http://notalwaysright.com/page/105

<quote>

The Bald Truth
Restaurant | Boston, MA, USA

(Some customers at our restaurant try to get a free meal by placing some
hair in their food and then blaming the chef and refusing to pay for
the meal.)

Customer: €œWaiter!€�

Me: €œHow can I help you, sir?€�

Customer: €œTheres a hair in my food.€�

Me: €œThat isnt possible, unless it was your hair.€�

Customer: €œIt isnt!€�

Me: €œWho elses hair could it be?€�

Customer: €œYour chefs.€�

(I walk into the kitchen and return to the table with our chef.)

Me: €œTake off your chefs hat.€�

(Chef takes off his hat, he is revealed to be bald.)

Chef, to the customer: €œYou were saying something about my hair being in
your food?€�

</quote>
--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

ChattyCathy quoted:

> Customer: “There’s a hair in my food.”
<snip>
> (Chef takes off his hat, he is revealed to be bald.)
>
> Chef, to the customer: “You were saying something about my
> hair being in your food?”


Who said the hair was from the chef's HEAD?

Bob

Bob Terwilliger wrote:

> ChattyCathy quoted:
>
>> Customer: €œTheres a hair in my food.€�
> <snip>
>> (Chef takes off his hat, he is revealed to be bald.)
>>
>> Chef, to the customer: €œYou were saying something about my
>> hair being in your food?€�
>
>
> Who said the hair was from the chef's HEAD?
>
> Bob

<snicker>

But although I got a laugh out of this anecdote, it always amazes me all
the tricks people use to try and get a free meal.
--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

In article >,
ChattyCathy > wrote:

> http://notalwaysright.com/page/105
>
> <quote>
>
> The Bald Truth
> Restaurant | Boston, MA, USA
>
> (Some customers at our restaurant try to get a free meal by placing some
> hair in their food and then blaming the chef and refusing to pay for
> the meal.)
>
> Customer: €œWaiter!€�
>
> Me: €œHow can I help you, sir?€�
>
> Customer: €œTheres a hair in my food.€�
>
> Me: €œThat isnt possible, unless it was your hair.€�
>
> Customer: €œIt isnt!€�
>
> Me: €œWho elses hair could it be?€�
>
> Customer: €œYour chefs.€�
>
> (I walk into the kitchen and return to the table with our chef.)
>
> Me: €œTake off your chefs hat.€�
>
> (Chef takes off his hat, he is revealed to be bald.)
>
> Chef, to the customer: €œYou were saying something about my hair being in
> your food?€�
>
> </quote>

Sweet. ;-D
--
Peace! Om

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." -- Dalai Lama

In article >,
"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote:

> ChattyCathy quoted:
>
> > Customer: ³There¹s a hair in my food.²
> <snip>
> > (Chef takes off his hat, he is revealed to be bald.)
> >
> > Chef, to the customer: ³You were saying something about my
> > hair being in your food?²
>
>
> Who said the hair was from the chef's HEAD?
>
> Bob

Ok, that was NASTY!

But you knew that. ;-)
--
Peace! Om

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." -- Dalai Lama

In article >,
ChattyCathy > wrote:

> Bob Terwilliger wrote:
>
> > ChattyCathy quoted:
> >
> >> Customer: €œTheres a hair in my food.€�
> > <snip>
> >> (Chef takes off his hat, he is revealed to be bald.)
> >>
> >> Chef, to the customer: €œYou were saying something about my
> >> hair being in your food?€�
> >
> >
> > Who said the hair was from the chef's HEAD?
> >
> > Bob
>
> <snicker>
>
> But although I got a laugh out of this anecdote, it always amazes me all
> the tricks people use to try and get a free meal.

<shrugs> Some people are just ass holes. ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=552NcxKHufY

That video really is worth watching!
--
Peace! Om

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." -- Dalai Lama

ChattyCathy wrote:
> Bob Terwilliger wrote:
>
>> ChattyCathy quoted:
>>
>>> Customer: €œTheres a hair in my food.€�
>> <snip>
>>> (Chef takes off his hat, he is revealed to be bald.)
>>>
>>> Chef, to the customer: €œYou were saying something about my
>>> hair being in your food?€�
>>
>>
>> Who said the hair was from the chef's HEAD?
>>
>> Bob
>
> <snicker>
>
> But although I got a laugh out of this anecdote, it always amazes me
> all the tricks people use to try and get a free meal.


I ran into that often enough when I worked in restaurants. One time someone
insisted they'd gotten a glass of ice tea with a metal screw in it. Since
the glassware is stored *upside down* in racks it's physically impossible
for a screw to have fallen into their glass. I did, however, find a hair in
a meal I ordered at that same restaurant. I'm a blonde; this hair was black
& curly. So yes, they replaced and also comp'd my lunch.

Jill

jmcquown > wrote in message
...
[snip]
> One time someone insisted they'd gotten a glass
> of ice tea with a metal screw in it. Since the
> glassware is stored *upside down* in racks it's
> physically impossible for a screw to have fallen
> into their glass. [snip]

It's not impossible to have a screw in a drink. There are so
many areas where that item could have come from without your
observing it having fallen into the glass (unless you set each
cube into said glass of iced tea.) Perhaps the ice bin, the ice
maker when ice was brought forward to the front of the house,
the bumper stripping along the edges of the ice bin/maker...
From the tea brewer... Ya just never know...

