1. When a table of 15 insists on having seperate checks.

(It's like playing a matching game for 20 minutes).

2. When the customer lets you know they are "in a hurry."

"Okay! Let me speed up the cooking process just for you!"

3. You have a go-to "favorite menu item" for the 500 times you have to answer the question "what is your favorite thing on the menu?"

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4. Customers who are "gluten free" and "dairy free" remove every ingredient until it's cardboard and wonder why their food doesn't taste good.

5. Weekends are the time you work the most.

(Yours starts on Monday when everyone else has work again).

6. Customers seem to think it's your fault if their food is taking too long.

7. People who come in five minutes before closing.

"What do you mean your oven is off? Can we just get one small pizza?!"

8. When everyone has left the restaurant, the night isn't over.

(There are about 1,000 forks and knives to roll).

9. When you kinda-sorta forgot to put someone's order in and you have to tell the kitchen to make something "on the fly."

10. When you don't eat for hours during your entire shift.

(And when you get home it's 12 a.m. and you aren't hungry anymore).

11. When the customer wants to know where each ingredient is made and what country it comes from and why we buy that product.

12. When people leave the table with gum stuck on the plates and every sugar and sweetner packet scattered across the table.

13. When you can feel an entire table stare you down each time you walk by drooling for food that they ordered 15 minutes ago...

14. In the front of the house you try to have a smile on your face for the customers, but once you get to the back of the house, your coworkers know how you really feel.

(The best part is that they totally understand the struggle).

15. You have to go to the bathroom but two tables just came in, so you can't go. Then you get three more after that, and then four more, and seven more.

(Then it's finally the end of the night and you realize your bladder is about to explode).