Eat your damn food.

I enjoy working at Han's Cafe. It's one of the rare jobs which allows you to look down on people, yet serve them. However, one thing still pisses me off, and that's uneaten food.

I could generalise and say that there are two ways to leave behind uneaten food. Firstly, theres the small eater or "just can't quite finish the meal". This is where a person who has just one meal (the $7.95 one which is an individual serving of rice and dish) can't finish the last piece of chicken. I don't mind cleaning that up because I can still easily stack the plates on top of each other, even with a piece of chicken making things off balance. However, it's JUST ONE FUCKING PIECE. Eat it damn you!

The other way to leave behind uneaten food is to order a fucking huge amount of food that the average person cannot eat. In an extreme case, some person orders a meal, noodles, dish and rice, and the other partner orders noodles, dish, rice and fried rice for the two to share. To make things specific, person A orders green curry chicken rice, mee goreng, beef basil, and steamed rice. Person B orders phad thai, lemon prawns, steam rice, and they share a pineapple fried rice. ARE THEY FUCKING INSANE?!?! Just because they are big white people, and I'm a short, skinny Asian in comparison, does not grant them the ability to eat that much food.
And once they've left, they leave behind many messed up plates still full of food for poor me to clean up. Yeah, they play with their bloody food. No wonder why they don't want to take it home.

Another big eater is the rice man. They order a meal, as well as noodles and rice. Well, the noodles are to share, but an additional serving of rice to go with the rice and individual dish? Not even a rice eating Chinaman will do that. That's like a 2.5 staple(rice/noodles) to 1 meat/veg ratio. Guess what is left when I go clean up? Bits of meat left on the meal plate, one whole serving of rice less one spoonful, and chunks of noodle left on the noodle plate.

Moral of the story, don't order too much. White people are strictly potatoe/bread/pasta eaters, so don't go rice/noodle crazy. Don't play with your food. If you have left overs, ask me nicely to put it in a takeaway container. And if there is a few chunks of meat left behind, just eat it. A few more bites will not burst your stomach. And why? BECAUSE I HAVE TO CLEAN UP.

If you are going to make a mess, make it a tidy mess. It takes a lot less effort to clean up. And you generally have to clean up even if you do not make a mess.