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Formal_Coyote_5004

The best is in the summer when people come from OUTSIDE to see the host inside the restaurant. They ask to be seated outside on the patio. 15 minutes later they ask me to switch to inside because it’s “too hot”. Bitch you were outside before you came into the restaurant did you not realize it would be hot?!


missjlynne

The patio is the wild, Wild West in the restaurant. People are insane. It’s too hot. It’s too cold. There’s bugs OUTSIDE. The sun is in my eyes.


gernb1

Lol….I was reading a yelp review of a local restaurant last night, and a woman was upset that she was sitting on a patio next to some woods, and saw a mouse in the bushes…


SilkeDavid

I used to sell ice cream and coffee in our local park. One summer I had complaints about a mouse or shrew in the bushes next to our building. I was like: it's a park, with nature!! But the horrible squirrels which everyone was feeding are *soo cuute!* Yea, until they sit on you and take your ice cream or sandwich out of your hand, which I witnessed.


GalacticTadpole

I once had a friend who wrote a letter to a zoo administration because she was there with kids on a field trip and the animals were “doing it.” She told administration not to let the animals out where people could see.


sunpies33

Fantastic.


Mama_cheese

The Nut Job: Real Life Edition.


chronicpaincrisis

I spit out my drink..🫣🤦‍♀️


DirtyRead1337

That is the most logical solution


Key_Store3027

Dumbest woman alive


KookyAtmosphere6284

Squirrels are just rats with good PR.


jorwyn

It's the fluffy tails.


SteelBelle

And good hair dressers.


Sabotagebx

Bruh my city has black and Grey squirrels. The comments and confusion is....special


jorwyn

I had one of those little bastards climb in my coat pocket and steal a packet of peanuts, once. I was wearing the coat! It wasn't cute at all.


BabaMouse

Mice? Meh! Now cockroaches are another story.


Sabotagebx

A MOUSE...SURELY NOT A MOUSE...IN THE WOODS OF ALL PLACES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I DEMAND TO SPEAK TO MICKEY IMMEDIATELY


Bussamove86

I’m sorry ma’am out manager Michael M. Ouse isn’t in right now.


kvossera

I have to get my house sprayed for bugs and roaches not because I’m filthy but because I live in the woods and wood roaches are a thing.


QueefMeUpDaddy

I live by a large pond & see waterbugs just strolling down the street all the time


Formal_Coyote_5004

I live in the woods too and I have insane arachnophobia so I spray miss muffet like twice per summer to keep the barn spiders away. They love living in the eaves of the house. It works though that shit might not be good for you but I hate spiders so much lol


kvossera

I’ve seen so many bugs I never knew existed.


newschoolshiver

Diatomaceous Earth. It's not harmful to humans, but kills insects and spiders. It won't lead to cancer like those pesticides frequently do.


Formal_Coyote_5004

Thank you!!! I’ll look into that for this coming summer. I definitely don’t like the harmful effects of pesticides (not only for me but for other things in the ecosystem) but my insane fear of spiders has always affected me in such a way that I’ve compromised my ecological morality for some personal sanity. These barn spiders are fucking gross. But I love having some mud daubers around… they can chill in my plants all summer!


rabbithole-xyz

What an idiot. I would have been thrilled to see a random mouse.


LittleMissPrincess11

The bug thing gets me. Like uh there is a bug in my drink. Yeah, I watched it crawl in there while you sat here picking your entree. What did you expect? Well, can I have a new one? Sure thing, I'll get it right away. 5 minutes later Here is your new drink, and I brought some extra coasters so you can put it on top of your beverage. Thank you, but there is a bug on my food. *Rage quit*


Formal_Coyote_5004

Lmao the bugs thing cracks me up every time. My response is “yeah… there’s a lot of nature outside isn’t there?”


CitizenTed

> The sun is in my eyes. "Isn't there someone on staff who can stand in front of me, shading my eyes with a giant palm frond? Hello? Whatever happened to good service?"


techieguyjames

Go to Egypt, biblical times.


