# Customers called "Fat Girls" on receipt at restaurant **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 10, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customers-called-fat-girls-on-receipt-at-restaurant/643595 "2012-12-10T14:31:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![taskmgr.exe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@taskmgr.exe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taskmgr.exe)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customers-called-fat-girls-on-receipt-at-restaurant/643595/1 "2012-12-10T14:31:14Z")
> [@](#): > > The dinner bill for three friends at Chilly D’s Restaurant stung, but it wasn’t the price — printed on the top of the receipt were the words “Fat Girls”. > “I got the bill, I was looking at bill [and] I was like, ‘Why does this receipt say ‘fat girls?’” customer Christine Duran said. > The friends had dined out at the Stockton, Calif., restaurant, which is a part of the Cameo Casino Restaurant, on Thursday. The bill lists charges for three tri-tips with fries and three sodas, for a total of $25.50. A bartender named Jeff had apparently typed in “Fat Girls” to keep track of their bill. > When Duran asked a manager for an explanation, he “had like a smirk on his face, like it was funny but trying not to laugh,” she said. > **[Customers Called 'Fat Girls' on Restaurant Bill](https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/12/customers-called-fat-girls-on-restaurant-bill/)** > > Get breaking national and world news, broadcast video coverage, and exclusive interviews. Find the top news online at ABC news. I really have nothing to say about that, have no idea. I read some comments saying girls deserved because they are fat. Do you think they deserved it? Or was the waiter being an asshole? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customers-called-fat-girls-on-receipt-at-restaurant/643595/2 "2012-12-10T14:36:42Z")
How fat were they? ---
**Author:** ![Mnemnosyne](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mnemnosyne/32/3347_2.png) [@Mnemnosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mnemnosyne)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customers-called-fat-girls-on-receipt-at-restaurant/643595/3 "2012-12-10T14:41:26Z")
Well, kind of depends on whether the waiter intentionally gave them the receipt with the note still on it or not. If he listed them as fat girls on the computer (to more easily identify them) with the intention to remove that from the receipt before printing it, then forgot, it’s an honest mistake. Doesn’t seem like a particularly big deal to me. If he intentionally gave it to them that way, then he was kind of an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customers-called-fat-girls-on-receipt-at-restaurant/643595/4 "2012-12-10T14:43:00Z")
So wait, the waiter was a douche and their egos were bruised so they don’t have to pay their bill? How does that work? ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customers-called-fat-girls-on-receipt-at-restaurant/643595/5 "2012-12-10T14:43:34Z")
Probably not an asshole so much as an idiot. I worked with a waiter who wrote ‘old people’ on the top of one of his cheques, again, to keep his tables straight. He intended to rip that portion off (it was the removable header that held the copies together!) before presenting their bill. But he forgot. They said nothing, but he got a tiny tip. We all howled with laughter over it. He was so clueless that fellow. He’s now a school teacher! Crass? Completely, and offensive. But probably mostly from stupidity. The smirking manager should be getting some pushback, one hopes, because his job it to placate the customer and make it right. I’m glad at least the owner seems to care. Good on them for bringing it out into the open. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customers-called-fat-girls-on-receipt-at-restaurant/643595/6 "2012-12-10T14:44:46Z")
It’s not okay, and it doesn’t matter how fat they are. (Yeah, **Loach** , I know you’re trying to be funny, but that’s not okay either.) Grown ups don’t call people names, especially not strangers who’ve done them no harm. It’s bad enough when it’s the anonymity of the Internet. It’s even worse when it happens in real life. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customers-called-fat-girls-on-receipt-at-restaurant/643595/7 "2012-12-10T14:44:47Z")
It seems like he didn’t realize that his private notation got printed on the receipt. It was in poor taste but not that big of a deal unless there has been a pattern of shitty behavior. An apology and a free meal should be the end of it. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customers-called-fat-girls-on-receipt-at-restaurant/643595/8 "2012-12-10T14:45:49Z")
Can’t really comment until we get BMI figures. ---
**Author:** ![taskmgr.exe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@taskmgr.exe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taskmgr.exe)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customers-called-fat-girls-on-receipt-at-restaurant/643595/9 "2012-12-10T14:47:43Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > How fat were they? There is a video in the link. You can watch it. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customers-called-fat-girls-on-receipt-at-restaurant/643595/10 "2012-12-10T14:53:54Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > So wait, the waiter was a douche and their egos were bruised so they don’t have to pay their bill? How does that work? I was wondering that myself. The article says they were offered a 25% discount, then a 50% discount, both of which they declined. How do you “decline” a discount without then paying the full amount? ---
**Author:** ![taskmgr.exe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@taskmgr.exe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taskmgr.exe)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customers-called-fat-girls-on-receipt-at-restaurant/643595/11 "2012-12-10T15:03:37Z")
What I really **REALLY** wonder is the reason why people make comments like that: > [@](#): > > Might be time to stop eating out, and time to hit the gym. Stupid fat people. > [@](#): > > I think Jeff should be given a medal… > > Lets look at it this way, those 2 women aren’t overweight, they are suicidal. Their arms are the