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This is what hospitality staff do against annoying guests

hospitality staff about what they do with annoying customers

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: this is what hospitality staff do against annoying guests.

Hospitality is a profession and you are the professional. You remain friendly when guests give crazy orders you patiently answer stupid questions and you keep smiling when children are causing chaos, the dog wants to eat a toastie and you are standing at the table with scalding hot plates and no one is paying attention. But be careful, even the most customer-friendly hospitality staff have their limits. And if you cross that line...

These hospitality staff share – anonymously, which makes sense – how they get back at annoying guests. Do you always have lumps in your smoothie through the straw? And is the salsa sauce with your nachos much spicier than that of the rest of the table? Then you’ll get an idea of how that happens.

  • ‘I blend the smoothies of annoying customers not long enough. Then there are lumps left in and they clog the straw.’
  • ‘When people keep calling, I talk extra loud. They can’t have their phone conversation normally anymore.’
  • ‘When paying, I press the ‘cancel’ button. They have to enter their card again. I repeat that until I am cheered up.’
  • ‘When they throw the money at me, I throw the change back. And then I laugh and walk away.’
  • ‘I add extra chili pepper to their salsa and then I am a bit slower with the next drink order.’
  • ‘When I worked in a drive-thru restaurant, we would snap the straws of annoying guests. Nothing more annoying than a cup of soda with a leaky straw.’
  • ‘I have once given a tip back to a guest: ‘You need this more than I do.’’
  • ‘I give each child a different toy with the kids’ menu, so they start fighting with each other and annoy their parents even more.’
  • ‘I make their espresso from decaf.’
  • ‘I worked in a coffee shop. If someone was rude, I wouldn’t stir their sugar into their coffee. Then there’s a thick layer of sugar at the bottom of your cup.’
  • ‘At McDonald's, I put the bag of French fries upside down in the paper bag, so all the fries fall out when they take them out.’
  • ‘I don’t ask if they want whipped cream on their hot chocolate.’
  • ‘When people ask for extra barbecue sauce with their order, I add a cup of syrup.’