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A character makes an order in a restaurant or cafe that is so ludicrously complicated it'll be a wonder if the waiter/barista/cashier can remember half of it. This is frequently used to show pretentiousness on the part of the one making the order, though Rule of Funny is often just as likely an explanation. This is done particularly often with espresso beverages, custom cocktails, and food with overly-precise details, although incidents of the character ordering off the menu also count. It frequently involves Hash House Lingo and/or Sommelier Speak for extra convolution (or the waiter might give the plain English order to the chef in Hash House Lingo, making it a lot shorter and easier to remember in the process). See also Must Have Caffeine, Drink-Based Characterization, and Real Men Take It Black. May be a trait of an Unsatisfiable Customer. Compare Complexity Addiction which has a similar theme, but with plans instead of food/drink. Compare and contrast Cordon Bleugh Chef when it's the chef that likes to be overcomplicated (and with often disastrous results). |
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Narbonic uses it for humor derived from comparing Caliban's old job in Hell and his new job in a Starbucks. | |
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Rhett & Link's Coffee Order sketch parodies this, with the two requesting increasingly strange and obscure ingredients for their orders, such as the coffee shop's soup of the day, three seconds of sunlight, and another patron's glass eye. After the two leave, the next customer, who is very clearly dressed to rob the place, takes pity on the barista and just orders a water. | |
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In one of the D.R. & Quinch stories from the comic book series 2000 AD, D.R. wants to appear eccentric at a fancy restaurant and so orders four dozen lobsters, wearing Prussian Blue waistcoats. Then when they're delivered, he complains that the waistcoats are Turquoise Blue, "and where are the chocolate-covered ant's brains?" | |
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The Petriculture Cycle: In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic story Avocation, we have a Long List of requirements: "venti two-thirds decaf low-fat soy caramel macchiato with whipped cream, mocha sprinkles, and a sprig of hay. And a cranberry orange-peel scone." | |
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In one of the first chapters of Patient Zero Ledger's friend and psychiatrist Rudy asks him to bring him some coffee to their meeting. Actually, Rudy is a nice guy and very sensible, it's just that he has some very specific taste in coffee. | |
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In an episode of Cheers Diane convinces Sam to let her be the bartender for the evening rather than just being a waitress. An order comes in for a Bloody Mary, a particularly complex mixed drink. Naturally, Diane doesn't know how to make it so she looks it up in a bartender's manual, taking a long time to make sure it's just right. As she finishes, she remarks that it is a complicated drink. Sam agrees, which is why he always mixes up a big batch before the evening starts and stores it in the mini-fridge behind the bar. | |
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In The Simpsons, Barney brings Yoko Ono to Moe's Tavern. He orders a beer, while Yoko orders "a single plum floating in perfume, served in a man's hat". Moe cheerfully brings both orders in full from under the counter. | |
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In Nichijou, after Yukko fails miserably at ordering off the complicated new coffee list, she invites Mio to the same coffee shop to watch her fail, but Mio flawlessly recites one of these. | |
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On an episode of Roseanne, during Roseanne's stint as a waitress at Rodbell's she has a customer order a BLT with the ingredients in a very specific order only to end up asking for "everything on the side, cause you won't do it right". Roseanne, who just found out this is the woman Dan's been having dirty dreams about, laments that not only is she cute, but has a great personality too. | |
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In When Harry Met Sally..., Sally's Establishing Character Moment is this order in a diner: | |
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Tales of Vesperia has the waitress minigame, where choosing specific characters denote their difficulty. Raven, being the hardest, has the customers order ludicrous amounts of food they would honestly not be able to finish. | |
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In the We Bare Bears episode "Cupcake Job", the Bears get jobs at a gourmet cupcake store. They quickly run into trouble, including a bossy business-woman who makes a complicated order that leads to Grizzly accidentally breaking the cupcake-making machine. | |
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A non food related version shows up in Interspecies Reviewers. The Succubus Tower is a gigantic brothel with over 60 floors and thousands of succubi eager to please, so customers have to be very specific just to narrow down the selection. | |
