Unlike the Cornfather, I really hate to make a fuss in restaurants. As long as the food the waiter brings me is a close approximation of what I ordered, I’m cool with it. Really, someone who has access to your food away from where you can see it, is someone who I choose to be extremely polite to at all times. I worked at a fast food restaurant when I was going to college. I know what goes on. Believe me, you do not want to piss these people off. While I never did anything untoward, many of the other cashiers and servers were not as scrupulous. The things they did still have me waking in a cold sweat on some nights, clutching my blankets, a silent scream stuck in my throat.
Check out the previous strips in the “Cornfather’s Diet” storyline, here:
• JEFBOT.204_Unhappy Meal
• JEFBOT.205_Just Desserts
This reminds me of the BK incident that happened at a thruway BK a few years back and he kids got caught doing it. Love how spit is all in bold there. 😛 I myself hate making a fuss, but sometimes when the service or food is bad enough, I will make a fuss. In fact back during the summer, my girlfriend and I went to a local place and the woman who served us ignored us 98 % of the time. My girlfriend and I now have the nickname 31 and 67. I’m sure you can figure out why. 😛 Nice strip, and love the clever names for them!
there should be a special punishment for people who get caught doing this stuff, Spanky. like, they should be forced to eat whatever food they tampered with. 🙂 and i love your nicknames – which one are you? 31 or 67? and glad you like the titles!
Haha I’m 67 😛
Heh, people who only complain deserve it. It’s not worth the minimum wage to listen their crap and how the prices aren’t to their liking. You don’t like what you see, than go to Pizza Hut for all I care. Idiot customers…
i love Pizza Hut, Lax! 😉
When I am in those restaurants, I always get the fear of them spitting in my food. This takes it to a new level.
XP And awesome new strip, at least they try to keep the hair out of it.
Oh wait I forgot something, first!!!
Actually I’m awaiting my comment to be approved by Mr. Bot, sorry.
Oh well I will try again next time I am stuck unable to sleep till 4 in the morning XP
Eep! Insomnia?
meh, its a weak case
yeah, sorry Z – Spanky’s first comment got flagged for some reason so i had to approve it. there’s got to be a way that i can just automatically clear you regulars.
I’ve noticed it asks for your approval when I have more than 1 smiley in with my text. *shrug* Seems to be the only time it asks.
god forbid there should be too many smileys on this site, Spanks! 😉
It kinda depends on the comment system your using, but there probably is a way if ya look around long enough.
yeah, there’s gotta be a solution. i’ll try and google it later.
i’m seriously paranoid about this kind of thing, Z! and yeah, nice of them to take the hair out. 😀
To be honest I rarely ever eat out after that summer working at a restaurant, there was some horrible acts of revenge some of those waiters pulled. Then again, I may have laughed a few times when they left without even realizing what was put in it.
it took me some time to start eating fast food again after working at one of those restaurants, Z, but now i eat it, happily, at least a few times a week. i should probably remind myself exactly what’s in that food and start eating at home more often.
BWAHAHAHAHA!!! I guess I’m just phsycic. xD
Great line! But I has a questioning… Who actually had the strawberries and who the cake? The diet led us to beleive t’would be Jefbot, but in the final panel the cake’s still happily in front of JEFBOT.205_Just Desserts, Michael.
In the final panel of this strip, the cake plate appears to be in front of Jefbot. o_O
You have confungled me once more, Master Schuetze.
Also LOVE the “ever so pleased with himself” expression on Michael in the last panel. ^w^
it seems a couple of you wanted the waiters to get revenge on CF, Nya! heheh.
and although the cake was given to the Cornfather and the strawberries given to bot in JEFBOT.205, it truly was a mistake. you’ll notice that jefbot is reaching for the cake to swap it out with the berries in that last panel, hence the positioning of the bowl and dish in today’s strip. 🙂
I’m right with you on that one, Jeff.
sweet. yeah, there’s just too much risk involved when interacting with people who handle your food, SY.
All I can say is UGH! This strip really makes me glad I try to always treat people nicely or at least civilly. It takes a lot to make me be rude to someone – especially someone with a crappy job.
