A restaurant owners tells a customer about a crazy client he once had.

A woman waiting tables on her twentieth birthday has a strange interaction with the owner of the restaurant who says that he may grant her one wish.

Ann and her son Davey witness a hold-up at their favorite French restaurant.

When a dessert chef in New Jersey attacks undocumented Thai workers with a knife, and claims that they stole his cream puffs, the boss and salad chef must work to resolve the issue and grant amends to all parties, while simultaneously dodging the immigration workers that the dessert chef called in to get his own revenge.

An irate customer at a fast food joint slashes an employee's car tires and wrecks the engine. Years later, homeless and fresh out of prison, the employee encounters the same man and swears he'll get revenge.

In 2006, a teenage waiter working in a restaurant on California's Mount Tamalapis handles an erratic, unstable female customer as a favor to another coworker.

When a group of refugee cyborgs pose as a band of human restauranteurs to attain intergalactic freedom, one of them questions her allegiances.

In the future, all humans must wait in an impossibly long line, where getting to the front means securing one’s future and never having to worry about money again. Waiting in the line for decades on end, the worst of humanity comes out.

Workers at an American franchise restaurant located in southern China learn of the different ways American capitalism exploits them and creates food waste, leading them to rebel against their bosses.

A young woman with a troubled family life works at a burger restaurant and receives a proposition from an older customer to run away with him. She ignores him and starts a new relationship with someone she has no attraction to.