A Pennsylvania restaurant worker couldn’t believe her ears when, during her morning shift, a customer allegedly demanded the sandwich she was eating be given to her. Posting to r/CustomerService under the username Bandwagon056, she explained that the breakfast menu ended at 11, but the woman ordering was five minutes too late for the breakfast sandwich. At 11:30, the worker took her break and ate the sandwich she had had made three hours prior; however, the customer asked why she couldn’t eat it.
“I’m baffled that she doesn’t just realize I have not had a chance to eat my own breakfast and that this sandwich is old,” Bandwagon056 wrote, explaining that the customer believed it was a fresh breakfast sandwich that she could have ordered instead of the lunch menu. Unfortunately, the interaction went from awkward to heated, as the woman clearly wasn’t happy that the worker was enjoying their own personal sandwich. Dozens of Redditors were shocked that this lady could have even behaved like this.
After receiving a threat from the customer, the Bandwagon056 tried to politely explain that her sandwich was made at 8:30, not to mention it was for her lunch break. “So you couldn’t just sell me that one?” the woman angrily responded, to which OP replied, “You wanted my cold, old sandwich?” After that, the customer stormed out of the restaurant. “I’m still baffled with my interaction with an entitled Karen in the wild and just had to share,” Bandwagon056 concluded.
Redditors Couldn’t Believe a Why Customer Would Want an Employee’s Personal Food Over the Restaurant’s Menu
Plenty of Redditors in the comments claimed the customer was at fault for not arriving in time for the breakfast menu. Others expressed how they would behave better than the woman had they been in her shoes. “Why would someone want a sandwich that someone touch that’s crazy,” wrote a user in disbelief. “Some people just like to play these little power games,” said another.
On the flip side, one commenter argued in favor of the customer, saying that the woman was probably confused and upset that she was told that she couldn’t eat a sandwich someone in front of her was eating. Misunderstanding or not, the majority of users in the comments agree that the customer’s behavior was unacceptable.
