ForumGarden

my girlfriend and i went out for a meal last week we have a nice meal we get the bill at the end i leave a 20% tip we leave , we get to our car



the waitress comes out she is German i think , you not give me enough money she holds out the tray sure enough £10 is missing we all go back inside the restaurant i offer to pay again the people that run it know us we go there a lot we look around there is a shifty looking guy there hanging around but i say nothing we leave



today sue and i go there again , sue goes straight up to the waitress and says that a guy was hanging around last time sue is sure it was him and goes on to give a graphic description the waitress looks horrified , she says no that my boyfriend sue goes purple with embarrassment , look he is cook there not more than 5 feet away is her boyfriend the cook where it is a sort of open kitchen he can see us we can see him

the manager came over and told us that they caught some young kids they were going round stealing all the tips:o



for once sue was quite for a whole meal :wah:

jimbo wrote: my girlfriend and i went out for a meal last week we have a nice meal we get the bill at the end i leave a 20% tip we leave , we get to our car



the waitress comes out she is German i think , you not give me enough money she holds out the tray sure enough £10 is missing we all go back inside the restaurant i offer to pay again the people that run it know us we go there a lot we look around there is a shifty looking guy there hanging around but i say nothing we leave



today sue and i go there again , sue goes straight up to the waitress and says that i guy was hanging around last time sue is sure it was him and goes on to give a graphic description the waitress looks horrified , she says no that my boyfriend sue goes purple with embarrassment , look he is cook there not more than 5 feet away is her boyfriend the cook where it is a sort of open kitchen he can see us we can see him

the manager came over and told us that they caught some young kids they were going round stealing all the tips:o



for once sue was quite for a whole meal :wah:


Yep some years ago, I had a similar thing happen. The tip was on the edge of the table as we were leaving. We passed some people including a few small children that were walking past our table to another table. Well while we were walking out, I turned around to glance at our old table. I saw one of the little kids (maybe 4 or 5) walking by pick up the tip. Ohoooo. . . he found money! "Fortunately", the boy's mother saw him do that also, & she made him put it back telling him what it all was about. So if "we" didn't see what happened, & the boy just put the tip in his pocket, the waitress would have thought we stiffed her! And She would have been pis*ed at us next time we returned, as we are regulars there! Luckily, it all turned out good!

Today, most times we don't have that problem anymore, as we pay by Credit Card, & the tip is "written" on the bill.

jimbo wrote: for once sue was quite for a whole meal :wah:


Oh boy

My husband would just LOVE to see me quiet through the whole meal too :rolleyes: