Delivery customer's excessive demands for one pork cutlet meal spark outrage
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- A customer's excessive delivery request for a single pork cutlet meal, including asking for an extra cutlet, finely chopped meat for a baby, extra soup and rice, and eight sets of cutlery, has sparked online discussion.
- The customer also requested no doorbell or knocking, threatening to cancel the order if these instructions were not followed.
- This incident follows other cases of customers making unreasonable or threatening demands through delivery app request sections, causing distress to small business owners.
A customer's outlandish delivery request has ignited a firestorm of online debate, highlighting the growing frustrations of small business owners dealing with unreasonable demands. The order, for a single portion of "handmade king pork cutlet" priced at 12,500 won, included a list of demands that went far beyond a typical request.
Give me one more pork cutlet instead of side dishes. Please chop the pork cutlet finely because I'm eating with my child. Give me lots of soup and rice. Give me 8 sets of cutlery.
The customer asked for an extra pork cutlet in place of side dishes, for the meat to be finely chopped for a baby, extra soup and rice, and a staggering eight sets of cutlery. Adding to the absurdity, the customer specified "baby is sleeping, absolutely no doorbell or knocking. Will cancel if you press it."
This incident is not isolated. Online communities have previously shared screenshots of delivery orders with increasingly aggressive or threatening language. One customer, after their orders were repeatedly canceled, escalated their requests from "give me a lot of food, enough to eat and die" to "Are you blind because your business is doing well? Why do you keep canceling?" and eventually "I will get revenge if you cancel."
Baby is sleeping. Absolutely no doorbell or knocking. Will cancel if you press it.
Online reactions to the latest incident have been swift, with many users expressing sympathy for the restaurant owner. Comments ranged from "There should be a function to refuse orders like this" to "Why not just order another pork cutlet?" and "The baby is sleeping, so don't ring the bell?"
There should be a function to refuse orders like this.
The proliferation of such demanding and sometimes threatening requests through delivery apps is placing a significant burden on self-employed business owners, who often feel powerless to refuse or manage these extreme customer expectations.
Why not just order another pork cutlet?
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Originally published by Dong-A Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.
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