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Eight Categories Of Most Controversial Customers You Will See At A Restaurant by SweetyMarvel00(op): 7:30am On Jul 20, 2016

I work in a popular Restaurant outlet in Lagos as a frontliner/server. The eatry is not different from all other eatries in Nigeria. Most times,when our customers display these behaviors in public places,it shows who they really are at home and how they deal with people aside. As people have different faces,so are their behaviors. Here are the characters I have seen so far amongst our different customers who never zeises to amaze me.

QUESTIONAIRES AND ASKERS.
They will question you to hell fire and task your brain out of your head.
They are seeing food on the counter didplay but they still want to know what type of food it is from you. Then they will still go on to ask who cooked the food,how hygenic it is prepared,how it was cooked,the ingredients used in cooking them,how salty or how tasty,if it is going to purge their stomach or not. Gush! These set of restaurant questionnaires will ask and ask until you run out of answers. The annoying part is that they may end up leaving and not buy anything at last.

QUICK QUICK QUICK!
The quick quick quick customers know what they want to buy already before coming. They are the ones that appreciate our take away packs. They act like governors and commissioners who have all the appointments in the world and they often look at their wrist watches. You dare not waste their dear precious time,otherwise you will experience the barking of your life and by the time they bark at you,you would prefer them to bite you when they come next time.

CUSTOMERS OF LIFE
Customers of life are one of the most annoying customers. Whenever I see a customer emerge into the restaurant with a newspaper or anything readably,I know they are coming to enjoy the environment and not to buy any food.
Some of them will cunningly buy a bottle water and sit down for 5 straight hours,watching TV and reading newspapers with their fake reading glasses. And they like to sit near the Air Conditional side to get the best of everything. These set of customers irritates me since they are occupying seats for better Customers. Honestly,I do feel like flogging them away. Yes! They have over stayed their welcome with zero partronage!
That was how the other day a man came into our restaurant and sat down and put a toothpick in his mouth,very busy with it,so that when people come or see him,they will think he has eaten a whole lot and just waiting for the food to digest whereas he has eaten nothing from the beginning and he's absolutely picking nothing out of his teeth.
The management of our company authorized 24/7 news channels to scare such people away a little. If it were sports channels,our restaurant will turn into a sports viewing centre.

INSATIABLE CUSTOMERS
Serve them heaven and earth, these customers will never get satisfied. They will always feel and cry out you are cheating them. Always! They will give you problems,bore your spirit and tell you it is their hard earned money and they are paying for it. That is their blunt justification.
These customers forget that,as a server,if you over portion for customers and at the end of the day,when everything is calculated and recorded if there's any shortage,it will be debited from servers salaries. Try explaining that to them,they will tell you are talking bulshit! You will receive the blunt answer of the year.
One particular woman does this alot and I don't like serving her again. However,as a trained server,you still have to overlook her mood and serve her and then collect her money. That is the priority there.

PRICE CHECKERS
The first timers,they can't contain the boggling excitement,seeing a new restaurant established in their area. They will come and look around the environment with enthusiasm and collect the flyer or food menu,promising to come back next time,but it surprises me that you will never see these spirit customers again after much expectation.

HIGH CLASS CUSTOMERS
These are the big men and women of the society. Everything about them is gentleness. They walk gently,talk gently,smile gently. Most of them like to show off which I find funny because we know already they have money, what is the need of showing off again?. I like these customers because I know very soon,I will be in that class.

TRANSFER AGGRESSION CUSTOMERS
Even when you welcome them with smile,they will never brighten up their face. If you dare make any little mistake from what they told you to serve them,there you will know what I mean by "Transfer aggression'
They might have had issues with their hubbies friends or children,but they will never bury it there. The way they look and talk to you,it will be as if you are the one that made them angry.

FRIENDLY CUSTOMERS
They are very free and sociable,notwithdtanding their class in the society. They crack jokes,make you smile and would like to know every servers name. Sometimes when they come,they gift you with monies. These are the set of customers I enjoy the most.

Do you work in a restaurant as me? Or any commercial public place What's your experience with your customers so far...and which category of a customer are you. Because in one way or the other,you are also a customer some where.

