Spitting in the restaurant

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Suppose you were a waiter or a waitress, would you personally spit in a food of a rude custumer.

Let me clarify the question. I konw it depends on how rude. So my question is, is there ANY CIRCUMSTANCE AT ALL in which you will do it. So will you do it if you have to serve food to someone who has raped your daughter? If so, your answer to the poll should be yes.

I would NEVER spit in someones food. I think if I got really pissed I would simply refuse to serve them. I would tell my manager that I would not put up with that kind of treatment from employees OR customers. If [s]he decided to fire me, oh well, those jobs are a dime a dozen anyways.

I know a family member that is in the hospitality industry (a manager now) . The only thing that he did to a customer was when he was asked to take a picture of the rude customers, he cut the heads out of everyone in the group. That was of course pre-digital camera days.

Better to cut them of on picture than in real.

I wouldn't spit either.

... I don't think so.
I've never done until now (and I really worked in restaurants )

Why did you insert "until now"? So you do do it now, LOL.

When I was waitering tables, I was too concerned about keeping my job I did not think about spitting in anyone's food.

That kind of behaviour could get you, and your employer, in a lot of trouble if you were caught. Food hygiene, and all that.
Believe me, in the past I've had customers that bad. I got over the temptation by knowing that no matter what they did or said, I was the better person for not sinking to their level and retaliating.

That's the power of giving others ideas they didn't have by themselves.
Don't worry, I don't work in restaurants anymore.

Are you saying you actually did it in the past and hten stopped, or are you saying you never did it, only was tempted?

Have you heard that concept before? My mom never did. If you didn't either, does it mean it is an American thing?

Spitting in someone's food is just plain nasty.

I know of one thing which is worse, I would strongly advise people never to abuse the waiters. I have been told about of cases where people have abused waiters, the waiters have then told the chef to put strong hot or even purgative spices in the food.

No, the other day it was shown on a television French fiction as well (spitting in the plate of a customer).
And I've known a guy who could spit on other when driving
It was so contemptuous, I could'nt believe my eyes when I saw him doing it!

Saw something similar in a porno once. I think it was supposed to be funny. Not so much.

I was very, very tempted by someone who was a regular customer (and a regular jerk) while I was working as a pub chef. There's no law against being sorely tempted. But it's better to hold the moral high ground and keep your job.

If you get canned for spitting in a customer's food, your employer may well just tell anyone who asks for a reference why he sacked you. And that won't help you get a job, either. Not in the food service industry, for certain, but also not anywhere else - employers might see you as a liability with a short fuse.

Years ago, I worked in a pizza place. One of the delivery drivers had a bit of an attitude problem, and one day he saw that a certain customer who he didn't like had placed an order for delivery, so he spat on the pizza before another driver delivered it. He also told a story of how he had once sprinkled some urine on a pizza. He was kind of a scary guy, so I believe it.

Not long after, he quit that job and went looking for another. The phone rang, and I was the only one there to answer (because the supervisor had left the store to play video games in another restaurant nearby!) It was someone at the place where this guy had applied for a job, and they wanted to know if he had been a good employee. I said that I wouldn't want him working for me, because he spits in people's pizzas, and helps himself to beer.

The next day, the manager (one step above the supervisor who played video games), found that his tires had been slashed. I'm pretty sure it was that guy, and that he had assumed it had been the manager who had spoken on the phone.

The worse thing is that that guy who spit in the food ended up working at Oil Changers, where I used to get my oil changed. I was afraid to go there while he worked there, though, because if he ever suspected that it was me who ratted him out, what would he put in my engine? He was a thoroughly bad human being.

I would never spit in anyone's food. I wouldn't even think of it. I've worked as a waitress in many places and no one that I worked with would ever do anything like that. It's obscene, cowardly, completely and utterly disgusting. I think spitting in public, on the sidewalks, in parks, anywhere is a disgusting habit. I think people should be fined for it.

I agree, cosmiccat. Since I moved from the Northeast to Florida, I have never, ever seen so many disgusting people! They spit everywhere. When you walk downtown, there are little puddles of spittle on the sidewalks. I always take my shoes off before entering the house. I really do wish they would fine such people.