Do These Things Only Happen At Chinese Restaurants?
My co-worker and I sit, an enormous tray of string beans between us. Anyone who’s ever worked in a Chinese restaurant knows the drill: when a shipment of beans arrive, you start snapping off the ends (which are tough and not easily digested.)
We go through 50 or so when a customer walks by our table. He sees the enormous pile of beans, and his eyes open wide.
“Hey, look! Here’s your dinner!” he says to the woman accompanying him. Then he reaches over, and picks a few out, and pops it into his mouth.
Um, we’re working here, asshole. It isn’t dinner and a show. No one puts on yellow face, starts speaking in an accent they don’t have, and goes outside to pick rice wearing their straw hats.
I’m truly curious to know if this happens at any other restaurants. Do people go to a Garcia’s and grab the nachos and salsa without it being offered first? Do you go to Olive Garden and help yourself to the never-ending bread sticks?
Then why is it okay at a Chinese restaurant?
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I work at a Chinese restaurant and do the green-bean thing, although the incident you described to me has never happened before. ALTHOUGH I’ve had a (completely well-meaning) customer ask me if she needed to look like ‘this’ to work here (and proceeded to lift her eyes chinky style).