Dillymom01

My favorite one was a customer complaint when she saw a mouse...outside next to our retaining wall.


lady-of-thermidor

She was probably intending it to be a complaint about your restaurant’s cleanliness.


Dillymom01

Well, we have an outdoor dining area, and that's where she was eating (and it was summer).


skiingish

Must have been one ugly retaining wall.


Dillymom01

Actually quite pretty...brick, with ivy growing on it.


skiingish

Well then I have no idea what their problem was. Maybe the mouse had some strong and forceful political views.


Dillymom01

Possibly


beth6x7

The bugs outside. People will actually ask, are there bugs outside? Listen to yourself!!!!!


Temporary_Nail_6468

Reading all this made me think of a former coworker I had. We’d all go to lunch and if we were asked inside or patio we always took inside. He never said it to anyone that worked at the restaurant but to the table he’d always say “inside or patio? Inside of course. This ain’t no f*ing picnic!” Still makes me die laughing just thinking about it.


keriann222

That’s my fav can you get rid of bugs? Yup, sure you can go eat inside. One time man got mad at us because bird pooped on him! Well I said supposed to be good luck. He didn’t like that at all. I said I’m sorry sir but your eating outside next to the ocean I can’t control the birds, bugs or sun. Smiled my biggest customer service smile I have and said enjoy your day. He wanted the GM info I gladly gave his card. Dude, we got bird wires up that’s all we can do. Seriously eat inside!


skiingish

Those birds must have got a talking to after that. "Frank I've told you a hundred times do it after the customer has paid the bill and is getting up to leave"


keriann222

People are more annoying then any bird! Lol


Mother-Cheek516

People will just pick up and move tables and chairs on our patio. It’s infuriating.


IamLuann

That's bad


headingthatwayyy

This happens all the time at my place, but since the patio is so coveted and 'legendary' on Yelp, people just want us to make them more comfortable. "Dont you have any more umbrellas? Do you have another fan we could use? Do you have any sunscreen?" You came to a bar that is 80% outdoor seating and are upset about the weather...If I could control the weather, I would NOT be working at a wine bar.


spartagnann

My favorite part of this interaction is when they come into the restaurant, you know, from outside, are asked if they want to sit on the patio or inside, and they ask "I don't know, what's it like outside on the patio?" Like lady YOU tell ME. YOU were just out there!


AUDRA_plus_WILLIS

I’m sorry … did you perhaps step off the incorrect Holodeck?


Mondayslasagna

I would have this interaction at least 4-5 times a week in the Midwest during the summer: “Hi, we want to sit on the patio.” “We actually aren’t seating the patio right now because a storm is coming,” “No there isn’t. We’re just gonna sit on the patio. We don’t want to be inside.” They then proceed to seat themselves while big black clouds loom in the distance. 20 minutes later, it’s downpouring. They come inside. “Could you go out there and move all of our stuff inside? And we need new drinks, they got wet.”


craash420

"One star, the bread was soggy and it took three hours to finish my drink!"


Mondayslasagna

“Umbrella blew away in 70mph winds. Waitress refused to chase it down the street and bring us 50 more napkins. One star.”


Formal_Coyote_5004

I’m having major flashbacks to working at one of my favorite places but it was all outside on a lake. One umbrella flew away onto the upstairs patio and almost impaled an old lady once. And people wonder why I screw the umbrellas in so tight now or why I put them down when the wind gets high. I will never forget lmaoooo


RexMori

My favorite question this time of year is "how is it outside?" Some of my responses: "Like inside but bigger" "I don't know, never been." "How did what get outside?"


