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Posted on 08/21/2020 7:54:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
According to a new lawsuit filed on Thursday in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court, Chipotle is keeping change from customers' orders, without their permission. The rounding up on tabs in some Chipotle chain locations has quickly added up to hundreds of thousands of dollars stolen from customers.
Yikes! Lawyer Frank Salpietro said he believes this is a move by corporate bosses: “It has become very clear that this is a top-down directive from the corporation, this is how they should handle the situation."
Fox News reports:
The state attorney general’s office has received at least seven complaints, reports said.
Corporate bosses are likely behind the move, a lawyer told the station.
One customer in Hampton, Pa., said she received $4 change on a bill of $15.51 instead of receiving $4.49 after paying with a $20 bill, KDKA reported. A restaurant employee simply withheld the remaining 49 cents, she claimed.
Another customer, in Pine, Pa., received $11 change on a bill of $8.72 instead of receiving $11.28 after paying with a $20 bill, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported.
“What we’ve learned is that they are telling people after they order their food and give their money to the cashier that they don’t have any change so they are not going to be able to give you the change,” Salpietro continued.
He added that he thinks the restaurant will use the so-called national coin shortage as an excuse, but he said that he isn't buying that.
“I understand that the pandemic is affecting all of us,” Salpietro added. “But that doesn’t give Chipotle the license to line its own pockets at the expense of consumers, particularly when you hide behind a coin shortage to justify taking more money than you should.”
Such actions can hurt customers who are struggling to make ends meet, according to KDKA.
There was no immediate response from the restaurant chain.
I don't see this ending well for the Mexican grill.
Panda Express tried that with me the other day. Only it was not for charity. It was simply them taking extra money.
Home Alone in New York!................
We stopped eating at Panda Express when they downsized their take-out clam shell boxes but not the prices..............
Fine. Next time you go, and the bill is 10.65 give them 10 and say that you don’t have any change.
I’ve found that if you launch into a laundry list of the reasons why you choose not to support that charity the cashier will back-down pretty quickly.
Oh, that's easy. I just say "Nope"
While I agree that keeping the change without permission is wrong, the above statement is pure bovine excrement. If they’re that broke, they don’t need Chipotle to begin with.
That being said, Firehouse Subs asks if I’d like to donate my change to their charity for first responders by rounding up. It’s actually itemized on the receipt.
Round down...
Chipotle is a “Mexican grill”. That’s about like calling Blake Shelton and Georgia Florida line “Country music”.
I just noticed that Michael Bolton had the Navy Seals poster in his work cubicle as well as in his apartment.
Regarding the coin shortage, maybe the Deep State is trying to train/manipulate us toward going cashless. The drug dealers and the shadow economy won’t be happy!
>>>How can you say ‘no’ when the cashier looks at you with a big fake smile on her face and says “Would you like to round up for Children with leukemia?”...............
Oh, that’s easy. I just say “Nope”<<<
I would probably say yes, but only because I have Leukemia. #;^)
That never made sense to me. If the bars and restaurants are closed and the vending machines aren't being used, I would expect the owners to deposit all the cash they have in a bank rather than keep it on site. Maybe some vending machines are trapped in closed businesses, but other than that I expect closed businesses would mean more cash in the banks.
My first programming job for a bank in Nashville involved changing the code to round up pennies for the bank.
To condition the sheeple to accept the end of cash. The powers that be realized how easily the sheeple rolled over for shut-downs and masks. You can’t track cash, but you can track EVERYTHING when cards are used.
Kroger, Ralph’s here and Smith’s when I’m in Arizona are supposed to scan a barcode on the register that will deposit the change to your card. If they don’t scan it, you get screwed. I had a long talk with the manager about it and she handed me a $5 for my trouble.
I also told her that they should kick the CoinStar machine to the curb, give every customer something for every 5 or 10 bucks worth of coins, such as a couple of free oranges or apples, and the problem would be solved. This is a BS problem invented by the same tyrants that have effed-up everything else.
That was supposed to read “club card”.
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