Customers reignite tipping debate after servers…
They’re serving up perspective.
A clip of two wait staffers discussing buyer habits has sparked a debate on social media, after a restaurant rage bait post went viral on X.
Right-wing shock jockey Royce Lopez reposted the clip from another account that allegedly featured fed-up food servers discussing the irritating FOH (“front of house”) lifestyle.
In a video reposted on X, two servers focus on their “biggest ick in customers.” X
In the clip, one obvious wait staffer requested another, “What is your biggest ick in customers?”
“Modifying any of the food,” she answered. “I understand, you go out to a restaurant and there’s tomatoes in something, and oh ‘I don’t really like tomatoes. Can I get it without tomatoes?” She goes on to describe the many methods a buyer might take care of this request on their own (by eating around the undesirable ingredient) instead of clogging up restaurant channels.
“Also, maybe grow up,” she instructed.
Invoking the great tipping tradition debate of our time, Lopez wrote in his re-post on X, “I see these waitresses posting if you can’t afford a 20% tip, you shouldn’t go out, while at the same time having this attitude. If I don’t want tomatoes on my sandwich, I’m going to ask for no tomatoes because I’m an adult and you’re dating the short-order cook drug dealer.”
Debate over serves’ proper to tip heated up when right-wing podcaster Royce Lopez reposted a video of two servers discussing their “ick” in prospects. ROYCE LOPEZ/X
The service industry is a delicate subject for residents of the US, where a 20% further charge — going straight to the servers and workers to supplement their hourly wages — is implied on many restaurant, bar and espresso store checks. While many diners settle for it as half of the deal, a current survey revealed that 64% of American customers say they really feel “guilted” into tipping, even when service is poor, main them to spend an estimated $150 per week on “unnecessary” ideas.
Responses to the incisive post included followers of “Revenge of the Cis” radio, a podcast co-hosted by Lopez and Mersh Schiele, who have been fast to rebuff the “wench[es].”
I see these waitresses posting if you may’t afford a 20% tip, you should not exit while at the same time having this perspective. If I do not need tomatoes on my sandwich, I’m going to ask for no tomatoes because I’m an grownup and you are relationship the short order cook drug seller. pic.twitter.com/KI9kmdy74V— Royce Lopez (@hippojuicefilm) June 12, 2026
“They want to be paid the equivalent of $40 an hour to carry plates of food a distance of 12 feet without any thinking involved. They usually don’t even remember who got what and let the customers figure it out,” one X person scoffed.
Another person lambasted wait staffers for having “zero skills” to warrant increased pay. “They write down what you want while someone else does all the work making the food. Why do they deserve anything above minimum wage?”
Not everybody seemed spitefully on the sassy servers.
The food servers featured in the controversial post said they’re fed up with all the particular requests on orders. X
Said one supporter on X, “I agree with her. Be a man and take the tomatoes off yourself. What are you? A child who can’t eat something if icky tomatoes touched it? Do you refuse to eat if your eggs touch your hash browns too?”
It’s not the first time social media customers and restaurant staff have discovered themselves embroiled in a heated culinary conflict over buyer requests.
In a current tell-all report, servers revealed to Reader’s Digest their largest buyer pet peeves — and one of which most prospects are guilty.
They agree that too many requests have been cramping their already tight shift schedule.
“I felt like people were being too needy, and it stressed me out,” said Utah-based server says Stephanie S.
“I’ll admit, it kind of makes me hate people if they do this at peak dinner rush,”said Sarah S., from Florida. “When we’re slammed, it turns into a logistical nightmare.”
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