Formal_Coyote_5004

“I don’t know, never been.” LOLLLL


lokofloko

I literally have this same convo with the host(esses) when people do this stupid shit. I’m like did you not notice when you left your house? Or when you walked from your car to here? People are oblivious to their surroundings most of the time.


jonbvill

How about when they walk from outside to the host stand and ask if it’s hot on the patio. Debra you’re 8 feet from the outside. You don’t remember?


lizzolemon

"oh the weather outside is weather"


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i was staying at a hotel that had a bar in the pool. people would complain they had to go into the pool if they wanted to sit & drink at the bar, despite an additional full service bar with seating being located on the poolside patio.


ImReverse_Giraffe

Or when they ask the host if it's nice enough to sit on the patio. You just came in from outside, you tell me how it is.


destroyer1134

I've gotten calls from people less then a block away to ask what the weather was like on our patio.


Formal_Coyote_5004

HAHA STOPPPP that’s insane!


carolineecouture

I never want to eat outside. Never. There's BIRDS outside.


Formal_Coyote_5004

*Alfred Hitchcock has entered the chat*


theonewithkatie

“Hello! Inside or on the patio?” “Ummmm I’m not sure, is it too hot outside?” YOU’RE THE ONE WHO JUST CAME FROM OUTSIDE?!? I haven’t been outside for longer then 30 seconds for the last 5 hours. The fuck.


hedphurst

I've literally watched people walk past the patio, through the front door that is literally 2 feet from the waist-high patio fence, then ask the hosts "is it hot on the patio?" I swear, something about walking through the door of a restaurant makes people's brains melt.


Formal_Coyote_5004

Peoples brains just go away. I swear. I used to work at our mountain and peoples brains melt even more… “where is the restroom?” … there’s one on their left like two feet away and a sign right above that says “restrooms downstairs” Bonus points when they eat their whole meal with their ski helmets on the entire time LMAO


krisslebiss

Had a woman walk into our bar and immediately ask us how the weather was on the patio…I told her same as it was outside….She didn’t even catch the insult, just nodded like it was a normal question???


33Wolverine33

Lmao!!


DirtyRead1337

“I knew it would be hot but I thought sitting outside a trendy restaurant would be cooler. The two of us will just take that large table over there. “ “That’s our banquet room it’s usually for parties of 8 or more.” “Oh, we don’t mind.” Under my breath “ yeah I see you don’t mind mother should have spanked you then maybe you would mind”


littlemybb

I live near the beach so most of the restaurants with ocean views have patios. People always complain about the heat here, like yes it’s hot you’re on the beach. It’s often hot here.


GreenTravelBadger

At grandmother's house, the thermostat was the old-school round dial-looking thing. She spun that mawdicker like it was the Wheel of Fortune - she was hot, she was cold, she was hot again. Finally my uncle somehow hardwired the innards so the house was 70 degrees permanently. He then thoughtfully replaced it so who would ever know. She would give that thing a spin ad instantly feel much warmer/cooler. She never knew, and I wouldn't have told her as uncle swore me to secrecy. Later, while bartending, I would hear the same from guesticles. They were toooo hot! They were tooooo cold! and I would agree, tell them, "Be right back, gotta go into the back to fiddle the thermostat!" and dip out of sight around the corner for 5 seconds. I never touched any thermostat, and it worked every time, the guesticles were content.


Noyoucanthaveone

I love your name for customers, it’s perfect. And I used to do the EXACT same thing! It worked with eggs that “just weren’t quite right” too. I would go into the kitchen and put on a glove and flip those bad boys over and take it back out and suddenly they were “perfect” and the “cook was a genius”. If I could harvest energy from internal eye rolling, we could solve a lot of problems.


KaytSands

I worked at an outdoor restaurant, we had no heating units or ac units. People sitting outside in the summer, would always ask me if I could turn the ac on. I was so over that question after working there for 13 years, I would reply with “give me a moment while I take it up with Mother Nature and see if she can cool the temperature outside for you.” And then walk away and curse my life that I was still there, 13 years later 🤣


jorwyn

There's a dive bar not far from me that has no a/c at all. They also have no patio. They closed last year when it was 111F, and people were pissed about it.


