BG/ I live in a college town, and there was a party last night, so about 2am all the drunk students piled into the restaurant looking to be fed. We were so busy, we had to turn people away at the door because we didn't have an empty seat in the house, and three tables walked out because their food was taking too long to cook. /BG
So we have these three customers come in, and they're obviously drunk or high or both, and they're ordering just about everything on the menu twice. Their total came out to $50. Obviously, their order takes awhile to cook because we had so many tickets hanging and only one cook, so they ask for their order to go. I get it all packed up and ready to go and set it on the bar to ring them out, when they ask if they can get syrup for their waffles. I turn around, pour the syrup in the little cups and turn back around to hand it to them, and they'd grabbed their food and were gone.
I didn't have time right then to freak out about it, so I left the ticket open and we got the rest of the customers taken care of and out the door. And then it hits me--We just got $50 dollars stolen from us and my heads on the chopping block for it. I almost started crying, and I asked the cook who'd been there for years if I was going to get fired for this. He said he honestly didn't know, so now I have to work the next two hours thinking I'm unemployed and trying to hold myself together until I can get out the door and get home.
Go home, take a shower, and go back right when the manager gets in for the day, and talk to him about it. He said he had to call his superiors about it because he didn't even know how to handle it, and they said I'd have to pay the ticket.
You know you've had a bad day when that's good news.
So we have these three customers come in, and they're obviously drunk or high or both, and they're ordering just about everything on the menu twice. Their total came out to $50. Obviously, their order takes awhile to cook because we had so many tickets hanging and only one cook, so they ask for their order to go. I get it all packed up and ready to go and set it on the bar to ring them out, when they ask if they can get syrup for their waffles. I turn around, pour the syrup in the little cups and turn back around to hand it to them, and they'd grabbed their food and were gone.
I didn't have time right then to freak out about it, so I left the ticket open and we got the rest of the customers taken care of and out the door. And then it hits me--We just got $50 dollars stolen from us and my heads on the chopping block for it. I almost started crying, and I asked the cook who'd been there for years if I was going to get fired for this. He said he honestly didn't know, so now I have to work the next two hours thinking I'm unemployed and trying to hold myself together until I can get out the door and get home.
Go home, take a shower, and go back right when the manager gets in for the day, and talk to him about it. He said he had to call his superiors about it because he didn't even know how to handle it, and they said I'd have to pay the ticket.
You know you've had a bad day when that's good news.
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