Survey Says: 12 Ways a Wait Staff Handles Rude Customers

If you are rude to your wait staff, a new survey has found that one in 16 will spit in your food.

Science Daily has the results of a new survey of 430 food servers, hosts, and bartenders where they were asked how they handle rude customers, here are the top 12:

1. Making fun of customers behind their backs, 79%.
2. Lying, 78%.
3. Purposely making them wait longer for their order, 65%.
4. Ignoring them, 61%.
5. Being rude right back to them, 52%.
6. Arguing, 43%.
7. Refusing a perfectly reasonable request, 25%.
8. Confronting them about tips, 19%.
9. Insulting them, 14%.
10. Increasing their tip without permission, 11%.
11. Doing something gross to their food, 6%.
12. Threatening them, 5%.

So keep that in mind next time you feel the need to be rude to your waiter or waitress.