At the risk of surprising absolutely nobody, sometimes restaurant customers are just phenomenal cheapskates.

"I'd like to speak to a manager."

While every restaurant worker's experience is different, there are some commonalities all servers share.

A restaurant server's job involves more than simply bringing food to a table and clearing plates.

Servers hear a lot of the same stuff from customers over and over and over.

Despite what some (probably terrible) people think, servers do a lot more than bring food and bills.

“Is it ever OK not to tip your server?”

Restaurant customers can often be the lowest of the low -- this is undeniably true.

There are a lot of terrible restaurant customers out there, and they can be terrible in a lot of different ways.

With a few notable exceptions, working a holiday at a restaurant is genuinely atrocious.

We talk a lot about terrible restaurant customers, and with good reason: restaurant customers can be awful and horrible, and often lose their tempers for no reason at all.

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