{"id":82398,"date":"2018-03-10T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/do-restaurants-really-make-staff-pay-when-customers-do-a-runner\/"},"modified":"2018-03-10T15:03:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T08:03:24","slug":"do-restaurants-really-make-staff-pay-when-customers-do-a-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/do-restaurants-really-make-staff-pay-when-customers-do-a-runner\/","title":{"rendered":"Do restaurants really make staff pay when customers do a runner?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe waiter tells a believable, if outrageous story, and the restaurant chain vehemently denies it. What is the truth?The waiter at the airport restaurant appeared relieved when I finally found him after pacing around to pay the bill last weekend. \u201cI thought you\u2019d done a runner,\u201d he said. What, there are people who do runners in airports, I asked \u2013 they can\u2019t get far, surely (I was airside). But he said it happened at least once a day, pointing to a table nearby, where he had just managed to intercept a couple as they were fleeing. Then came a much bigger surprise. \u201cWe have to pay their bill when they disappear. Yesterday it cost me \u00a356,\u201d said the waiter, who was from southern Europe.I was staggered. Does Tesco demand its staff pay when a shoplifter pilfers some razors? Does Boots make its sales assistants cough up for lipsticks snaffled into handbags? Of course not. How can a restaurant demand that its staff pay for the criminal acts of customers? My guess was that the \u00a356 deducted from his pay was probably enough to push him below minimum wage for the day. Meanwhile, the owner of the restaurant chain is almost certainly a millionaire. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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