Waitress Scammed Out of $200K Tip By Monster Customer

vrijdag 13 september 2013

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by Rebecca Stokes 3 hours ago

We have all heard stories of "guardian angel" types bestowing mammoth tips on hard-working waitresses. They are the sort of stories that always make your day. Nothing restores your faith in humanity more than learning about a generous person gifting someone deserving with money enough to change their lives forever.

But what about when guardian angels turn bad? This story being spread around the Internet is just that. It will change the way you view "big tip" stories forever. 

One waitress thought she had hit the mother-lode when a customer tipped her $200,000 on a $111 dollar bill. That's insane, right? That's what the overwhelmed waitress thought, too. She took the receipt to her manager who had to break the bad news to her. Credit card companies do not honor such excessive tips put on cards. Instead, they flag the entire receipt.

But there's more! Thinking she'd missed out on her big break, the waitress turned to the Internet for advice where she quickly learned that such big tips happen all the time -- and are a total scam! Often to get out of paying a bill altogether, a customer will add an excessive tip, knowing the charge will be marked as fraudulent. It happens more often than you think! 

It's the first time I've heard of this scam, and I can't get over it. It's one thing to see no problem with screwing over a restaurant. But it's another to screw over your hardworking server on top of that. Truly disgusting behavior. Hopefully, this fake guardian angel will be caught and brought to justice before they pull the same nonsense on another innocent food server. 

Can you believe the audacity of this customer?

Image via adam*b/Flickr

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rebecca Stokes

Rebecca is a writer who lives in Brooklyn with her cats. She is probably even at this moment spilling food on herself.

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Restaurant Customer Known for Eating Without Paying Gets What He Deserves on Facebook

zaterdag 3 augustus 2013

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by Kiri Blakeley 18 hours ago

Dine and dash just isn't what it used to be! These days, the power of social media can be harnessed to shame your ass into paying your bill! That's what one restaurant is attempting by publishing a photo of a guy on their Facebook page who they say dined and dashed in their establishment. Brewer's Cabinet brewpub in Reno, Nevada posted a photo of the guy (which a waiter managed to snap) and wrote on their Facebook page:

ATTN RENO: If you know, or see, this dude, please call RENO POLICE DEPT at 334-2121 immediately, and then remind him that his tab at The Brewer's Cabinet is still waiting to be paid. And, while you're at it, you could tell him that visiting restaurants/bars with your friends, running up a huge bill, roughing up servers and then bailing is pretty uncool ... pathetic, really. Get a life, man.

Yikes, and it turns out this wasn't the only restaurant the "dude" had stiffed!

At least three other establishments reportedly confirmed that the dasher, named Saul Zelaznog, had run out on his check there too. Bartenders say that Zelaznog's modus operandi includes running up a tab, then claiming he doesn't have his wallet, dashing, and never coming back to pay up!

A manager at Campo, another place Zelaznog apparently stiffed, says:

Ya know, it's really unfortunate that we put faith in people and they don't always pull through and it makes it harder for us to trust everyone else.

Sheesh, no wonder so many places now ask for a credit card upfront!

But the alleged dasher denies the claims, telling the Reno Gazette Journal that he simply forgot a "method of payment" at one establishment but was going to be back to pay later. Err, guess he forgot that too? Considering they called the cops. And when he forgot his method of paying at yet another place -- gee, this happens to him a lot -- he left a "nice watch" as collateral. Dude, no one wants your watch.

He also says he is asking his family to wire him money to pay off his restaurant debt. Bet they're overjoyed.

Meanwhile, Mr. Forgot My Wallet was arrested yesterday for a probation violation and put in the clink.

Well, at least he'll get free meals in jail.

Have you ever had anyone dine and dash on you?

Image via JoeShlabotnik/Flickr

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