Customer nightmare of the week: ‘You smiling at me?’
What better way to celebrate Mom on her special day than by turning her Mother’s Day meal into a saloon brawl right out of a 1940s western? That, according to the videos, was exactly what happened at Kiku, a Japanese restaurant in East Point, Ga., on Sunday. The flashpoint: A waiter smiled at a patron after smoothing over a dispute about the check.
The guest, who has not yet been identified nor apprehended, apparently took the smile as a dash of condescension and punched the server. The rest of the staff (minus the chef, who kept cooking) raced to their co-worker’s defense, prompting four other people at the offended customer’s table to counterattack.
Soon, tables, chairs, food and carts were flying—causing $5,000 worth of damage, according to Kiku. The party of five at the center of the melee slipped out and ran. The police are still trying to locate them.