Lexington’s Burger Week, can bring out the best in local chefs. Their creativity and passion are tested by the week-long marathon of making delicious burgers at a meager $5 price point, that stand out among the 46 participating restaurants. However, this week-long culinary tryst with beef can cause grief and consternation with patrons and servers alike. A Facebook post from Monday has gone “Lexington Viral” (which means we saw it last night) that shows, while Burger Week can bring out the best in Lexington’s culinary artists, it can also bring out the worst in its customers.

A local good Samaritan (person not hospital) stole this nasty note off the table before the note could be read by a service worker in town that, quite possibly, was working as hard as they could during the most stressful time of year for restaurant employees.

For some restaurants letters of this type are newsworthy, and perhaps even make the rounds of social media. For others, it’s just Monday.

“That college girl that went to Cheapside’s letter? That’d go in our ‘Feelin Good In The Neighborhood’ pile,” explained Rebeccitha Jackson, an emotionless hostess that has worked at the Applebee’s on Nicholasville Road for the last year and a half.

“I try and nab a bunch of notes before our servers or managers see them, I mean those customers aren’t ever coming back anyway, I think most of them only ate here because they were lost, or were from Winchester,” added Jackson without any sort of facial expression.

While burger week will conclude on Sunday, life at Applebee’s will continue to go on as usual for what must seem like an eternity to the employees.