Could you please respond to post #3 and/or post #19, kstarnes?
It’s been a long time since I was a server. I guess you’re right.
But if there were a dedicated cash register person, they could just tell her she got stiffed, show her the fake receipt, and take the $18 - right? The cash register’s still in balance. I guess I’m positing a scenario where she doesn’t interact with the register.
Possibly. I think it would be hard to show a fake reciept. If printed again, it usually says “copy” or “duplicate” at the bottom. Also, the time stamp on the two recipts are the same. It could be possible, though.
I wondered how the merchant copy has the tip line crossed out and the offending phrase written on it, while the customer copy has the tip written in. Obviously the merchant submitted the amount WITH the tip, as it shows on the credit card statement. I just realized that the customer most likely entered the tip into the machine and wrote on it on their own copy for reference, but didn’t write it on the merchant copy? So the fraudster had a blank credit card receipt to work with? Or did they reprint the merchant copy - but it usually says REPRINT when that’s done.
From your link:
If the waitperson was behind this, why would the manager and the restaurant owner both claim they had an original receipt that backs up her claim?
Would a restaurant owner commit fraud just to support a waitperson, or could there be something more here?
Yeah, that’s confusing me. I’m wondering if bup’s theory might not have some legs.
Yeah. I think the customer paid at the register, told the person at the register to add $18 for a tip, and then filled out their own receipt, but only signed the merchant’s receipt.
The person at the register, after the customer left, filled in the fake total (it’s different handwriting than the customer’s $111.55 total - look at the 5’s), and wrote the note.
Or, perhaps, the waitress did. In any event, the customer left without filling in the tip and total on the merchant copy.
My guess is that the restaurant manager and the restaurant owner both figured out that the claim was bogus before the shit hit the fan and shut up about it because they were getting more business and were afraid that the truth would swing public opinion and business well below what it had been before the waitress did her stunt.
Now that there is controversy they are backed into a corner. They didn’t provide anything to New York NBC 4 because they legally aren’t obliged to do anything for a news entity. Unless a court orders them to submit to an audit they will sit tight and hope it blows over.
This^, except I didn’t lose it, I threw it away. Fuck it, Fuck them all.:(:mad:
Two different hoaxes. The one you’re talking about is someone claiming the customer wrote an ugly note about her being gay. The one referenced in the post you’re responding to is a black woman claiming the customer wrote “nigger” on the receipt instead of leaving a tip. In the first case, the customers claim they not only didn’t write the note, but actually left a 20% tip. In the second, the guy freely admits not leaving a tip but denies writing the racial slur, and has sought handwriting analysis to back his claims.
Thank you for the clarification.
I don’t know. It all depends on the motivation.
On one side you have someone who got a lot of attention. Maybe more than she bargained for. A new restaurant gets a lot of publicity. Two causes dear to the original poster’s get publicity and supposedly money for one.
On the other side you have a family that has not been publicized. No one knows their name. They have not received any public criticism. If they hadn’t noticed the story and took a closer look they wouldn’t even know what is going on. Their only motivation is to keep people from giving money under false pretenses.
The customer can provide a credit card statement for the charge. The waitress shrugs her shoulders and can’t give an explanation.
There’s a special place in hell reserved for this asshat. Somewhere between the child molesters and the people who talk during movies.
Hey, everybody, I’ve to try my hand at the credit card receipt hoax thing too! Maybe I can retire early in financial comfort! 
I’ve got a common model Epson receipt printer at home. I could print a fake entire receipt with great ease – INCLUDING a graphic logo like so many receipts have on them these days. (I have all the software I need to do that, some of which I wrote myself. Did I mention that I work with cash register software, including the areas of the code that deal with printing receipts?) BWAHAHAHAHA!
Man, nothing makes sense here. The entire bill - including the $18 tip - was paid by credit card. There’s no cash for someone to pocket.
Secondly, if Dayna had been completely honest about her end of the story, a) I’d immediately assume I’d been duped somehow by a co-worker at the restaurant, and b) I’d be apocalyptically horrified that I’d publicly and completely inaccurately accused a family of being prejudicial pigs. I wouldn’t be able to get on the phone fast enough to apologize.
That she’s sticking to her ‘gee, I don’t know,that’s what I saw, I guess they might be upset or somethin’ but I dunno…’ claim tells me she’s a lying, thieving bitch who should be jobless any day now.
IIRC, the couple said they heard from the person seating them that ‘Dan’ would be serving them. When ‘Dayna’ showed up and said her name, the wife said, ‘oh, we thought you were a man’. Completely true, they thought *Dan *would be serving them. No big deal, everyone has a laugh, and you go on about your way.
Instead, Ms. Conniving Lying Bitch here decided to ‘get revenge’ for what she perceived in her hazy grasp of reality as an insult.
When I was a server, the restaurant gave you cash out of the register for the credit card tips. It’s got to be the same way now. What are they going to do, give it to you electronically?
So with an $18 tip, but a fairly blank merchant copy, an unscrupulous person could fill in a $0 tip, and take the $18 out of the register. The register still balances when they count at the end of the night (in fact, they *have *to take the $18, or the register wouldn’t balance).
I’m not saying that’s what happened. I’m saying the customers are innocent, but I don’t know if Dayna is guilty or just got set up.
The most discouraging thing about any of this is the existence of people who think 20% is a bad tip.
If we’ve come to that point I am all in favor of ditching the tipping system entirely, and having restaurants charge a realistic price in order to pay staff a decent wage.
People have faith in humanity? What’s that?
I often interview people and have to figure out if they are lying. Everything about her reaction screams “liar” to me. She has some serious tells that are taught in every interview class. But that is far from scientific and I don’t rely on my instincts at work nor will I here. But it certainly colors my perception of the story.
You have been spouting idiotic posts for quite some time in this thread. If only the OP were so prolific.