If you have ever worked in a restaurant...you feel me.
All customers have potential to be the best or the worst customers you serve. There are a lot of stereotypes like "black people do not tip" and "white woman with that ugly pixie cut wants to speak to your manager" but one thing that I have deduced in my 4+ years of restaurant experience....is that nobody is a worse customer than what I will call a "career mother*" with 2+ older "children" (TEENAGERS)
Teenage children, do not get to eat a CHILDREN'S PRICE.
Repeat after me:
TEENAGE CHILDREN, EVEN IF THEY ARE YOUR CHILD, IF THEY JUST TURNED 13, IF THEY ARE YOUR GODDAMNED GRAN-BABBY, DO NOT GET CHILDREN'S PRICE.
Because, they are not considered a child, by anyone. But you.
So this career-mom. She came in with her teenaged daughter and son, and her 11 year old daughter. She told me "table for 4" I see the younger daughter carrying a doll, this is a child. I asked her how old she was. 11. I make a remark like "Oh ok, three and a child! Her buffet saves you a few dollars." Mom tells me her son is 12, "heh heh, he is a child" I tell her "Ma'am, 11 is the oldest age we consider a child. Your son is adult price. Okay. Fair enough. She sits down. Later the waitress comes to me, frustrated, suddenly the older daughter, 15-17 at least, is "11" and so it is dinner time, I am about to clock out. I made the manager call to just forgive the $3.20 difference and alter the ticket price. We can take the loss to get this POS out of here. I wanted to leave.
Tell me why this woman came up to the counter, slapped the bill I just discounted down, screams at me that she has 2 children 11 years old. Her daughters are "twins". They look nothing alike because the younger girl. Is clearly biracial. Fuck your color. I could not give any less fucks than I already do not give. But do not lie to me, to your children, teach them to lie to people, whatever the fuck to save $3.20. Her older daughter *embarrassed* "Momma please, just pay." "Let's go" Mom again "I said I have two 11 year olds!" I showed her where the prices were marked:
2 Adult Buffet
2 Child Buffet
4 Dr Pepper
And the total, $36.02
She gave me $25.
I said "Ma'am you still owe me $11"
*Rage*
I repeated the total and counted her money for her, in front of us, on the counter. Her daughter hands me the $11 out of HER purse and the mom is already out the door. Last comment I heard. "And I still paid the same amount!" No Ma'am, you let your "CHILD" pay the rest. And still shorted us the two cents. I hope they never come back.
*A career-mother is not, in fact a mother who has a career in any professional field. It is a woman who DEGRADES women who choose or have to work to support themselves/their family in FAVOR of raising their children and trying to keep them her CHILDren for as long as possible, or continues having children ("Oh, they're suvh a blessing!" "We just love big families!") so that they can keep being a mother to a school aged child like it is a professional job. Looking at you, table B7.
And girl, I am so sorry that your mother is such a cheap piece of shit. My mom is too, we are better than that. Pay your bills, and you will make it out girlie.
