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Indiana server says table was waiting 40 minutes for their food. So she takes matters into her own hands: ‘I really shouldn’t be saying this’

By Melody Heald Aug 19th
St. Louis Waitress Has a Hard Time Getting Customers To Sit in Her Section Because It’s Nice Out. Then She Uses a Joke To Get Them To Stay

By Nina Hernandez Aug 14th
‘The Chicken’s Like Old’: North Carolina Woman Says Restaurant Forced Her To Tip on Tablet, Wouldn’t Let Her Leave or Tip Cash. Then a Man Tests It

By Melody Heald Aug 13th
Server Waits on ‘Super Sweet’ Women. They Promise To Tip Her in Cash. Then She Sees What They Actually Tipped—and Confronts Them

By Tiffanie Drayton Aug 12th
Server asks customer if she’s ready for the check. Then she says she already paid it online: ‘And I guess tip whatever’

By Rachel Thomas Aug 10th
Hooters Server Gets Literal 2 Cents From Customer as a Tip—and a Piece of Her Mind: ‘My Husband Doesn’t Need…’

By Ljeonida Mulabazi Aug 2nd
Server Forgets To Ask Table If They Want Dessert. Then She Gets Reprimanded For It, Breaks Down In Tears

By Ljeonida Mulabazi Aug 1st
Texas Server Passes Handheld POS System to Diners at Checkout. Then They Dine-and-Dash in the Most Diabolical Way Possible

By Rachel Thomas Jul 31st
Texas Roadhouse Server Says Table Started Talking About Her in Another Language—One That She Knows: ‘I Don’t Want Your Man’

By Melody Heald Jul 30th
Tennessee Server Gets Fired After 2 HR Complaints. Then She Finds Out They Came From Her Mom: ‘You Are So Evil’

By Rachel Thomas Jul 29th
Customer Gets Her Bill at Restaurant. Then She Sees the Note the Server Left About Them on the Receipt: ‘Annoying’

By Tiffanie Drayton Jul 27th
Man Goes to Birthday Lunch at Fire Island Restaurant. Then the Server Follows Them Outside To Confront Them Over the Tip

By Rachel Thomas Jul 25th
Server Waits on Family. Then She Reveals How She Knows They’re a ‘DIY Table’—the Bane of Her Existence: ‘A Bowl of Lemons’

By Tiffanie Drayton Jul 23rd
Mom Takes Her Two Kids to Wash Their Hands at Olive Garden After Telling the Staff. She Comes Back to a Scene That Makes Zero Sense: ‘Uncomfortable’

By Terrina Jairaj Jul 23rd
LA Server waits on family that racks up $280 bill. Then they leave him a tip—and he refuses it outright: ‘I know that’s not for me’

By Melody Heald Jul 22nd
Texas Roadhouse server asks table of 14 what they want to drink. What happens next turned out to be her ‘worst server experience’

By Tiffanie Drayton Jul 20th
Applebee’s worker shares the most bizarre customer order she’s ever received: ‘I be ordering stuff like this when I’m hungover’

By Rachel Thomas Jul 14th
Server Calls Out Four-Top Table for Ordering 7 Drinks—and Barely Tipping. Then He Realizes Serving Them Actually Cost Him Money

By Tiffanie Drayton Jul 11th
Fine Dining Server Waits on Table Celebrating Birthday. When They Rack Up a $274 Bill, a $0 Tip Is the Last Thing He Expected

By Melody Heald Jul 10th
‘I’m not trying to shame anyone for being broke’: South Carolina server waits on table of 6 celebrating birthday dinner. Then he shares a big no-no

By Melody Heald Jul 8th