I just went looking for Wil Wheaton’s recent mention of JefBot on his blog and couldn’t find it. (I found your comic as a result of his earlier mention of your story arc featuring him.) Can you point me to where he talked about you this time?
He mentioned it via his twitter account actually, Shanna 🙂
Thanks, Spanky. Got it now. Wil seems to singlehandedly control the hive mind of the online geek set. 🙂
ah, so true. good thing he’s a benevolent ruler. 😉
yep, it takes a LOT for me to pull any sort of attitude on a waiter, Shanna. (especially if my food is still being cooked.) 😉
Oh god! The memories! I’d never work on a fast food or any food service company (thanks heavens for that! I get sick just watching my mom cook ;__; but I love when everything is served and ready to eat!), but my big big brothers did… and the things they told me they did when customers pissed them off… well, jef, I share share your experience of waking up in the middle of the night clutching blankets and in cold sweat. Really horrible. At least my brothers “swear” that they only did this when the customers were really really nasty without real blame on the part of the customers.
Still… >__< another reason to only eat at mom’s. She won’t ruin a good meal if we’re “mean or nasty”. She would just ground us and give us no food.
Noooooooo! We’ll be good, mommy! Give us your yummy food, pretty please!!!!!
(Her food is THAT awesome!)
Thanks for the wonderful strip, jef. Most probably I’ll have nightmares for the next few days, but it was worth it! You rock!! And we – your rabid fans- wub you! *glomps Jefbot*
you’re lucky you never had to work in fast food, Sonitan. i did it for one semester and then had to get out. luckily, my computer/art skills were pretty good so i got a job as a graphic designer in the student union. saved my life! (but it didn’t pay very well. bleh.)
ugh. i think i have a good idea of what your brothers did to the food of those nasty customers, and all i can say is that i’m probably gonna be waking up in a cold sweat twice as often now, Son. 🙁
mombot’s food is awesome, too – in fact, she made some super-delicious enchiladas for my sister Lor’s bday on sunday! so good.
sorry for the nightmares, but thanks for the wub! *glomps Sonitan back*
*Gets in on the glomps* Let’s start a glomp pile! 😀
First Rule of food. DO NOT PISS OFF THOSE WHO HANDLE IT. Haven’t you seen Waiting?
Exactly 🙂
saw the trailer for it but never checked it out, DJ. worth adding to my Netflix queue?
Yes. Its hilarious. The second one isn’t the worth the plastic the disc is made of.
i had no idea there even was a sequel! must be seriously bad.
That’s nasty! … I believe there is a right way and a wrong way to ask for something while ordering… though I can’t be sure The Cornfather did it the wrong way (as we didn’t hear that part of the conversation) I can only imagine it was the wrong way, based on the vile going on in that bowl! P. S. Awesome artwork Jefbot!
Hey FS- this strip is a continuation of the last three strips. Re-read the last strip and you’ll see that part of the conversation that makes the wait staff spit in the food. 😉
thanks, Funnyshaffer! yeah, like MC said, this one’s a continuation of the last strip. and while the Cornfather’s outburst might not have justified this reaction from the waiters, it just goes to show that you can never be too careful. 🙂
Jefbot’s body language and expression in that last panel is brilliant! As are those of The Cornfather! Well done!
thanks, Annie! i was kinda happy with the TC and bot’s “acting” in that last panel, too. 🙂
I like waiters and waitresses. But especially waiters. Before money started getting tight my girlfriends and I used to flirt the waiters up at restaurants sometimes twice a week. It was good fun and we’d get the occasional freebie for making that fella’s night. Never had to worry about unsavory stuff in that!
