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{{quote|''"Customer Disservice: Because we're not satisfied until you're not satisfied."''|'''[http://www.despair.com/cudi.html despair.com]'''}}
Particularly notorious in restaurants, but really can pop up in any kind of sales establishment. This is the customer who ''expects'' that the customer is always right to the point that it reaches the extreme of "everyone on staff must be wrong."
There are at least four different types of [[Unsatisfiable Customer]]. These are as follows:
# More picky than nasty. In a restaurant, this type of customer will make long, overly complicated orders that go to the point of ludicrousness, and will constantly send the food back if it's not to precise specifications.
# The bossy type. This type may not make overly complicated orders, but if any tiny little thing is wrong (in their view), that person will lash out at the poor waiter or clerk who has the unenviable job of being their server.
# This type of customer combines the picky and the bossy types. Heaven help the person who has to deal with this customer. This is the one who will give the ridiculously complicated orders and then, once something goes wrong, as it inevitably will, berates and abuses the hapless server trying to reason with him.
# The fraudulent type. This is someone who'll order a meal, eat half of it, put a bit of hair on it and demand a refund. And then chew out the waitstaff if they don't get it.
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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* In ''[[Fast Times at Ridgemont High]]'', Brad works at two fast food restaurants. At the first one, he is fired after being forced into an argument by an [[Jerkass|overly demanding customer]].
* In the movie ''[[Waiting]]'', the staff does some nasty things to the food of a woman who endlessly complains about small flaws.
* Sally is like this in ''[[When Harry Met Sally...]]''.
* The remake of ''[[Fun with Dick and Jane]]'' has Jane (who, in this incarnation, works in a travel agency) repeatedly dealing with customers like this, one before she quits her job on the phone on a plane literally ''shrieking'' about how he has a kosher meal in front of him. even telling the flight attendant talking to him on the other end to grow up in response to ''her'' telling him to grow up. Apparently, he expected her to take care of it. Is that part of the job?
* At the beginning of ''[[Victor Victoria]]'', Victoria attempts the fraudulent variation while dining with Carroll, slipping a cockroach into her salad. The restaurant owner tells her that [[Genre Savvy|two other customers have attempted the same ruse]] and it's not going to work, but then the cockroach climbs up the leg of another diner, and during the resulting melee they're able to escape.
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== Video Games ==
* The ''[[Mass Effect]]'' series has the memetic [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1N1ELEVUMs "Refund Guy"] who wouldn't be as much of a hassle if he actually kept his receipts.
== Web Comics ==
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