So, many things wrong with this story.
Was a group of 8 people, (apparently, 18% was mandatory for parties over 6ppl). The total bill was $73 which included food, drinks, and tax. The unpaid “tip” was $16.35 which is actually 22.4% (don’t know how that happened).
The service was apparently terrible.http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SmartSpending/blog/page.aspx?post=1393099&_blg=1,1393099 " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Calling the police for $18 is rather ridiculous and killing mosquito with a cannon.
Here in US, I feel like I am paying the waiter’s salary, like if I was his employer. This ain’t right.
Often, the tip doesn’t even go to the person you want to reward for good service:
http://www.calaborlaw.com/2009/07/31/tip-pooling-–-can-my-employer-take-my-tips-and-how-2/
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The whole system stinks.
Wow, I hope that the person who called the police is fired and that the restaurant loses a whole heckuva lot of business.
I would suspect that this has already happened…well, hopefully it’s happened.