Curated by Sarah Grishpul
Think you’ve seen it all? These Toronto Metropolitan University students have dealt with their fair share of kooky customers. Let’s take a gander at the wildest interactions that made it to our wall of fame.
“It’s a very, very busy day. And so this is the kind of day where people, of course, decide they need their special requests attended to immediately. In a packed restaurant, this man…asked me, ‘Do you massage the kale?’”
– Grace Henkel, former server/bartender
“I’m working [at] concession and then [TikToker Myah Elliott] is at my till. And I’m like, ‘Oh my God.’ So then I run to the other side of the till where the customers are and I tell my co-worker, ‘Get a picture of me and her.’”
– Seun Lagoke, Cineplex cast member
“I worked a New Year’s Eve shift at McDonald’s once and this really stoned guy came in a shopping cart and ordered 106 nuggets.”
– Caleb Jackson, former McDonald’s employee
“When I worked at Whole Foods, there was a woman known as ‘the Chicken Lady’ and she was in love with this Slovakian worker named Jan. She would come into the store every Saturday to buy a chicken and then the following week, she would call to complain about the quality of the chicken.”
– Ella Miller, former Whole Foods employee
“Back when I worked at the Hillcrest Indigo, there was this customer who used to come in and ask us to scratch her back for her, which was just super weird. We told her we couldn’t do it. So, she’d go up to the floating bookshelves where we’d put ‘top Canada picks’ or ‘top staff picks’ and she’d start scratching her back on the corner of the shelves.”
– Anastasia Blosser, former sales associate
“As an employee at a pizzeria, I have seen not one, not two but THREE people tuck their pizzas under their arms like books or stuff them—vertically—into tote bags. I’m pretty sure they had either never seen a pizza before or they were aliens trying out human food…”
– Robyn Kotorynski, pizzeria employee
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