Truth be told though, the best part about flirting up the waiters is watching my mom and her friends do it. Better then a Sunday night line up.
heheh. sounds like the Cornfather could learn something from you and your mom, Foxmouse! sometimes the old addage that you attract more bees with honey than with vinegar is true. 🙂
I believe that the customer is always right. Especially when the wait staff is always wrong. And I for sure will let them know. I also will let them know when they’re doing a good job, too. For example, I called the 1-800 Sizzler line just the other day to compliment one of the servers. Aside from all of that, this is another fantastic strip, bot. I especially love the three waiters. Oohh, in terms of spit and iguana barf, as long as I don’t taste it, it didn’t happen. :-p
heheh. who knows? maybe iguana barf tastes good. and it’s true – you do compliment the good waiters. i know you’ve gotten gift certificates for being nice, too. but you mostly get them for being mean. 😉
*whispers* Sssizzzler.
Sizzzler…the GREATEST restaurant EVER invented.
I definitely subscribe to the theory of “make friends with the people that touch your food”. If they suck, I complain AFTER I’ve already got my food. The key word being “after”
and even then, if i’m going to complain i have no intention of going back to the restaurant, on the off-chance that they remember me and i get some retroactive revenge.
That’s it right there, that’s the evil power wielded by nefarious restaurant servers. The doom that they rain down upon the common man is but a fraction of wrath reserved for raising their precarious ire.
those restaurant servers do have an inordinate amount of power, don’t they, Cheddarman. i’ve gotta believe i’ve been on the receiving end of their wrath, unknowingly. probably as collateral damage from their bio-warfare against the Cornfather. 🙁
Another life lesson from Jefbot. Especially liked the “pick the hair out.”
heh. thanks, sis!
This is one of the reasons that I prefer to cook for myself. After all; if I piss myself off, am I going to spit in my own food?
ha! what a great, existential question, reynard61. hmmm.
I worked in a restaurant once.
I will never eat chicken wings again.
LALALA! i don’t even want to hear it, Elwain! don’t take chicken wings from me!!!
Exactly! I’m generally polite anyway (to the point of being a pushover usually) but I am a total suck-up to the people who prepare my food and handle my baggage at the airport (and I’ve never lost a bag… knock on wood)! 🙂
i don’t think you can be too much of suck-up to waiters, Zanne! and actually, i prefer to think of it as just being smart! and, yeah, being extra polite to baggage handlers is probably a good idea, too. 🙂
I’m not sure I’ve ever MET a baggage handler. But if I have, I guess I must have royally pissed one of them off. After Christmas this year, one of our hard-sided suitcases came up the ramp onto the baggage carousel popped open with stuff spilling out. Why was it popped open you ask – because the jerks ripped off one of our unlocky-button-clasp-thingies. You know what I mean. That thing you pull to the side to pop the clasp and open the suitcase. And it was the bag with all the presents in it! How do you make an angry smiley on this? Imagine a really mad smiley here ->
👿 < - here's an extra angry smiley for ya, Shanna! i'm totally freaked out to hear your story 'cuz whenever that carousel starts, i'm always expecting the contents of my luggage to come spilling down the slide. now i know i'm not completely paranoid.
Excellent story arc. I liked it a lot.
I loved the “I think it used to be mayonnaise.” It really reminded me of so of my experiences at work. *shudders*
We used to joke about keeping a bottle filled with “special sauce” for our customers. It’s amazing how some people treat the people who are making their food. However, at our restaurant we make their food in front of them, so the mean and nasty ones are safe.
thanks, emikae! this mini story-arc is going to transition to the next one in friday’s strip.
and your hypothetical bottle of “special sauce” = eww. and i’m sure you could find a way to sneak something gross onto a particularly rude customer’s plate. not that i’m suggesting that at all.
🙂
My bro worked for restraunt. My bro has a really bad dandruff problem so he wore a hat when he worked. This one customer was being an ass so he emptied his hat on the food. “It’s sugar” He told the poor sap
too bad it wasn’t an italian dish (or was it?) like lasagna or spaghetti, IDTMRB; your brother could’ve just told them it was grated parmesan.
I’m imressped! You’ve managed the almost impossible.
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Im going to barf. Seriously. Thats disgusting!
I hope Cornfather eats it…
heheh. i was getting a little nauseous just thinking about the Cornfather eating that mess, Maryz. you’ll know by the next strip whether he dodges that bullet or not.
