u/Straight-Offer1011

I work at a sit down breakfast place as a waitress and multiple times per week we will have people walk in with drinks (mostly coffees) from other businesses nearby and try to eat at our restaurant. I feel like our policy is pretty nice cause what we do is tell them « please don’t bring outside food or drinks, we can make an exception for this time but please don’t do it again ». I think a lot of places would just tell them to throw it away. But I don’t understand why you would think to come in with outside drinks ?? Except maybe bottled water but even then… Is there other restaurants that accept this ? I feel like it’s pretty obvious that you shouldn’t do it just like you wouldn’t walk into a movie theater with your own popcorn

I work in a breakfast restaurant, it’s a franchise so it is a big chain but it doesn’t mean that the owners at this specific one are super rich. For Christmas they set up a box with lots of little cheap toys and we would offer one to every kid that came in. The owners didn’t have to do that by company policy, they just wanted to do something nice for customers.

So this lady comes in with a 3/4 year old girl, I show the little girl the box and tell her she can choose whatever toy she wants just like we do for every kid. I then put the box back inside a drawer of the front desk (where we put menus and stuff at the front of the restaurant).

This woman gets up (while I’m not looking), opens the drawer, gets the box and gives her daughter EVERY TOY in the box. When I walked by a little while later and gave her a confused look, she tells me that she’s just playing with them for now and will give them back after… I tell her that she’s can’t do that because 1. Now any kid that comes in can’t be offered a full choice of toys cause they are all at their table and 2. It’s not hygienic for a kid to play with a bunch of toys and for us to offer them to other kids after…

She kind of ignored me and didn’t do anything. I was busy and didn’t have time to deal with that so I let them be for a bit but at the end of the meal I nicely asked the girl what toy she wanted to keep and put the rest back in the box. The mom gives me a dirty look and proceeds to tip 2$ on a 70$ bill (I know it’s cause of that cause she came before and left a standard 15% tip).

Now they came back to eat 5 months later and won’t be served by me because apparently I’m rude because I wanted to give other kids the same opportunity as her daughter to choose a toy…

It’s not because you don’t know how to say no to your kid that you need to force a business that wants to do something nice for every kid to only do it for your kid…