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By Danielle22291 - 29/04/2017 17:27 - United States - Indianapolis

Today, as a waitress at Denny's, I had a 25 top table. Only 3 of them spoke English. FML

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Today, while at the restaurant I work at, a bunch of kids came in. They all gave incredibly complex orders, laughed at everything I did, and made a huge mess by "spilling" hot sauce and water all over the floor. After they left, I was tipped eleven cents. FML

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Tipped

By Nick - This FML is from back in 2009 but it's good stuff - United States

Today, while I was working as a waitress, I had to wait on a table of 13 people. I was struggling through it and when they finally left I went by the table to pick up my tip. Instead of a money I got a napkin saying, "Here's your tip, don't be a waitress." FML

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Just the tip

By Anonymous - 28/06/2009 18:43 - United States

Today, I went into work to waitress on a table of 40 guests. They were my only table for the day and the bill came to over 700 dollars. After they left the busser was cleaning the table and threw out the credit card receipt which had my tip on it. FML

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bigredmonkeybutt 28

Sunday 30 April 2017 0:49

Denny's menus are loaded with photos so it's easy enough for them to order.

Druu 53

Saturday 29 April 2017 23:41

Eh, it's Denny's. Point to the menu, pantomime a baseball swing, and say "Grand Slam."

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Druu 53

Saturday 29 April 2017 23:41

Eh, it's Denny's. Point to the menu, pantomime a baseball swing, and say "Grand Slam."

pretty_odd22291 12

Sunday 30 April 2017 0:24

I just pointed and asked them in the very broken Spanish I do know

bigredmonkeybutt 28

Sunday 30 April 2017 0:49

Denny's menus are loaded with photos so it's easy enough for them to order.

HappyItalian 38

Sunday 30 April 2017 1:19

Haha reminds me of how I was hosting at my restaurant and this table of 18 French people came in and since I'm the only one that speaks French out of 50 employees they panicked and made me switch jobs and serve the table instead while my manager covered hosting

RichardPencil 30

Sunday 30 April 2017 1:27

Did any of the bottoms speak English?

jbuckets_404 38

Sunday 30 April 2017 2:48

OP, what's a "25 top table?"

pretty_odd22291 12

Sunday 30 April 2017 3:37

It means 25 person table. Top is like head.

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