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Your quote "don't go wandering around looking for things to be pissed about" and having soup misspelled warrants a pissy comment. Maybe go look in a mirror before getting smarmy. | |||
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| Back, and to the left  |
I'm with OttoSig, put that place in your rear view mirror. Just remember that place burned down today and find yourself another. You never know, you might just get lucky and wind up with a better one. The difference between him and me is I would have just pulled up stakes with the family and left. I wouldn't say shit either. Not even if they back pedaled. Generally there is a point where I have a real problem eating at a place where I've gotten a shitty attitude from or had an argument with the staff. I pretty much leave and never return. I feel badly for businesses in this economy and try to support them until they get stupid. Then they can fuck off. Or Phok off. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. -Ecclesiastes 9:11 ...But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by Him shall glory, but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. - Psalm 63:11 [excerpted] | |||
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Who says "fuck/fucked" in a normal tone when disagreeing with someone? Lol. Bringing "fuck" into a previously civilized conversation can only make it go down the toilet. Jmo. I personally would have just marked the place DNR (Do Not Return). There are too many eateries available out there. Q | |||
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Pedro - please let me provide a tiny bit of il-lumen-ation on a comment which you may not have thought was very bright. Before you mistakenly assume a comment intended as humor is pissy or smarmy, you should go look in a dictionary. I did, after all, include a happy face, not the smarmy one.  You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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I was wrong.This message has been edited. Last edited by: pedropcola, | |||
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I probably should have known better. Apologies to the OP and all for the distraction.
Nice attempt at clean sweep Pedro-oopsala.  This message has been edited. Last edited by: Georgeair, You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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| Savor the limelight |
I feel better reading this thread knowing there are people wound way tighter than I am. | |||
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I'm in Maryland and curious which place you're talking about. Perhaps I can offer a alternative for your pho needs. JP | |||
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| Ugly Bag of Mostly Water  |
The accepted gratuity is 15-20%. The restaurant is not asking for anything out of the ordinary. In fact, they are probably trying to guard against situations like 5 co-workers popping in for lunch, with separate checks, and each person leaving a buck. All they're doing is adding the 18% to each check. So if you leave in a huff over...really NOTHING...that's a you problem. So go back, apologize and tell them you misunderstood, and enjoy your Pho. Endowment Life Member, NRA • Member of FPC, GOA, 2AF & Arizona Citizens Defense League | |||
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Fair enough. Never heard of the term phot. I take a lot of barbs on this forum and I push back. I never saw a smiling emoji because there never was one and I took it incorrectly. My bad, I apologize. | |||
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Customer service certainly isn’t what it used to be. It’s a different world and I don’t know how to react most times, because I was raised in a world that had manners and people were accountable for their behavior. Can’t really comment on your specific situation because I w@sent there, but I feel your frustration. __________________________ "Trust, but verify." | |||
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| thin skin can't win |
Shocking. {OK, now I am just messing with you!}    All good. You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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Had a somewhat similar situation last weekend, not a restaurant but a service provider we'd frequented for the last 4 years. Made an appointment, arrived early, staff was busy with other customers and seemed indifferent to those of us waiting. After a bit, we just walked out. Wife did say when leaving "Please don't tell me you're never using them again, they've been really good in the past" (we won't be using them anymore) As been noted already, there are way too many other providers for most things to sweat it. <>< America, Land of the Free - because of the Brave | |||
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With regard to an 18% “service fee” vs a 20% tip. Having worked in a restaurant many years ago while in college, I understand that different businesses handle tips differently. At some, the server gets their tips, period. At others, the server gets their tips and is expected to tip out (share), perhaps to the bussers, perhaps to the cooks, perhaps to both. At still other businesses, the business gathers up all the tips and distributes them according to some formula. I know tips intended for the server get handled in different ways in different shops. I have no idea how “service fees” are handled. I would not be so naive as too assume they all go to the serving staff in all restaurants that charge them. | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
I can understand such an arrangement between servers and bussers, as the busser assists the server and often does some of the serving. But as far as I'm concerned that should not extend to the cooks because they don't interact directly with the customer. If the cook has to get a share of the server's tips... the cook probably isn't getting a high enough wage. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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I understand OP to be a senior NCO with close to a decade in service in the Navy. My experience with prior service members, while limited, is they can sneak four letter words of all types and several languages into even the most benign conversations and quite often do so without intent or conscious thought. It's also more common than it should be with factory and blue collar workers, myself included. That said, I'll agree it probably isn't going to help anything. I agree the policy is stupid and probably was misapplied in the case of 3 small children. I too would have probably left and felt no need to return. It's usually 8 and up for mandatory tips around here and I'm single without kids, so it's honestly not a problem I run into frequently. A Perpetual Disappointment... | |||
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