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Harvard Business School Professor Goes to War Over $4 Worth of Chinese Food
Boston.com ^ | 12/9/14 | Hilary Sargent

Posted on 12/09/2014 4:00:37 PM PST by GQuagmire

Edited on 12/09/2014 4:03:39 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: don-o

Sorry... if I offended any attorneys. Lighten up, Francis.


61 posted on 12/09/2014 5:40:18 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: GQuagmire

I wouldn’t mind eating at the restaurant, but I think I would shop for a different business school just to avoid this contagion.


62 posted on 12/09/2014 5:40:33 PM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: jttpwalsh

That menu sounded absolutely dee-licious! It was difficult to keep my mind on the stupid professor. Yes, the manager should have thrown a wad of dollars at this creep from the beginning, but with a request/condition that he take his ‘business’ elsewhere.


63 posted on 12/09/2014 5:42:45 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Rodamala

Keep posting that type of crap and you will find yourself lit up. Book it!


64 posted on 12/09/2014 5:43:21 PM PST by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: GQuagmire

Twitter: @bgedelman

bgedelman@hbs.edu


65 posted on 12/09/2014 5:44:52 PM PST by maggief
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To: lee martell

Agreed, on all counts. Thanks for your reply !


66 posted on 12/09/2014 5:47:52 PM PST by jttpwalsh
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To: GQuagmire

Sounds like a freeking lib, they love to spend other people’s money but are absolute skinflints with their own money.


67 posted on 12/09/2014 5:57:25 PM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Organic Panic

No bets on that one, his aunt is Marian Wright Edelman.

http://bigstory.ap.org/photo/hillary-rodham-clinton-marian-wright-edelman-0


68 posted on 12/09/2014 6:02:06 PM PST by kalee
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To: GQuagmire

I would suggest the owner reject any online orders from the twit and require the man to appear personally to make, pay for and receive his order in order to preclude any misunderstandings.


69 posted on 12/09/2014 6:05:28 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Eric the Red Holder has probably read the Communist Manifesto but not the Constitution.)
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To: Hugin

My complaint with some restaurants is when they kite up the tip. I had one place put a one in front of the tip increasing it ten-fold and then had the gall to tell me it was the credit card company that did it. I got a copy of the receipt where they put that “1” in front of the tip. I got the full refund of the meal after I had a lawyer friend call them up.


70 posted on 12/09/2014 6:10:11 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: GQuagmire
I especially appreciate the fact that once Edelman told Duan he had turned it over to authorities, Duan said he would wait until they advised him what to do. ROFLMAO

So instead of getting his $4 back or even $12.00 the poofter is going to get probably nothing since I am sure the bureaucracy has much more important things on their “plate”.

71 posted on 12/09/2014 6:25:58 PM PST by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: don-o

Regardless, you aren’t getting your 4 dollars back. Book that... in red ink.


72 posted on 12/09/2014 6:27:27 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: SkyDancer

one place put a one in front of the tip


I used to audit restaurant receipts for a large company, in every incident, it was the server who did the misdeed. No establishment wants to get on the credit card companies radar screen for fraud - they will get bounced out of the program.

It never failed to amaze me, how many servers lost gigs with great tip income, in order to pad their earnings by a few bucks.


73 posted on 12/09/2014 6:27:48 PM PST by jttpwalsh
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To: SkyDancer
My complaint with some restaurants is when they kite up the tip...

That is precisely why I always put the currency symbol right next to (preceeding) the amount... even if they have the symbol preprinted on the slip, I ignore it and add my own, crowding the first digit.

74 posted on 12/09/2014 6:34:07 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: jttpwalsh

I work in that area and have had lunch there. Good but not great, as it goes.

Many Chinese establishments still use paper slips and calculate the tax without regard for accuracy. Have you seen that? (8% is good profit).

In Massachusetts, Chinese joints are a mini casino making money selling drinks to the unemployed on food stamps (EBT) and cashing in on keno.

If they suck, just do not patronize them. That is why, besides a bad economy and high taxes, many small eateries are out of business.


75 posted on 12/09/2014 6:36:42 PM PST by Omniscient Certitude
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To: ansel12

If some schmuck wrote to me saying I owed him 4 dollars, I would blow him off as well... because, at my billable rate, I simply don’t have time for that... though this Edelstein dude, with his $800/hr billable rate, apparently does.


76 posted on 12/09/2014 6:39:32 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: Omniscient Certitude

Thanks for the reply. On top of the things you mentioned, many (but not all) of the places that use paper slips, do not report all of their cash sales, just enough to avoid the tax man’s attention.


77 posted on 12/09/2014 6:42:24 PM PST by jttpwalsh
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To: SkyDancer

Or a Gruber.


78 posted on 12/09/2014 6:45:59 PM PST by funfan
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To: Rodamala

A guy complains about being overcharged from the menu price for his food delivery, and you post to me about your billable rate being too high to bother complaining?

I feel honored at your rates, how much money have you lost posting on FR today, since you have been doing it all day long and typing many posts?


79 posted on 12/09/2014 7:14:21 PM PST by ansel12
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To: Rodamala

Started doing something like that. I put an = before and after the tip if the service is good. I still feel why should we pay their salary for them to do their job. But that’s another issue.


80 posted on 12/09/2014 7:43:00 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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