Alcoholic

個阿婆既心態似："係丫，我冇錢架喇，你咪罵囉，碗麵我都食完囉。。。"
個阿婆冇蝕架喎，碗麵都落左肚lu....

i think the solution is very simple. stealing ---> call police
police will check ID, have power to escort her to police station/or the 阿婆's home to find $ to pay back.

it's not the amount of the value of goods that's the matter. the fact is, eat without pay is stealing.

Ultraman

kaimui22:
I think we just have different pov, nothing personal.
Well, of course I agree customer's responsibility is to agree for the charge and make order and then pay for it; and the restaurant's duty is to carry out the corresponding service as well as the food in corresponding quality. This only based on "no accident happened". (but the world isn't that simple as always)
If to say customer should bear the responsibility to solve this kind of problem (no money to pay after food is eaten), how if that 亞婆 says "OK, let's call the police." Then the restaurant staff should follow her will and then really call up police just for the $13 eat-and-run case? Yes, she can do that, yet what will happen next? Police takes them all to police station and open a file, and then wait until the court date.... etc? I'm not laughing at anybody, but I doubt this is going to happen lor. Actually 亞婆 did offer a solution, she said she'll come back to pay. Yet she didn't say she will leave anything as "deposit" and trade it back when she come pays later. But to face this offer, should the restaurant staff accept? As your pov, the answer should be positive? Then 亞婆 really already did her part (give an offer to solve the problem), why the restaurant staff still feeling unfair and angry?

"You shouldn't need to be waiting for the other party (the受害者) to offer a solution." Well, not always fit into every situation. For example, a customer order a dish of pork and he doesn't eat beef at all. The plate comes out a dish of beef instead of pork, then the waitress apologizes and offer a 50% discount on the bill. If you were the customer (obviously the victim), would you take the offer and go for the beef? In this case, the customer can ask for a change to pork without any unnecessary discount instead of eating unwanted beef. Don't you consider it as a better and fairer deal?

小豆

最後尾其他staffs好似話呢個丫婆已經唔係第一次喎

yungfourfour

That "ah je" just yell at her for $13 without calling police... there must be reason ge
Look at the way she wears, and she sounded she's gonna cry
no matter how the "ah je" say she's 100% right
what will you do when you have no $$ and you need food?

in HK, not long ago, A guy stole a pot of milk powder in "wai hong" for his baby, the manager called police, he went to the top of the building, jumped off and die.  The manager is still 100% right, but how does that make you feel as a listener? or as if you are that manager?

Compare to countless bumps who ask for money for drugs
I won't be too mean on ppl when all they need is food

[ 本帖最後由 yungfourfour 於 2008-4-7 15:45 編輯 ]

kaimui22

原帖由 小豆 於 2008/4/6 10:23 PM 發表
最後尾其他staffs好似話呢個丫婆已經唔係第一次喎

yes i rewatched the video and one of the other staff tells the waitress that the old lady has eaten and not paid before...about a month ago.

So..she is a repeat offender. there must be reason why she keeps eating without paying but she probably also knows she'll get away with it since it's such a small amount..

sigh.

Littleprince

原帖由 yungfourfour 於 2008-4-7 15:40 發表
That "ah je" just yell at her for $13 without calling police... there must be reason ge
Look at the way she wears, and she sounded she's gonna cry
no matter how the "ah je" say she's 100% right
what w ...

我同你睇法一樣。。。

sigh... 唔係話鼓勵D人食霸王野﹐只係成日會記起好耐之前看過的話﹕

有時對錯無錯係好重要﹐但仁慈更為重要。。。

Ultraman

"有時對錯無錯係好重要﹐但仁慈更為重要。。"
Well, I don't quite agree on this (not on all cases).
People open the door to do business, customers can't just take it for granted and abused the owner's mercy and then try to eat for free! Once they let one eat-and-run person go, everyone can come and do the same. If the owners have mercy & passion and set a day to 派米派飯 to those poor is a different story lor.

大C姐

講句公道說話﹐點都係個阿SIM唔岩﹐但係真係無錢俾咪叫拒打電話或者列入黑明單囉。

打開門口做呢D街坊生意﹐好話唔好聽﹐遇左呢D白撞架啦。唔係話助長呢D人﹐但係企嚮道鬧人十幾分鐘都無補於事架﹗喺其他食客面前大大聲鬧﹐俾我就走左人﹐食都無味啦﹗

news

i must say ar poh was very successful of eating without paying..all she needed to do was standing there and getting scold yet...no big deal to her since she ate already..haha

siumaibb

These things happen any day in any where of the world, 睇完咪算....