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In an early Sesame Street skit, Ernie asks an ice-cream man for a Chocolate, Strawberry, Peach, Vanilla, Banana, Pistachio, Peppermint, Lemon, Orange, Butterscotch ice-cream cone. Amazingly enough, the ice-cream man delivers! But Ernie is inconsolably P.O.ed because the cone was prepared upside-down. Watch it here. | |
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Portlandia includes a sketch in which a starving couple wander into an overly gourmet burger joint and are exhausted by the barrage of options they're forced to navigate just to order a simple burger. They're then forced to start over because the menu changed while they were ordering. | |
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Blaineley does this in song in Total Drama World Tour: "Get me a half-fat, no-foam latte, steamed to 102 heat! I'm quite specific." | |
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The Spoils of Babylon "The Age of the Bastard": While Devon cannot get a vegetarian option at the steakhouse that somehow fits in the tiny submarine, Cynthia's order just gets more and more complicated. | |
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The Big Bang Theory: A Running Gag is Sheldon being very specific on how he wants his food prepared. It was also done once with Leonard's mother. In the episode where Sheldon decides to work at the Cheesecake Factory in order to let his mind work on a physics problem, Leonard gives him an extra-complicated order in revenge for all the times Sheldon did it to him. Sheldon understands and doesn't hold it against him. |
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Retail: In this strip Cooper ask Marla if she wants anything from the food court. She says she wants a Caesar Chicken Pocket, then proceeds to talk about several substitutions over the order and even to get her an specific soda from a neighboring restaurant. He just answers if she can just choose a number from the menu. (Compare that to Cooper, who when asked by Donnie what he wants, just asks for a number 5 from where Donnie is going.) | |
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Sonic Boom: In "Don't Make Me Angry", Dr. Eggman tries to invoke this trope by ordering at Meh Burger so that he can get angry enough to transform into a cute creature in time to save Beth the Shrew from being crushed by his trash compactor before the effects of the purple ray permanently wear off (long story). He orders two double Meh Burgers with extra pickles on one, an order of lightly fried humdrum rings, and a large cola, half-diet, half-regular, and light on the ice, expecting Dave to get the order wrong as usual. To his dismay, Dave gets the order both correct and on time for once. | |
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Not Always Right: One entry involves a guy ordering a complicated drink and then bullying the barista when she got confused over it. For as an inversion, the guy who orders a cheeseburger without cheese and gets angry when the cashier responds "okay, one hamburger." From one of the sister sites, Not Always Working, the boss in this story has found a clever way to deal with these customers- making a bet with the employees that if they're ever able to make a drink in less time than it takes the customer to order it, the boss buys them all dinner. This works like an absolute charm, much to the submitter's bemusement when a barista is ecstatic for one guy's several minute long order. The barista manages to make the drink in under the time, earning cheers from the rest of the staff (and implied annoyance from the customer that there was nothing he could complain about). |
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Trinity features Batman hamming it up as Bruce Wayne with the following order at a coffeeshop: | |
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Best of Three: The cafe actually seems to encourage these, with the waiter suggesting a fancy, complicated order. Grant in particular has a long one. (Helen can question if he "always tortures waiters like this".) The waiter is actually quite impressed and makes it for him. In contrast, Helen can either order a cappuccino or nothing. |
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Binging with Babish attempts to Defictionalize Bubble Bass' elaborate Hash House Lingo order from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Pickles". The result is a 3-foot-high ridiculous patty melt that had to be divided into 6 sandwiches to be eaten properly. | |
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Komi Can't Communicate: Early on, Najimi sends Komi to Starbooks with a complex drink order, ostensibly to help her practice talking to people. When she finally gets up the courage to approach the counter, she discovers that the drink isn't even a normal menu item; it's a combination of two other menu items. The stress of trying to figure out how to order it eventually results in the barista having to guess the order based on her (highly agitated) body language and giving her an enormous drink even more complicated than what she was trying to order. This gets repeated later on, this time with Najimi sending Komi to Sabowey to pick up a customized sandwich. Once again, Komi gets too flustered to order it properly and ends up with something completely different than what Najimi wanted. |
