That's pretty extreme, I'd have just helped myself to seconds on dessert while waiting for the cops.......
Yeah, but the headline was misleading. It wasn’t over a “gratuity” but a large party fee. Without reading the link I assumed it was over a genuine gratuity for exemplary service. A gratuity is voluntary and above the bill. An obligatory, involuntary, “gratuity” is merely a mislabelled fee. It was on the menu so they should have payed. After reading the link my gun would have stayed in it’s holster.