My favorite customer was guy that ate three helpings of salad
(buffet), two different soups (also buffet), three iced teas, a
baked potato, toast, side of rice, and 10 of the 12 oz steak my
restaurant offered. He wasn't a monster of a man, either; very
small. He brought his plate up to me as I was teaching a
cashier how to take a timed reading, jammed it into my face,
and demanded a full refund with, "That wasn't cooked how I
wanted."

"Okay. How did you order it?"

"Medium."

"Okay. I'll fire up a new steak and bring it right out to you."

"I don't want a ****in' new steak! I want my money!"

"Did that work at XYZ up the street? Oh. I see you didn't know
we talk to each other. Say 'Good night Gracie.'" He chose to
leave.

The Ranger

On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:28:04 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote:

> http://notalwaysright.com/page/105
>
> <quote>
>
> The Bald Truth
> Restaurant | Boston, MA, USA
>
> (Some customers at our restaurant try to get a free meal by placing some
> hair in their food and then blaming the chef and refusing to pay for
> the meal.)
>
> Customer: ´Waiter!¡
>
> Me: ´How can I help you, sir?¡
>
> Customer: ´Thereÿs a hair in my food.¡
>
> Me: ´That isnÿt possible, unless it was your hair.¡
>
> Customer: ´It isnÿt!¡
>
> Me: ´Who elseÿs hair could it be?¡
>
> Customer: ´Your chefÿs.¡
>
> (I walk into the kitchen and return to the table with our chef.)
>
> Me: ´Take off your chefÿs hat.¡
>
> (Chef takes off his hat, he is revealed to be bald.)
>
> Chef, to the customer: ´You were saying something about my hair being in
> your food?¡
>
> </quote>

i posted this one a while back, but what the hell:

Now in a hotel there's always at least one restaurant. So they have this
man who comes in regularly. And the staff notice every time he's in there,
something will go wrong with the food. Inevitably. He'll eat 3/4 of the
dish before complaining there's some insect or similar in the dish. Every.
Darn. Time.

It is my mom's and the kitchen staff's hypothesis that this douche brings
in dead bugs himself and plants it in the food.

So, one day, the manager comes to this difficult man, and finds that the
sucky costumer has complained of a tiny dead roach in his food.

M = Manager
DM = Douchebag Man

M: What seems to be the problem sir?
DM: Your kitchen is horrendously unsanitary! Look, there's a DEAD COCKROACH
in my food.
M: -picks up the roach without batting an eyelid and eats it- Why, it's
delicious sir! I think you mistook a shallot for an insect.
DM: -splutters, speechless-


(from the *customers suck!* website)

your pal,
blake

"Omelet" > wrote in message
news Some people are just ass holes. ;-)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=552NcxKHufY
>
> That video really is worth watching!
> --
> Peace! Om


GREAT VIDEO!

Van


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In article >,
blake murphy > wrote:

> On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:28:04 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote:
>
> > http://notalwaysright.com/page/105
> >
> > <quote>
> >
> > The Bald Truth
> > Restaurant | Boston, MA, USA
> >
> > (Some customers at our restaurant try to get a free meal by placing some
> > hair in their food and then blaming the chef and refusing to pay for
> > the meal.)
> >
> > Customer: ?Waiter!?
> >
> > Me: ?How can I help you, sir??
> >
> > Customer: ?There?s a hair in my food.?
> >
> > Me: ?That isn?t possible, unless it was your hair.?
> >
> > Customer: ?It isn?t!?
> >
> > Me: ?Who else?s hair could it be??
> >
> > Customer: ?Your chef?s.?
> >
> > (I walk into the kitchen and return to the table with our chef.)
> >
> > Me: ?Take off your chef?s hat.?
> >
> > (Chef takes off his hat, he is revealed to be bald.)
> >
> > Chef, to the customer: ?You were saying something about my hair being in
> > your food??
> >
> > </quote>
>
> i posted this one a while back, but what the hell:
>
> Now in a hotel there's always at least one restaurant. So they have this
> man who comes in regularly. And the staff notice every time he's in there,
> something will go wrong with the food. Inevitably. He'll eat 3/4 of the
> dish before complaining there's some insect or similar in the dish. Every.
> Darn. Time.
>
> It is my mom's and the kitchen staff's hypothesis that this douche brings
> in dead bugs himself and plants it in the food.
>
> So, one day, the manager comes to this difficult man, and finds that the
> sucky costumer has complained of a tiny dead roach in his food.
>
> M = Manager
> DM = Douchebag Man
>
> M: What seems to be the problem sir?
> DM: Your kitchen is horrendously unsanitary! Look, there's a DEAD COCKROACH
> in my food.
> M: -picks up the roach without batting an eyelid and eats it- Why, it's
> delicious sir! I think you mistook a shallot for an insect.
> DM: -splutters, speechless-
>
>
> (from the *customers suck!* website)
>
> your pal,
> blake

That'd work. ;-)
Eat the evidence.
--
Peace! Om

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." -- Dalai Lama

In article >,
"Van" > wrote:

> "Omelet" > wrote in message
> news > Some people are just ass holes. ;-)
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=552NcxKHufY
> >
> > That video really is worth watching!
> > --
> > Peace! Om
>
>
> GREAT VIDEO!
>
> Van

