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That’ll do it.
After finishing a first-time meal at a restaurant, a negative Nancy of a customer wasted no time running home to write a not-so-great review of their experience.
Well, the restaurant looked at it as an opportunity to promote their business and what makes their establishment so unique.
A screenshot of the exchange was posted to the r/funny forum on Reddit. The disgruntled diner wrote: “I ate here for the first time tonight. The brisket was probably the best I’ve ever had but I found an entire leaf in my baked beans. I cannot make this up.”
A leaf is better than a hair or a bug, some might argue.
The restaurant responded, writing, “So, we’re glad you enjoyed the brisket. I’m guessing you’ve never seen bay leaves in your food before? If you see them in the future you can rest assured that that is a sign that someone spent time and effort making your food from scratch.”
“We pride ourselves on making everything fresh in house, no cans ever. So you will find unique spice blends and herbs being used in our food. That includes bay leaves. Again I’m glad you enjoyed the brisket and I’m sorry the leaf surprised you,” the comment from the restaurant read.
Talk about a savage, to the point reply.
Many of the comments under the post agreed.
“this is how all good business owners respond to negative reviews.”
“Well, that’s one way to turn a bad review into [an] advertisement for your business.”
While others sided more with the grumpy diner, understanding where they were coming from.
“Happened to me once. I was eating a chimichanga and noticed a brownish green leaf. Surprised, I showed my wife and she too was confused. Our waiter came over and I showed him…’I’m sorry, is that supposed to be in there?’ ‘Yes. It’s a bay leaf. It enhances flavor…'”
“This legit happened to me when I was fresh in the navy. We had spaghetti for dinner one night and I found a whole bay leaf and figured it must have been debris of some sort. (I was mostly raised on box food and salt and pepper were the only spices in the house).”
And while you’re at it, trying not to get on a restaurant’s bad side — avoid doing these three specific things that piss off waitstaff the next time you’re dining out.
“These are the icks that I get as a server that customers give me. I’m going to give you three,” a frustrated server named Kiley said in a TikTok video that has racked up almost 200,000 views and over 1,000 comments.
The first one she mentioned is barely letting the waiter introduce themselves before cutting them off by giving them your drink order.
“…Okay, can you wait 10 seconds?… now you’re going to get a regular Coke,” she explained, clearly far too familiar with this specific type of encounter.
The second ick has to do with free refills.
“No. 2 is when somebody asks me if they get free refills on strawberry lemonade. I already f—ing know I’m about to get 45 of these f—ing strawberry lemonades and it’s going to be a $2 tip — or zero,” she explained.
And her last complaint is when she’s waiting on a couple and the jealous girlfriend thinks Kiley is Mr. Steal Your Man.
“I do everything in my power to make her feel comfortable. I compliment her, I just look at her. I don’t even acknowledge her man, and yet she’s still got that little attitude…b–ch I don’t want your man, your man looks like a f—ing gremlin… and it’s usually a low tip.”
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