Sunday, November 18, 2007

Restaurant Madness and bamBOOZling

The other day schmoopie and I were looking through her receipts and account statement to balance her check book. When we were done, we found 3 instances where a restaurant/bar charged her more than she siged off for on her debit card receipt. Of course, the differences in the numbers were insignificant like 27 or 59 cents. The shitty, lying, worthless server probably did this so A) I didn't go screaming mad into some restaurant, leaving some little U of M sophomore hostess crying to her helicopter parents, or B) they were hoping we didn't notice.

This must be a common thing, if it happened to us 3 times in a month right? What the hell? I thought most people were honest. And don't even start on about us leaving terrible tips; we never tip less thatn 15% and rarely less than 20%. Should we take some recourse? I've heard that if you confront them on it they are required to put a sign up saying they have been guilty of this charge. Is that even worth it? To make it even worse, one of the bars, Maxwell's on Washington Avenue, is a place where schmoopie spends a lot of money due to the close proximity to her office. Her and her friends have probably spent $5,000 there the last 3 or 4 years. This is how they treat their loyal regulars? For full disclosure, the other places were Elsies in Northeast (the bowling place) and Cafe Ena in South Minneapolis. Anyway, watch for these renegade restauarant workers. I'll report back after our next audit.

1 comment:

Jaybee Neal said...

For some reason, I can totally visualize you realizing this and getting flustered and saying things like "What is this?!" and "This is outrageous!"

It's good to know that I have Minneapolis' answer to Larry David in my friend set.

I say call 'em out.