He gave these crass\u00a0customers his\u00a0two\u00a0one cents.<\/p>\n
Popular NYC influencer Darron Cardosa, aka The Bitchy Waiter<\/a>, recalled the worst tip he ever received \u2014 a penny left at the bottom of a glass by\u00a0a trio of ill-mannered ladies at Houlihan\u2019s on West 49th Street and 7th Avenue.<\/p>\n \u201cI reached in and I got the penny out and then I went out to 49th Street and I chased them and I found them. I said, \u2018You left something at the table.\u2019 And she said, \u2018What?\u201d And I said, \u2018This!\u2019 and I just threw that penny at her,\u201d Cardosa, 58, told The Post.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd then I\u00a0just went back to the restaurant, and she followed me \u2026 I got written up, but I was a superstar at\u00a0Houlihan\u2019s for that.\u201d<\/p>\n Darron Cardosa\u2019s very first Bitchy Waiter blog post came after a customer asked him to turn off the TV at Vynl on the Upper East Side. \u201cI said, \u2018I can\u2019t just turn off the TV.\u2019 And she said, \u2018Oh, we\u2019re from California, and we don\u2019t let our kids watch television while they eat.’\u201d Helayne Seidman<\/p>\n Cardosa, a native of Victoria, Texas, who now resides in Sunnyside, Queens, moved to the Big Apple in 1993 to pursue an acting career \u2014 and took server positions in between auditioning and performing.<\/p>\n His first NYC restaurant gig was at Pizzeria\u00a0Uno at the South Street Seaport, which, he said, was \u201creally popular with tourists, teens and big giant rats.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt was right next to the Fulton Fish Market, so that place was just teeming with rats,\u201d Cardosa dished. <\/p>\n \u201cWe would see one every day. A customer would see one and tell us and we would always have to act like, \u2018Oh my God, this never happened.’\u201d<\/p>\n It was after a run-in with an entitled patron at Vynl, the now-shuttered music-themed Upper East Side diner \u2014 where a customer once left behind<\/a> a dirty diaper \u201cfolded up on the plate\u201d \u2014 that he began blogging anonymously under the pseudonym The Bitchy Waiter.<\/p>\n His online rants got him fired from ABC Kitchen, owned by celebrity chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, after an employee figured out he was spilling tea about the famed Flatiron restaurant, even though he never named it.<\/p>\n \u201cSomebody sent me a message through my blog and said, \u2018I know who you are and you should stop defaming our restaurant.\u2019 Then three days later, I got called down to the office and they said I just wasn\u2019t fitting in.\u201d<\/p>\n When Cardosa quit his job at Pizzeria Uno, he went to Houlihan\u2019s. \u201cWe made a lot of money. It was blood money though, because that was right down the street from Radio City. I remember how many times tourists would come in and just be so shocked at how expensive a hamburger was there.\u201d Courtesy of Darron Cardosa<\/p>\n He then launched The Bitchy Waiter pages on Facebook<\/a>, Instagram<\/a> and TikTok<\/a> \u2014 where he posts his horror stories along with those sent to him by servers<\/a> across the country and tips on how to behave at restaurants.<\/p>\n One of the pieces of advice he offers is\u00a0to stop the PDA at the table<\/a>. <\/p>\n \u201cThis one couple, she had a steak and wanted it rare. And they were making out as they were eating. I just remember thinking, \u2018That\u2019s the most disgusting thing, you probably have rare chunks of steak in between your teeth,’\u201d said Cardosa, who revealed his identity when he wrote his memoir, \u201cThe Bitchy Waiter<\/a>\u201d and created a one-man show<\/a> around his eatery escapades.<\/p>\n Katy Perry, who Cardosa served at ABC Kitchen, was \u201creally, really nice,\u201d he said. MICHAEL TRAN\/AFP via Getty Images; Helayne Seidman<\/p>\n It was at ABC Kitchen where he served his most famous customer \u2014 Katy Perry, who asked if she could swap fries for mashed potatoes.<\/p>\n \u201cI asked my manager and she went, \u2018Mashed potatoes are only for dinner.\u2019 I said, \u2018OK, because Katy Perry\u2019s table was asking.\u2019 She went, \u2018The next time you have this question, you should say, \u2018Katy Perry wants mashed potatoes.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018Ok, but do we have them?\u2019 She went, \u2018No.’\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThen she made this big deal and went to ask the kitchen and came back and said, \u2018We can\u2019t. Tell her we\u2019re so sorry.\u2019 So I went up to Katy and said, \u2018I\u2019m sorry, we don\u2019t have mashed potatoes,\u2019 and she said, \u2018That\u2019s totally fine!’\u201d<\/p>\n Cardosa stars in \u201cWe\u2019re So Dead,\u201d which was released digitally on Friday. Blake Studwell<\/p>\n