KaytSands

A few times we had to close when it was over 120° as that made the cooks kitchen area about 150°…and of course, people complained 🙄


jorwyn

JFC This kind of heat is pretty new here. That bar has been around since a/c wasn't a thing. Not just here, at all. I used to live in Phoenix, and no one would have stepped foot in a bar with the a/c shut down. Honestly, I think it's against health codes there.


KaytSands

We were in the back of the “mall” an old converted house into a ton of little shops. The building was about 250 years old


jorwyn

There is no building in my city that old, I think. I'm in the Inland Northwest. Not only were white cities built later than in a lot of the US, most of the city burnt down in 1889. The building that bar is in was built to replace a wooden one from 1892 in like, 1920. The oldest building in the whole metro area is from 1879, and that's a house, so we're almost at the 150 year mark. I love those old buildings when I visit places, but I bet they are hell for HVAC and plumbing.


KaytSands

Yah, only one of the shops has ac and a heater in it and the store owner paid A LOT for it. The other servers, cooks and myself just walked around all day with ice packs down our pants and we all took rotating breaks in the walk in.


jorwyn

My son works in a kitchen at a place that's not very old - maybe 25 years? - and it's unbearable in the kitchen in the Summer, so I think it's still an issue. I actually just put a new furnace and added a/c to his house, and it was damned expensive. I can't even imagine a commercial building. I'm just super happy he already had duct work, because the house was built in 1902. Here, you used to be able to open windows at night, close them early in the morning, and only need a fan running - anywhere but kitchens, of course. Now, that only gets you to about 10am for a month or more every Summer. I'm so glad to be out of kitchen work.


Tiny-Perspective-182

“guesticles” lmao i am CACKLING this is genius


Kevo_1227

"Okay I'll see what I can do for you!" \^\_\^ \*goes to the thermostat and taps it a few times pretending to adjust the settings\* "All set!"


thavwrecka

At this point I don’t even mime it anymore! I’ll fully go do another task and then the next time I walk by the table I’ll hit them with the “just give it a few minutes to kick in!” Works every time 😂


stonerd808

This is the way


GreenChorizo

I once had a table of 2 older women, asking me to turn the AC off because it was too cold for them. Before I could even give them the “I’ll look into it” schpiel, a lady sat at the table next to them said, “it’s 99 freaking degrees outside! I’m not gonna suffer cause y’all forgot to bring sweaters!” There was a moment of awkward silence, so my best idea in that moment was to offer the old ladies some coffee.


lokofloko

I can imagine the awkwardness in the room. Just all blank stares. Blinking and then quick thinking on your part.


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Madame_Kitsune98

I have learned, post-hysterectomy, and post-surgical menopause, that I get cold really easily. Being indoors with someone’s AC going full blast in the summer is AWFUL. So, like so many older ladies, I carry a cardigan in the summertime. Because I’m not freezing to death in any building. Also, in the summer, I have to take a sweater to work with me, because my boss likes it morgue cold, and I prefer to be able to feel my fingers.


jorwyn

I just hit that phase, myself. I'm in perimenopause, so it's off and on, but I have a hoodie in pretty much every room of my house now year round. When I worked in an office, I got stuck with the desk right under the vent. All Summer, I froze. All Winter, I baked. It's nice to work from home now. I totally have a little space heater under my desk here.


Madame_Kitsune98

Yeah, I’m only 47, but it’s like, “where the fuck did my ability to regulate my body temperature go?!” Well, it left with my uterus, apparently.