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xkcd orders exactly $15.05 worth of appetizers, expecting the waiter to figure out what quantities of which items to serve in order to reach that number. The joke is that the costs listed on the menu just happen to mean that the waiter is being asked to solve a complex mathematical problem. Though in this case, you could just solve it with 7 orders of mixed fruit. | |
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Crabgrass: In the header panel for this comic, Miles makes such an order when his mom is preparing burgers. She is clearly not amused by his request, promptin him to remark that that attitudes like this are the reason most restaurants go under in the first year. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (2016): The Fashionista villain Bianca asks for a "non-fat almond milk, skinny double-chai latte". This is later downplayed as the almond milk isn't just for the joke. "Monkey Love" gives a Call-Back by revealing that Bianca is lactose-intolerant. | |
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In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, there's the matter of Big Smoke's order. | |
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Near the start of the High Society arc in Cerebus the Aardvark, Cerebus is looking for an excuse to start a fight in the fancy hotel he is staying in. At dinner, he orders prime rib of yak with rum and raisin sauce, four bottles of fine wine each from a different year, and for dessert "any fruit that's out of season". To his disappointment, all the demands are met without protest. | |
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In an Orson's Farm/US Acres segment of Garfield and Friends, Roy tries to take advantage of an offer of free food for a month at Orson's new diner by ordering outrageous items, including moose stew with chocolate sauce and broiled yak's nose with green gravy. He does eventually succeed by ordering an elephant foot sandwich with mustard. Orson gets him back by displaying an elephant that had earlier escaped from a circus, and saying they were merely out of mustard. |
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Girl Genius: From the Twitter of Othar Trigvassen: | |
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Get Shorty: While sitting in a restaurant, Karen explains to Chili that celebrities never order from the menu. On cue, Martin Weir arrives, discards the menus, makes up a strange egg-white omelet on the spot, orders it for everyone, and ultimately leaves before the omelet even arrives. | |
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Helluva Boss: Moxxie gives one to the D.H.O.R.K.S agents when he and Blitzo ask for coffee as part of their interrogation. While in context it may seem like he was only doing so to haze the agents similar to how Blitzo was doing, his Instagram Account reveals he's requested the second order he's described before. | |
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In the The Boondocks episode "The Block is Hot", Jazmine is selling glasses of cold lemonade of a uniform size from her stand for $1, nothing else. She still has to put up with customers like this. | |
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In Tin Men, BB and Tilley, two aluminum siding salesmen, have been in an Escalating War ever since they got into a car accident. At one point in the movie, Bagel (BB's boss) and Sam (Tilley's partner) try to get them to bury the hatchet by taking them out to breakfast. However, BB becomes so frustrated at Tilley taking so long to order breakfast (specifically, in asking the waitress how the eggs are cooked) that he ends up starting the feud back up again. | |
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In Malcolm in the Middle, Craig orders one of these at the restaurant where Reese works and tells him to listen carefully as he doesn't want to waste calories by repeating it. | |
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Jack Nicholson's character in Five Easy Pieces wants an omelet with wheat toast. The hostile waitress refuses to accommodate him, so he orders his omelet with no potatoes, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, "hold the lettuce, hold the tomato, hold the mayo. And hold the chicken salad." | |
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In the first series of Ojamajo Doremi, Doremi gets one of these at her first apprentice witch exam, which is to conjure up whatever is requested by the examiners. She doesn't pass. Especially unfair as her friends got relatively easy requests. What they are depends on the language. In the original Japanese dub, Aiko had to make cubical takoyaki (fried octopus dumplings) and Hazuki had to make a three-layered pudding, while in the 4Kids dub, Mirabelle was tasked with making square “crab cakes� and Reanne made a chocolate soufflé. Meanwhile Doremi (Dorie in the 4Kids dub) had to either make anmitsu (an old Japanese dessert made of small cubes of agar jelly and sweet red bean paste) and coffee with milk or hot milk and sweet jelly taffy. |
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In Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, when Jen strikes out on her own and visits a restaurant, she has this exchange with the waiter: | |
