Elissa Dunn shared the video on her TikTok account, @the.bada**.bartender, where it amassed nearly 400,000 views as fellow TikTok users watched her confront the woman.

“I turned to see a lady scooping my dark cherries with her BARE hands,” read the text over the video.

According to the New Mexico Restaurant Association, alcohol garnishes must be treated with the same care as any piece of food.

“These garnishes are anything from fruit to a spice or herb, and because most of them are perishable food, they need to be treated as such to ensure the safety and satisfaction of the customer,” the organization said.

In the video, Dunn is seen working with her back turned away from the bar. As she turned around, she saw a woman off-camera eating the cherries used for other customers’ drinks straight out of the container.

“Do you think it’s a good idea to put your bare hands in the cherries?” Dunn asked the woman. “So, now I have to throw this whole thing out.”

With that, she grabbed the container and threw it in the garbage before she walked away as the video ended.

In a second video, Dunn said she made a drink for the woman and was about to serve a drink to her husband when she noticed the woman quickly put her hand down.

Dunn said she noticed there were cherries that appeared in the woman’s drink that were not there before. Because she didn’t see the woman take the cherries, Dunn said she couldn’t say anything about it.

After she served the woman’s husband, Dunn turned her back to put their orders in the system and was mindful to try to catch whether the woman would take more cherries.

“Sure enough, I turned around…she had her hand knuckle-deep in my cherries,” she said. “Not only that, she wasn’t scooping them and putting them in her drink. She was scooping them up to her mouth and then putting her hands back in.”

Dunn walked away after throwing the cherries in the garbage, as seen in the initial video, and said that when she returned, the woman’s husband asked about what happened.

Upon telling him, she said he was embarrassed and gave her a $20 bill.

Dunn told Newsweek in an email that after seeing the woman digging through the cherry jar, she said she was shocked but “not really surprised.”

“Unfortunately, this is somewhat of a regular occurrence,” Dunn said. “From something as small as straws, which I don’t necessarily think is that big a deal, to cherries, to bar tools and glassware.” Guests consistently have a mindset that as long as they are paying customers they are entitled to anything they want."

While Dunn had to throw the jar of cherries away, she said the bar replaces anything that is damaged. However, she said she knows of some establishments that would take it out of employees’ paychecks.

Viewers took their thoughts to both videos’ comments sections.

“Another reminder…don’t eat at everyone’s house,” a viewer commented.

“One of my buddies owns a bar & had that happen,” another TikTok user wrote. “He charged them for each cherry they took.”

“After covid it’s like really?!?” one viewer wrote.

Dunn said while it’s against the health code for customers to grab garnishes with their bare hands, it’s also a matter of etiquette and respect.

“When you’re bartending, that area is your workspace, it’s your desk,” she explained. “You wouldn’t go up to somebody’s desk and just start grabbing things off of it.”

Dunn said she’s happy to help a customer who requests something rather than looking to grab it themselves.

“You just gotta ask,” she said.

Many others in the service industry have taken their opinions and stories about customers to the internet, including a server who said she had to cook the food for her table in a viral video.

Another server said she broke a pair of glasses that belonged to a patron part of a group that walked out without paying their $125 bill.

One video featured some frustrating habits that servers deal with from customers.