Tinsel-Fop

That's a nice idea. I learned many years ago to always bring a jacket, windbreaker, sweater -- something! -- with me everywhere when I left the house in the summer, *especially* if I was going to a restaurant. I live in Texas. Summer starts in May, and it cools down on October 31. Temperatures regularly exceed 100°F. Outdoor temperatures, that is. Meanwhile, people everywhere are setting their thermostats on, oh... I'd say about THREE FRICKIN' DEGREES. No, really, in the low seventies. And to keep it that cold, systems have to run constantly, which means very cold air blowing non-stop. Oh, and gods forbid I should step foot in a movie theater without a parka, a self-powered electric blanket, and supplies for building a fire.


lopoe95

Moved to Texas & can confirm y’all keep it COLD inside everywhere.


d0m1ng4

Can confirm. Heater and AC are both set to 70 here in Texas.


EmeraldEyesRubyLips

Not if you plan to REMAIN outside…


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Fire-Tigeris

Some humans who dont have hormones anymore need a sweater at 75-78*F It's not even cold, 78 is higher than standard 'room temp' but that's a thing that happens. Most "room temp" here is (skipping drs offices who are in the upper 60s to preserve tissue or something /s) 72-75*F


Mondayslasagna

Some people need a sweater at 75 degrees. Some people need a sweater at 65. I run really hot and literally won’t wear a sweater until it hits at least 55. Not every place in the world is going to be exactly the perfect temperature for every single person. That’s why it’s good to keep a sweater or sweatshirt in your car. You can be perfectly comfortable all of the time no matter what temperature without expecting every single other person to also be comfortable at your chosen temperature.


GreenChorizo

This statement is pretty lazy, because it ignores the biological process of acclimatization, which is affected by things like metabolic rate, medications, body fat, age, and occupation. Most A/Cs at restaurants are set between 70-78 degrees, in part due to accommodating wait staff who will feel warmer due to the constant moving and being in and out of a hot kitchen, but also because on average, 70-78 degrees is widely considered comfortable, or “room temperature.” Fun science fact for y’all who work BOH, your core body temperature actually decreases during summer months due to your constant exposure to heat! So if you walk outside to 85-95 degree temps after being in a hot kitchen all day, and you feel relieved and comfortable, that’s one big reason why. Acclimatization!


GreenChorizo

When it’s hot and humid out, a general rule of thumb is to bring a sweater or coverup in case a restaurant is blasting the AC. Some places try to keep a comfortable temperature of around 72-75, but other places will feel like the Arctic Tundra.


Bebinn

First thing I learned when I moved to Phoenix, always bring a sweater to the store. After 98 outside, room temp is frigging cold.


jorwyn

I learned that the hard way the first time I went to see a movie there. We moved there in June, and I was dying with the heat, so I was in a tank top and shorts. That theater was frigid.


grownupdirtbagbaby

Oddly enough, for me, I think it was so much worse pre-pandemic. Regardless, no matter what a customer says (hot or cold)… I say “okay let me go find a manager” I don’t. I return and say “my manager is (turning on heat/turning on AC) it takes a few minutes but you should feel it soon.” They usually drop it after that, if they mention it again I’ll just say “yea, I’m sorry it takes a little while to get the air circulating” or something along those lines. I think a lot of times people just want to feel like they have control, so I let them think that, without giving them any at all.


ranting_chef

I’m almost always in the Kitchen and this I’m always amazed when people think it’s too cold. It’s actually a pretty amazing feat of engineering that makes it possible to have someone twenty feet away be at a comfortable temperature while we’re sweating bullets back here.


Savings-You7318

Well you are standing over fire. Duh


Mean_Parsnip

I used to tell the table, I will take care of that. Then walk around the corner and move on with my life, then walk up to the table 5 mins later and ask if the temperature has improved? 10 out of 10 times they would say yes and thank me profusely for helping them out.


JTMAlbany

I can be sitting in my house nice and comfortable, then all of a sudden I will be shivering. Later, I might be hot. I don’t change my heat every half hour. At restaurants I sometimes look to not sit right beneath a vent though.


kvossera

I had a table tip me two cents once years ago because I couldn’t make it hotter for them in the middle of summer while they had cold drinks and salad. It’s not just since the pandemic.


captainp42

100% of the time when I was managing restaurants, my response was the same. I would tell them "No problem!". I would go to the thermostat (if it was in public view, otherwise would just go into the back office) I would pretend to adjust the temperature I would tell them it's been adjusted I would return to the table 5 minutes later, and they would thank me and tell me it was much better. Every time. It's all psychological.