Re: Eight Categories Of Most Controversial Customers You Will See At A Restaurant by BornnAgainChild(f): 7:42am On Jul 20, 2016

SweetyMarvel00:
I work in a popular Restaurant outlet in Lagos as a frontliner/server. The eatry is not different from all other eatries in Nigeria. Most times,when our customers display these behaviors in public places,it shows who they really are at home and how they deal with people aside. As people have different faces,so are their behaviors. Here are the characters I have seen so far amongst our different customers who never zeises to amaze me.

QUESTIONAIRES AND ASKERS.
They will question you to hell fire and task your brain out of your head.
They are seeing food on the counter didplay but they still want to know what type of food it is from you. Then they will still go on to ask who cooked the food,how hygenic it is prepared,how it was cooked,the ingredients used in cooking them,how salty or how tasty,if it is going to purge their stomach or not. Gush! These set of restaurant questionnaires will ask and ask until you run out of answers. The annoying part is that they may end up leaving and not buy anything at last.

QUICK QUICK QUICK!
The quick quick quick customers know what they want to buy already before coming. They are the ones that appreciate our take away packs. They act like governors and commissioners who have all the appointments in the world and they often look at their wrist watches. You dare not waste their dear precious time,otherwise you will experience the barking of your life and by the time they bark at you,you would prefer them to bite you when they come next time.

CUSTOMERS OF LIFE
Customers of life are one of the most annoying customers. Whenever I see a customer emerge into the restaurant with a newspaper or anything readably,I know they are coming to enjoy the environment and not to buy any food.
Some of them will cunningly buy a bottle water and sit down for 5 straight hours,watching TV and reading newspapers with their fake reading glasses. And they like to sit near the Air Conditional side to get the best of everything. These set of customers irritates me since they are occupying seats for better Customers. Honestly,I do feel like flogging them away. Yes! They have over stayed their welcome with zero partronage!
That was how the other day a man came into our restaurant and sat down and put a toothpick in his mouth,very busy with it,so that when people come or see him,they will think he has eaten a whole lot and just waiting for the food to digest whereas he has eaten nothing from the beginning and he's absolutely picking nothing out of his teeth.
The management of our company authorized 24/7 news channels to scare such people away a little. If it were sports channels,our restaurant will turn into a sports viewing centre.

INSATIABLE CUSTOMERS
Serve them heaven and earth, these customers will never get satisfied. They will always feel and cry out you are cheating them. Always! They will give you problems,bore your spirit and tell you it is their hard earned money and they are paying for it. That is their blunt justification.
These customers forget that,as a server,if you over portion for customers and at the end of the day,when everything is calculated and recorded if there's any shortage,it will be debited from servers salaries. Try explaining that to them,they will tell you are talking bulshit! You will receive the blunt answer of the year.
One particular woman does this alot and I don't like serving her again. However,as a trained server,you still have to overlook her mood and serve her and then collect her money. That is the priority there.

PRICE CHECKERS
The first timers,they can't contain the boggling excitement,seeing a new restaurant established in their area. They will come and look around the environment with enthusiasm and collect the flyer or food menu,promising to come back next time,but it surprises me that you will never see these spirit customers again after much expectation.

HIGH CLASS CUSTOMERS
These are the big men and women of the society. Everything about them is gentleness. They walk gently,talk gently,smile gently. Most of them like to show off which I find funny because we know already they have money, what is the need of showing off again?. I like these customers because I know very soon,I will be in that class.

TRANSFER AGGRESSION CUSTOMERS
Even when you welcome them with smile,they will never brighten up their face. If you dare make any little mistake from what they told you to serve them,there you will know what I mean by "Transfer aggression'
They might have had issues with their hubbies friends or children,but they will never bury it there. The way they look and talk to you,it will be as if you are the one that made them angry.

FRIENDLY CUSTOMERS
They are very free and sociable,notwithdtanding their class in the society. They crack jokes,make you smile and would like to know every servers name. Sometimes when they come,they gift you with monies. These are the set of customers I enjoy the most.

Do you work in a restaurant as me? Or any commercial public place What's your experience with your customers so far...and which category of a customer are you. Because in one way or the other,you are also a customer some where.

