Servers At a Chinese Restaurant Forgot To Delete The Part Of The Receipt Where They Said The Customer Was An Asshole With a Tiny Dick

Washington Post - Four diners, three of them wearing plaid, were ready to enjoy a meal Saturday night at Peter Chang in Arlington, the authentic Sichuan outpost opened by the Chinese embassy chef turned serial restaurateur. But the dinner took a left turn when the server brought out a family-style bowl of rice.

One of the diners, who had lived in Beijing for much in the 2000s, was surprised by the rice presentation and made a comment to the server, saying “‘Oh, you guys don’t serve them in individual rice bowls?’,” related another diner in the party, who asked to go by his first name, Matt.

The server told the group that when rice is served to three or more diners at Peter Chang, it comes in a large bowl. The former Beijing resident thought that was odd, considering the family-sized portion ran counter to the personalized bowls he encountered in China. The server then asked if the foursome would like individual rice bowls instead. They declined.

“She said, ‘No, no, I can bring it for you,” Matt related. “He said, ‘No, no, don’t worry about it. It’s fine. Just wanted to let you know that’s the way it’s done in China. It’s not a big deal. . . It just got really awkward.” The diners thought that was the end of the episode until it came time to pay. The group asked to split the check four ways, to which the server apparently said, “That’s totally how they do it in China.”

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Holy shit. I could not be more team Sassy Waiter in this situation. Hey guys in plaid, you’re at their restaurant, how bout you eat the rice the way they serve it to you? OH, because one of them studied abroad in China, I guess he knows everything! Seriously, if you bitch about how the rice comes to the table at an authentic Chinese restaurant because you lived in China for a few years throw yourself out the window. But even more, the waiter asked if they wanted the individual bowls, and they said “no”. THEN WHY DID YOU BITCH ABOUT IT IN THE FIRST PLACE????! Seriously, the waiter tried to make them happy, was willing to get them each individual rice bowls, but they just wanted to complain about it and then turn down the restaurant trying to appease them. This dude really said “Just wanted to let you know that’s the way it’s done in China. It’s not a big deal”. The plad assholes are lucky they didn’t get individual bowls of rice dumped on their small dicked heads.

It gets better:

“I obviously had no idea what that meant, because I’m just a white guy from Arlington,” Matt said. “But my friend from China, he told us after she left, ‘In China, one person pays for it. That’s not at all the way things are done in China, so she’s being sarcastic.’ Then we saw the receipt.” At the bottom of check were two comments, each obviously typed into the system from the restaurant’s point-of-sale, or POS, system. The first: “im a plad a——.” The other: “i have a small penis.”

The former comment, despite misspelling “plaid,” was clearly a shot at the diner’s attire. The second, a cheap shot, period. The diners were not amused and immediately summoned a manager. The manager, in turn, summoned the server and another server who had apparently typed the comments into the system. The manager apologized and explained the servers were just joking with one another via the POS system. They meant to delete the comments before presenting the check.

So clearly Matt just has shitty friends. The “I went to China, I know everything” friend is the guy who corrects you when you exaggerate to make a point. He’s the guy on Twitter who hits you with a “but actually” every 15 minutes. An absolute stick in the mud when Matt from Arlington is just trying to eat some chicken fried rice. Hilarious that the servers do this all the time. Of course they do. Dealing with arrogant white people all day, they have to do something so they don’t punch the customers in the face. I was a server once upon a time and you do as a server between checking on your tables is talk shit about your table. It’s the only way to stay sane. Which is why the manager doesn’t seem to be firing anyone over it:

The servers didn’t strike the offended diners as contrite. “I would say they seemed slightly embarrassed,” Matt said. “It wasn’t like, ‘We’re so sorry. This is unprofessional. We mean to treat our customers better.’ It was more like, sorry-this-is-embarrassing-it-was-a-joke sorry.” If manager Qian Cheng wasn’t deeply apologetic on Saturday, he was on Monday morning when reached for comment. He said that the servers had previously been warned before about leaving offensive comments in the system. “They always do that. I’ve told them so many times,” Cheng said. “And they did it again.”

I definitely want to go over to this restaurant and support their business. If customers are a dick to the wait staff, the wait staff should be able to be a dick right back at them. The manager didn’t do some fake apology, he basically just said “sorry we got caught”. That’s honesty I respect. Team Peter Chang for life. And besides could anyone hate this guy?