Glad you enjoyed it. ;-)
--
Peace! Om

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." -- Dalai Lama

The Ranger wrote:
> jmcquown > wrote in message
> ...
> [snip]
>> One time someone insisted they'd gotten a glass
>> of ice tea with a metal screw in it. Since the
>> glassware is stored *upside down* in racks it's
>> physically impossible for a screw to have fallen
>> into their glass. [snip]
>
> It's not impossible to have a screw in a drink. There are so
> many areas where that item could have come from without your
> observing it having fallen into the glass (unless you set each
> cube into said glass of iced tea.) Perhaps the ice bin, the ice
> maker when ice was brought forward to the front of the house,
> the bumper stripping along the edges of the ice bin/maker...
> From the tea brewer... Ya just never know...
>
You're walking on the Far Side of reality, Ranger. I used to pull clean
glasses out of the rack, turn them back right side up to fill with water or
iced tea. I'd surely have noticed a screw. The glasses go through the
dishwasher downside up. They aren't going through a production line. Sure,
maybe some part fell off sometime; I can't recall anything like that ever
happening on my shift. But I'd fill them with ice using the welded metal
scoop (you *never* scoop a glass into the ice bin to fill it). The "tea
brewer" was invariably a Bunn coffee maker that was used exclusively for
tea. (So much for Mr. Coffee Automatic Tea Pots.) The parts weren't
falling off into the tea.

Trust me, I've never seen a screw fall off into a pot of iced tea, nor a pot
of coffee. Nor into a glass of iced tea. This person was scamming, big
time. Besides, why expect a free meal when only the iced tea was the
problem? And why report the "tea problem" after consuming half a meal?
SCAMMER Pretty plain to me. I've encountered worse. But I won't report
them here again. BTDT and the reporting of rip-off artists gets old.
Suffice to say they exist.

Jill

jmcquown > wrote in message
...
> The Ranger wrote:
>> jmcquown > wrote in message
>> ...
>> [snip]
>>> One time someone insisted they'd gotten a glass
>>> of ice tea with a metal screw in it. Since the
>>> glassware is stored *upside down* in racks it's
>>> physically impossible for a screw to have fallen
>>> into their glass. [snip]
>>
>> It's not impossible to have a screw in a drink. There are so
>> many areas where that item could have come from without your
>> observing it having fallen into the glass (unless you set
>> each
>> cube into said glass of iced tea.) Perhaps the ice bin, the
>> ice
>> maker when ice was brought forward to the front of the
>> house,
>> the bumper stripping along the edges of the ice bin/maker...
>> From the tea brewer... Ya just never know...
>>
> You're walking on the Far Side of reality, Ranger. I used to
> pull clean glasses out of the rack, turn them back right side
> up to fill with water or iced tea. I'd surely have noticed a
> screw. The glasses go through the dishwasher downside up.
> They aren't going through a production line. Sure, maybe
> some part fell off sometime; I can't recall anything like
> that ever happening on my shift. But I'd fill them with ice
> using the welded metal scoop (you *never* scoop a glass into
> the ice bin to fill it). The "tea brewer" was invariably a
> Bunn coffee maker that was used exclusively for tea. (So
> much for Mr. Coffee Automatic Tea Pots.) The parts weren't
> falling off into the tea.
>
> Trust me, I've never seen a screw fall off into a pot of iced
> tea, nor a pot of coffee. Nor into a glass of iced tea.
> This person was scamming, big time. Besides, why expect a
> free meal when only the iced tea was the problem? And why
> report the "tea problem" after consuming half a meal? SCAMMER
> Pretty plain to me. I've encountered worse. But I won't
> report them here again. BTDT and the reporting of rip-off
> artists gets old. Suffice to say they exist.

Without a doubt they exist and run the same scam
over-and-over-and-over. But the tea machine can and will fall
apart without notice; btdt. Screws drop from all over the place
so unless you're setting each cube into that customer's glass,
you can't possibly say, "Not on my shift." (Ok, you will but
it's inaccurate.) One of the funkiest problems I ever
encountered was our milk dispenser. Pieces were falling off all
over the place until the regional manager set one of the 50 lb
crates inside it and the insulated door came off in his hand.
I'd never seen him move so quickly prior.

There are lots of ways for foreign objects to end up in ice
bins or drinks. Thinking you're going to notice during a rush,
or even during a slow time, is silly. Sometimes you might but
mostly you don't; too many things pulling at your immediate
attention.

The Ranger

jmcquown wrote:

> Trust me, I've never seen a screw fall off into a pot of iced tea, nor a
> pot of coffee. Nor into a glass of iced tea. This person was scamming,
> big time. Besides, why expect a free meal when only the iced tea was
> the problem? And why report the "tea problem" after consuming half a
> meal? SCAMMER Pretty plain to me. I've encountered worse. But I won't
> report them here again. BTDT and the reporting of rip-off artists gets
> old. Suffice to say they exist.

Now, my experience wasn't with a water glass (oh, and I have found glass
chards in my drink before) but once I went for lunch at a fairly new
Greek place. Ordered a gyro, took a seat close to the order counter and
on my first bite my molars caught something hard. The crunch was loud
enough that the guys behind the counter heard it and watched in horror
as I pulled a brand new screw out of my mouth. We could only surmise
that it fell out of an exhaust grill, but never could verify it. While I
didn't ask, they quickly refunded the cost of my sandwich and hoped I
wouldn't be back with a dental bill.

