Customer nightmare of the week II: Stiffed on appearance
Apparently, the last bastion of dead-tree-based communication is the POS-printed guest tab. As we’ve reported before, restaurant staffs have a tendency to use the paper slips to note unflattering attributes of the customer as a visual reference point for servers and runners. This week brought proof that insulting observations flow the other way, too.
A waitress at a Zombie Burger in Des Moines, Iowa, was reportedly stiffed on her tip because of a customer’s conviction, duly noted on the tab, that “tips are only for normal looking people.” The server had dyed her hair pink and wore a nose ring.
The customer must have thought a place with a zombie theme would only hire waitresses in pigtails, bobs and pixie cuts.