Restaurant refuses to sing happy bday to 6 yr old

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dude i just don't feel like reading this whole thread, because it is likely that it is really stupid and 95% of the posts in it were made by tuq, blarg and people responding to el diablo. if someone could just confirm this i will go back to doing something equally unproductive but slightly less boring

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guids and microbob have also put in spirited appearances. The OP tapered off pretty quickly.

There was actually a good bit of fair discussion here, but the insult donkeys did pop in and out.

essentially: what you said

[Hoya]

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Blarg,

Show me why I should think your "hostess as supervisor theory" holds any water, and I'll happily admit I was wrong. I just went back and checked all of OP's posts, and, as i thought originally, he said nothing to suggest that.

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There was a lack of clarity on how the chain of command worked, or should work, which is one of the main themes of the thread and things that made it clumsy and full of disagreement and discussion. OP didn't say it didn't work that way, either, but that wasn't always the main thrust. We got past the actual event and took it as a starting point for discussion.

One of the parts where the thread was keeping it most real was when we talked about how little we knew about how things really went down, and I'll step in to take lots of credit for pushing that hard.

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No, there really wasn't much lack of clarity about the chain of command. He asked the hostess, she said yes. Waiter says no, father asks to talk to owner. Owner says no.

Somehow you decided to insert a supervisor/hostess into the middle of all that, and then write 5000 words arguing about it.

I like to call that being wrong.

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No big deal, they should teach their kid not to be such an attention starved [censored]

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Had a look for a post that I think sums up my thoughts.

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Blarg,

Show me why I should think your "hostess as supervisor theory" holds any water, and I'll happily admit I was wrong. I just went back and checked all of OP's posts, and, as i thought originally, he said nothing to suggest that.

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There was a lack of clarity on how the chain of command worked, or should work, which is one of the main themes of the thread and things that made it clumsy and full of disagreement and discussion. OP didn't say it didn't work that way, either, but that wasn't always the main thrust. We got past the actual event and took it as a starting point for discussion.

One of the parts where the thread was keeping it most real was when we talked about how little we knew about how things really went down, and I'll step in to take lots of credit for pushing that hard.

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No, there really wasn't much lack of clarity about the chain of command. He asked the hostess, she said yes. Waiter says no, father asks to talk to owner. Owner says no.

Somehow you decided to insert a supervisor/hostess into the middle of all that, and then write 5000 words arguing about it.

I like to call that being wrong.

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Jezus, that's dim.

I hope you at least came or something.

[Hoya]

Hah, OK. Obviously you are going to stick by your warped argument and simply ignore the scenario set out by the OP. To each his own, I guess.

[Blarg]

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Hah, OK. Obviously you are going to stick by your warped argument and simply ignore the scenario set out by the OP. To each his own, I guess.

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Don't bother. If the one time I see you, you repeatedly go out of your way to be offensive, pointlessly argumentative, and dull-witted, you're on ignore. I'm very confident you won't be missed and do suck.

[dnh83]

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Hah, OK. Obviously you are going to stick by your warped argument and simply ignore the scenario set out by the OP. To each his own, I guess.

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Don't bother. If the one time I see you, you repeatedly go out of your way to be offensive, pointlessly argumentative, and dull-witted, you're on ignore. I'm very confident you won't be missed and do suck.

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[El Diablo]

Signal (and quids),

"No, it wasn't decorated in any way at all."

This to me is a good reason for a six-year-old to be disappointed.

[TheRover]

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Hah, OK. Obviously you are going to stick by your warped argument and simply ignore the scenario set out by the OP. To each his own, I guess.

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Don't bother. If the one time I see you, you repeatedly go out of your way to be offensive, pointlessly argumentative, and dull-witted, you're on ignore. I'm very confident you won't be missed and do suck.

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lolollol

[El Diablo]

Blarg,

"Lots of owners hire managers, too.
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And, the owner can be there every night, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's going to be there every day, too. When he's not, who is going to make the decisions?"

Note that I have been saying owner/manager. I don't expect a restaurant to need the owner there to run well. I expect the restaurant to need either the owner or a manager/supervisor that he has hired. And part of what the person in that role at the restaurant does is keep customers happy and deal w/ mistakes by staff.

"If so, he is probably not that good a businessman or very ambitious. I would think being the owner of one small business you could never leave would be among the least likely of an owner's goals."

I know tons of bar/restaurant owners who are completely content to own and run their own single little establishment. It is often the culmination of their career goals.