Waiting for who will come and say I quoted everything without commenting

Re: Eight Categories Of Most Controversial Customers You Will See At A Restaurant by Kollyk11(m): 8:16am On Jul 20, 2016

u are not a born again at all.born again dont look for trouble. grin

Re: Eight Categories Of Most Controversial Customers You Will See At A Restaurant by SweetyMarvel19(m): 11:41am On Jan 11, 2019

SweetyMarvel00:
I work in a popular Restaurant outlet in Lagos as a frontliner/server. The eatry is not different from all other eatries in Nigeria. Most times,when our customers display these behaviors in public places,it shows who they really are at home and how they deal with people aside. As people have different faces,so are their behaviors. Here are the characters I have seen so far amongst our different customers who never zeises to amaze me.

QUESTIONAIRES AND ASKERS.
They will question you to hell fire and task your brain out of your head.
They are seeing food on the counter didplay but they still want to know what type of food it is from you. Then they will still go on to ask who cooked the food,how hygenic it is prepared,how it was cooked,the ingredients used in cooking them,how salty or how tasty,if it is going to purge their stomach or not. Gush! These set of restaurant questionnaires will ask and ask until you run out of answers. The annoying part is that they may end up leaving and not buy anything at last.

QUICK QUICK QUICK!
The quick quick quick customers know what they want to buy already before coming. They are the ones that appreciate our take away packs. They act like governors and commissioners who have all the appointments in the world and they often look at their wrist watches. You dare not waste their dear precious time,otherwise you will experience the barking of your life and by the time they bark at you,you would prefer them to bite you when they come next time.

CUSTOMERS OF LIFE
Customers of life are one of the most annoying customers. Whenever I see a customer emerge into the restaurant with a newspaper or anything readably,I know they are coming to enjoy the environment and not to buy any food.
Some of them will cunningly buy a bottle water and sit down for 5 straight hours,watching TV and reading newspapers with their fake reading glasses. And they like to sit near the Air Conditional side to get the best of everything. These set of customers irritates me since they are occupying seats for better Customers. Honestly,I do feel like flogging them away. Yes! They have over stayed their welcome with zero partronage!
That was how the other day a man came into our restaurant and sat down and put a toothpick in his mouth,very busy with it,so that when people come or see him,they will think he has eaten a whole lot and just waiting for the food to digest whereas he has eaten nothing from the beginning and he's absolutely picking nothing out of his teeth.
The management of our company authorized 24/7 news channels to scare such people away a little. If it were sports channels,our restaurant will turn into a sports viewing centre.

INSATIABLE CUSTOMERS
Serve them heaven and earth, these customers will never get satisfied. They will always feel and cry out you are cheating them. Always! They will give you problems,bore your spirit and tell you it is their hard earned money and they are paying for it. That is their blunt justification.
These customers forget that,as a server,if you over portion for customers and at the end of the day,when everything is calculated and recorded if there's any shortage,it will be debited from servers salaries. Try explaining that to them,they will tell you are talking bulshit! You will receive the blunt answer of the year.
One particular woman does this alot and I don't like serving her again. However,as a trained server,you still have to overlook her mood and serve her and then collect her money. That is the priority there.

PRICE CHECKERS
The first timers,they can't contain the boggling excitement,seeing a new restaurant established in their area. They will come and look around the environment with enthusiasm and collect the flyer or food menu,promising to come back next time,but it surprises me that you will never see these spirit customers again after much expectation.

HIGH CLASS CUSTOMERS
These are the big men and women of the society. Everything about them is gentleness. They walk gently,talk gently,smile gently. Most of them like to show off which I find funny because we know already they have money, what is the need of showing off again?. I like these customers because I know very soon,I will be in that class.

TRANSFER AGGRESSION CUSTOMERS
Even when you welcome them with smile,they will never brighten up their face. If you dare make any little mistake from what they told you to serve them,there you will know what I mean by "Transfer aggression'
They might have had issues with their hubbies friends or children,but they will never bury it there. The way they look and talk to you,it will be as if you are the one that made them angry.

FRIENDLY CUSTOMERS
They are very free and sociable,notwithdtanding their class in the society. They crack jokes,make you smile and would like to know every servers name. Sometimes when they come,they gift you with monies. These are the set of customers I enjoy the most.

Do you work in a restaurant as me? Or any commercial public place What's your experience with your customers so far...and which category of a customer are you. Because in one way or the other,you are also a customer some where.

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