These 5 Restaurant Customers Are the Absolute Worst, According to a Waitress

It comes as no surprise that waiting tables is no easy feat. In addition to having to remember people's orders, being on your feet for hours, and having to carry around hot plates of food, you have to deal with all the personalities of your customers. According to one server, this is the most challenging thing of all. A Georgia waitress took to TikTok to vent about all the frustrations that come with waiting tables, and her rant has gone viral. In it, she details the 19 restaurant guests who are the absolute worst – and here are the worst of the worst of them, according to her. 

After "working a double shift on Father's Day and getting severely under-tipped," Grace, @gracefromthe6, filmed a now-viral video and shared it to TikTok. "This is a list I've been working on for quite some time," she says in the clip. 

One of the worst types of restaurant patron is the germaphobe who demands plastic utensils instead of metal. Grace doesn't believe it makes any sense because "using plastic silverware to eat off a plate that went through the same dishwasher as the silverware," she says. "If anything, I feel like the silverware is cleaner than the plates because we have to run the silverware through twice, so do what you will with that information."

"People will ask the dumbest … questions you've ever heard in your life and you have to look at them with a straight face like they didn't just do that," she says. "You read the menu to see you wanted the salmon. Why are you asking me, 'Does it come with sides?' when clearly right next to it says, 'Served with broccoli and mashed potatoes.'"

Another gripe of Grace's is those who demand straws before drinks aren't even set down on the table. "You see I have four drinks in my hand," she complains. "I only set down two of them. I still have two drinks in my hand….Can you wait for me to put everything down so I can give you a straw?" 

If you don't want to anger Grace, ask her for all of your needs at once instead of making her come back again and again. "I drop something off. I ask, 'Do y'all need anything else?" she says. "You say, 'Oh, yeah, can I get a side of A1?'" In the clip she brings the steak sauce and then the customer asks for a side of ketchup. "Okay, I go get the ketchup and bring it back," she states. "Don't ask me for anything else."

Surprisingly, the after-church crowd is one of the most difficult. "Sundays are the worst day for servers seeking a fair gratuity," she says. "I know you just left church. You just praised the Lord, and now you are in here acting a fool, being rude, and you just tipped me $5 and acted like you gave me the key to the city," she says. 

While Grace has 19 items on her list, she only made it through a handful of them in the viral video. Hopefully, she will drop a new gripes video soon.