I am eating out last night at Village Inn. I sat down with my wife and they changed the menus. They removed my favorite dish from the menu of course. So, no big deal, I found something else to eat on the menu. It is free pie Wednesdays. You get a free piece of pie with your meal. The waitress serving us takes our order and then asks us for our preference in pie, I tell her my usual which is pumkin and she says they can’t do that on the free pie day. So, I order apple pie and I proceed to tell the waitress that I would like it to go. She tells me that the pie has to be eaten inside the restaurant, those are the rules. I tell her that I had been eating there for over a year and since this special has been going on that I have been getting the pie to go. She says she can’t do it and that she will get in trouble. I let it slide and tell her no problem I will eat it in the restaurant. I do retail for a living and one of my more unreasonable customers would lose their minds if they couldn’t get it their way. I wouldn’t have even brought it up, I would have let it slide if I were her because it could potentially affect her tip.
My thought process is this: I am not at a buffet restaurant where I can see taking food home from the buffet would be against their rules. I am only getting one piece of pie and I would like to take it to go to eat it in front of the TV when I get home. What’s the big deal? If someone can explain this to me I would appreciate it. Thanks
