Posted on 03/07/2024 9:13:03 PM PST by nickcarraway
“ Maybe it could reopen under a different name, perhaps “Amy’s Baking Company”.”
Great Gordon Ramsey reference.
It’s pretty common for high end places
Dining out is highly overrated
I don’t understand. The diner had travel insurance. Wouldn’t that cover the cancelation fee and pay the restaurant?
“his husband”
No. Nope. Not going there. No sympathy.
I have no problem with cancellation fees. People go to a lot of trouble to prepare for your arrival, and then you cancel at the last minute?
How would you like to be a business owner and you set up all day long for a customer, and he doesn’t show up? You still got to pay your workers you still have supplies that may go bad and be perishable. It’s not unreasonable
Another poorly written, nearly incomprehensible article based upon tweets, twoots, X’s and DMs (whatever they are), strung together in the name of modern journalism.
I remember when “his husband” was a grammatical error.
Stopped reading right there. Don't care.
That’s my take, exactly.
My business does custom work and we have non refundable deposits.
I am very sorry if something bad happened to you and you no longer need your custom apparel. I cannot sell it to anyone else. I have already spent hundreds of dollars in creating it, even if they are not finished - wholesale goods with 40% restocking charges, artist’s time, administrative costs, etc.
This is WHY there is a deposit...to protect the business should there be an unexpected cancellation.
Please remember the business is STILL going to lose money even if they kept the deposit. They are losing the expect profit from the transaction. The deposit is (hopefully) only covering the costs. Had these jokers not made the reservation and then cancelled it, some other customer would have been served that night and they would have made the profit off them. They LOST that profit they would have otherwise had.
So, in this case, the business owner got screwed out of the deposit that covered unretrievable costs AND the profit they would have made by serving someone else that night.
I’d be pissed too.
Lawyers get retainers. No lawyer will refund the retainer
The restaurant is not in the health insurance business. Anyone who can afford to eat at the restaurant can afford to lose the deposit and eat baked beans that night.
I paid my property tax last month using a physical check which I deposited In a USPS mailbox on a non-holiday Monday, the tax was due on Thursday. The tax official just billed me for a late fee, on the basis that the envelope with the check arrived with no postmark date. So one branch of the government, the USPS, failed to put a postmark on my letter, and another branch of government gives me a fine for the mistake of the USPS. If I told them I was in the hospital I guarantee they would tell me to pound sand.
The restaurant has a point, though she expressed it poorly, and the amount of the cancellation fee was ridiculous.
ROFLMAO
Stupid is as stupid does.
These so called “people” had to have the last word, and have now destroyed their business.
I kinda liked “rancer”. I’m gonna suggest it to Funk & Wagnalls for its new word list...along with “gonna” and “kinda”.
Elitist problems for elitist customers and elitist restaurant. Who cares?
rancer - cancer with an unplesant disposition.
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