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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While not initially, credit cards facilitate the slide into the world government CentralBankDigitalCurrency.
When possibe, which is most of the time, use cash only !
How many zeros are on the customer’s credit card receipt?. And has the decimal point been tampered with?
I once deposited a check for just under $5000 but the bank teller accidentally failed to hit the decimal key. She handed me a receipt for an almost half-million dollar deposit. I caught it while exiting the bank and went back to let her correct it.
Indeed
An old girlfriend who waited tables ingrained that in me
I’ve never forgotten that
If they did that why a $3000 tip you had to know that would be caught. The restaurant did not wait to see if it was real they had already paid her. Now did she stay working there or make a quick exit not to be seen again?
Watch the video at link, they even took pics with the customer for giving such a tip.
It looks like the customer may have put “0” for the tip and “13.25” for the total, and someone else inserted “3,00” on the tip line and “30” before the “13.25.” The second 3 on the total line looks different from the other two 3’s.
I put “cash” in the tip field, fill in the total, and leave cash for the waitress.
I usually tip in cash, and I write "cash" on the tip line so there's no blank there.
That's pretty much the case across most chain-store retail establishments, no matter what they're selling. The business model sucks. If a conglomerate holding company owns the business, they also own a bunch of other unrelated businesses and have no "love" for the particulars that the customers want from each type of store.
The employees are not paid enough to put up with the abuse they suffer from the district manager and the customers. And everyone is just an employee; they can't develop any sense of proprietorship to manage the business with common sense, because a sheaf of rules arrives every week from the holding company in New York or Los Angeles. If customers in your locale like a particular thing, the manager can't order more of it, because all stores across the country receive the same amount of it and no more.
Good questions
As long as it wasn’t fraudulent. (Ie it was the real owner of the card who dined there and made the “generous” tip). then the business should win.
If however the tip was left by a thief using a stolen card the business will have to eat the loss.
maybe the service was as pretend as the tip? I wasn’t there so it’s hard to tell. in Europe they’d return the tip as overpayment.
I understand the restaurant took pictures of his driver’s license, shown in the vid at link, so look legitimate.
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