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klwilliams) wrote2012-02-12 03:25 pm
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How to get a free lunch at Chevy's:
1. Start with dining alone.
2. Have a lovely lunch.
3. Become invisible and never get a check.
4. Need to use the bathroom, but keep waiting for a check or for any waiter to notice you.
5. Go to the bathroom anyway.
6. Come back to find your table cleared.
7. Since you're honest, find the manager and ask to pay for your lunch.
8. Be told by the embarrassed manager that it's free.
As a single woman I'm used to being invisible, and mostly ignored at restaurants. (Not Hobee's. They're beyond helpful there.) This is the first time it's paid off. I suppose I could just skip out, since I don't go there often enough anymore to be recognized, but I'm just too honest, and I'd rather they know their mistakes so they can improve next time. Lunch was delicious, though.
2. Have a lovely lunch.
3. Become invisible and never get a check.
4. Need to use the bathroom, but keep waiting for a check or for any waiter to notice you.
5. Go to the bathroom anyway.
6. Come back to find your table cleared.
7. Since you're honest, find the manager and ask to pay for your lunch.
8. Be told by the embarrassed manager that it's free.
As a single woman I'm used to being invisible, and mostly ignored at restaurants. (Not Hobee's. They're beyond helpful there.) This is the first time it's paid off. I suppose I could just skip out, since I don't go there often enough anymore to be recognized, but I'm just too honest, and I'd rather they know their mistakes so they can improve next time. Lunch was delicious, though.
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You're a good person.
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I'm not sure if the teaching moment taught what I'd hoped it would. They were so flabbergasted at the restaurant that a Walkaway had returned to pay that the manager actually CALLED WORKERS OUT FROM THE KITCHEN to gawk at me. His awkward blabbering gratitude was embarrassing. And I had to MAKE him take my money (remember the kid's standing there at my elbow). So...good thing my son has always been a decent person else he *might * have learned that lots of other people get away without paying all the time.
*sigh* What a world.
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