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You may laugh, but I used to live only a few blocks from where that apartment used to be. GIRLS NEED THEIR GRISLY SOUVENIERS, OKAY?!
Please let me know when you open a business so I can [del]exploit the shit out of your retarded naivete[/del] patronize such a well-run establishment.
Wrong on *so *many counts. Please do keep digging, though, because this just keeps getting funnier.
I apologize, it was sexist of me to assume you were a man and not just a really ugly woman. It was the Adam’s apple that threw me.
Best Happy Ending I ever had involved “man hands”…just sayin.
Yawn, are we *really *going down this road with yet *another *retard on this board? Go hang out with **Randy **and you can comiserate about how sour these grapes must be.
I got one better- after a wedding rehearsal, the families went for teppanyaki. The cook tossed a shrimp over to the groom’s mother, where it promptly went down the front of her blouse. that got a laugh from the entire place 
A person who hits another person because their brakes failed is at fault in the accident, no questions asked. The excuse, “I didn’t CAUSE the brakes to fail” does not reduce or eliminate their culpability. It is a driver’s responsibility to ensure brakes are in working order, just as it is a restaurant’s responsibility to ensure that their pipes are in good shape and maintained. Perhaps the leak was a freak accident by one of their employees banging on a pipe or cutting something, or whatnot, in which case it is even MORE clear that the restaurant is directly responsible. Just as if a waiter or cook screwed up an order for a customer. They should try to apologize for the error by giving people an incentive to come back. The customers don’t DESERVE it, and the restaurant doesn’t OWE them anything… but it would be in their best interest to reward the customers with some sort of a small discount that would still allow the restaurant to make a profit from them.
I am not saying that they should give them all free meals or whatever… just a little incentive that would make them happy for the inconvenience they experienced, and that the restaurant can still entice the otherwise good customers to come back and spend a good deal of money there. I don’t understand how this would open them up to exploitation or run them out of business.
You also all seem to be feel it is completely appropriate that they were rude to him by being so short with him, which is much worse of an issue to me anyway.
Are you certain about that? Absolutely certain? Legally certain? Be prepared to show your work…
I know - I inspect all my gas pipes fortnightly, and rip out all my electrical wires from my walls to inspect them once a day. I find it’s easier just not living with drywall, you know.
Strawman much? Dear Goddess, what’s next, supposing that the cooks were all Aum Shinrikyo members planning another 9/11?
First off, we only have the third-hand testimony of someone on a message board to go by. Second, maybe they were “short” with him because the manager was standing there screaming “OMF God we have a gas leak and the fire department wants us out of here NOW and we’re all going to die and my poor restaurant I built with my own hands is going to blow up, call everyone right now and tell them!!!111111one”
I’ll eat my words on the brake fault thing, perhaps in certain circumstances you wouldn’t be at fault (if it was a brand new car you could probably blame the manufacturer, not so sure about an older car where maintanence is your responsibility).
Obviously you can’t always prevent leaks from happening, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t your responsibility as a manager/owner to take ownership of it when it happens. Was it the government’s fault 9/11 happened, did they CAUSE it to happen? No. But they took ownership of it and now TSA has much stricter screening measures in place to prevent it from happening.
And I wasn’t setting up a straw man argument by saying that someone DELIBERATELY did it, it may have been an accident, or it may have been a maintanence issue. Either way, restaurant is responsible. Like it or not, it is their responsibility to keep pipes from leaking. Yes it is impossible to stop it 100% of the time, but they should make up the inconvenience to their customers when it does.
It’s a win win for everyone anyway. Restaurant makes customers happy by giving them a freebie/discount. Customers make restaurant happy by word of mouth on how nice they were, how great and caring the service was in a crisis, and that they will come back to spend more money there.
Again, let me just reiterate… I am not saying that the customers should demand anything, or that the restaurant should feel obligated. I just think its in their best interest.
I agree that we only have the OPs word to go on… but ASSUMING he is telling the truth, the restaurant should have been more polite.
I don’t say the OP isn’t telling the truth, merely that there may have been much more going on than is conveyed.
I’m assuming it was this.
