“You always give free appetizers for birthdays”
So this happened last sunday. Long story
I took care of this lady and her family: two sons, a daughter and her husband.
The husband gave me a weird vibe at first. Ya know, usually if you’re standing in a walkway and a server holding stacks of plates in both hands wants to get by and asks “excuse me sir” yA usually scoot to the side a bit no? Well this dude legit looked at me and just stayed there. I had a great feeling about them from the start : ^]
so anyways. It was my turn so I took the table after putting those plates down. I go up to the table with the usual, “Hi how are you? What can I get y’all started to drink?”
The mother responds, “actually we already know what we want.”
But I kinda have this flow I need to follow so I say, “okay but can I get your drinks first?”
She responds, “but we’re ready to order.”
I respond, “I can get both. I just need the drink order first.”
So after that I finally get the drink order. In between the drink order the mom states that its her older sons birthday. The younger son then interjects, “its my birthday too!”
the mother supports this statement by saying, “Yes it is. It’s also his birthday”
I’m like cool. Got it. I don’t care. We’ll be sure to treat ya extra special. whatevs.
So we finally get to the “order” that they’ve been “actually ready” to tell me all this time and the mom orders her whatcha ma callet I don’t know I think it was salmon. She then asks her son.
“now do you want cow? or do you want chicken?” (meaaaning ya know they weren’t REAAAALLY ready) but sure.
same thing with her other son. so on, so forth. Whatever.
She tells me its her sons birthday in between taking their orders by the way.
and theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen. After they finish ordering and I start walking away she tells me again. “It’s my sons birthday. both of them”
and i’m just like.... okaaaay? I got it :]
Alright. Now here’s where they get weirder. Hibachi chef comes out, cooks, leaves, we come out with drums, two cakes, and camera the wholes schpeaal.
so I bring them the check. the mom looks at the check, then looks very confused.
“Excuse me ma’am? It was my sons birthday”. She says in a really concerned voice.
At this point I’m also confused. we just sang birthday. I gave them two cakes. We sang the songs. two songs in fact. And I think she realized I had no idea what she meant.
She begins to state that on birthdays our restaurant gives free appetizers and free kids meals.
I state, no we don’t do that I believe.
She says, “yees I come here every week”
And I’m like, “ No we just give out cake”
she is 100% positive we do this btw. give out free appetizer and kids meal for birhdays.
Mind you, I’ve been working for this restaurant for about oh I don’t know TEN FUCKING YEARS now so I say with confidence, “No we’ve never done that”. I inform her that one wednesdays we do give free chicken to kids with the purchase of an adult entree, but today was sunday.
She’s pissed. and says, “well you can tell your manager they just lost a long time customer because we are never coming here again.”
I’m like, “I’m sorry ma’am. bla blah blah do you want me to get the manager?”
and at first she kinda said “no, its okay I’m not coming here again. It’s up to you.”
so I go up to the manager/owner and explain to her the situation and she straight up tells me, “I don’t want to talk to her” because she can already tell just from what I told her that this lady is either crazy or full of shit.
So I walk back out, the lady is still sitting there fuming. I notice that they barely touched the birthday cakes, and the kids and husband already left. So I ask her” ma’am would you like some boxes for the cakes?
and she just responds “ I want to speak to your manager”
so I go back and tell the boss, “yeah she wants to talk to you.” the boss reluctantly goes up to the lady, they walk intot he VIP room to talk privately. 20 minutes go by and they are still in there talking.
Eventually my boss calls me over and says, “ can you explain to her how you split your tips with the hibachi chef?” because at our restaurant you give like half your tips to the chef, the sushi chef, bartender and what not. Sucks, but honestly hibachi food is expensive and I rake it plenty.
So after explaining this all to her she waves me away.
She write on her reciept a bunch of angry stuff, she calculated how much “money she spends at this restaurant in a year” and then said shes going to report my boss to the labor comitee for stealing employee tips. then she tipped me ZERO. :D
and thats my story. such an odd lady. I didn’t recognize her at all by the way. so I doubt she came in every week. Just kinda crazy ya know
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