I work in the restaurant business. The amount of people that show up at last call and expect to be treated to full service for another hour or more is outrageous. It happens literally every night. There is no shortage of entitled asshats out there.
Yeah, I'm always cautious showing up within 30 minutes of closing time and always ask if the kitchen is still open or if its not too late to get X (usually try for something easy to make).
If its within 15 minutes of closing time I just consider it closed
Yup. Worked at a restaurant way back in the day and yeah so many people come in minutes before closing and expected full service, which we always gave them because we couldn't afford not to, but shit is it ever annoying. Plus most of these last minute stragglers were never good tippers and were almost always the most entitled people.
Even worse is having a manager who insists we stop cleaning, open the kitchen back up, and make them whatever they want, along with the other people who show up after close because "there's still people here".
"Can't turn away business!" They say, as the restaurant hemorrhages labor expenses so that a late-night drunken deuce can split an app and a burger.
That's your fault. If you can't provide service, don't advertise that you're open. Any decent restaurant will provide full service to their last customers as if they were the first. If you want to be takeout only for the last hour, put it on your websites yelp, and Google maps, so people know before coming.
I share the common sentiment of disliking corporate coffee shops, but this individual seems to have misunderstood the courtesy aspect. It's actually Starbucks that's providing the courtesy, not this self-centered douchebag.
If there's no indication that it's closed, and no way out of the drive through after being told they're closed other than continuing, IMO it's totally reasonable to be upset.
Spoken like a entitled Karen.
It's not like businesses have their hours posted everywhere, I'm sure that this day and age is in their website too, and I'm sure all that info is also on Google maps or any other search engine/review site out there.
It's like there's plenty of information out there to plan things ahead of time and the lack of planning on the Karen's place isn't the small businesses problem and no it's not reasonable to be upset at the business with a scheduled closing time over your own lack of planning and leaving a Karen-esque review demanding service after the business is closed for the evening.
Meh, it's bad timing or bad luck but it's not the end of the world to just wait a few minutes for the cars in front of you to leave. I can understand being frustrated in the moment, but at some point you just have to cool off and accept that it is what it is. It's just a few extra minutes to you, but for the people inside, it could mean using equipment for your order that could otherwise be cleaned while the last few cars are serviced.
Isn't that to serve people who are already in the lane at closing time?
Not often in favour of corps, but it is a bit entitled to knowingly arrive after a places closing time to try to take advantage of that courtesy.
At this point it's not about corporations, it's about how much we expect corporations to exploit their workers for our convenience.
That's pretty much the exact situation they're describing. They were in line before closing, but were 1 minute after closing by the time they actually got far enough up in line to place their order.
Won’t be back to this one.
Wait. No. Come back…
Too many people seem to think that being a customer at a company makes you the boss of the employees who work there.
These people need to get a grip and learn a little bit of self responsibility. The opening hours are posted, likely on the business doors, on their website, on their google page, multiple delivery app pages, etc. It takes like 5 seconds max to look at just one of those options. If you can't be bothered to even take those 5 seconds to at least look, it's on you if they're closed.
I hate the entitlement too. These posts always come off like "MY order is more important that anything else in your life. Someone went out of their eay to be kind to me here before, so now the entire staff owe that to me, every single time. I didn't get my way today, so I'm going to try to damage the reputation of the entire business".
Yeah lady, I'm sure they're going to miss customers that can't follow direction, take self accountability, or show empathy, while also expecting the schedules of the entire shift to be bent in their interest. Totally.
I worked at Starbucks for way too many years. I have never heard of a “10 minute rule”. That’s absolute nonsense.
I have a 15 minute rule. Unless unavoidable I don't go to any establishment if they are closing within 15 minutes. Why bother them as they are trying to get out of work and go home. Especially restaurants.
gets to restaurant after closing
restaurant is closed
shocked pikachu faceThe fun thing is that because she didn’t get service means Starbucks can request the removal of her 1 star review.
Reminds me of my dad yelling at a dude at sears because they no longer carried his brand of pants. To be fair, I guess he did get the last laugh being that sears is dead. Starbucks will outlive humanity.
Too dumb to back out…why would you wait behind all of the people who got in line when the store was open? 😂
