Have I posted this before? Does it have the exact same title and is about the exact same subject? Probably, but it deserves a reposting because people who go out to eat at restaurants are oftentimes absolute morons. A guy this evening walks in, sits down, and does not open his menu. Assuming he has been here before and already knows what he wants I approach him to take his order. He looks at me directly and says, "I want a steak."
"I'm sorry, sir, we don't have steak."
*baffled expression of disbelief*
"You don't have steak???"
"No sir. We have steak tacos..."
"No, that's not what I want. I want steak." He puts his hands in the shape of a steak to inform me of what a steak looks like.
"We don't have steak."
"Well, what DO you have??"
I took what little patience I had left, balled it up in a big ball, reached down, opened his menu gently and said as if talking to a small child, "We have the items that are here in our menu." More baffled expressions from him. "Mostly pizzas, pastas, and salads."
"Oh, well I'll have to go somewhere else, then."
Have a great day sir, go die, and learn how to read a menu. Bye.
This is LITERALLY the best piece of advice my restaurant can give me.
