuff out of each others teeth.

I had a woman come out of the restroom with her skirt tucked into her pantyhose. She got mad when I told her.

I had a woman think that a local Dr. was Geraldo Rivera and beg him for an autograph.

I had a young woman once try to steal the centerpiece from a table.

I had a gentleman catch his newspaper on fire with the candle.

A couple got very "romantic" and finally had a grand finale in the ladies restroom.


I think my favorite was a group of highly professional white collar couples decided to be swingers and all came in with underwear and dild**s and showed each other the toys paired off with each other spouses, and left....

I just serve em!!

Answer 3

I considered my restaurant a quality restaurant, but not snotty-upscale.

I've seen mothers change their kids' diapers on the dining room floor. I had an elderly woman collapse from an angina and had to call 911. I had a man have a seizure and had to force him to drink OJ. I've had a couple people walk right into the kitchen to demand where their food was. I've had people rearrange tables to their liking even though some were reserved already.

People are stupid.

Answer 4

I ran a high end cafe in a major art museum. One day this 3 or 4 year old kid got out of his chair at the table and walked over to his mom, lifted up her shirt and started nursing her large bra-less breast. She didn't pay any attention and continued the conversation she was having with her husband........

Answer 5

The strangest thing I ever saw was a customer complain about the quality of a dessert after he had eaten all of it and expect management to make amends for it.

Answer 6

When I worked the private suites for the St. Louis Rams' games, a certain suite enjoyed eating chicken wings and throwing the half-eaten bones on the carpet...not to mention used tampons on the bathroom floor. Gross!

This suite belonged to a popular hip-hop artist, but I will spare him and his friends and family the embarrassment.

Answer 7

I once saw a woman in a crowded restaurant who thought her waitress should only concentrate on her table and when she wanted something she would raise her hand and act like a little school kid.

Answer 8

A waiter delivering mozzarella sticks was highly turned on the by tsmell and asked to join us at the table and have a few, how strange?

Answer 9

How's picking your nose then wiping it on the wall instead of on a paper napkin?

Answer 10

i think the weirdest thing Ive seen/heard is a customer questioning why they had so many forks at their place setting...

Ive also heard where customers "drank" their fingerbowls..