Subway worker fired over cheesesteak ruckus
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A customer's request to put ketchup on a Philly cheesesteak caused a ruckus in an Orlando Subway shop.
Sandwich maker Lawrence Ordone told customer Luis Martinez that Subway doesn't have ketchup when the order was placed on New Year's night. There are differing accounts on what happened next, but Orlando television station WFTV reports Ordone lost his job.
Ordone says he told the customer he's "never put ketchup on anybody's sandwich." He says Martinez got "mouthy." Martinez denies that, but Ordone admits he flew off the handle at that point.
WFTV reports Ordone shoved a chair to the side and told Martinez "fight me like a man."
Martinez called 911. Ordone left the building. No one was arrested. But now Ordone is looking for a new job.
"Man puts ketchup on macaroni & cheese.......film @ 11." (I love it on my mac & cheese!)
And this made the news why?
Real men fight over ketchup.
Man - after reading this article (the sandwich looked good in the picture, couldn't resist), when it's all said and done - this is a complete non-story perhaps of only local (Florida) interest, if anything at all.
@Throbbinhood That sandwich looks good? Ugh.
Originally I wasn't going to comment but then I read the linked article by WFTV. What a nut! Ordone should not be working in food service, or any service that deals directly with customers, if he flies off the handle so easily. Here are a few things that article mentions if you don't want to click the link.The customer didn't want the sandwich without ketchup but the next customer did and offered to buy it. This should have been the end of it.Ordone claims the customer got mouthy and that is when he 'flew off the handle.' Specifically what is described is he pushed aside a chair or knocked it over, prevented the customer from leaving and threatened to kill him.
'Ordone said he was fired from his job Wednesday, and that he is baffled the confrontation started over something as simple as ketchup.''WFTV found out his case might be forwarded to the State Attorney's Office to determine whether or not to prosecute him.'
I miss the days of the edit button. Enter just doesn't seem to work with this new commenting system.
 @queenofthenight At least KOMO is fair about it. They don't edit their stories and headlines anymore, either, strictly out of protest for our situation.Â
 @queenofthenight Select and copy, click delete, then repost?
won't work. i've been unable to copy/paste here
 @slappywag  @queenofthenight I do this, slappywag, but then I worry if I'm spamming the poor reader to whom I'm responding, not sure if they get another notification each time I repost.Â
Hey, where is the cheese?Â
who puts ketchup on a Philly....what a schmuck
 @Vince I think I'd be more pissed over what they classify as meat. That sandwich looks disgusting.
@Vince  You'd be surprised what people do. I watched an episode of No Reservations (Anthony Bourdain) where he goes to Ecuador and they put ketchup on ceviche!
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And just think, if they both had guns this would have never happened. Oh wait a minute...
@Howard Beale how do you know Martinez wasn't carrying? Pls cite your source or shut up.
@Dave Lancaster  Dave, the fact that you responded only reinforces the hilarity of Howard's troll comment.Â
 @Dave Lancaster  @Howard Don't feed the trolls.
Wh puts ketchup on a Philly steak sandwitch anyway? It's just as gross as putting ketchup on a hotdog (instead of mustard and relish) - ickk Off with their heads
 @GOATCUTTER I like one hotdog with mustard and relish and a second one with only ketchup, but as a picky and quirky eater (as you might have inferred from the hotdog preference), this was still hilarious, thanks!Â
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At the risk of stating the obvious, both cooked over charcoal, both on toasted buns, and only French's is appropriate hotdog mustard, preferably out of the old-fashioned glass jars that are so hard to find these days.Â
@GOATCUTTER  Oh, you're one of those "no ketchup on hot dogs" guys. How edgy. Sigh.Â
 @GOATCUTTER It's pretty good actually.... I like to put BBQ sauce on the sandwich and then dip it in ketchup.Â
Oh the pressure of sandwich making!
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I do enjoy watching teenagers in most likely their first job get stressed out. I'm not a sadist but what they usually stress out over is most of the time trivial compared to what they are going to see in the adult work force.Â
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I do admit feeling pressure as the customer at Pat's King of Steaks in Philly, though. They want your order, they want it now and they want you out of their face. Reminded me of the "soup Nazi" episodes in Seinfeld.
@tennistime Believe me, is not the teenagers who are acting ridiculous most of the time. I used to be the manager at a McDonald's and you would not believe how cranky and rude people get when they are hungry. Most of the teens on my crew did a great job of handling the customers politely. In fact, I had more issues with adults on the crew than with teens. As for customers, I have definitely seen some lose their temper over things that were supposedy done wrong. For instance, getting over the top, in my face screaming mad and wanting me to fire the teen employee who told him McDonald's doesn't carry a sandwich called a Whopper (I heard the employee explaining this and it was done very politely along with the information that there is a Burger King next door if that was what they were looking for). Apparently the employee had "needlessly embarassed" the customer and should have "know what he meant" and rung it up. This despite the fact that we didn't even have any sandwiches on our menu that were close to a Whopper!
 @justathought  @tennistime A lot of customer's can be rude as hell too. I made it in the food business for 4 months. Said screw it and quit also their was other issue's that were out of my hand's. Decided to focus on college, working in fast food is actually pretty hard work! Keeping up with order's and stress and harassment is not easy i was called c*nt by a customer over a order that went wrong; I did not even take the order! Oh, and that customer got a discount.... I back talked to another customer and my manager had to walk away because she was laughing so hard.
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Heaven forbid a real crisis hits this guys life.
Reminds me of a Friends episode.
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Ross: Just a sandwich? Look, I am 30 years old, I'm about to be divorced twice and I just got evicted! That sandwich was the only good thing going on in my life! Someone ate the only good thing going on in my life
 @responsible adult? You know all the dialogue to a "Friends" episode??
 @chandler And what if he does? There are certain parts of some movies/Tv shows that many people know the dialogue of because they watch it a lot. Nothing wrong with that." I see you're drinking 1%. Is that 'cause you think you're fat? 'Cause you're not. You could be drinking whole if you wanted to." And that is from memory.
@chandler  you care whether they do or not?, or do you just want to act superior because you've done such wonders with your life, I'm sure you've got some trivia in your head we could consider a waste of time too.
 @Dave Lancaster Don't mind him. He doesn't remember anything. Not even the words to "Happy Birthday".
Good grief, no. I looked it up.