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30 Times Restaurants Understood People’s Orders A Little Too Literally

Every chef will tell you that custom orders can be a real hassle. An egg salad with not egg? A triple decaf espresso? A vegan taco with extra sour cream? You just never know what unusual order a client will place! However, instead of refusing to take these crazy orders, some restaurants are choosing to take them word for word, often leaving the customers surprised.

People are sharing photos of the times restaurants understood their custom orders a little too literally and they’re absolutely hilarious. From giant donuts to mountains of pepperoni, check out some excellent examples of “delicious compliance” in the gallery below!

#1 I Told My Son He Could Only Get One Donut

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#2 When Your 3 Year Old Asks For A Rainbow Dinosaur Donut Birthday You Deliver. Drew Up The Design And Had It Made And They Did An Awesome Job

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#3 Friend Ordered Chicken On Her Pizza In Israel. Reasonable Execution

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#4 A Customer Called Asking If We Were Practicing Social Distancing With Her Sandwiches. I Told Her We Are, But Tbh Guys I’m Running Out Of Space

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#5 Olive Garden Is Proving A Point!

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#6 Asked For Extra Cheese

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#7 Asked For Extra Pepperoni

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#8 I Left A Note In The Delivery Instructions Asking For As Much Extra Ranch As “Legally Allowed By State Law”

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#9 A Customer Jokingly Complained To The Bartender That His Blue Cheese Wasn’t Blue The Last Time He Ordered It

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#10 I Got Another Mac And Cheese Burger. This Time I Asked For “As Much Mac And Cheese As You Can Without Getting Fired.” I Might Not Survive

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#11 Asked If I Could Buy One Single Munchkin For My Dog’s Birthday (Who Loves The Drive-Thru) And They Blessed Her With All This. Glazed Munchkins, Bacon, And Whipped Cream!

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#12 Ordered An Espresso Shot Over Ice This Morning

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#13 “Can I Get Extra Egg?” In Tokyo, Japan

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#14 I Asked My Thai Place To Make It So Spicy Someone Would Get In Trouble … They Gave Me This

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#15 I Mean I Like Mushrooms On Pizza But This Is Too Far!

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#16 I Asked The Lady To Cut My Sandwich Into Three Pieces

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#17 Just Ordered A 12 Inch Pizza And Meant To Ask For It To Be 10 Inch, I Mistyped And Put 1 Inch…

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#18 I Manage A Deli For A Small Chain Supermarket. One Of The Cart Guys Asked Me To Make A Pizza With 4x Extra Cheese. That’s 30oz Of Cheese

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#19 Ordered 12 Tacos At Jack In The Box At 2am, Drive Thru Person Must’ve Accidentally Put In 12 Twice Because We Were Asked Again How Many We Got At The Window, When We Said Twelve He Just Shrugged And Told Us To Take All Of Them (24). We Deliciously Complied

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#20 Her Mom Asked For A “Child Sized” Cone

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#21 I Asked The Guy Taking My Order For, “As Much Fire Sauce As You Can Give Me Without Losing Your Job.” Turns Out That’s 243 Packets. I Love You Taco Bell, And Promise Not To Ask For Anymore Sauce For A While

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#22 “Can I Have Avocado On The Side?”

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#23 Sour Cream On The Side Please

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#24 A Customer Asked For A Breakfast Sandwich In A Bagel

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#25 Ordered Two Cheese And One Pepperoni. Got One Pepperoni

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#26 Dude Asked For Extra Mayo

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#27 Customer Asked For An Ungodly Amount Of Pepperoni

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#28 Extra Limes For My Gin And Tonic

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#29 Extra Tomato

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#30 Asked For A Side Of Onions. Wasn’t Disappointed

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