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I wasn't arguing that the kid didn't pay for his food, so stop making things up. I've clearly stated in plenty of past posts that he paid with cash in a restaurant that accepts cash and that the restaurant should have just moved on instead of taking it to FB like a fool.
My point is that strewing the coins all over the table was rude and boorish.
Maybe it wasn't him who did the strewing , but the wait staff. Regardless, he paid, and anyone who works with the public knows you suck it up and move on to the next customer. This would never have been anything, but the restaurant had to publish it on social media. Very unprofessional.
Maybe it wasn't him who did the strewing , but the wait staff. Regardless, he paid, and anyone who works with the public knows you suck it up and move on to the next customer. This would never have been anything, but the restaurant had to publish it on social media. Very unprofessional.
I doubt the wait staff did the strewing; people who work in busy restaurants don't have time for that nonsense. And the way the kid's been milking this for his 15 minutes all over the internets, I'm sure he would have mentioned it if he'd neatly stacked the change only to have it strewn over the table by evil waitstaff trying to make him look bad.
As far as your second point, I haven't said anything differently here, have I?
Seriously? 242 comments and counting. This is an amazing amount of discussion over almost nothing.
FWIW, I come down on the side of the customer. He left a nice tip and you know, they can just give out change to other customers in quarters. I'm always looking for quarters myself, because of meters.
If you refuse to pay and you've already dined there, they can call the police if you refuse to pay your bill. Because that would be considered theft of the food you ordered and consumed there. You certainly don't have to tip, of course.
And therein lies the rub. We're not talking about a refusal to pay, we're talking about a refusal to accept payment, tip or no tip.
If I try to pay a $50 tab with five rolls of quarters and that payment is refused, I will gladly sit by while the cops are on their way. I'd wish you the best of luck in convincing that cop, or for that matter a lawyer or judge that snubbing someone's attempt to pay qualifies as theft. When it comes to criminalizing attempts to pay with ridiculous amounts of coins, I'd wager that there is no such law on the books anywhere in the US, but I'd get a kick out of being proven wrong.
One place where I worked, one of the technicians took care of an older lady, and when the work was done, she tipped him. He came into the office laughing, saying " That old lady tipped, me, a whole dollar !" He showed us the silver dollar she had given him, so we looked it up on the internet, and it was worth about $40.00 ! When he saw that, his opinion of the cheap tip he got changed.
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Could have been me. One of the things I give for graduation gifts are Morgan-Peace Silver Dollars (and then, if there are siblings, a "lesser" silver coin). Not always, mind you; I also give Swiss Army knives.
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Collectibles/rare things are not worth anything if you can't find a buyer.
I see enough places around that say "We buy silver/gold".
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Difficult to say when one is talking about pizza delivery.
Why? Because pizza delivery can be associated with a college town and college towns mean a lot of things are paid through coin changers, with quarters. Laundries, coke machines, perhaps other things.
Way back in 1990 or so, around here for a graduate computer user friendly course, we had to program an ATM. Part of that project was doing consumer research to see what "the buyer" really wanted and my research showed was the ability to get quarters. A college town runs on quarters.
These days it may have changed somewhat when there are, as far as I know, no more copying machines, when you can slide a credit card to get snacks.......but there are still coin laundries. I know, having had to use them just 2 years ago, the stress when the changer won't accept your dollar bills or even worse, the panic when you arrive and find the changer empty or broken.
I guess one needs to be, if down, at the right level to appreciate just how important the quarter is.
Difficult to say when one is talking about pizza delivery.
Its really not that difficult. No one, not even a pizza delivery person, wants to stand out on someone's porch counting change. At least at a restaurant, the server has a table to count the money on. Where is the pizza person going to count the change? I guess they're expected to either trust that some person paying in change is honest, or they have to sit down on the ground to make sure the money is all there.
Its really not that difficult. No one, not even a pizza delivery person, wants to stand out on someone's porch counting change. At least at a restaurant, the server has a table to count the money on. Where is the pizza person going to count the change? I guess they're expected to either trust that some person paying in change is honest, or they have to sit down on the ground to make sure the money is all there.
Well, that's a decent point.....especially considering how many people these days can't do basic arithmetic.
Personally, I learned long ago to be able to know the amount in an instant by looking at the coins.
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