Calgary dine and dasher in the news

[4X4]

Originally Posted by J pold

This is kind of crappy thing for the restaurant to do. For example, we a had a new guy start with us from CBRE (are biggest competitor) and he looks exactly and I mean EXACTLY like the guy in this picture. I’m not sure if it was jokingly or not but the MD from CBRE sends my MD an email with the subject “Nice hire” and a link to the article. New guy gets pulled into a boardroom and asked if it was him. He basically has a panic attack and swears it wasn’t him but they look so similar there is still doubt in some people’s eyes. So he goes down to restaurant and asks to the speak to manager, has the manager call my MD and tell him that it wasn’t him.

Everything is a good now but the poor guy could have lost his job and had a mild heart attack so that this restaurant could try recover a couple hundred dollar bill from some hipster.

Hold on, how are you giving the restaurant heat for posting a pic of the guy that ripped them off? How is that a crappy thing for them to do? They got ripped off, and they're posting a pic of the guy that did it. It's not their fault that some people look similar. The person who did something crappy (besides the dine and dasher) is the guy that sent the "nice hire" email.

[Wormius]

If you're going to successfully dine & dash, the trick is to ask for a glass of water. The wait staff will immediately forget about you, and you can slip away all stealth-like.

[puckluck2]

Originally Posted by 4X4

Hold on, how are you giving the restaurant heat for posting a pic of the guy that ripped them off? How is that a crappy thing for them to do? They got ripped off, and they're posting a pic of the guy that did it. It's not their fault that some people look similar. The person who did something crappy (besides the dine and dasher) is the guy that sent the "nice hire" email.

And besides, if you resemble the hipster in the picture you probably deserve to be fired.

[SeeBass]

Originally Posted by J pold

This is kind of crappy thing for the restaurant to do. For example, we a had a new guy start with us from CBRE (are biggest competitor) and he looks exactly and I mean EXACTLY like the guy in this picture. I’m not sure if it was jokingly or not but the MD from CBRE sends my MD an email with the subject “Nice hire” and a link to the article. New guy gets pulled into a boardroom and asked if it was him. He basically has a panic attack and swears it wasn’t him but they look so similar there is still doubt in some people’s eyes. So he goes down to restaurant and asks to the speak to manager, has the manager call my MD and tell him that it wasn’t him.

Everything is a good now but the poor guy could have lost his job and had a mild heart attack so that this restaurant could try recover a couple hundred dollar bill from some hipster.

So do you have a problem when stores post notices of who has written them bad cheques on their wall?

[CaramonLS]

Originally Posted by Table 5

Not to get into semantics here, but I don't think this guy is a hipster. And I say that as someone who used to live right next to the nexus of the hipster universe: Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The stereotypical hipster (at the current moment) I know weights 85 pounds, has a civil-war era beard, collects designer axes because thinks he's an urban woodsman, and rides a fixie. He probably also wears a neon wife beater and Raybans while skateboarding.

But he doesn't wear a baggy oversized suit and Chuck Taylors.

I'm not sure what this guy is, but he's got more of a hobo-dufus-trying to be suave in my dads suit-kind of vibe.

Or he just might be from Saskatchewan.

They're a little different here - not all of them have beards, but generally some of the key features is fake horned rimmed glasses, skinny jeans, v-necks and some obscure sleeve tattoo. **May or may not wear a touque during non-winter weather.

Work attire almost always includes some sort of argyle sweater vest and decent shoes which don't quite look right with whatever they are wearing.

[Boblobla]

Originally Posted by SeeBass

So do you have a problem when stores post notices of who has written them bad cheques on their wall?

I have a problem with people writing cheques...

[19Yzerman19]

Originally Posted by Table 5

Not to get into semantics here, but I don't think this guy is a hipster. I'm not sure what this guy is, but he's got more of a hobo-dufus-trying to be suave in my dads suit-kind of vibe. Or he just might be from Saskatchewan.

Thank you. ITT: silly Calgarians don't know what a hipster is. "Chucks? Glasses? MUST BE A HIPSTER."

[jammies]

Hipsters, like ice cream*, come in many flavours. The identifying mark is not dress, but attitude. Self-obsessed? Inordinately proud of being uselessly obscure? Painfully naive while attempting to seem worldly? Fashion sense of a crack-addled hobo? Hipster.

