"embarrassed customer" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example, you could say: "The embarrassed customer apologized to the store clerk for the misunderstanding."
"It's a place where you really don't have to be insecure about anything at all," the restaurant's manager, Rikii Ogawa, told me, although she did admit that some customers get embarrassed while being weighed in the center of the restaurant to determine if they qualify for free food.
Like an ostrich with his head in the sand, he was happily tending to business while his embarrassed mother apologetically explained to customers, "He refuses to use the bathroom inside".
As JetBlue CEO David Neeleman wrote to customers, "We are sorry and embarrassed.
The move, he added, threatened to frighten off Chinese customers, many of them immigrants too embarrassed to speak English.
Your fear of being embarrassed or of coming across as an awkward or bizarre customer may be what is holding you back from making the request to use your own containers.
In a statement to Guardian Australia, a spokesman said Domino's was "disappointed and embarrassed to hear that we have let down a pizza-loving customer [Driscoll]".
"What a way to treat breastfeeding customers, shaming them for breastfeeding, making them feel embarrassed that you need to feed your child," Gomez continues.
At first, I am too embarrassed to ask what this means, and when I learn that customers have to buy a whole bottle of vodka or rum for $300 rather than single cocktails, I am shocked.
One cringes as she relives a meeting, early in her career, with a male boss and customers at a notorious strip club, where even the staff girls were too embarrassed to do their table dances until she had left.
"I didn't even tell my friends what I did here because I felt so embarrassed," the woman said, reaching for a pumice stone to remove dry skin from the bottom of the customer's feet.
