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It's been a long time, but I used to work at a corporate dining place that did a lot of take out business. I once had a man ask for "as much thousand island dressing as possible".
I was going to just give him two portions, but my coworker convinced me to fill a large soda cup instead. Why not? We worked for tips after all.
The customer was pretty bewildered. He clearly didn't really want that much dressing.
Man was lying to you. He deserved it.
I doubt you or anyone here will disagree with me, but it still needs to be said: that man was 100% in the wrong.
Asking for a bunch of extra dressing is one thing, but asking for "as much as possible" means when they actually go out of their way to accommodate you, you better show you're ecstatic, thank them, and tip them well. I don't care if you have to lug a bucket of dressing home, maybe you'll learn that words have meanings...
I agree! And I like to think that, as he looked over his several bottles worth of dressing in a beverage cup, he did learn to consider his words more carefully.
But I didn't mind the whole experience. It's not my dressing and it made for a pretty funny story.
When you work for tips, you are actually working for the customer since they're paying you more?
It certainly creates an incentive to act in ways that please the customer at the expense of the business. But the restaurant controls your access to the customer, so it's best to tread lightly.