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If you left a busy restaurant without your doggie bag, what would you do? (A) Shrug and think about the delicious lunch of leftovers that will never be? (B) Go back to the restaurant to see if it was still there? Or would it be (C) Call the restaurant and demand a gift certificate in compensation? A customer of a Boston restaurant attempted option (C) recently, and the restaurant took to social media to share their… surprise? confusion?
The original tweet from Boston’s Myers and Chang reads,
Customer forgot doggie bag w leftovers. Too far away to come back and get them. Now wants gift certificate to replace them. Thoughts?
Thoughts? Now about, “No.”
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Thank you for the link.
The comments here and on my blog are classic. Entitlemania is alive and well in Boston and beyond. Some people don’t realize that the customer has almost as much to do with the success of the customer-server, HUMAN interaction as the server does. Common courtesy and mutual respect are a 2-way street. It really shouldn’t be as hard as some people make it.
I watched one of my waitress friends offering coffee refills to her diner customers a few weeks back. When she got to one woman and said, “Any for you, Hon?”, the woman slumped back in her seat and said nothing. A few minutes later I said to the waitress, “People are brutal, huh?”, and she replied, “Some people struggle with kindness, but at least I don’t have to go home with them.” Amen.
Enjoy the weekend, everyone. -PM
If I were the manager, I would literally laugh in their faces.
Scrape some other customer’s plates into a bag and tell them it was put in the fridge.
IDIOT! I really hope they rolled their eyes at this person.
Were I the manager of that place, I would send photos of myself and/or staff gleefully enjoying the aforementioned doggie bag.
hmm, sorry, if you leave the premises w/o counting your change or verifying contents, outta luck
call back to ask, not demand
customer is a fool, prob the same kind that b!tches and nitpicks about their food
This does show an extreme sense of entitlement. It reminds me of how I was at Burger King once and this woman came in and started ranting to the staff about how another restaurant wouldn’t deliver food to her house and she wanted Burger King to deliver food for her, but they told her they didn’t do that. Then she asked me if I’d give her a ride home after she ordered her food, and I didn’t even know her! Not only did she think the restaurant should give her special service, she apparently thought that strangers IN the restaurant should be doing things for her too.
Let me guess….you said “NO!!!”
did you go to church sunday?
If the place wasn’t so damned expensive people wouldn’t want that last bite of noodle. Yes, the customer is a weirdo but that place is also a rip
I once asked for a doggie bag at Macaroni Grill, where the waiter usually bags your food in the kitchen after taking the plates away. When 5 and then 10 minutes passed I got a little worried, and called him over. The look of shock when I mentioned the leftovers, followed by his rushing to the kitchen led finally to the production of my bag, in which the food was such a jumble I think he scooped it out of the garbage can!
If its actually for a doggie then I would suggest that they be given another doggie bag filled with leftovers from other customers. They asked for a doggie bag not a people bag.
You mean wicked delicious lunch. And I’d totally do B.
The guy is an idiot and deserves to be dipped in a batter of moldy food.
This actually happened to me. I left the restaurant, realized I forgot my food and returned literally five minutes later and they had already thrown the other half of my meal out. I was pissed. I think they actually gave me more food… then they realized they still had my first order sitting there and I got that too.