Real Housewives of New Jersey star Jennifer Aydin is under fire after her insulting rant directed at an “80-year-old” Jersey Mike’s employee went viral.
On New Year’s Day, Aydin, 47, posted a lengthy selfie-style video to her Instagram Stories in which she tried to job-shame a worker at the sandwich shop for being “slow” and not letting the reality star make changes to her order.
In the clip, which was shared by a Bravo fan account on TikTok, Aydin complained about being “so mad” after she was forced to wait for “what felt like forever” for her food.
“We were (in) line for Jersey Mike’s … When it came time to take our order, they took our order. And then they took the lady’s order that was after me, but they fulfilled her order first somehow. Made us wait. OK, whatever,” the Bravolebrity says in the clip, which has been viewed over 1.3 million times on X.
“And the 80-year-old that was working there, I mean, the amount of time that she took to cut that bread was almost as much as we were waiting (in) that line, jeez. Oh my God. Everything was slow. We’re not complaining, we get it. It’s early in the morning. You’re in a bad mood. It’s New Year’s, you’re working. I’d be pissed, too,” she said.
Aydin then recounted how staff gave her a hard time when she tried to add an extra “tuna sandwich” for one of her children.
“As she’s making my sandwich, I added a tuna sandwich for (her son) Jacob, and she’s like, ‘You’re gonna have to wait (in) line again.’ And I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’”
Aydin asked the guy behind her if she could modify her order and his response drew her ire as well. “He’s like, ‘I mean, it’s kind of ridiculous,’” Aydin recounted incredulously calling him a “freaking jerk” and a “loser.”
“He was being a hater. He thought I was being ridiculous for ordering another sandwich because he knew it was going to take another 10 hours to fulfill and he was going to have to wait longer,” she went on.
Aydin also berated him for seeming to not know she is “a f***ing celebrity” and his comments about her “fake” jewelry.
“Fake diamonds, bitch? What you don’t know — you better ask somebody,” she continued in her rant. “Please, that loser. Find me, a**hole.”
After Aydin’s tirade went viral on social media, RHONJ fans lashed out at the mother of five.
“I can’t imagine harassing fast food workers & the other customers in line … talk about being an a**hole,” one person wrote on a Reddit thread devoted to the altercation.
“I hope Bravo execs see this and fire her!! She is TRASH. Her sense of entitlement is disgusting. Hopefully this woman is shown the door and we won’t have to see her on TV anymore,” another added.
“She’s like the weird girl who was never attractive and lucked up with her marriage and rebuilt her physical appearance with help of said husband. No matter how much money or surgery.. you can’t hide a ROTTEN CORE!” another person commented on Instagram.
A Jersey Mike’s Subs employee who claimed to be one of the workers Aydin was berating also lashed out at the TV personality.
On TikTok, a user going by the handle amxndaa.x — who was wearing a Jersey Mike’s uniform — blasted Aydin for not knowing sub shop etiquette.
“I really hope this stupid bitch has TikTok. I really hope I come up on your ‘For You’ page, bitch. I hope you recognize me,” amxndaa.x said.
“It’s not even 12 f***ing hours into the New Year, OK? It was approximately, like, 7 in the f***ing morning,” she began. “This lady is putting in her orders. This bitch doesn’t know what she wants … She’s over here ordering four different sandwiches, changing the bread last minute.”
Amxndaa.x said Aydin kept trying to change her order when people in her party came up to her with new requests.
“(Aydin was) like, ‘Oh, and can I also get this?’ Like, girl, that’s not how that works,” the disgruntled worker continued. “If you wanna order another sandwich, you’re gonna have to get back in line ’cause you’re backing up the entire line.’
Aydin then started “tweaking” and calling herself “a celebrity,” leaving Amxndaa.x to offer up some curt advice: “Learn how to order.”
Over on Reddit, Amxndaa.x’s takedown of Aydin became a cause célèbre with her response generating almost a thousand comments on the RHONJ discussion thread.
“2025 is looking like the year of Jen Aydin’s downfall,” one fan wrote. “And I’m here for it. She needs to be humbled with her 16 bathrooms. She’s full of s*** just like her house.”
But Aydin was unbothered by the disapproval.
As critics piled on, Aydin shared a clip of Taylor Swift’s You’re on Your Own, Kid to her Instagram Stories, writing: “Her words speak to me. Hear them!”