Posted on 08/18/2023 8:04:45 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
There was a time when leaving a tip was optional and signified an extra gratitude for a job well done. However, as servers are often underpaid, the matter of tipping has become a hugely debated topic. Regardless, times are hard, and a little kindness goes a long way. Sadly, a seemingly good deed has led to a restaurant suing a customer, who seemingly left behind a generous tip.
In Scranton, Pennsylvania a restaurant is taking a customer to court after he left a $3,000 tip that turned out to be fraudulent. The tip was left in June of 2022 for a $13 bill. “It really meant a lot to me because everyone’s going through stuff. It really touched my heart.” Said Alfredo’s Pizza server, Mariana Lambert in response to the initial event. The restaurant attributed the act of kindness to an Instagram movement. However, in August of the same year, the restaurant discovered the gestured to have been a hoax......
Alfredo’s Vice President Leslie Minicozzi Galacci disclosed, “We received notice 45 days after he dined in our establishment.”
“We had already paid Mari the $3,000 by a company check so currently we, as the owners, are hit with the loss.” It turns out that the customer had disputed the charge to his credit card company. Although they tried to reach out to Smith, the restaurant got no response. Ultimately, Alfredo’s Pizza opted to move forward with filing charges at Magistrate Joanne Price Corbett’s Office in Lackawanna County.
Zachary Jacobson is the manager of Alfredo’s pizza and spoke with the local news station. “We thought somebody was actually trying to do a good thing. And then now we are, what, three months later? Not even, and there’s nothing. There’s nothing to show for it at this point.” He explained.
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my kid worked in a DC restaurant where they actually pad the tip a ridiculous amount-
“TWF”
(the wife factor)
How many zeros are on the customer’s credit card receipt?. And has the decimal point been tampered with?
The first thing I would do is track down the customer and ask if they made a mistake, I wouldn't run to the bank to cash a check.
The error on $3.00 is feasible.
My non-expert opinion is that that is a pretty clumsy forgery. If it is, somebody should face criminal charges.
Not how it works. The card holder files a dispute at a later date and the CC company then notifies the restaurant and charges back the money that the restaurant was paid.
The customer either did it as a "prank", or he's just nuts and changed his mind later. It's on him & he needs to be taken to the cleaners. When he wrote that figure and signed the bill, he entered into a contract to pay that to the restaurant. His motives, regardless of their logic, are not legally relevant. Try doing that with any contract elsewhere and see what happens.
I always take a photo of the signed restaurant copy
Joe Biden’s birth place.
That explains a lot.
Seriously foolish not to do that. Big error on the part of the restaurant. People do crazy things like that, but it's smart to verify.
My wife had an uncle that gave a waitress $5k to get her teeth fixed. It does happen.
Sounds like they did this per the news video.
Even made a copy of the person’s driver’s license at the time.
Possibly an elderly person where someone else pays the monthly charges.
Interesting story with not enough information. Did the tipper make a mistake or did he actually intend to tip $3,000 and then changed his mind? Is there a picture of the actual receipt with said tip? Hard to say exactly what went down here.
The restaurant did contact the man to try and collect the $3,000. It would have been nice if the restaurant had contacted the man soon after the tip and asked him if he really meant to leave a $3,000 tip and did that before writing that check to the waitress. That is a lot of money. Of course in this selfish world no one would ever think to do that.
I once was distracted and did my math wrong and left too small a tip. The easy thing would have been to let it go but I drove from home back to the restaurant and handed the waitress the extra money.
So not exactly intentional.
I always take a photo of the signed restaurant copy.
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What a shame things have come to that. But you still have to go through a dispute if they add an extra zero or two.
I only use a debit card. And always check the next day to be sure they clear the amount I specified.
Of course
Having worked in restaurants as a teenager I came to the conclusion that most restaurant managers are complete a-holes.
I once was distracted and did my math wrong and left too small a tip. The easy thing would have been to let it go but I drove from home back to the restaurant and handed the waitress the extra money.
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I once took the merchant copy with me. I felt so bad when I got home. It was a fancy Brazilian steakhouse and the tip for two (no drinks) was $40.00. The restaurant was about 50 miles away and I was ready to drive right back that very night. But I called them and they said if I emailed them the merchant copy I had - they could balance everything out.
And it all worked out.
Great idea!
Not really. The total should have been 16.25 in that case, and the forger would have come to erase the 6 and make it a 3 (with the same upstroke at the bottom of all the 3's) in order to make the total 3,013.25 instead of 3,016.25.
I believe the restaurant.
The 3 in the thirteen looks different than the other 3’s. The other 2 threes are squashed in the lower halves compared to the upper halves. The three in the thirteen looks symmetrical top and bottom. The smaller 0 looks added at the end of the three thousand. I think the man didn’t leave a tip so they forged the three thousand as revenge...my working theory!
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