That is why Mrs. Anderson asked for the receipt, and instead of one, she was handed a customer copy, instead of a merchant receipt.
“Our server filled out the blank customer copy of the receipt and threw our merchant copy away!” Whitney posted. “She forged a signature that isn’t even my name and tipped herself $10 extra. All the manager is doing is working on getting my $10 back and could take up to a week. I’m so angry that a server did this and who knows how many times she’s done this and stole money from customers!”
And she had every right to be mad. And it turned out that this was not the first time for that waitress. Actually, by further investigation, Mrs. Anderson found out that her waitress had been fired from several previous jobs because of the same crime. And she was furious because of that.
When the local news station found out about the problem, they started reporting about it, and with those reports came an apology – the restaurant’s apology. The management gave Mrs. Anderson a cash refund the next day.
And yeah, Whitney was happy to receive her money back, but she wanted to share the entire story with others. This types of scams happen all the time.
In order to protect yourself from this kind of scams, you should fill out your customer copy, even if you don’t feel like doing that. That is the only way you can stop waitress fill it with some false info. And, also, have your bank or credit card company, inform you every time you get charged for something or/and there is any kind of activity on your bank account.
Don’t let anyone scam you.
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