Customers Stiff Local Waitress For $100 Tab
07/11/2008 04:49
Don,
This letter is
written to the people who walked out on a $100
dollar tab and left me to pay it. And for
everyone else who has done it too.
Did you know that when you do that it’s not the bar or restaurant who takes the hit? It’s the poor minimum wage earning sap who serves you who gets stuck paying it.
After owning my own store for 4 years and having a zero income for all that time we decided to close and get me a paying job.
It was my second day on the job when I had the misfortune to encounter you.
That $100 that I had to pay would have been the first $100 to my name in all those years but you stole that from me.
I only hope that someone does the same to you ten fold because that’s what it felt like to me.
The fact that you had me split the alcohol from the food on the tab tells me that you will probably claim it on income tax.
But why not? Why just be a crook by walking out on tabs? You might as well rip as many people off as possible. It’s obvious how you operate.
The saving grace that day was a man who I consider an angel.
He witnessed the whole fiasco and felt sorry for me so he tipped me as much as his bill to make up a bit for you.
I felt bad that he did it, but was so grateful to him for doing it. He restored my faith in mankind by reminding me that YOU are an unfortunate exception, not the norm.
I hope to never lay eyes on you or your kind again.
To my “angel”, you may not realize how big your act of kindness was to me, but it was HUGE! Bless you!
Barb Freysteinson
St. Albert
SINC SAYS:
Thanks for sharing that story Barb. I’ve seen people do this to a waitress before and it stinks. If the group who did that to you is reading this, shame on you.
Did you know that when you do that it’s not the bar or restaurant who takes the hit? It’s the poor minimum wage earning sap who serves you who gets stuck paying it.
After owning my own store for 4 years and having a zero income for all that time we decided to close and get me a paying job.
It was my second day on the job when I had the misfortune to encounter you.
That $100 that I had to pay would have been the first $100 to my name in all those years but you stole that from me.
I only hope that someone does the same to you ten fold because that’s what it felt like to me.
The fact that you had me split the alcohol from the food on the tab tells me that you will probably claim it on income tax.
But why not? Why just be a crook by walking out on tabs? You might as well rip as many people off as possible. It’s obvious how you operate.
The saving grace that day was a man who I consider an angel.
He witnessed the whole fiasco and felt sorry for me so he tipped me as much as his bill to make up a bit for you.
I felt bad that he did it, but was so grateful to him for doing it. He restored my faith in mankind by reminding me that YOU are an unfortunate exception, not the norm.
I hope to never lay eyes on you or your kind again.
To my “angel”, you may not realize how big your act of kindness was to me, but it was HUGE! Bless you!
Barb Freysteinson
St. Albert
SINC SAYS:
Thanks for sharing that story Barb. I’ve seen people do this to a waitress before and it stinks. If the group who did that to you is reading this, shame on you.
