If you can't stand the heat...
My bro used to work as a waiter in Austria, and the system they have in some places there is odd, the waiting staff actually buy the food from the kitchen, then sell it on to the customers, a broker if you will.

This gives staff a vested interest in getting the orders out well presented and on time, but the flip side is that if people dick about and send stuff back, or cancel orders, it comes out of their pocket.

This is their way of saying thanks to all the fussy faffers out there.

Just after the food is plated up, prior to being brought out, one side of the plate is heated over a hob, the length of heating determining the severity of the retribution.

Quickly, the waiting staff would, holding the plate by the opposite edge, bring the plate to the tricky customer.

Immediately prior to handing the plate to the customer, the waiter says "Be careful, this plate is really really hot" (Auf hoch deutsch, naturlich). Because the waiter is holding the plate himself, the customer thinks it can't be that hot and that he will be able to hold the plate too. How rong they are.
(Countryslicker, Tue 18 Dec 2007, 11:31, 1 reply)

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Nice! PS: You spelled rong rong ;)
(misanthrope is so adjective he's verbing nouns!, Tue 18 Dec 2007, 14:23, closed)