An Entitled Customer Took Over Half a Restaurant for Her Rowdy Kids—Then Threw a Fit When Staff Shut It Down
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If you’ve ever worked in a restaurant before, this story right here is gonna bring back some unpleasant memories…
Because if you’ve been in the trenches, you know that there are certain customers who think everything revolves around THEM.
Ugh, it’s awful!
In today’s story, a pizza restaurant worker talked about a customer/mom who needs to banned for life…from all restaurants on the whole planet.
Check out what happened!
AITA for telling a customer that they can’t take half the restaurant for their kid?
“I work at a pizza restaurant (St. Louis style pizza) and there is an area where our wall is and there’s half wall and a little walkway to get into this more secluded part of our restaurant.
Usually, bigger groups go back there cause there’s more space to put tables together to have bigger groups. There’s also a TV back there.
So this group comes in and it’s a big family and they push some tables together, which is not a big deal, but then one of the children start screaming their head off and running around.
Ummm, you’re not supposed to do that…
So the mom decides to block off the walkway to get into this secluded area of our restaurant and block it from other people coming in (there were still space for other people to sit in that area) making it where their family were the only people back there even though everywhere else in the restaurant was pretty full and there were people still needing to sit.
Her children started running in the back area and are making a lot of noise to where other people are getting sort of annoyed so I walked back there and I move the chairs out of the way so then people can sit back there and then she yelled at me for “ being in their space“ even though it doesn’t have any restriction on reservation or anything like that.
This lady was way out of line.
She also said to me that that was an area for her kids that she needed because she didn’t want them running around everywhere.
I told her well, if you don’t want your kids running around then maybe you shouldn’t take them to a restaurant and let them run around.
Then she told me to get my manager and my manager pretty much said the same thing and said that she couldn’t do that and she said to us that we were “idiot lowlifes at a low paying job” and we just told her to leave and she took all of her pizza and pretty much screamed at us that we were terrible.
AITA?”
Check out what readers had to say about this.
This person has been there.
Another individual weighed in.
This Reddit user spoke up.
Another individual said they’re NTA.
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And this reader shared their thoughts.
This lady was over the top!
And I’m impressed with how this worker handled this whole scene.
Good grief!
This customer thought she owned the place!
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