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Oh, what the heck, no I won’t. This is f’ing lame. Check out this news story wherein a couple was arrested because they and the group they were with refused to pay the $16 mandatory gratuity (can we say “oxymoron”) after they had horrible service at the Lehigh Pub. They had to wait an hour for food, had to get their own silverware and napkins, had to get up to ask for a drink refill because the waitress never came back. When they explained the situation to the bartender and told him why they weren’t paying the gratuity, they say that he took their money and subsequently called the police, who came and arrested them.
Now, in response to all of the publicity this has generated, the bar is claiming that they offered to comp the food to the couple because of the long wait and poor service, but the couple refused. Hmmm…let’s see. The bar generously offered to comp the whole meal to them, the ungrateful couple refused this gesture of generosity, so the bar took the payment for the meal and had the arrested for not paying the tip. Yeah, that sounds like a logical sequence of events…
If you live in Bethlehem, PA, you may want to avoid the Lehigh Pub…
Here’s the random question: Any thoughts on this story? Any restaurant nightmares to share? Any waitressing/waitering stories to share?
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