'Your date just stole all the tips your friends left for me': Server gets back at prom kid for taking all the tip money from group hibachi dinner

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    Joint - Prom Thief
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    Font - Terrible prom kid Medium For two years, I worked for a hibachi restaurant where I was there go to server for big parties. The corporate policy was a max of 15 guests for server, but I was allowed up to 30.
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    Font - This was sometimes great. Rehearsal dinners and office holiday parties would sometimes tip an extra hundred to get another round of drinks after last call or arrange for their taxis. The problem was prom.
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    Font - Every weekend in May, I would have a big party of kids who made me miserable and barely tipped. The last such table motivated my transition into fine dining.
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    Font - It was your typical 10 or so couples, all dolled up for prom. Their meal went about as expected, and most of them paid in cash. After they paid, some people went to the bathroom and the rest gathered near the restaurant entrance.
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    Font - I went back to the table to gather receipts and tips, and one of the guys was taking all the cash off the table! He saw me coming, grabbed the last tip, and took off. He ran through his group and out the door. I followed him out, but I couldn't see him in the parking lot.
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    Font - Frustrated, I walked back inside and spotted his date coming out of the bathroom. I went right up to her. "Do you know you're dating a thief?" She looked confused. "Your date just stole all the tips your friends left for me. He's hiding in the parking lot."
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    Font - She turned bright red, apologized, and charged out the door after him. I never saw my tips, but I take solace in the fact that he probably had a prom night after that. I hope the girl left him and danced with other guys, and I hope she told the whole group what he did.
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    Font - Edit: I love all your suggestions of what I should have done. You are all probably right. Back then (2017) I was barely out of college, had plentiful experience of dine&dashers, and had about 10% of the confidence I have now. I just hope enough servers are reading this and do more than I did.
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    Font - Goblinand Beast 21 hr. ago Best part is you know she told the entire friend group so he got to spend the entire night getting made fun of. Serves him right. 399 Reply Share
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    Font - LessGoooo 21 hr. ago Or she said "My date grabbed all the cash! Let's get my/your/our older friend/brother/sister to buy us alcohol!" 4 224 Reply Share
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    Rectangle - Goblinand Beast 20 hr. ago I forgot teenagers are awful. 4 116 Reply Share
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    Font - Zom 15 hr. ago I'm pissed off for you. I would've followed them out to the parking lot, like I would've followed his date out there. That's just straight theft. I'd get the manager involved if necessary, cause then there's a good chance they'd be blacklisted at least from that location on top of it. Plus you'd get those tippies back. people like this tho, fr. I hope he ends up with a job one day and people do him dirty like this. Karma is a I've been told. 90 or so Reply Share
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    Font - SelkieButFeline 19 hr. ago Oh no. I would have been livid pissed. I AM livid pissed on your behalf. As a waitron..i don't even know what I would do in this situation...but the solutions popping into my head are uniformly unpleasant. 76 Reply Share
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    Font - Carl_In_Charge. 15 hr. ago I would've called the cops and made them show up at the prom to drag his out in cuffs. And pressed charges against his date for aiding and abetting/conspiracy.
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    Rectangle - GardenGood2Grow 15 hr. ago If you know what school they go to you can call him out for stealing to the administrators 30 Reply Share
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    Font - The_Sanch1128. 14 hr. ago I hope you announced this not just to his date, but to anyone within shouting distance. And that someone gave you his name, his parent's names, and their phone number. "Ms. IRAisedAThief? Hi, it's Cheri at the restaurant where your spawn, his date, and his friends had dinner tonight before the prom. Would you mind telling it that his server would like him to return the tips he stole off the tables tonight? Thanks so much!"
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    Font - The next day or so will tell you whether he was raised to be a or whether he got that way on his own. 20 Reply Share

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