'You're closed, we don't have to pay': Karen customers refuse to pay because they stayed after closing due to eggs Benedict brouhaha

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    Group of Karen's try to skip out on restaurant bill over hollandaise sauce OC The place I work at is a hole in the wall restaurant in a really small farming town. Think of Dog River from the show Corner Gas and it describes the vibe of the place. The outside is pretty run down since the upstairs tenants are car farmers so there is broken down cars all over the property. The food is really good and it has become the meeting place for a lot of locals mostly farmers and old timers. The interior of
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    So we get a group of 3 middle aged women come in and they are instantly complaining about the outside of the place being messy and run down looking. I guess they are from a nearby city and saw that our restaurant has excellent reviews on Google and they wanted to try the place out. The server kindly told them that the restaurant has no control over what the outside of the place looks like made a "Its a good thing you don't have to eat outside" joke and the women got offended and complained that
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    They all ordered eggs benedict and one of them asked for it to be made without hollandaise sauce. They also complained about service being slow but given that we where pretty slammed that day and we only have one cook we where doing our best. The lady that wanted no hollandaise sauce then came to the counter and rudely told us to add hollandaise sauce but she wa ted it on side because she wasn't sure if she liked it. We offered
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    to let her sample some but she refused. Once their food was served she tired to send back the sauce but the server told her that we couldn't take if off the bill because we can't serve that sauce to someone else. She complained but the server stuck to her guns and told her next time try the sample when its offered if she isn't sure if she likes something. We will usually let people sample stuff so this exact scenario doesn't happen.
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    It was close to closing so stopped serving new customers and we started doing our closing duties. We did not stop serving people who where already there however. The women all of a sudden got up and left without and we realized they hadn't paid yet. The server chased them outside and told them they forgot to pay. They told the server than since we closed while we where serving them they thought that they didn't have to pay. The server told them to pay and they told the server that since the holl
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    bill they weren't paying. The server told them once again they had to pay for the food they ordered and since there was nothing wrong with the sauce it was not coming off the bill. The server threatened to call the police if they didn't pay and if they left she would record their licence plate and they would be banned from the restaurant as well. They reluctantly paid and of course didn't tip. I still don't understand how they thought they could have gotten away without paying. They kept saying
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    hackedMama20 - 11 hr. ago You closed so we don't have to pay.....what?! That's not even almost logical. 839 Dontpanicarthurdent 8 hr. ago restaurants hate this one secret ... trick! Reply Share 281 Reply Share
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    rlynotmyotheraccount 7 hr. ago "my grandma uses it every day, and sells out, now they can't get enough" 65 Reply Share 306 motherofredfox OP 11 hr. ago I think they where mad that we had the audacity to close the restaurant when they where there. Our business hours are 7am-2pm because we have 1 cook. ●●● Reply Share
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    Carlos Fer2201 - 9 hr. ago A group of Karens is called a 'complaint'. Reply Share 295 code-panda 9 hr. ago . A *small group. A larger group is called a home owners association. 194 Reply Share
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    the_popes_fapkin. 10 hr. ago I would have auto-grat them for 15% There's a time and a place to put that on the bill. 115 Reply Share Jordann1963 hr. ago Definitely!!!! With how they acted, it was obvious that there weren't going to tip. What horrible, evil . If that's how they act, I feel so bad for their families. 15 Reply Share
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    Snoo33903 11 hr. ago Karens live in their own world. That's why when the real world affects them they lose their ever loving minds. Reply Share 219 motherofredfox OP. 11 hr. ago yep and everyone should cater to their every need. It doesn't matter that we only have 1 cook and she's been there since 5am and she's exhausted and needs to go home and rest. 89 Reply Share
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    heili - 9 hr. ago Part of this is confusing to me. Was there an additional charge for the hollandaise sauce because it was on the side? Why would the sauce that normally comes on eggs Benedict be a separate charge if it's put on the side? Reply Share 34 motherofredfox OP. 4 hr. ago We deducted the cost from the order and then we added it back on after she asked for it on the side ↑ 16 ↓ Reply Share
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    ThreeDogs2022 · 11 hr. ago eggs benedict without hollandaise? that's like asking for a PB & J, but hold the peanut butter and jelly ROFL Reply Share 42 Specialist_Ad_9555 - 9 hr. ago I'm pretty sure that without the sauce, it is an egg mcmuffin Reply Share 33
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    brianna1981 9 hr. ago . Who doesn't like hollandaise sauce? 10 Reply Share 69Liters 8 hr. ago I don't care for it so I never order eggs Benedict, problem solved. Reply Share

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