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Originally Posted by Skid Row Joe
Link to story please?
I'm just not buying this story could be true, as written.
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I watched it on TV, on one of the alphabet soup news channels - CNN, MSNBC, or FOX - don't remember which, sometime late last year.
Could be there's more to the story than meets the eye, but when all they gave it was a scant 20 or 30 seconds as a filler or "man bites dog" piece....
Seems to me they indicated it wasn't just restaurant policy, but actually a local ordinance, requiring a mandatory tip. When the couple objected and refused to pay based on the service, and then attempted to leave the premises without paying said tip, was when the manager called the local gendarme and they were busted for violating a town ordinance. They actually used the term "taken into custody".
Could be the couple were just obnoxious a-holes that wouldn't have left a tip to begin with, or simply tried to scam their way out of paying altogether by raising a fuss and claiming the service and food was terrible, and when the manager didn't buy the BS and they tried skipping out, they got nailed. And when the media picks it up as a human interest piece, they put their own spin on it as the town and manager being a bunch of pricks and forcing people to pay for poor service.