Don’t have what she’s having.
An online sensation and fed-up member of the service industry posted a satirical clip blasting customers who have the nerve to bring in outside food and not order anything from a restaurant.
It comes after chefs fired back at younger influencers for demanding custom and over-the-top orders with the threat of leaving bad reviews.
“This happened at every brunch shift [I’ve] ever worked,” Syd, known as @poorandhungry on TikTok, captioned her clip viewed more than a half-million times.
In the one-woman video, she reprises roles as both the peeved waitress and intolerable customer.
“We brought our own coffees — I hope that’s fine,” the customer says to the server, asking only for warm — and free — water.
“Maybe we can get started with some things that are on our menu,” the server responds, only to hear that the ditsy diner brought their own granola bar to eat so they can “keep our money in our pockets.”
Syd then gives them a 15-minute grace window and suggests the unruly customer, who had a friend in town, should be hightailing it to a Starbucks.
“This isn’t a public place.”
She even plainly declared: “If you’re not ordering from us, it’s just trespassing.”
In other clips, Syd calls out poor restaurant etiquette and even gets the upper hand on a reservation scam.
But her latest skit strongly resonated with viewers who are also in food service as the tactic appears to be more fact than fiction.
“This happens ALL THE TIME at the restaurant I work at,” one commented. “People have given us bad reviews because we ask them to leave for the exact same thing.”
“THIS HAPPENED TO ME! It was a fine dining restaurant and they brought their own dinner!” added another, with one other server simply declaring, “Drives me nuts.”
“I had a table of 2 ladies that told me they only wanted the free bread & water & they were shocked when my manager told them they had to order something that cost money in order to stay,” added a third.
One more person had this wild complaint: “A group of 7 people took our largest table at lunch rush and each pulled out their own meals from like Arby’s. There wasn’t even one nearby.”