The glass chards I suspect were because some server got too fast and
sloppy and was banging weakened glasses or the pitchers around

I've had glasses that were filthy with *whatever* and the wait staff
would quickly replace it. In those instances I tell myself that it must
have been sterilized in a dishwasher before I got it! ;-)

I do have issues with lipstick that should have easily washed off and
shouldn't have been hard to miss.

In ALL of these cases I've never asked for a refund or a comp, but they
always gladly offered on their own and it was reflected on the bill.

--Lin

The Ranger wrote:
> There are lots of ways for foreign objects to end up in ice
> bins or drinks. Thinking you're going to notice during a rush,
> or even during a slow time, is silly

No, you thinking it's common is silly. The odds are against it.

Jill

jmcquown > wrote in message
...
> The Ranger wrote:
>> There are lots of ways for foreign objects to end up
>> in ice bins or drinks. Thinking you're going to notice
>> during a rush, or even during a slow time, is silly
>>
> No, you thinking it's common is silly. The odds are against
> it.

If foreign objects (like a screw) in drinks were uncommon, it
wouldn't be a scam. The odds of it happening, unfortunately,
are significantly better than "against it."

The Ranger

jmcquown wrote:
> The Ranger wrote:
>> There are lots of ways for foreign objects to end up in ice
>> bins or drinks. Thinking you're going to notice during a rush,
>> or even during a slow time, is silly
>
> No, you thinking it's common is silly. The odds are against it.

I agree. It is remotely possible that it could happen, but certainly not
common.

On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:25:53 -0600, Omelet >
wrote:

>In article >,
> blake murphy > wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:28:04 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote:
>>
>> > http://notalwaysright.com/page/105
>> >
>> > <quote>
>> >
>> > The Bald Truth
>> > Restaurant | Boston, MA, USA
>> >
>> > (Some customers at our restaurant try to get a free meal by placing some
>> > hair in their food and then blaming the chef and refusing to pay for
>> > the meal.)
>> >
>> > Customer: ?Waiter!?
>> >
>> > Me: ?How can I help you, sir??
>> >
>> > Customer: ?There?s a hair in my food.?
>> >
>> > Me: ?That isn?t possible, unless it was your hair.?
>> >
>> > Customer: ?It isn?t!?
>> >
>> > Me: ?Who else?s hair could it be??
>> >
>> > Customer: ?Your chef?s.?
>> >
>> > (I walk into the kitchen and return to the table with our chef.)
>> >
>> > Me: ?Take off your chef?s hat.?
>> >
>> > (Chef takes off his hat, he is revealed to be bald.)
>> >
>> > Chef, to the customer: ?You were saying something about my hair being in
>> > your food??
>> >
>> > </quote>
>>
>> i posted this one a while back, but what the hell:
>>
>> Now in a hotel there's always at least one restaurant. So they have this
>> man who comes in regularly. And the staff notice every time he's in there,
>> something will go wrong with the food. Inevitably. He'll eat 3/4 of the
>> dish before complaining there's some insect or similar in the dish. Every.
>> Darn. Time.
>>
>> It is my mom's and the kitchen staff's hypothesis that this douche brings
>> in dead bugs himself and plants it in the food.
>>
>> So, one day, the manager comes to this difficult man, and finds that the
>> sucky costumer has complained of a tiny dead roach in his food.
>>
>> M = Manager
>> DM = Douchebag Man
>>
>> M: What seems to be the problem sir?
>> DM: Your kitchen is horrendously unsanitary! Look, there's a DEAD COCKROACH
>> in my food.
>> M: -picks up the roach without batting an eyelid and eats it- Why, it's
>> delicious sir! I think you mistook a shallot for an insect.
>> DM: -splutters, speechless-
>>
>>
>> (from the *customers suck!* website)
>>
>> your pal,
>> blake
>
>That'd work. ;-)
>Eat the evidence.

Debugging! :-)

sayonara
Martin Mose Larsen

In article >,
Martin Mose Larsen > wrote:

> >> i posted this one a while back, but what the hell:
> >>
> >> Now in a hotel there's always at least one restaurant. So they have this
> >> man who comes in regularly. And the staff notice every time he's in there,
> >> something will go wrong with the food. Inevitably. He'll eat 3/4 of the
> >> dish before complaining there's some insect or similar in the dish. Every.
> >> Darn. Time.
> >>
> >> It is my mom's and the kitchen staff's hypothesis that this douche brings
> >> in dead bugs himself and plants it in the food.
> >>
> >> So, one day, the manager comes to this difficult man, and finds that the
> >> sucky costumer has complained of a tiny dead roach in his food.
> >>
> >> M = Manager
> >> DM = Douchebag Man
> >>
> >> M: What seems to be the problem sir?
> >> DM: Your kitchen is horrendously unsanitary! Look, there's a DEAD COCKROACH
> >> in my food.
> >> M: -picks up the roach without batting an eyelid and eats it- Why, it's
> >> delicious sir! I think you mistook a shallot for an insect.
> >> DM: -splutters, speechless-
> >>
> >>
> >> (from the *customers suck!* website)
> >>
> >> your pal,
> >> blake
> >
> >That'd work. ;-)
> >Eat the evidence.
>
> Debugging! :-)
>
> sayonara
> Martin Mose Larsen

