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Originally Posted by squiggs96
As a guy who spent 8 years in the restaurant industry, both in back and front of house, I can say I've never paid one cent for a dine and dash. I've worked at chain restaurants and one off steakhouses. I've only had two D&Ds personally in my time. One was written off to a promo tab. The other was caught on camera, and he was a regular at Moxie's Chinook. He came back in within a week, was presented with the bill and paid for the drinks before he could start a new tab that day. I've also never had to contribute to any other servers who had a D&D. They are a cost of doing business, similar to burnt food, expired food and/or spilled liquor. The management and the staff take steps to avoid D&Ds, but they do happen. Even if you take every precaution, a guy can slip away when you're at another table. If it continues to happen to one server, that's a problem, but no restaurant would want the publicity over a dismissal, constructive or regular, for a server not paying a D&D.
Many managers will talk tough, but if you rationally explain what they're doing is illegal, they can be brought around to your view point. They usually don't want a call or visit from Employment Standards. I've never had a problem standing up for my employment rights. If the company was that bad to work for, luckily there are hundreds of other restaurants that want capable employees. I also don't know why you'd want to work at a place that would treat you like that, since there are so many other places to work in that industry.
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Dine and dashes are so rare, at least with the bars I know of, that they aren't worth mentioning with how well an employer treats an employee. How tips are handled should be a much bigger concern and maybe since the employees are treated so well with the bars that I know of, putting up with that one dine and dash that they might see in 10 years of working there is worth it. And I'm not suggesting that a manager or owner places a gun to someones head until the money is paid, but there's an unwritten rule that you don't come up short, at least everywhere I know about. I'm sure if a server caused a stink the manager wouldn't push the issue, but then the next favour isn't coming your way either.
And again, maybe it's cause it's Moxie's that you weren't "pressured" when it happened. Either way, based on what I know as 100% fact there's a chance that a server is picking up part or all of that bill so Dine and Dashers are especially scum.