Just because the Calgary version has a different uniform, doesn't mean they aren't hipsters. The menace is everywhere.

*except ice cream, unlike hipsters, has objective worth

[J pold]

Originally Posted by 4X4

Hold on, how are you giving the restaurant heat for posting a pic of the guy that ripped them off? How is that a crappy thing for them to do? They got ripped off, and they're posting a pic of the guy that did it. It's not their fault that some people look similar. The person who did something crappy (besides the dine and dasher) is the guy that sent the "nice hire" email.

I agree what the other MD did was a dick move. I guess I don't have a ton sympathy for a successful high-end restaurant getting dined and dashed. It happens, it's part of the industry, you take your lumps and move on. I'm not on board with them inundating everyone in the city with their issue and making people guilty by visual association.

[J pold]

Originally Posted by SeeBass

So do you have a problem when stores post notices of who has written them bad cheques on their wall?

No. They are appealing to a local audience and people who actually come to the store, not writing articles online.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by J pold

I agree what the other MD did was a dick move. I guess I don't have a ton sympathy for a successful high-end restaurant getting dined and dashed. It happens, it's part of the industry, you take your lumps and move on. I'm not on board with them inundating everyone in the city with their issue and making people guilty by visual association.

What the hell are you talking about?

Muse Restaurant and Lounge tweeted a photo of the guy caught on their security camera who didn't pay, it's a modern day equivalent of posting his picture up in their place. After that photo was tweeted two other restaurants noticed the same guy had done the same thing to them, that's when CTV made it into a story.

[J pold]

Originally Posted by fotze

What planet are you on?

The planet where the only thing cooler then dining and dashing, is latte sipping and driving a Volvo.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by jammies

Hipsters, like ice cream*, come in many flavours.

It just seems like lately on CP, everyone is accused of being a hipster. Ride a bike? Hipster! Wear glasses? Hipster! You live in an area that I don't live in? Hipster! Have the gaul to drink beer from places that are known for beer? Hipster! Don't think Tim Hortons is good enough? Hipster! Wear a suit? Hipster! Don't wear a suit? Hipster! You live downtown? Hipster! You don't work downtown? Hipster! Don't have a collection of 50 polos for casual fridays? Hipster!

It's starting to sound like some bitter grandpa who thinks everyone who isn't exactly like them thinks is a dirty hippie. When everyone is a hipster, nobody is a hipster.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Table 5 is a New York hipster, always pointing out the real hipsters are in New York.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

Table 5 is a New York hipster, always pointing out the real hipsters are in New York.

Don't make me choke you with my scarf.

[J pold]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

What the hell are you talking about?

Muse Restaurant and Lounge tweeted a photo of the guy caught on their security camera who didn't pay, it's a modern day equivalent of posting his picture up in their place. After that photo was tweeted two other restaurants noticed the same guy had done the same thing to them, that's when CTV made it into a story.

Oh. My understanding was that they contacted CTV and requested the article be posted. Forget what I said, nothing to see here.

[pylon]

Use the word hipster in one post 13 times? Hipster!

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by J pold

Oh. My understanding was that they contacted CTV and requested the article be posted. Forget what I said, nothing to see here.

News agencies get contacted about possible stories all day every day, CTV thought it was an interesting story, especially when it happens to multiple places, and ran with it. Fairly normal stuff.

[Addick]

Originally Posted by Table 5

It just seems like lately on CP, everyone is accused of being a hipster. Ride a bike? Hipster! Wear glasses? Hipster! You live in an area that I don't live in? Hipster! Have the gaul to drink beer from places that are known for beer? Hipster! Don't think Tim Hortons is good enough? Hipster! Wear a suit? Hipster! Don't wear a suit? Hipster! You live downtown? Hipster! You don't work downtown? Hipster! Don't have a collection of 50 polos for casual fridays? Hipster!

It's starting to sound like some bitter grandpa who thinks everyone who isn't exactly like them thinks is a dirty hippie. When everyone is a hipster, nobody is a hipster.

We need a term for these title abusers.

[TheyCallMeBruce]

I'd say he's a hipster. He dined and dashed before dining and dashing was hip