Nice pun!
--
Peace! Om

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." -- Dalai Lama

"ChattyCathy" > wrote in message
...
> http://notalwaysright.com/page/105
>
> <quote>
>
> The Bald Truth
> Restaurant | Boston, MA, USA
>
> (Some customers at our restaurant try to get a free meal by placing some
> hair in their food and then blaming the chef and refusing to pay for
> the meal.)
>
> Customer: "Waiter!"
>
> Me: "How can I help you, sir?"
>
> Customer: "There's a hair in my food."
>
> Me: "That isn't possible, unless it was your hair."
>
> Customer: "It isn't!"
>
> Me: "Who else's hair could it be?"
>
> Customer: "Your chef's."
>
> (I walk into the kitchen and return to the table with our chef.)
>
> Me: "Take off your chef's hat."
>
> (Chef takes off his hat, he is revealed to be bald.)
>
> Chef, to the customer: "You were saying something about my hair being in
> your food?"
>
> </quote>
> --
> Cheers
> Chatty Cathy

I have found hair in my food at my favorite restaurant, Chez Steve.

(pronounced cheezy steve's, or steve'e place)

Steve

"jmcquown" > wrote in message
...
> ChattyCathy wrote:
>> Bob Terwilliger wrote:
>>
>>> ChattyCathy quoted:
>>>
>>>> Customer: "There's a hair in my food."
>>> <snip>
>>>> (Chef takes off his hat, he is revealed to be bald.)
>>>>
>>>> Chef, to the customer: "You were saying something about my
>>>> hair being in your food?"
>>>
>>>
>>> Who said the hair was from the chef's HEAD?
>>>
>>> Bob
>>
>> <snicker>
>>
>> But although I got a laugh out of this anecdote, it always amazes me
>> all the tricks people use to try and get a free meal.
>
>
> I ran into that often enough when I worked in restaurants. One time
> someone insisted they'd gotten a glass of ice tea with a metal screw in
> it. Since the glassware is stored *upside down* in racks it's physically
> impossible for a screw to have fallen into their glass. I did, however,
> find a hair in a meal I ordered at that same restaurant. I'm a blonde;
> this hair was black & curly. So yes, they replaced and also comp'd my
> lunch.
>
> Jill

I call those "public" hairs..........................

I'll tell you what grosses me out ......... a skanky piece of lemon in my
ice tea................

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:22:03 -0600, Omelet >
wrote:

>In article >,
> Martin Mose Larsen > wrote:
>
>> >> i posted this one a while back, but what the hell:
>> >>
>> >> Now in a hotel there's always at least one restaurant. So they have this
>> >> man who comes in regularly. And the staff notice every time he's in there,
>> >> something will go wrong with the food. Inevitably. He'll eat 3/4 of the
>> >> dish before complaining there's some insect or similar in the dish. Every.
>> >> Darn. Time.
>> >>
>> >> It is my mom's and the kitchen staff's hypothesis that this douche brings
>> >> in dead bugs himself and plants it in the food.
>> >>
>> >> So, one day, the manager comes to this difficult man, and finds that the
>> >> sucky costumer has complained of a tiny dead roach in his food.
>> >>
>> >> M = Manager
>> >> DM = Douchebag Man
>> >>
>> >> M: What seems to be the problem sir?
>> >> DM: Your kitchen is horrendously unsanitary! Look, there's a DEAD COCKROACH
>> >> in my food.
>> >> M: -picks up the roach without batting an eyelid and eats it- Why, it's
>> >> delicious sir! I think you mistook a shallot for an insect.
>> >> DM: -splutters, speechless-
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> (from the *customers suck!* website)
>> >>
>> >> your pal,
>> >> blake
>> >
>> >That'd work. ;-)
>> >Eat the evidence.
>>
>> Debugging! :-)
>>
>> sayonara
>> Martin Mose Larsen
>
>Nice pun!

thanx

Dave Smith wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>> The Ranger wrote:
>>> There are lots of ways for foreign objects to end up in ice
>>> bins or drinks. Thinking you're going to notice during a rush,
>>> or even during a slow time, is silly
>>
>> No, you thinking it's common is silly. The odds are against it.
>
> I agree. It is remotely possible that it could happen, but certainly
> not common.


It's a fairly common scam. Most cheapskate restaurant patrons don't have
any idea how the glasses are stored. They think they can pull something
over by dropping a screw or a bolt into a glass. Why this would require
their entire (already consumed) meal to be comp'd I have no idea
Scammers are rampant.

Jill

jmcquown wrote:
>
>
> It's a fairly common scam. Most cheapskate restaurant patrons don't
> have any idea how the glasses are stored. They think they can pull
> something over by dropping a screw or a bolt into a glass. Why this
> would require their entire (already consumed) meal to be comp'd I have
> no idea Scammers are rampant.

Some people are born to bitch. A few years back when my son was working
in a nice hotel in Old Montreal a guest complained that his fridge
wasn't working properly. My son arranged for the fridge to be replaced
immediately. Within minutes one of the staff showed up at the room with
a new fridge, emptied the contents of the old fridge into the new one.
Come checkout time, the guest is arguing for a comp because of the
satisfaction guarantee. The faulty fridge had been immediately
replaced, so the guy had his complaint resolved. Most normal people
would be satisfied. What more could the expect. IMO, expecting a free
stay because the fridge had a problem... and was replaced??

