I'm kind of wondering the same thing. Was this somewhere where you order at the counter or does it have table service? OP, I've been in food service for 12 years so I feel your pain. People are often idiots. Hopefully you get out and do something you love, or do what I do and find a great reataurant with great people you love working at. :)

This is very true, I have this happen probably once a week at my job at a cafe.

While this is a valid point, wouldn't OP have realized this was the case if an order of food came up but there was no one to serve it to? If that were the case, it would be a different FML.

No, I mean actually forgot about it. As in, didn't remember that an order was placed at all, and didn't notify the people responsible for assembling that order. While this shouldn't happen, it does when there are a lot of customers and the staff is a bit overworked. Unless OP was the only one working at the time, there is no way they could know that none of the other staff took the customer's order and simply messed up. I actually think it's rather strange that they immediately assumed the customer hadn't ordered anything just because OP didn't remember taking the order themselves.

It sounds to me like it was an order at the counter type cafe like Gloria Jeans, so the OP would very likely know who has ordered or not if they are on the till.

Right? They need to take a look at the mind reading training program, so that they can better train there employees to read the minds of the customers'. I mean....gosh, that is just common sense.

Nah, FOH all the way. Every day is payday!! ;)

I'll take weekly pay and not getting bitched at by customers any day