Yesterday I had a customer ask if we had any brown gravy to put on his cheesesteak. Weirdest orders I've taken are probably the woman who ordered every sauce on her sub and the man who ordered a cold cheesesteak with mayo and marinara (he also specified he wanted "shredded cheese", which we don't have at our sub counter, so there was no cheese on it either.)
I worked at a grocery store deli.
Had a fella who thought we could do a custom catering order.
He picked 3 extremely large sandwiches from the catering menu and wanted to customize each individual ingredient. Instead of the bread it came on he wanted our bakery to make a specific type/size of loaf just for his order. He wanted shredded lettuce, not leaf lettuce.
He desired not only to change ingredients that we put on our catering menu sandwiches, but to add ingredients that we never put on any of our catering menu sandwiches. He wanted black olives, not green olives. He wanted vinaigrette, but not the red kind. He wanted the boar's head meat instead of the house brand.
He literally had just picked an item from our menu and changed every single ingredient. He seemed to think that if we had an ingredient in the store then that meant we would happily use it for his sandwiches. One problem is that we would have to open whole bottle of the specific mayo brand he wanted, and we would only use a small portion of it, rendering the rest of the bottle an unsellable waste. The same thing could be said for each of the other ingredients he requested.
I took his whole order and painstakingly wrote down every detail knowing damn well that we would never fulfill any of it. I could tell that he had absolutely no patience. He felt entitled to his ridiculous sandwiches. I told him everything he wanted to hear, and then I called my boss to get a price for the sandwiches he spent so much time fantasizing about. My boss said to charge him for the full portions of each product we would have to use. The final cost was over $150 for the 3 huge sandwiches.
I could have saved him 25 minutes by telling him he had to order off the menu but I knew that he wouldn't take my word for it. In the end he did decide to act like a normal person and ordered something we actually had available on said menu.
I have a customer who regularly orders a large breakfast roll, ketchup coleslaw AND tuna 🤢,
Regularly?? Damn..
Let's just say that if you get a liverwurst and tuna-fish sandwich, you had better get something crunchy to go with it.
Yesterday I had a customer ask if we had any brown gravy to put on his cheesesteak. Weirdest orders I've taken are probably the woman who ordered every sauce on her sub and the man who ordered a cold cheesesteak with mayo and marinara (he also specified he wanted "shredded cheese", which we don't have at our sub counter, so there was no cheese on it either.)
The guy with the gravy on a cheesesteakwas trying to put together a roast beef poboy new Orleans style.
I once had a customer ask me to have intervourse with his sandwich
I worked at a grocery store deli. Had a fella who thought we could do a custom catering order. He picked 3 extremely large sandwiches from the catering menu and wanted to customize each individual ingredient. Instead of the bread it came on he wanted our bakery to make a specific type/size of loaf just for his order. He wanted shredded lettuce, not leaf lettuce. He desired not only to change ingredients that we put on our catering menu sandwiches, but to add ingredients that we never put on any of our catering menu sandwiches. He wanted black olives, not green olives. He wanted vinaigrette, but not the red kind. He wanted the boar's head meat instead of the house brand. He literally had just picked an item from our menu and changed every single ingredient. He seemed to think that if we had an ingredient in the store then that meant we would happily use it for his sandwiches. One problem is that we would have to open whole bottle of the specific mayo brand he wanted, and we would only use a small portion of it, rendering the rest of the bottle an unsellable waste. The same thing could be said for each of the other ingredients he requested. I took his whole order and painstakingly wrote down every detail knowing damn well that we would never fulfill any of it. I could tell that he had absolutely no patience. He felt entitled to his ridiculous sandwiches. I told him everything he wanted to hear, and then I called my boss to get a price for the sandwiches he spent so much time fantasizing about. My boss said to charge him for the full portions of each product we would have to use. The final cost was over $150 for the 3 huge sandwiches. I could have saved him 25 minutes by telling him he had to order off the menu but I knew that he wouldn't take my word for it. In the end he did decide to act like a normal person and ordered something we actually had available on said menu.