"Dave Smith" > wrote

> Some people are born to bitch. A few years back when my son was working
> in a nice hotel in Old Montreal a guest complained that his fridge
> wasn't working properly. My son arranged for the fridge to be replaced
> immediately. Within minutes one of the staff showed up at the room with
> a new fridge, emptied the contents of the old fridge into the new one.
> Come checkout time, the guest is arguing for a comp because of the
> satisfaction guarantee. The faulty fridge had been immediately
> replaced, so the guy had his complaint resolved. Most normal people
> would be satisfied. What more could the expect. IMO, expecting a free
> stay because the fridge had a problem... and was replaced??

Sounds like what I call a finagler. Always looking for an angle
to get something cheap. Can't stand it.

nancy

On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 16:25:29 -0800, "SteveB" <toquerville@zionvistas>
fired up random neurons and synapses to opine:

>I worked in hotels in Las Vegas for longer than I care to remember. One of
>the first things you learn is that you can't make everyone happy. In the
>"old days", they didn't put up with crap from freeloaders and scam artists.
>They just thumped them and threw them in a dumpster in the alley. Today's
>corporations are different.

Yahbut, that was back in the good old days when the mob ran Vegas and
the casinos and hotels weren't "family friendly." <sigh> Vegas was a
lot more fun then.

Going over to LV next month to get our bowl bets down :-) Gonna hit
AJ's steak house at the Hard Rock for the best dead cow in town!

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

--

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "meatloaf" with "cox"

"Martin Mose Larsen" > wrote in message
...
> On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:22:03 -0600, Omelet >
> wrote:
>
>>In article >,
>> Martin Mose Larsen > wrote:
>>
>>> >> i posted this one a while back, but what the hell:
>>> >>
>>> >> Now in a hotel there's always at least one restaurant. So they have
>>> >> this
>>> >> man who comes in regularly. And the staff notice every time he's in
>>> >> there,
>>> >> something will go wrong with the food. Inevitably. He'll eat 3/4 of
>>> >> the
>>> >> dish before complaining there's some insect or similar in the dish.
>>> >> Every.
>>> >> Darn. Time.
>>> >>
>>> >> It is my mom's and the kitchen staff's hypothesis that this douche
>>> >> brings
>>> >> in dead bugs himself and plants it in the food.
>>> >>
>>> >> So, one day, the manager comes to this difficult man, and finds that
>>> >> the
>>> >> sucky costumer has complained of a tiny dead roach in his food.
>>> >>
>>> >> M = Manager
>>> >> DM = Douchebag Man
>>> >>
>>> >> M: What seems to be the problem sir?
>>> >> DM: Your kitchen is horrendously unsanitary! Look, there's a DEAD
>>> >> COCKROACH
>>> >> in my food.
>>> >> M: -picks up the roach without batting an eyelid and eats it- Why,
>>> >> it's
>>> >> delicious sir! I think you mistook a shallot for an insect.
>>> >> DM: -splutters, speechless-
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> (from the *customers suck!* website)
>>> >>
>>> >> your pal,
>>> >> blake
>>> >
>>> >That'd work. ;-)
>>> >Eat the evidence.
>>>
>>> Debugging! :-)
>>>
>>> sayonara
>>> Martin Mose Larsen
>>
>>Nice pun!
>
> thanx

When I was in New Orleans once, they had fake "water bugs" which are 2"
cockroaches. I bought a dozen and had tons of fun with them.

Steve

"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
m...
> jmcquown wrote:
>>
>>
>> It's a fairly common scam. Most cheapskate restaurant patrons don't have
>> any idea how the glasses are stored. They think they can pull something
>> over by dropping a screw or a bolt into a glass. Why this would require
>> their entire (already consumed) meal to be comp'd I have no idea
>> Scammers are rampant.
>
> Some people are born to bitch. A few years back when my son was working in
> a nice hotel in Old Montreal a guest complained that his fridge wasn't
> working properly. My son arranged for the fridge to be replaced
> immediately. Within minutes one of the staff showed up at the room with a
> new fridge, emptied the contents of the old fridge into the new one. Come
> checkout time, the guest is arguing for a comp because of the satisfaction
> guarantee. The faulty fridge had been immediately replaced, so the guy
> had his complaint resolved. Most normal people would be satisfied. What
> more could the expect. IMO, expecting a free stay because the fridge had a
> problem... and was replaced??

I worked in hotels in Las Vegas for longer than I care to remember. One of
the first things you learn is that you can't make everyone happy. In the
"old days", they didn't put up with crap from freeloaders and scam artists.
They just thumped them and threw them in a dumpster in the alley. Today's
corporations are different.

Steve

Dave Smith wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>>
>>
>> It's a fairly common scam. Most cheapskate restaurant patrons don't
>> have any idea how the glasses are stored. They think they can pull
>> something over by dropping a screw or a bolt into a glass. Why this
>> would require their entire (already consumed) meal to be comp'd I
>> have no idea Scammers are rampant.
>
> Some people are born to bitch. A few years back when my son was
> working in a nice hotel in Old Montreal a guest complained that his
> fridge wasn't working properly. My son arranged for the fridge to be
> replaced immediately. Within minutes one of the staff showed up at
> the room with a new fridge, emptied the contents of the old fridge
> into the new one. Come checkout time, the guest is arguing for a comp
> because of the satisfaction guarantee. The faulty fridge had been
> immediately replaced, so the guy had his complaint resolved. Most
> normal people would be satisfied. What more could the expect. IMO,
> expecting a free stay because the fridge had a problem... and was
> replaced??


