Got called a F*****g idiot for following policy and managers gave the guy a gift card.
This was about 8 years ago, and is my go-to story for how "the customer is always right" is gaslighting.
I used to work at Olive Garden. Anyone who works there knows the breadstick policy. The amount of breadsticks the table gets in their first serving is the amount of people at the table plus 1. The customer can have as many refills as they want but the amount you bring for refills is the number of people at the table.
The reason they give for this is that it reduces waste and ensures the customer gets fresh and warm breadsticks. We all would have ignored this rule because it's easier to bring more, but management monitored and enforced this STUPID rule.
One day I have a table of 2, so I bring the first serving of breadsticks, and when they ask for more I bring 2, per this dumb policy.
The total a** of a customer says "What are you a f*****g idiot? We asked for more breadsticks and you give us 2?" I quickly explained we bring them based on the number of customers at the table, and that I'd be happy to grab him some more right away. He says "No, get me your manager"
Ok.... so I grab my manager and I expect him to explain the policy, and hopefully stick up for me. I had told the manager what the customer had said to me.
From the server station I could hear the man again call me a "f*****g moron" and ask for a different server.
My manager comped their bill, gave them a $50 gift card and made me go to the table with a mound of breadsticks and apologize for THEIR POLICY which was enforced by THEM.
Customers are rewarded for being awful. Employees are punished whether they follow policy or not.
That's my rant. Don't eat at Olive Garden. Mostly because their food is basically Chef Boyardee.
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Olive Garden is a shit chain where lower middle class people go to feel fancy but frick if they don’t have the best faux Italian food I’ve ever eaten. I’d flip shit too if you brought me three breadsticks, they’re half the reason anyone eats there. The wedding soup kicks butt too. And the stuffed chicken marsala. God I love garbage butt Olive Garden.
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I was under the impression that only fat people went to chains like that (even though I've obviously never been to olive garden), I guess there's more to learn on dogpill.life than I thought
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Everything I've ever eaten at olive garden was like the completely bland cousin of a real Italian dinner.
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USA:
True Italian food in USA:
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Neighbor go to a real restaurant
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I've eaten at olive garden exactly one time. It was years ago and the cheese fondue thing they had as a special tasted like windex and the pasta platter was rubbery. I took the 9/10ths of what remained of my uneaten meal home and dumped it outside for the farm dog to eat. It laid there for about 4 days before I scooped it up with a shovel and threw it away. Olive garden is for people who think red lobster is a fancy seafood place but for Italian food.
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Basically every one of those chains gets their food shipped in frozen or otherwise packaged, and everyone in the kitchen is a burnout who's probably selling coke to the waitstaff. There might have been actual windex in there.
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True, but I'll be darned if I let you shit talk red lobster.
It's the fanciest I got in bumfrick Missouri. Better than walmart lobster.
Obviously I any time I go to a real city I'll get good seafood.
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https://pics.loveforquotes.com/local-man-in-coma-after-eating-413-red-lobster-biscuits-38611434.png
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It's almost better because it's shit, if that makes any sense
Im an r-slur but McDonalds for "Italian" food
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That's fazolis
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Hey frick you
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Frick you!
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Wisest anitwork post ever
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I don't go to restaurants or fast good places at all cause I won't pay 20 dollars for a halfway decent meal. Frick that shit.
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It's not just about the food though, it's about the experience. Home cooking is nice and all, but is it really complete without receiving breadsticks from a seething wagie you can bully at will?
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Just buy a cheap whore and abuse her? You'll You'll get a r/sexwork post out of it.
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Why would I cook my own 8 course tasting menu with wine pairings when I can pay someone to do it for me?
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8 Course? You fat?
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Worked at Fazoli's, same deal. "Whelllll if I come inside I get free breadsticks, why do I have to pay to get them in drive thru?"
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Honestly, this just inspires me to act shit towards wagies
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Lol I’ve met people like this, in real life. They truly never measure up in anything they do. They can’t maintain eye contact, they don’t ever really accomplish anything, this is his only outlet because he’s too spineless, weak, and awkward to do anything else. He goes from sub to sub crying about some kind of criminal high fantasy as if anyone would ever notice him in real life. Someone’s probably bullying him as we speak lmao.
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Got called a F*****g idiot for following policy and managers gave the guy a gift card.:
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