« Ms. Clark is relatively tolerant of customers with genuine health problems, but many [waiter] bloggers reserve their most towering rages for customers with real or imagined dietary restrictions. Last year a server at a Sizzler steakhouse in Norco, Calif., was arrested after a fight with Atkins-dieting customers over whether vegetables could be substituted for potatoes. Participants in online forums reacted with understanding, though the consensus was that Jonathan Voeltner, the server, had gone too far in following the customers and covering their house with maple syrup, flour and instant mashed potatoes. « Use the forum, dude! » one poster urged. « Blow off the steam here. »
From the New York Times, The Waiter You Stiffed Has Not Forgotten.
(Found via Waiter Rant)