I will admit I fell for a very successful scam artist. I've posted this
before. I was working as a hostess at restaraunt. A nicely dressed man
came in and said he was waiting for his wife and child to join him. He was
carrying a shopping bag, and as there was a mall across the street and a
shop next door I thought nothing of it. I seated him in a back corner table
at his request. He pretended to keep looking out the window for his wife
and kid. He ordered lunch. He ate lunch. All the while he said "What
could be keeping them?" Finally he got up and said something like "I just
want to step outside and see if they're in the parking lot. Make sure my
stuff is okay" (indicating that shopping bag). Me, like and idiot, fell for
it. The guy left and never came back. The shopping bag contained nothing
but old newspapers.

He got a free lunch! And I had to go tell my manager "We've been scammed".

Jill

> GUEST wrote:
> http://notalwaysright.com/page/105
>
> <quote>
>
> The Bald Truth
> Restaurant | Boston, MA, USA
>
> (Some customers at our restaurant try to get a free meal by placing
some
> hair in their food and then blaming the chef and refusing to pay
for
> the meal.)
>
> Customer: €œWaiter!€�
>
> Me: €œHow can I help you, sir?€�
>
> Customer: €œTheres a hair in my food.€�
>
> Me: €œThat isnt possible, unless it was your hair.€�
>
> Customer: €œIt isnt!€�
>
> Me: €œWho elses hair could it be?€�
>
> Customer: €œYour chefs.€�
>
> (I walk into the kitchen and return to the table with our chef.)
>
> Me: €œTake off your chefs hat.€�
>
> (Chef takes off his hat, he is revealed to be bald.)
>
> Chef, to the customer: €œYou were saying something about my hair
being in
> your food?€�
>
> </quote>
> --
> Cheers
> Chatty Cathy

Bald...lol....never heard of a screw in any
food before...nastiest thing ive found in my food was somebodys
clipped fingernail.....didnt like that one bit.....

SteveB wrote:

> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
> m...
> > jmcquown wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> It's a fairly common scam. Most cheapskate restaurant patrons don't
have
> >> any idea how the glasses are stored. They think they can pull
something
> >> over by dropping a screw or a bolt into a glass. Why this would
require
> >> their entire (already consumed) meal to be comp'd I have no idea
> >> Scammers are rampant.
> >
> > Some people are born to bitch. A few years back when my son was working
in
> > a nice hotel in Old Montreal a guest complained that his fridge wasn't
> > working properly. My son arranged for the fridge to be replaced
> > immediately. Within minutes one of the staff showed up at the room with
a
> > new fridge, emptied the contents of the old fridge into the new one.
Come
> > checkout time, the guest is arguing for a comp because of the
satisfaction
> > guarantee. The faulty fridge had been immediately replaced, so the guy
> > had his complaint resolved. Most normal people would be satisfied. What
> > more could the expect. IMO, expecting a free stay because the fridge had
a
> > problem... and was replaced??
>
> I worked in hotels in Las Vegas for longer than I care to remember. One
of
> the first things you learn is that you can't make everyone happy. In the
> "old days", they didn't put up with crap from freeloaders and scam
artists.
> They just thumped them and threw them in a dumpster in the alley. Today's
> corporations are different.


Yup, today's corporations that run hotels are *deathly* afraid of the
dreaded "comment cards" and now any complaints posted on online review
sites. Years ago I worked in hotels and some turds would send comment cards
into corporate with the most egregrious and made - up lies. Management
would cower and acquiesce like the pussies that they are...they apparently
lived and died by the scribblings on a few comment cards they received each
month. Whatever the sitch, the employee was *always* in the wrong,
management would never bother to ask for the employee's side of the story.
The deadbeats were especially outrageous, especially the ones that were
locked out of their rooms because they had bum credit cards or not the cash
to pay for their rooms. Pretty outrageous, ya get pretty tired of that crap
after awhiles...

When I got written up because some asshole came in and tried to pad off a
"Do Not Honor" credit card (that means "revoked") and had not other means to
pay for his room and then stalked up to the General Manager's office all
outraged that I was "rude" to him was the day I quit *that* idiot business
for good...


--
Best
Greg

Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 16:25:29 -0800, "SteveB" <toquerville@zionvistas>
> fired up random neurons and synapses to opine:
>
> >I worked in hotels in Las Vegas for longer than I care to remember. One
of
> >the first things you learn is that you can't make everyone happy. In the
> >"old days", they didn't put up with crap from freeloaders and scam
artists.
> >They just thumped them and threw them in a dumpster in the alley.
Today's
> >corporations are different.
>
> Yahbut, that was back in the good old days when the mob ran Vegas and
> the casinos and hotels weren't "family friendly." <sigh> Vegas was a
> lot more fun then.


And IIRC if you stayed in most Vegas hotels you *had* to gamble a certain
amount on their premises, if you didn't you were unceremoniously chucked out
onto the street...you had to have a certain amount of money to be in Vegas
and so it was a classier place, no "Clydes" allowed ("Clyde" being a Sinatra
term for cheap schmuck)!