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One episode of the Disney show Hannah Montana had the protagonist's brother ordering coffee in a diner. He rattles off one of these, to which the waitress just replies "...Coffee?". He just says "Yes please." in response. | |
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The West Wing: in the second season episode "The Lame Duck Congress", Toby goes out to lunch with Fowler and Fox, two political insiders who will tell him important information about a crucial vote. Toby knows what he's in for when it comes to them ordering food ("You've never seen grown men order lunch like this"), but it irritates him all the same: | |
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BoBoiBoy: In episode 2, Ying's order to the Burgeria employee is a long order of sets and specifics, and her Motor Mouth doesn't help. She even goes to the restaurant herself to repeat the order, then after writing it down, the Burgeria employee looks up and is confused to find no one at the counter (since she had just gained Super-Speed and is using it here). | |
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Questionable Content: When Cosette starts working at Coffee of Doom, Angus (who doesn't even drink coffee) orders "a half-caf soy no-foam latte, not too hot, with a shot of vanilla and a dusting of nutmeg, fresh-ground only, please. Make it a medium, but put it in a large to-go cup." His explanation for doing this is "Oh, what, I have to be an EMPLOYEE to haze the rookie?" When Emily starts working there, Faye says she has to take "the test": This is in keeping with Faye's previously expressed belief that people who order stuff like this don't actually like coffee. "I want a mocha with extra chocolate, whipped cream, and someone to hold my hand while I drink it!" |
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Invoked by Set in an episode of Oh, Suddenly Egyptian God, visiting Horus' restaurant and trying to trip him up with an overly long and excessive order, repeatedly canceling and un-canceling requests for menu sets. Horus manages to complete everything in time with the help of Otter. | |
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In Tampopo there's a scene where a bunch of businessmen visits a French restaurant. Each person defers up the ladder of seniority until the CEO of the company orders (something bland and safe for people new to French cuisine, as I recall.) Each person down the chain of command promptly orders the same thing—except the most junior executive. He turns out to be an expert on French food, and makes a complex order that thrills the waiter, but embarrasses the heck out of everyone else. | |
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A real-life example from Kitchen Nightmares has Gordon Ramsey going to Sebastian's, the owner boasting of his "special menu." It's about eight pages long with the diner having to order at least a couple off of each category and mixing them up. In a priceless moment, Sebastian explains it all as the camera focuses on Gordon just staring at him in utter disbelief. | |
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FoxTrot: Peter Fox, while making a real complex order at a coffee shop (which ultimately translates back to 'a cup of coffee' once the jargon is stripped away), is charged $1.97, to which Peter pays $2.00 and tells him to keep the change. He also admits to Jason that he realizes he was being annoying, which was why he tipped him. Cue the three pennies flying towards his head. Roger inverts this trope, thoroughly confusing the barista when he asks for a "regular cup of joe." |
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Done a few times in Zits. One strip observes that the more complicated the coffee order, the more high-maintenance the girlfriend. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Pickles", Bubble Bass makes an order using a string of complicated Hash House Lingo (much of it specific to Southern California's famous In-N-Out Burger). Squidward gives up trying to write it all down about halfway through, and dryly replies "We serve food here, sir." Luckily, SpongeBob overheard and has the order ready seconds later. In "Bubble Buddy", SpongeBob asks Squidward to make a meal for his bubble buddy at Krusty Krab, which is not just overly specific but has to be remade several times (it'd be hard to go to the details). And at the end, Squidward and Mr. Krabs are given bubble tips and money... which pop, infuriating the two. Bubble Bass is subject to this trope once again in "Larry the Floor Manager". He asks for very specific toppings on his Krabby Patty, such as Himalayan salt, smoked paprika, and micro greens. He takes so long to describe it he starts to drive customers away, prompting Mr. Krabs to shove a regular Krabby Patty into his mouth and kick him out. |
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From Uncyclopedia, we have the Double Ristretto Venti Half-Soy Nonfat Decaf Organic Chocolate Brownie Iced Vanilla Double-Shot Gingerbread Frappuccino Extra Hot With Foam Whipped Cream Upside Down Double Blended, One Sweet'N Low and One Nutrasweet, and Ice. | |
