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October 30, 2017
Restaurants/Bars/Coffeehouses/Food Stores

“What’s the most popular drink ordered at bars?”/“One more.”

"'One more' is the most popular drink I sell" was posted on Twitter on December 1, 2011. "My most popular drink order is 'I'll have another'" was posted…

February 25, 2021
Restaurants/Bars/Coffeehouses/Food Stores

“What’s an ideal name for a Vietnamese-Italian fusion restaurant?”/“Pho-geddaboudit.”

"WHY HAVEN'T I OPENED A VIETNAMESE/ITALIAN FUSION RESTAURANT CALLED "PHO-GEDDA 'BOUT IT"?!" was posted on Twitter by Lucia Fasano on June 18, 2014. The name is a…

February 6, 2026
Restaurants/Bars/Coffeehouses/Food StoresWork/Businesses

“When checking out at the store, ask your checkout person what kind of candy bar they like and buy them one…”

Stores usually sell candy at the checkout line, and there's a joke about this. "When checking out at the store, ask your checkout person what kind of candy bar they like and buy them one.…

April 2, 2024
Restaurants/Bars/Coffeehouses/Food Stores

“When Chuck Norris eats at a restaurant, the wait staff tips him”

"When [X] eats at a restaurant, the waiter/waitress tips him" is a joke said about several powerful people, including American martial artist and actor Chuck Norris and Dos Equis beer…

April 1, 2024
Restaurants/Bars/Coffeehouses/Food Stores

“When Chuck Norris eats at a restaurant, the waiter tips him”

"When [X] eats at a restaurant, the waiter/waitress tips him" is a joke said about several powerful people, including American martial artist and actor Chuck Norris and Dos Equis beer…

April 1, 2024
Restaurants/Bars/Coffeehouses/Food Stores

“When Chuck Norris eats at a restaurant, the waitress tips him”

"When [X] eats at a restaurant, the waiter/waitress tips him" is a joke said about several powerful people, including American martial artist and actor Chuck Norris and Dos Equis beer…

July 27, 2009
Restaurants/Bars/Coffeehouses/Food Stores

“When Greek meets Greek, they open a restaurant”

"When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war" refers to the wars of classical Greece; the saying dates to at least 1677. The Americanized version has had different endings.…

April 1, 2024
Restaurants/Bars/Coffeehouses/Food Stores

“When I eat at a restaurant, the waiter tips me”

"When [X] eats at a restaurant, the waiter/waitress tips him" is a joke said about several powerful people, including American martial artist and actor Chuck Norris and Dos Equis beer…

April 1, 2024
Restaurants/Bars/Coffeehouses/Food Stores

“When I eat at a restaurant, the waitress tips me”

"When [X] eats at a restaurant, the waiter/waitress tips him" is a joke said about several powerful people, including American martial artist and actor Chuck Norris and Dos Equis beer…

June 11, 2017
Restaurants/Bars/Coffeehouses/Food Stores

“When I order pizza online and there’s a ‘Notes’ box, I put ‘Ring bell, Cross moat, SLAY DRAGON’”

An online food delivery order often has a "notes" or "special instructions" space, so the ordering party can inform the delivery person of the procedure at that address (such as…

November 12, 2022
Restaurants/Bars/Coffeehouses/Food Stores

“When I was a kid “the server is down” meant your waiter was depressed”

"When I was a kid "the server is down" meant your waiter was depressed" is a jocular saying that has been printed on several images. "Ha! RT @CancerIsAwesome: When I was a…

March 1, 2024
Restaurants/Bars/Coffeehouses/Food Stores

“When I’m at Chipotle, l always wait until after the employee puts the first scoop of chicken on my burrito…”

When someone at a food establishment orders one scoop of something, it's often a large scoop. However, when they order two scoops, they often get two smaller scoops. To prevent this, they…

June 17, 2021
Restaurants/Bars/Coffeehouses/Food Stores

“When I’m at the store and getting something, I grab the one behind it…”

"When I'm at the store and getting something, I grab the one behind it because I think there's something wrong with the one in front" is a saying that has been printed on many…

August 25, 2022
Restaurants/Bars/Coffeehouses/Food Stores

“When my wife sends me to the supermarket to get cucumbers…” (NSFW joke)

A joke about buying cucumbers suggests that it's better to identify one's sexual practice than to possibly imply that one is a vegan. "When my girlfriend sends me to the supermarket…

May 19, 2024
Food/DrinkHotelsRestaurants/Bars/Coffeehouses/Food Stores

“When restaurants/hotels have really large sets of gravy boats, I hope the staff refer to it as the Gravy Navy”

Gravy boats (sauce boats) are not boats that sail on water, but there are jokes. "If you had enough gravy boats would you have a gravy navy?" was posted on X/Twitter by John…

May 23, 2020
Restaurants/Bars/Coffeehouses/Food Stores

“When the cave people went to the cave bar and asked for a drink on the rocks, they meant it”

"On the rocks" (on ice) is usually not taken literally -- except in some jokes. The American television sitcom New Girl, the episode "What About Fred" that originally aired on…

April 1, 2024
Restaurants/Bars/Coffeehouses/Food Stores

“When The Most Interesting Man in the World eats at a restaurant, the waiter tips him”

"When [X] eats at a restaurant, the waiter/waitress tips him" is a joke said about several powerful people, including American martial artist and actor Chuck Norris and Dos Equis beer…

April 1, 2024
Restaurants/Bars/Coffeehouses/Food Stores

“When The Most Interesting Man in the World eats at a restaurant, the waitress tips him”

"When [X] eats at a restaurant, the waiter/waitress tips him" is a joke said about several powerful people, including American martial artist and actor Chuck Norris and Dos Equis beer…

October 13, 2025
Food/DrinkRestaurants/Bars/Coffeehouses/Food Stores

“When you order a slice of pizza from a pizza place, you’re sharing a pizza with a group of strangers”

When you buy a slice of pizza and other people eat the other slices, are you "sharing" a pizza? This was posted on Reddit -- Showerthoughts on September 16, 2014: "When you order a…

February 1, 2024
Restaurants/Bars/Coffeehouses/Food Stores

“When you said ‘friends with benefits,’ I assumed you owned a coffee shop”

"When you said 'friends with benefits,' I assumed you owned a liquor store" -- or taco truck, or coffee shop -- is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images.…

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