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Commenters on a viral video were torn after one user lamented over a customer habit they claim all restaurant employees find annoying.
Posted by user @romansparkles, the TikTok is captioned, "Every single time," and has received 12,200 votes and nearly 1,000 comments in the last week.
With a voiceover introducing the viral video as, "Things that annoy EVERY server and bartender," @romansparkles simulated taking a table's orders.
"Hi guys, I'll be your server over here. Anything I can start you off with?," the TikTok creator asked a group of imaginary customers.
After receiving multiple orders for "a Coke and a water," @romansparkles questioned the faux restaurant patrons, and detailed how annoying it is when real-life customers don't drink both of the beverages they order at the beginning of a meal.
"If I bring you the Coke and the water, you're drinking the entire water though, right?" @romansparkles continued. "Because if it's full by the time I get back and you're gone, I'm beating your f*****g a**."
Recently, Newsweek has reported on a series of poor interactions between restaurant customers and staff members, including one situation in which a waitress was fired for telling a patron's husband that his eyes "ignite" her.
In a list published by Off The Cook, the food website dedicated to "people who are serious about food, but don't take food too seriously" includes a myriad of annoying customer habits, and recommendations for how to act properly in a restaurant setting.
From not showing up at a scheduled reservation time, to requesting a bill be split "100" ways, to dining and dashing, Off The Cook revealed countless ways for a customer to adversely affect a restaurant staff.
Ordering a soda and water, and not drinking the water, however, was not included.
To conclude the viral TikTok, @romansparkles returned to the table to find multiple empty soda glasses, and four water glasses that remained filled to the brim.
"Those motherf****rs!," the TikToker exclaimed.
In the TikTok's comment section, users were left conflicted. While some commenters agreed with the viral video about annoying customer habits, others expressed their displeasure with the restaurant server's complaints.
"Half these people in comments never worked in a restaurant and it shows," TikTok user @emmathepriest wrote, defending @romansparkles.
"Y'all are obviously missing the point," another user added. "People always ask for waters and don't even touch it. What was the point for ordering just not to drink it?"
TikTok user @beccaaaa_19 commented that people who don't understand the viral video have probably never worked in a restaurant.
"Those that don't get it clearly haven't worked in the service industry," they wrote.
In a scathing response, user @christina_angelique5 said that social media posts like this viral TikTok make customers hesitate before deciding to dine at a restaurant.
"Is there anything servers and bartenders don't complain about these days?," they commented. "Makes people not wanna go out."
"Bro if this grinds your gears as a server you need to start applying for a different job," another user added.
Responding to users bashing the TikTok, @romansparkles offered up an explanation for why servers find it 'annoying' when customers don't finish the beverages they ordered.
"No one cares if you get water," they commented. "We care about an unnecessary mess."
Newsweek reached out to @romansparkles for comment.
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Taylor McCloud is a Newsweek staff writer based in California. His focus is reporting on trending and viral topics. Taylor ... Read more