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Sorry, but until restaurants adopt strict policies against paying in cash, this kid and anyone else who wants to pay in change has every right to do so.
If it was as aggravating a situation as it seems to have been I think there's a number of ways the owner or manager could have handled it. One way, maybe accept the $20, (and the wait staff's tip if they want it), obtain some identifying info from the teen, and then call his house and speak briefly to a parent/guardian. Say that the balance of the bill needs to be paid with paper currency, or by credit card or debit card. Then send the kid on his way. In the unfortunate event that the effort to get the bill paid doesn't work I'm guessing a $25 loss won't destroy the business. And yes, think about posting a sign.
I agree they should not have shamed him publicly. They should have just asked him privately to not come back.
I think a better idea is to post a sign stating the forms of payment that will be accepted and that loose change cannot be used to pay a bill.
But what if my bill is $13.42..... Should I not be able to pay the cashier in exact change and leave my tip for my server separately? Because if that is poor form, I am in trouble...... It is something I do quite often......
That's nothing. I used to know a drug dealer who had a client who would sometimes pay with bags of nickels. No, it wasn't me.
LOL. I remember once my boss won $100 on parlay and the guy, at the insistence of an employee, brought his winnings in pennies.
He was really mad, for a long time.
Having money to pay and actually being able to afford are two different things.
My point is is that it's not your call. The kid had the money and wanted to spend it. And of course he can afford it; he's a student working part-time for spending money, not an adult taking money from the family food budget by blowing all his change at Beer 88.
If it was as aggravating a situation as it seems to have been I think there's a number of ways the owner or manager could have handled it. One way, maybe accept the $20, (and the wait staff's tip if they want it), obtain some identifying info from the teen, and then call his house and speak briefly to a parent/guardian. Say that the balance of the bill needs to be paid with paper currency, or by credit card or debit card. Then send the kid on his way. In the unfortunate event that the effort to get the bill paid doesn't work I'm guessing a $25 loss won't destroy the business. And yes, think about posting a sign.
You're kidding, right? Call the kid's parents? The business didn't have a posted policy about not paying in coins. The parents would have been justified in laughing in their faces, and the whole thing would have just generated more unfavorable publicity for the establishment.
There is a way to handle it -- graciously understand that sometimes things happen that are out of the ordinary and resist to the urge to go crying to Facebook.
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