Disgusted Diner Finds 'Spit In It' Scrawled On Burger Order

ASTORIA, QUEENS – A Father's Day burger at a New York City beer garden left a diner feeling sick to his stomach when he found special instruction scrawled on his order after eating: "Please spit in it."

Curtis Mays told ABC 7 Eyewitness News his dinner order at Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden got messed up and he asked to see the order.

Scanning through it, Mays saw all the ingredients he'd asked for – cheddar cheese, well done, caramelized onions and onion rings – but also an additional item he' definitely not wanted: a side of saliva, WABC reported.

"I ate my burger already, I felt like I was gonna throw up," he recalled to the news station.

"I asked her, 'why would you do this?' And she couldn't explain it. She said she didn't do it, so I was like, 'who prints out the receipt?' So she said 'I take it up there and print it myself.' 'So you did it? Why are you lying about it? She just walked off," he added.

Mays told WABC he immediately approached a manager, who fired the waitress on the spot and offered him a refund.

"He was saying, 'How can we compensate you?' I was like, 'How can you compensate somebody for spitting on your food? I ate this already," Mays told the news outlet.

The manager later told WABC that, while he'd never previously had a problem with the waitress and the food service industry could sometimes be "a stressful job," the incident was still "unacceptable."

He added it was unlikely the cook actually did spit in the burger, but he understood why Mays was upset.

The Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden has an A rating from the NYC Department of Health, city records show.

Lead photo via Google Maps/November 2017