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Daily Mirror
4 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mirror
Restaurant server floored by list of 'entitled' demands made by customer's wife
People have shared their shock over a diner's long list of rules and requirements they expect service staff to follow when dining out at their restaurant - and it includes a particular napkin colour A restaurant server has been left gobsmacked after being issued with an 'entitled' list of demands for a 'particular' customer. The diner, who has visited their restaurant 22 times, has a particular list of rules and requirements when it comes to eating at their restaurant. But rather than enjoy the experience for what it is, he has tailored it to his own needs, giving little to no regard for others who might be enjoying their dinner alongside him. Despite his one no-show and two cancellations, he expects top-level service without any delay or disruption to his wants and needs. Making five separate notes about his upcoming visit, his wife told the restaurant: "No wine menu. He is particular. Doesn't need a wine list." She also warned them that her husband will "walk in without a renovation and seat himself at [table] 61" or insist he gets "his table" without further explaining which one it is. Not only this but he only wants to use black napkins and will complain if they're any other colour. The diner is considered to be a "regular" and a "VIP" and a manager is said to be altered when he visits to ensure he receives a warm welcome. Listing his food and drink preferences, it was noted: "Always wants 'the best steaks', got to make sure we deliver. Make sure the steaks are cooked right and most importantly tender. "He will send them back. If he orders the crab cakes, no pepper and extra butter - not lemon butter. "She likes unsweet Arnold Palmers [iced tea and lemonade] and he likes Coke in a water glass. Refill drinks every 15 to 20 minutes. Bring lemon crowns for drinks instead of wedges. "He likes extra butter on the side with his crab cakes. Cowboys [steak] well marbleised and thick, cooked medium. He likes Crème Brûlée for dessert. Ridiculous amount of butter to his table, hot crispy bread." Alongside this, the wife named his favourite servers saying Jason is preferred, but Michael is acceptable if he is not available. He "always" wants a booth seat with table 61 being his favourite. However, if he is dining when four people then he wants to be seated at table 90. Shocked by the list of requirements, one user said: "This seems like a country club ticket. When I worked at one, we had profiles for all the members and they are paying a ton, and the restaurant wasn't worried about making profit, only member experience." Another user added: "When you hit that many exclamation points, it's time for a manager to put on an apron and play waiter." A third user said: "Man, and here I am getting talk back for asking for a burger without cheese."
Buzz Feed
6 days ago
- Business
- Buzz Feed
People Are Upset AriZona Iced Teas May Increase Prices
I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you this, but... it's happening: companies have continued dealing with the consequences of President Trump's tariff war, and they're finally beginning to pass tariffs on to consumers as a result. And as a regular consumer of Arnold Palmers, I'm even sorrier to tell you that one of the victims of these tariffs could potentially be the one and only 99-cent AriZona canned iced teas. The New York Times reported this week that Don Vultaggio, the CEO of AriZona, has spent weeks contemplating something he thought "he would never do: raise the 99-cent price of its canned iced teas," which has stayed the same since 1997. They noted that "About 80 percent of the aluminum AriZona uses to make its tallboys comes from recycled material produced in the United States. The rest is imported from Canada, and subject to a 50 percent import duty."The prices haven't officially been raised just yet, and Vultaggio is supposedly "clinging to cautious optimism." On X (formerly Twitter), people were absolutely devastated by the possible price increase. "my faith in society is gone. even the arizona iced tea couldn't escape the tariffs." "YOU'VE TAKEN THE ONE GOOD THING IN MY LIFE" "if Arizona tea has to increase their can prices, its a sign we should just go extinct as a species." "this literally the only thing left that stayed true to their code." "True sign of a recession." "this is an apocalypse indicator, end times are nigh." And finally, this person had a liiiiiiiittle history lesson for us all: "You know what happened last time Americans were mad about tariffs raising the price of tea?" At least we'll still have the $1.50 Costco hot dogs. Right? Right?
