Patronizing note on food truck lets customers down in Melbourne

A “bold and condescending” note on the front of a food truck specializing in loaded and “curly” potatoes has caught the attention of thousands.

The note, from a market in Melbourne, attempted to teach customers basic consumer etiquette with a spoon and did several digs at Gen Z shoppers.

Many are fixated on the down-to-earth and no-nonsense tone the note takes on.

“When you get to the box office and pay, you get a ticket. One ticket is one spud. If you lose your ticket, the staff will not spud you,” the note read.

The note that customers specifically asked for has money ready to pay at the counter – and chided Gen Z for holding up lines by handing themselves money halfway through the transaction.

“When you give your ticket to the staff to pick up your spud, you’ll be asked what spice you want.”

“Gen Z: Please have money transferred to your account so you don’t delay the person(s) behind you.”

The food truck also answered common questions about popular flavors and spice levels.

‘The most popular flavor is chicken salt. The Hot & Spicy is hot. If you ask us how hot, remember that your taste buds are different from everyone else’s.’

Hundreds in the comments were left in stitches, with several joining in on the joke and poking fun at “boomers.”

“My work needs the money transfer notification, so annoying.”

“This is exactly why I still write checks.”

“The millennials are so impatient,” complained another. “When I get to the register and they tell me how much, I open my purse and look for my wallet.”

She added: “When I finally find it and start looking for the right card – and when I find that I need to slide it out of the slot the right way. . .’

One made a joke about Gen Z’s short attention span.

“Gen Z won’t have the attention span to read that,” he said. “You have to have a video of someone reading it, but the video also has to have someone playing Subway Surfers or they’ll have a panic attack.”

Two men even made a joke about the popular Boomer joke that young people should stop eating out so much if they want to be homeowners:

“If they didn’t eat so many potatoes, they could buy a house instead of renting.”

‘This is real life. This is what tenants don’t understand. They only order eight servings of avocado and except to go through life like all of us!”

Customers can’t stop buzzing about a particularly bold and condescending note taped to the front of a food truck

But some seemed genuinely frustrated.

“I’m tired of waiting for Gen Z to be in front of me to transfer money.”

“Why can’t they just have enough pocket money in one account if it’s going to be used anyway?”

One man recalled an event from his childhood that turned into a core memory – where similarly snarky people ran a diner that he went to after school.

“When I was about eight, I got burgers and chips from a local bowling club near school, run by a bunch of oldies.”

‘I’ve always hated tomato, but liked it as a sauce. I refused raw tomato on my burger, but asked for some tomato sauce, when an old man turned his head and yelled, ‘IF YOU THINK YOU DON’T LIKE TOMATO THEN YOU SHOULD NOT WANT TOMATO SAUCE – IT’S STILL TOMATO. YOU DON’T HAVE ANY’ and I cried.’

“The old lady just put down the sauce bottle out of submission and gave me my burger,” he ended sadly.