size of my legs (6ft5, workout, use to play rugby etc etc), had Jeff not publicly ridiculed these women would they ever do anything to change their terrible eating habits? Probably not, now someone has basically called them morbidly obese maybe they’ll do something about it. > > If they don’t, they are stupid, I’m sorry to say it, but they are. And before we go with the “Oh she’s diabetic” or “She has glandular issues”. My mum, age 57, is diabetic and has an under active thyroid (takes around 250mg of Thyroxine if I remember rightly. She can maintain her weight with a healthy diet and moderate, not even heavy, moderate exercise. > > If it wasn’t this, it would be when the chair they were sitting on broke… Looking for someone to take to court me thinks… ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customers-called-fat-girls-on-receipt-at-restaurant/643595/12 "2012-12-10T15:04:12Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > I worked with a waiter who wrote ‘old people’ on the top of one of his cheques, again, to keep his tables straight. He intended to rip that portion off (it was the removable header that held the copies together!) before presenting their bill. But he forgot. They said nothing, but he got a tiny tip. It’s a pretty dumb idea to write something offensive even on something that you’re going to throw away. Things go wrong. The guy was an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customers-called-fat-girls-on-receipt-at-restaurant/643595/13 "2012-12-10T15:04:46Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > I was wondering that myself. The article says they were offered a 25% discount, then a 50% discount, both of which they declined. How do you “decline” a discount without then paying the full amount? It has become a general expectation that if you get outrageously bad service at a restaurant – particularly if a member of staff insults you – that the restaurant will eat the cheque. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customers-called-fat-girls-on-receipt-at-restaurant/643595/14 "2012-12-10T15:06:54Z")
> [@phouka](#): > > It’s not okay, and it doesn’t matter how fat they are. (Yeah, **Loach** , I know you’re trying to be funny, but that’s not okay either.) Yes. It is. In humor nothing should be made off limits. I do not believe there should be a line in humor and I don’t care when anyone crosses an arbitrary line. And if you knew me you would know I am extremely polite and have a heightened sense of decorum. And my irreverent comment was a small poke at Tasky’s prolific OP postings and not commenting on how bloated the women were. Although I do believe the outrage is stupid and meaningless. The waiter obviously wasn’t insulting the women. They weren’t meant to see it. It was shorthand to keep the tables straight. A simple mistake that’s all. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customers-called-fat-girls-on-receipt-at-restaurant/643595/15 "2012-12-10T15:08:10Z")
They were evidently so humiliated they went to ABC News to make sure the whole country knows about it? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customers-called-fat-girls-on-receipt-at-restaurant/643595/16 "2012-12-10T15:09:17Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > It has become a general expectation that if you get outrageously bad service at a restaurant – particularly if a member of staff insults you – that the restaurant will eat the cheque. Really? I have never been insulted. But I have had bad service or big mistakes. I’m not a loud complainer so maybe I could have gotten more, but the most I have received was knocking items off the check. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customers-called-fat-girls-on-receipt-at-restaurant/643595/17 "2012-12-10T15:12:17Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Really? I have never been insulted. But I have had bad service or big mistakes. I’m not a loud complainer so maybe I could have gotten more, but the most I have received was knocking items off the check. The worse the trespass, the more you’re likely to get. And, yes, the louder you complain, the more you’re likely to get. A server isn’t usually authorized to comp an entire meal. For that you have to complain directly to management. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customers-called-fat-girls-on-receipt-at-restaurant/643595/18 "2012-12-10T15:15:15Z")
[http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1216575](http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1216575) Picture above. I’m not saying that they deserved this no matter how they looked but I am sure that there are others as curious as I was. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customers-called-fat-girls-on-receipt-at-restaurant/643595/19 "2012-12-10T15:20:50Z")
> [@phouka](#): > > It’s not okay, and it doesn’t matter how fat they are. (Yeah, **Loach** , I know you’re trying to be funny, but that’s not okay either.) > > Grown ups don’t call people names, especially not strangers who’ve done them no harm. It’s bad enough when it’s the anonymity of the Internet. It’s even worse when it happens in real life. I don’t see it as calling people names. They were fat, it’s an apt description: > [@hajario](#): > > [http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1216575](http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1216575) > > Picture above. I’m not saying that they deserved this no matter how they looked but I am sure that there are others as curious as I was. I have a feeling that in Stockton CA putting ‘Mexican girls’ on the tab might not be as helpful a note. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customers-called-fat-girls-on-receipt-at-restaurant/643595/20 "2012-12-10T15:23:44Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > It has become a general expectation that if you get outrageously bad service at a restaurant – particularly if a member of staff insults you – that the restaurant will eat the cheque. Sure, but getting a free meal for bad service is still a “gift” from the restaurant. You can’t just say, “Well the service was outrageously bad so I’m not going to pay.” That’s stealing unless the restaurant agrees to your terms. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customers-called-fat-girls-on-receipt-at-restaurant/643595.md?page=2)