Buzz Feed
11-04-2025
- General
- Buzz Feed
Older Adults Are Sharing The Now-Common Foods That Didn't Exist When They Were Growing Up, And As A Gen Z'er, I'm Floored
Recently, Redditor u/Dull_Procedure2586 asked the older adults of the Reddit community to share the now-common foods that didn't exist while they were growing up, and as a Gen Z'er, I'm shook. Here are some of the responses that, depending on your age, will either have you nodding your head at the memories or widening your eyes in surprise: 1. "Flavored and fancy coffees, like mochas. I worked at Dunkin' in the '80s, and you could have your coffee one of two ways: regular or decaf. In the early '90s, I started putting hot chocolate powder in my coffee, and everyone gave me a shocked look and asked what the hell I was doing. I wish I ran with that idea. Same thing with Arnold Palmers. I used to be a bartender and mixed sour mix and iced tea together. I was ahead of my time in the beverage department; I just didn't know it." 3. "You can get food all the time now, whereas before, you used to only be able to get foods that were in season. Things like grapes, strawberries, watermelon, oranges, and more used to only be available in a single season, so we relied more on canned fruit. I remember when kiwis first started appearing. Everyone was like, 'What is that?'" 4. "Bottled water." — GRYFFYN68 "I remember my uncle ranting about bottled water every time he saw it when it first started becoming ubiquitous in the '90s. He couldn't understand why anyone would pay for water (and create all that plastic waste) when pretty much everyone could have all they wanted for free from the tap. But he was an old country boy who had never lived anywhere that didn't have good well water or a natural spring on the property. I don't think he realized how funky some tap water can be." — kmill0202 5. "Made-to-order fast food. If you went to McDonald's in the 1970s, all the hamburgers came with ketchup, mustard, pickles, and chopped onions. If you wanted a plain hamburger or one without onions, you paid, stepped out of line, and waited. After the cook made the next batch of burgers, he'd separate your order out and put it together. It wasn't really 'fast' food; it could take as long as 10 minutes — more if the cook forgot about your special order." 7. "Flavorless tomatoes. Younger people would be surprised that tomatoes used to take Unless younger people have eaten garden-grown tomatoes, millions of people have no idea how good a tomato can actually be. But for the past 30 or more years, the emphasis has been on creating produce that keeps well throughout shipping, storage, and display, with little regard to flavor or texture. Grocery store tomatoes might as well be easily stacked squares just to get across the reality that they're nothing more than facsimiles." 9. "Natural-colored pistachios. Why were they dyed red?" u/Rescue_9 / Via 11. "Tofu was hard to find and typically only found in 'health food' stores." 13. "PROTEIN. Protein powders for shakes back in the '80s and '90s would gag a maggot. And there weren't a whole lot of brands to choose from. The powders and premade stuff now are delicious. Also, pre-workout, intra-workout, electrolytes, and a host of other supplements didn't even exist back then. Even though Gatorade came out in the '60s, we weren't drinking it at sports practices and games. You had tap water coming out of a PVC pipe with holes drilled in it." 14. "Any apple that wasn't a Red Delicious or Granny Smith." — DistinctMeringue 15. "My mother was born in 1931, and she said that when she was young, lamb was very cheap and a common meat to get at the butcher's. Compare that today where lamb is, like, $30 for a pound." 17. "Kettle-cooked potato chips were not around 40 years ago, and I can recall moseying down a Manhattan supermarket snack food aisle sometime after that amount of time and spying something called 'Hawaiian Kettle Potato Chips' amidst the Lays and other brands prevalent back then. I bought a bag and was floored. They were so different." 19. "Ranch dressing was not around when I was a kid, and I did not have it until I was a teenager. If I recall correctly, it wasn't even bottled yet. My mom would buy a package of dried ingredients and mix it with buttermilk." u/McBeauzel / Via 20. Lastly: "European sweets and candies and spreads like Nutella were very hard to get. And if your specialty store ran out, it took six weeks to get it replenished. We had this specialty German deli that sold Kinder chocolate, Nutella, and Haribo, but now you can have it in a day off Amazon Prime." — Chateaudelait
