I work in the restaurant business. The amount of people that show up at last call and expect to be treated to full service for another hour or more is outrageous. It happens literally every night. There is no shortage of entitled asshats out there.
this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2023
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Yeah, I'm always cautious showing up within 30 minutes of closing time and always ask if the kitchen is still open or if its not too late to get X (usually try for something easy to make).
If its within 15 minutes of closing time I just consider it closed
Yup. Worked at a restaurant way back in the day and yeah so many people come in minutes before closing and expected full service, which we always gave them because we couldn't afford not to, but shit is it ever annoying. Plus most of these last minute stragglers were never good tippers and were almost always the most entitled people.
"couldn't afford not to?" guarantee the restaurant was losing money by staying open to serve those customers. The hourly wage of the waiters, cooks, dishwashers, everyone except maybe the hostess, is all going to cost more than anything a single table could possibly order
Not every restaurant is a corporate chain restaurant there and no, we couldn't afford to turn these customers away.
If you think about it, corporate chain restaurants are much less likely to lose money on that than small individual places, everything in a corporate chain is cheap and designed for efficiency. If a small, locally-owned place is gonna stay open an extra hour for one table, they're practically guaranteed to lose more money than a corporate chain.
Even worse is having a manager who insists we stop cleaning, open the kitchen back up, and make them whatever they want, along with the other people who show up after close because "there's still people here".
"Can't turn away business!" They say, as the restaurant hemorrhages labor expenses so that a late-night drunken deuce can split an app and a burger.
I share the common sentiment of disliking corporate coffee shops, but this individual seems to have misunderstood the courtesy aspect. It's actually Starbucks that's providing the courtesy, not this self-centered douchebag.
That's what she's saying, she doesn't have to ask because SB offers it as a courtesy.
For customers who were already in line before closing time.
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Isn't that to serve people who are already in the lane at closing time?
Not often in favour of corps, but it is a bit entitled to knowingly arrive after a places closing time to try to take advantage of that courtesy.
At this point it's not about corporations, it's about how much we expect corporations to exploit their workers for our convenience.
That's pretty much the exact situation they're describing. They were in line before closing, but were 1 minute after closing by the time they actually got far enough up in line to place their order.
Sounds to me like they got in line at 8:01 and it took them 7 minutes to make it to order, ie they were still inside the 10 minute "window". At no point do they say they arrived before closing.
Not to defend this person, but I took it as they were stuck in line behind the other 2 cars and couldn’t get out so they had to not order but then wait for the other cars in front of them to get finished before they could leave. Which is frustrating, but no reason to give 1 star for people who are just trying to go home close to when they’re actually supposed to be able to.
They didn't say that though. They said they got in the drive through line at 08:01, which would have already been past closing. They knew what they were doing, and the employees were clearly having none of that
That 8:01 part is probably a lie, as well. More like 8:10.
Won’t be back to this one.
Wait. No. Come back…
Too many people seem to think that being a customer at a company makes you the boss of the employees who work there.
These people need to get a grip and learn a little bit of self responsibility. The opening hours are posted, likely on the business doors, on their website, on their google page, multiple delivery app pages, etc. It takes like 5 seconds max to look at just one of those options. If you can't be bothered to even take those 5 seconds to at least look, it's on you if they're closed.
I hate the entitlement too. These posts always come off like "MY order is more important that anything else in your life. Someone went out of their eay to be kind to me here before, so now the entire staff owe that to me, every single time. I didn't get my way today, so I'm going to try to damage the reputation of the entire business".
Yeah lady, I'm sure they're going to miss customers that can't follow direction, take self accountability, or show empathy, while also expecting the schedules of the entire shift to be bent in their interest. Totally.
I worked at Starbucks for way too many years. I have never heard of a “10 minute rule”. That’s absolute nonsense.
I have a 15 minute rule. Unless unavoidable I don't go to any establishment if they are closing within 15 minutes. Why bother them as they are trying to get out of work and go home. Especially restaurants.
gets to restaurant after closing
restaurant is closed
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Reminds me of my dad yelling at a dude at sears because they no longer carried his brand of pants. To be fair, I guess he did get the last laugh being that sears is dead. Starbucks will outlive humanity.
Too dumb to back out…why would you wait behind all of the people who got in line when the store was open? 😂