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Poptropica: Kirk Strayer from Back Lot Island orders a specific coffee: a half-caf leviathan latte-espresso. He refuses to go back to work unless he gets it. Of the two coffee shops on the island, some are out of specific types, so you need to order two drinks separately and combine them. | |
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In Pearls Before Swine, Rat is sometimes seen working at a coffee shop where customers make such complicated orders. His responses are... characteristic of Rat. | |
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The restaurant scene in L.A. Story has the people at the table order espressos of escalating length, with Harris topping them all (and setting the rest of the table telling the waiter to add a twist of lemon to the orders they've already made). | |
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One Serge Storms novel pokes fun at this by having Serge go into a coffee shop and the barista keeps asking for complicated details when all Serge wants is an ordinary cup of coffee. He eventually concludes that they don't actually sell coffee in the coffee shop and walks out. | |
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Casino Royale (2006) (the Daniel Craig version) puts a twist on the usual James Bond martini by having him order one consisting of: "Two measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it over ice and add a thin slice of lemon peel." And after four of the other people at the table decide they want one too, Le Chiffre sarcastically wonders aloud if anyone's interested in playing poker instead of drinking. This is also a Mythology Gag to a specific scene in the books. Bond's order is recreated exactly, right down to the waiter's pleased expression. | |
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Inverted in Dude, Where's My Car?, when the boys place a fairly straightforward drive-through order and the worker complicates it by repeatedly asking "And then?" | |
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When Kate wants to discharge herself from the hospital in The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul and isn't allowed, she convinces the hospital they want her to leave by attempting to get a pizza delivered, something she knows is impossible in London. At one point she tries to get a motorbike courier firm to order and collect "an American Hot with a list of additional peppers and mushrooms and cheeses which the controller of the courier service refused even to attempt to remember". | |
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Also inverted in Citizen Dog, where Mel orders cups of coffee for himself and his dog Fergus from a trendy coffeehouse. The barista confusedly asks for directions from his coworker on how to prepare coffee ("It's a mocha java latte without the cinnamon stick!"); the final panel sees the pair dejectedly sitting at their table with huge mugs filled to the brim with whipped cream monstrosities accessorized with peeled bananas, little umbrellas and straws. | |
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Piper in Charmed goes above and beyond, giving the waiter specific instructions for how the chef should prepare the fish she orders. As her date points out, it comes with the territory, what with her being a professional chef herself. | |
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Artemis Fowl: Artemis is a 13-year-old Man of Wealth and Taste, so when a server offers him Age-Stereotypical Food in The Eternity Code, he icily counters with a sophisticated and precise order — down to the composition of the ice cubes — that leaves her wondering if he's a centuries-old child vampire. | |
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Frasier: Zig-Zagged in an episode where, before Martin gets to the coffee house (Martin being a more down-to-earth food kind of person) Niles orders him a biscotti "but when you bring it to the table call it a cookie." The waitress dutifully brings it, only for Martin to correct her. "Thank you, dear, but it's called a biscotti." Niles orders his overly complicated coffee drinks with a "whisper of cinnamon." And his steak order must be seen to be believed. There was also one episode with an Overly Long Gag about the baristas shouting relay orders to each other (when they're all standing within three feet of each other) and Niles orders a "nonfat, half-caf, low-foam latte," and then begins to worry that the order is being altered as it gets relayed through the chain, even though the person actually making the drink is well within earshot of Niles himself. To the mortification of Niles, he gets exactly what he ordered - under the title of a "Gutless Wonder". |
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From one of the sister sites, Not Always Working, the boss in this story has found a clever way to deal with these customers- making a bet with the employees that if they're ever able to make a drink in less time than it takes the customer to order it, the boss buys them all dinner. This works like an absolute charm, much to the submitter's bemusement when a barista is ecstatic for one guy's several minute long order. The barista manages to make the drink in under the time, earning cheers from the rest of the staff (and implied annoyance from the customer that there was nothing he could complain about). | |
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