Me: “No… it really wasn’t, and I won’t let you try again. Pay in the next ten seconds or I’m cancelling the order.” Me: “Look, do you think if you take long enough, I’m going to give you the food for free?” The customer then, somehow, resumes their search even more slowly! They still keep checking me for a reaction and I decide enough is enough and call them out on it.
I’m sure my wallet is in here somewhere.” Me: “If you like, I can suspend the order until you’ve found your wallet and serve the customers behind you.”Ĭustomer: “No… it’s okay. They then start removing items from their backpack - equally slowly - but they also keep looking at me, as if checking for my reaction to their drawn-out attempt at paying. The customer only then makes a slooooow attempt to dig their wallet out of the bottom of their backpack. I work fast food on a college campus, and we often get many late-night customers (students) who stand in line, order, and then:
