Restaurant receipt lists customers as "Fat Girls"

[Anonymous]

Ok, yes, those women were obviously fat, but it was clearly horrifically rude for a server to refer to them that way on a check that would be given to them. Why on earth didn't the restaurant just comp their meal and apologize sincerly? The article said that the manger was smirking when he went to speak to them about it.

[Anonymous]

I don't think this is how they should conduct business. They should have numbers for the tables instead of describing the customers. But do those girls really not know they're fat. I'm fat! If someone called me that it would sting but the fact would still remain that I'm fat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think this is how they should conduct business. They should have numbers for the tables instead of describing the customers. But do those girls really not know they're fat. I'm fat! If someone called me that it would sting but the fact would still remain that I'm fat.

Exactly! I thought numbered tables is the accepted practice everywhere.
Plus, if you start describing customers, it might get too confusing - there might be more that one group of 'fat girls' or 'chink eyes' in the house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think this is how they should conduct business. They should have numbers for the tables instead of describing the customers. But do those girls really not know they're fat. I'm fat! If someone called me that it would sting but the fact would still remain that I'm fat.

Exactly! I thought numbered tables is the accepted practice everywhere.
Plus, if you start describing customers, it might get too confusing - there might be more that one group of 'fat girls' or 'chink eyes' in the house.

Fat and chink are not anywhere close to being equally offensive. Fat isn't a slur, it's the truth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think this is how they should conduct business. They should have numbers for the tables instead of describing the customers. But do those girls really not know they're fat. I'm fat! If someone called me that it would sting but the fact would still remain that I'm fat.

Exactly! I thought numbered tables is the accepted practice everywhere.
Plus, if you start describing customers, it might get too confusing - there might be more that one group of 'fat girls' or 'chink eyes' in the house.

Fat and chink are not anywhere close to being equally offensive. Fat isn't a slur, it's the truth.

I disagree (and, FWIW, I'm not overweight). Commenting on one's physical appearance in any way is offensive.

[Anonymous]

I laugh because when I was a bartender, I would put all sorts of funny things in there to remind me who the customer was like:

The Power Drinkers

Drinking with Baby

Boyfriends

Those Big Tippers

Now, almost everyone that came in was a repeat customer and I knew I wasn't stepping on any toes. This bartender took it a step too far, but "naming" people makes it easier to give good service.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think this is how they should conduct business. They should have numbers for the tables instead of describing the customers. But do those girls really not know they're fat. I'm fat! If someone called me that it would sting but the fact would still remain that I'm fat.

It is common to do this in a bar area where the bartender is serving tables and people at the bar. Especially, if there are high tops close to a long bar; the bar stools are dragged back and forth between the high tops and the bar, and numbering bar stools is then proven useless.

[Anonymous]

To those (smoking crack) who think labeling tickets with descriptions like fat is totally fine, what if you were the target of other subjective but perhaps truthful labels? Like bitch, bad dresser, crappy tipper, ugly girlfriend? It's the hospitality industry - treating your customers with basic respect is the bare minimum.

[Anonymous]

I'd initially assumed that it was a note to the bartender/server scrawled on top of a check that inadvertently got to the customers. But it was entered into the system, and the server KNEW the customers would see it? Wow.

At a minimum, some code would have been appropriate - perhaps "Queen Song"?

[Anonymous]

I think a bar that hilariously but truthfully labels their customers would be a tremendous success. Think of the publicity! Who cares how someone describes you? It is what it is. People need to get over themselves... I'm a fairly attractive girl but for the love of god, u know what My downfalls are and I dont cry about it.

Everywhere one goes, they are wig judged. Buck up and move on. Take it as a compliment that someone even noticed.

Sincerely,
Hook nose, big cleavage, frumpy, bad lipstick asian in green.

[Anonymous]

I'd say all is fair as long as the bartendar doesn't throw a fit when the "fat girls" write on the bill "Big Fat Zero Tip for the Loser Working the Bar."

[Anonymous]

Fat and Ugly Girls is more accurate in this case.

[Anonymous]

I have a new idea for a bar. You walk in and are handed a name tag not with your name, but with your moniker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jeff (the Jeff on the receipt, to be clear) is clearly not a rocket scientist. "Fat Girls"; Number of guests: 1??? Maybe his nametag should say Dumbass. Since he's so into descriptive labels and all.

What a jerk.

They also spell the plural of fry incorrectly. Frys instead of Fries.

[Anonymous]

Well, they were definitely were fat. And they were chicks. Neither word is obscene or racist. I wonder whether if the bill said "overweight women" people would have been as upset. Should they have been? If it said "hot chicks" they would not have complained, so obviously it's the factual assessment of them being "fat" that is bothersome. What if it said "thick chicks." People need to grow a pair.