Sprouts! Disgusting!
ha! but everything else is okay, right?
I used to work as a busser at a local joint a few years back (gawd I’m getting old…), and while I never saw any spitting or anything going on, I was occasionally on the receiving end of those people who would flip out of there was so much as a pea missing from their plate. Let me tell you, sometimes the temptation to spit or otherwise “alter” the person’s food almost becomes justifiable.
Luckily, I’ve only had a couple sparse incidents where I’ve had to complain in a restaurant, mostly due to getting the wrong order or something. I do try and be as polite about it as possible, since I know mistakes do happen. Most of the time, people don’t realize how BUSY it can be at times. There’s only one kitchen with maybe 10 or so people working it, and when you have 20-30 individual orders going through there at one time, it can lead to some confusion. I’ve never heard of an instance where someone intentionally screws up an order, so I don’t see the point in getting all worked up about it
that’s why i don’t understand how people can treat their waiters rudely, Alexander! you’re just a bad judgment call away from eating someone else’s booger, spit or god-knows-what-else. insanity.
and yeah, i’m the same way about not getting worked up about it. i don’t even have to curb my tongue since i really don’t get upset if something isn’t right about my order.
we should all be nice to our siblings as well. who knows what their doing in the kitchen while you sit there & chat up mom and dad….
Xinda? WHAT DID YOU DO!!!?
I actually cannot imagine someone would do such a thing, on the other hand, I cannot understand why so many people are such incredible *********
sadly, some people don’t even need a reason to do such things, Guus. i’m sure some just do it for kicks.
and now i’m never eating out again. 😉
Ugh. I work in fast food right now, though most of the time people can watch us… but the staff last summer was awful… and so were some of the customers. They ended up with flies in their sandwiches when they were particularly terrible to serve. =/
I just glare when I don’t like a customer… and possibly yell if they’re wandering around the store and not paying attention to what they’re ordering. Seriously some of the things we COULD do when the food is right in front of the customers without them realizing is ridiculous.
i’d rather have an evil glare than a fly sandwich, Jhinnua! but see, this is why i’m just super nice to waiters and waitresses – like you said, it’s just so easy to do even the slightest icky thing to a rude customer. or maybe i just don’t trust people. 🙂
somebody is in for a serious food poisoning…….there is a saying that i go by….never insult those who cook your mail and/ or those who deliver it
not sure i completely understand it, but i wish more people would live by that saying, JF3. 😀
I’ve had a couple hundred different jobs, and i remember working at a restaurant. I always hated the dicks who would be mean to everyone for no particular reason. I always make sure to pay them respect for the shit they have to put up with… plus i’ve gotten a few numbers from being nice lol
it drives me absolutely crazy when i see people being dicks for no reason, Sunolet! i either seethe silently or have to get involved if i witness someone being mistreated. urgh. makes me so. mad. and that’s awesome you got numbers for being nice!
Aaaaannnnddd, I won’t be eatng fast food for a while.
heheh. after drawing this strip, i think i need a break too, epikto. 🙂
I worked at Chili’s for a year, not as a server OR a cook…I was the “Quality Assurance” person. Which meant I stood between the servers and the cooks and made sure the right food got to the right tables. Most of the time, I did a pretty good job (and made sure the servers didn’t do anything TOO bad to the food), but there were a couple times when the customers came AND FOUND ME AT MY COUNTER to complain about their service, that I looked the other way when the servers asked. And then there were some servers I wanted to get revenge on, so sometimes they’d end up with their food not going out for thirty minutes. On Friday night. Yes, I can be evil…
i had no idea Chili’s had a “quality assurance” person, Cera! you didn’t happen to work at the one in Northridge, didja? if so – sorry. my friends and i spent many a drunk, rowdy night there when i was in college. 🙁
and i like your revenge on those servers (although probably not so much if i were a customer) – not bad enough to get anyone sick, but enough to get people annoyed at your targets. 🙂
This is the main reason why I always eat at buffets or at fast food joints. I just can’t trust those people who are handling my food.