I went to a physiotherapists office for an appointment and couldn’t get in the building because it was closed due to a gas leak. I returned to my office to call and reschedule (stupid of me - why would anyone be in the building if there was a gas leak). Shockingly a woman answered and I told her I wanted to reschedule.
She asked why I wasn’t coming and I said ‘Well, you’re entire building is evacuated because of the gas leak…’ and she said ‘Gas leak!!! WTF!!! …click…’
So, yah. Expecting the poor sap phoning to tell you the restaraunt you have your reservation at is about to blow up and so sorry about your dinner to be all nice-nice, sucky-sucky, me love you long time, come back get free teryaki is obnoxious and stupid.
Lets move into hypothetical land here as we have no idea what caused the gas leak mentioned in the OP.
It’s just as likely that the leak was caused by faulty equipment/materials beloning to the gas company providing the gas as it is caused by an owner/manager/waiter of the restaraunt. Should the gas company buy the OP a nice birthday dinner as well?
I did not SAY that the restaurant should give him a free dinner. Just a little freebie to help.
If it was faulty manufacturing, the restaurant should sue the manufacturer, and that’s the place where they will be held responsible. To the customer who was inconvenienced by the leak, they don’t really care if it was a manufacturing defect or poor maintenance, a fluke accident, or a 9/11-level conspiracy. They were inconvenienced, and that’s that. If the restaurant wants to help alleviate any bad feelings the customer may have, offering a small discount, free desert, or free meal with purchase of others (same stuff they do for any birthday, really) would help.
Anyone who expects a freebie after having their reservation canceled by the restaurant because the restaurant was *closed *due to an *emergency situation * IS NOT A GOOD CUSTOMER. I don’t need any thing to entice me back after a canceled reservation of this kind because it’s not an error.
Other Things **drewtwo99 **Wants Freebies For:
[ol][li]Restaurant ran out of pie and only has cake[/li][li]Mechanic doesn’t work on Sundays[/li][li]Pakistani restaurant only offers halal meats[/li][li]Large party seated at multiple tables pushed together (restaurant didn’t go buy a big table just for him)[/li][li]Dentist’s reception area has issues of *Oprah *instead of Women’s Day[/ol][/li]So, seriously man, when are you opening a business? I can’t wait to come be a customer. Show me how you’d run everything so much better!
I laughed.
I can just imagine the RO if a Japanese steakhouse had blown up, and among the injured/maimed/killed were a party of 12 having a birthday gathering, all because no one had noticed the gas leak at all. Or they had noticed but thought they could scrape through the evening. And the restaurant owner/manager/staff would be condemned as money-grubbing jerks who only cared about profit.
Incentive. drew, the incentive to return is that the OP didn’t get blown up. That’s it.
You think your birthday dinner was rough. My 30th birthday was two weeks ago and all I got for dinner was cold hospital roast beef and powdered mashed potatoes. And I had to put up with all that that after I spent hours pushing an 8lb 5oz human being out of my twat!
What kind of coupon can I get for that?
the hell does it matter if it was a milestone or not? if someone wants to plan a gathering to celebrate their birthday, it’s no one’s business but their own, and who are you to deem that “pathetic”? as another poster mentioned, you don’t know the OP or his friends and their financial situations, so who’s to say the dinner in question was especially extravagant to begin with?
also, to the thread in general, i really don’t get the hostility some have expressed towards the OP. yes, the rant was dumb and it was silly to expect a gift card for the situation as described, and we should all be so lucky to have such problems when there are flea-bitten african orphans starving to death as we speak. i get it. i really didn’t see where the bitter name-calling was called for, though.
and what would a good pit thread be without a completely useless, one liner, drive by, “i’ve deemed it safe to pile on against the OP since that seems to be the course the thread is taking” post from Guinastasia? good times.
Not so neat. Your anger is totally unwarranted. The restaurant is not responsible for the gas company’s pipes springing a leak. They are, however, responsible for their patrons’ safety and they did exactly the right thing.
This, thanks.
I don’t have anything to add except that because of this thread, when I was asked a few days ago where I wanted to go for my birthday dinner, I suggested a hibachi restaurant (which I had never been to before) and I had a blast. So thanks OP for giving me the idea to go to a cool restaurant that I’d never tried before.
:eek: Why didn’t they tell you there was a gas leak?!