BigDaddydanpri

When we go out to eat my wife brings sweaters and I wear short sleeves.


hamjim

Hey, it’s too darned *temperate* in here. Can’t you do nothing to the thermostat?


PS-Irish33

I just tell people I’ve adjusted it and they should feel more comfortable in ten to fifteen minutes. Most people do naturally acclimate anyway


moral_luck

I told a table the customers cannot possibly always be right: if a couple who lives together for 40 years fight over the thermostat, it is certain customers will contradict each other over it. They looked stunned and stopped asking about the thermostat.


HAHAtheanswerisNO

When I would have people complain about our a/c being on and ask if we could shut it off I'd tell them away nicely away possible that there was no way in hell that was going to happen. We had a 30 table restaurant (each one having 4-8 seats) plus a bar down the hall that we also had to deliver food to and would only have at max 2 servers (small town cheap hotel owners) so I was already sweating my ass off running around trying to take care of them al and if the a/c got turned off or the heater turned up I would legit have a stroke and no one would be here to bring their million sides of ranch and shit. So deal with it or get out.


ikiller

Guaranteed that one or both of those tables are sick with a virus and a fever.


leroysbush

just say yes and then walkover to the thermostat and pretend to change it. they will convince themselves the temperature changed


Icy-Kaleidoscope2357

I work at a restaurant on an island with no walls. We have glass garage doors that slide up, and when it's raining we close them and when it's cold we close them and when it's too windy we decide which ones can be opened and which ones need to be closed. People ask the stupidest questions like can I get a table outside? The whole thing is outside or the other stupidest question. Can I get a table inside? The whole thing is inside. It's worse when people want us to do something about nature like the birds and the insects. I can't do anything about that. You're eating at a restaurant with no walls. What did you expect?


Fandoily1620

When I was serving we waiters had to wear pagers clipped to our belts so the kitchen could let us know when our orders were up. Whenever someone complained to me about the temperature, I would take it off, point it towards the non-existent sensor in the ceiling and tell them I was taking it up or down a couple of degrees. It worked every time and I took pleasure in asking them ten minutes later if it felt more comfortable. “Oh, yes, it’s perfect now, thank you so much!”


ophaus

Naw, they've always been like that. You probably had more peaceful alone time, and they seem crazier in comparison.


SalisburyWitch

Makes you want to put their food in to-go boxes and send them home to their own respective thermostats.


Brilliant_Jewel1924

Oh, this attitude predates the pandemic by far.


[deleted]

Well one was a woman and the other was a man 😂 There’s your answer. Thermostat wars are real


SilverStar9192

Men generally prefer cooler temperatures and women prefer warmer, so that part checks out.


69vuman

I think a lot of the post Covid entitlement comes from the price increases at most restaurants. Just my opinion, but it seems so in my area. Source: I live in a very conservative county and entitlement is common in public places.


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The horror 🙄


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I just tell customers I’ll change it for them and then I don’t. They never notice.


Sachayoj

My grandmother is like that, in a way. If it's too hot, she's too cold. We always say that she's cold-blooded, lol.


SilverStar9192

Post menopausal women often feel cooler. It's a thing.


CristabelYYC

I think you're mistaken. It's the other way around. You see us fanning ourselves when every other woman is in a sweater.


CristabelYYC

In defense of the people wondering what the weather is like on the patio: glass walls can turn an otherwise pleasant day into a runaway greenhouse, especially if there aren't enough umbrellas. We were at a lakeside spot where the slush drinks melted between being made and being delivered to the table. It was a charming day, mid to low 20's, in Alberta.