Waitress goes viral after turning a 1-star review into work shirt

A waitress has gone viral after making the most of a 1-star review by transforming it into a t-shirt for work.

Working in hospitality and customer service may at times mean you encounter customers displeased by your service, sometimes enough so to leave a bad review.

However, one waitress has taken things to the next level after turning a 1-star review critiquing her service into a work shirt instead.

Dani, who goes by ‘dandanthexanman‘ on TikTok, took to the social media platform to show off her “iconic” idea, quickly going viral as viewers dubbed the shirt “the funniest thing” all year.

A close-up of the shirt revealed the review: “We will never be back! At this restaurant the staff made us feel so uncomfortable. A waitress named Dani suggested the manager to seat us outside [in] the cold when our baby cried because she had a headache, she didn’t bother to hide her discomfort and looked at us like we were rubbish. We obviously left the restaurant straight away. Very not family-friendly atmosphere in there, don’t bother to go with kids.”

In a separate storytime TikTok, Dani explained how exactly the review came about. She revealed she had been feeling unwell but couldn’t take the day off as three other staff members had already called in sick.

“It’s so busy… and I’m there getting sicker and sicker… but I’m putting on a show, because that’s what they pay me to do,” Dani began. “Then we’ve got this absolutely beautiful family come in, yay slay. The only problem is their baby starts crying… we actually do have an outside bit of the restaurant which a lot of parents will take their toddlers [to], just to calm down — sometimes a restaurant can be overwhelming to a toddler, I can understand that.”

Struggling with her headache and the child’s crying, Dani suggested to her manager that the family go outside; “It was insane for me that day, I’ve never dealt with that kind of migraine and that kind of noise combo — that was pretty wild.”

The family, however, was not happy with the suggestion and chose to leave instead, making sure to grab Dani’s name beforehand. Upset to discover she had been named in the family’s bad review, Dani ultimately decided to “laugh” about the unfortunate matter and turn it into a work shirt.

Despite her hilarious response to the review, Dani did admit she felt bad for making the family uncomfortable; “I am really sorry, you are right. If you ever see this video, you are right… I didn’t mean to make you feel uncomfortable, I was just having my own sh** that day. That’s actually not your problem, you’ve come in here to eat food with your family.”