--
Best
Greg

In article >,
"Gregory Morrow" > wrote:

> Yup, today's corporations that run hotels are *deathly* afraid of the
> dreaded "comment cards" and now any complaints posted on online review
> sites. Years ago I worked in hotels and some turds would send comment cards
> into corporate with the most egregrious and made - up lies. Management
> would cower and acquiesce like the pussies that they are...they apparently
> lived and died by the scribblings on a few comment cards they received each
> month. Whatever the sitch, the employee was *always* in the wrong,
> management would never bother to ask for the employee's side of the story.
> The deadbeats were especially outrageous, especially the ones that were
> locked out of their rooms because they had bum credit cards or not the cash
> to pay for their rooms. Pretty outrageous, ya get pretty tired of that crap
> after awhiles...
>
> When I got written up because some asshole came in and tried to pad off a
> "Do Not Honor" credit card (that means "revoked") and had not other means to
> pay for his room and then stalked up to the General Manager's office all
> outraged that I was "rude" to him was the day I quit *that* idiot business
> for good...
>
>
> --
> Best
> Greg

Smart move.

The customer is NOT always right.

It's part of why we document things to death at work.
--
Peace! Om

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." -- Dalai Lama

"Gregory Morrow" > wrote in message
...
>
> SteveB wrote:
>
>> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
>> m...
>> > jmcquown wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> It's a fairly common scam. Most cheapskate restaurant patrons don't
> have
>> >> any idea how the glasses are stored. They think they can pull
> something
>> >> over by dropping a screw or a bolt into a glass. Why this would
> require
>> >> their entire (already consumed) meal to be comp'd I have no idea
>> >> Scammers are rampant.
>> >
>> > Some people are born to bitch. A few years back when my son was working
> in
>> > a nice hotel in Old Montreal a guest complained that his fridge wasn't
>> > working properly. My son arranged for the fridge to be replaced
>> > immediately. Within minutes one of the staff showed up at the room with
> a
>> > new fridge, emptied the contents of the old fridge into the new one.
> Come
>> > checkout time, the guest is arguing for a comp because of the
> satisfaction
>> > guarantee. The faulty fridge had been immediately replaced, so the guy
>> > had his complaint resolved. Most normal people would be satisfied. What
>> > more could the expect. IMO, expecting a free stay because the fridge
>> > had
> a
>> > problem... and was replaced??
>>
>> I worked in hotels in Las Vegas for longer than I care to remember. One
> of
>> the first things you learn is that you can't make everyone happy. In the
>> "old days", they didn't put up with crap from freeloaders and scam
> artists.
>> They just thumped them and threw them in a dumpster in the alley.
>> Today's
>> corporations are different.
>
>
> Yup, today's corporations that run hotels are *deathly* afraid of the
> dreaded "comment cards" and now any complaints posted on online review
> sites. Years ago I worked in hotels and some turds would send comment
> cards
> into corporate with the most egregrious and made - up lies. Management
> would cower and acquiesce like the pussies that they are...they apparently
> lived and died by the scribblings on a few comment cards they received
> each
> month. Whatever the sitch, the employee was *always* in the wrong,
> management would never bother to ask for the employee's side of the story.
> The deadbeats were especially outrageous, especially the ones that were
> locked out of their rooms because they had bum credit cards or not the
> cash
> to pay for their rooms. Pretty outrageous, ya get pretty tired of that
> crap
> after awhiles...
>
> When I got written up because some asshole came in and tried to pad off a
> "Do Not Honor" credit card (that means "revoked") and had not other means
> to
> pay for his room and then stalked up to the General Manager's office all
> outraged that I was "rude" to him was the day I quit *that* idiot business
> for good...
>
>
> --
> Best
> Greg

My last day was when a customer was poking me in the chest with his
forefinger because he thought I was another employee. I told him if he did
it again, I'd kick his ass. Another employee who wanted my supervisor
position wrote up that I said that. If I had any sense, I would have called
the cops and filed assault charges on him. But I was ready to leave.
Within three months, I had a contractor's license. The rest is history, and
I'm comfortably retired today. I'd kiss that stupid coked up ******* if I
ever met him on the street for doing me the favor.

Steve

On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:11:46 -0600, "Gregory Morrow"
> fired up random neurons and synapses to opine:

>
>
>Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 16:25:29 -0800, "SteveB" <toquerville@zionvistas>
>> fired up random neurons and synapses to opine:
>>
>> >I worked in hotels in Las Vegas for longer than I care to remember. One
>of
>> >the first things you learn is that you can't make everyone happy. In the
>> >"old days", they didn't put up with crap from freeloaders and scam
>artists.
>> >They just thumped them and threw them in a dumpster in the alley.
>Today's
>> >corporations are different.
>>
>> Yahbut, that was back in the good old days when the mob ran Vegas and
>> the casinos and hotels weren't "family friendly." <sigh> Vegas was a
>> lot more fun then.
>
>
>And IIRC if you stayed in most Vegas hotels you *had* to gamble a certain
>amount on their premises, if you didn't you were unceremoniously chucked out
>onto the street...you had to have a certain amount of money to be in Vegas
>and so it was a classier place, no "Clydes" allowed ("Clyde" being a Sinatra
>term for cheap schmuck)!

That was if you were in a comp'd room, IIRC. You pay for your room,
even the gaming commission is gonna raise an eyebrow if you get thrown
out (please note the word "even" in the sentence).

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

--

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "meatloaf" with "cox"