ilikeme
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| [Rant] olive graden
I am pissed at Olive Garden tonight. The service was crappy and the worst part is the waiter lost or stole my Master Card. I thankfully was able to quickly call my bank and have it turned off but now I have to go with out a card for a few days. The waiter even tried to just give my friend and I the bill folders and tried to walk off like nothing had happened. |
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XPAMD
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ilikeme
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| said by XPAMD  :Your card came up missing? So did you confront the waiter, Did you confront the manager? Did you call the police and file a report? I'd be raising Hell, and asking for paradise in return! I talked to the waiter and the manager. The card is on my moms account and so she also called and complained a lot to the manager also. The waiter said that it must have fallen out but he could not find it. I was kind of suspicious with how long it took him to come back when my friend and I gave him the cards to pay. He did not even come back to the table for at least 5-10 minutes.
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dvd536
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| said by ilikeme :said by XPAMD :Your card came up missing? So did you confront the waiter, Did you confront the manager? Did you call the police and file a report? I'd be raising Hell, and asking for paradise in return! I talked to the waiter and the manager. The card is on my moms account and so she also called and complained a lot to the manager also. The waiter said that it must have fallen out but he could not find it. I was kind of suspicious with how long it took him to come back when my friend and I gave him the cards to pay. He did not even come back to the table for at least 5-10 minutes. Probably all the help grabbing their own personal swipes of your card.
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ilikeme
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| Who knows. I have not seen anything on the online account yet, but the card is now a worthless piece of plastic now that it has been canceled. If something does show up that was made before the card was canceled, that is not my charge, it will be disputed. I do have to praise Washington Mutual for getting it turned off so quickly. |
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Rombus
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ilikeme
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| said by Rombus :The manager did nothing? Seriously screwed up! I would write to consumerist.com and let olive gardens corporate offices know about it too. All he said is he was sorry and that they would continue to look for it and that he would let the cleaning crew know about it.
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Father JackH
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said by dvd536 :said by ilikeme :I was kind of suspicious with how long it took him to come back when my friend and I gave him the cards to pay. He did not even come back to the table for at least 5-10 minutes. Probably all the help grabbing their own personal swipes of your card. You know, I can't believe that people are still stupid enough to let their credit card out of their sight in this day and age.
Do you know what a "skimmer" is? It's the reason you never allow your credit card out of your sight.
If you're in a restaurant (or even The Olive Garden) and the waiter wants to leave the room with your card so they can run it, you inform them, "Sure. And I'll need to go with you as it's my policy not to allow my credit card to leave my field of view."
Unless, of course, duking it out with the credit card company to do chargebacks for plasma TVs (or whatever) that you didn't actually buy is your idea of a good time.
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Jahntassa
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| said by Father JackH :
You know, I can't believe that people are still stupid enough to let their credit card out of their sight in this day and age. Do you know how many people die in car accidents these days?! Who would be stupid enough to get in a car? Or smoke? Or drink alcohol? Or even breathe!
Yes, I know identity theft is real and you'd be more sensitive to it if you had it done to you once, but honestly the chance of having someone skim your card has got to be pretty damn low. Thousands of transactions have gone through my cards since i've gotten them and i've NEVER had a problem with an unauthorized charge showing up.
Seriously, there's paranoid and there's 'sensible'. If my card disappeared like that I would certainly not return to that restaurant, and I would have it out with the management. I would also talk to Visa/Mastercard/whoever about that particular facility about said event.
However I have never seen someone walk with their card to the register, and honestly it has to be a statistically low possibility that someone would actually skim cards. |
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MotherNature
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Fontana, CA | reply to ilikeme
Out of all the good restaurants in Houston you have to go to Olive Garden? *sniff*
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ilikeme
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| said by MotherNature :Out of all the good restaurants in Houston you have to go to Olive Garden? * sniff* If it had been my choice I would have not picked it.
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said by Jahntassa :said by Father JackH :
You know, I can't believe that people are still stupid enough to let their credit card out of their sight in this day and age. Do you know how many people die in car accidents these days?! Who would be stupid enough to get in a car? Or smoke? Or drink alcohol? Or even breathe! That's an entirely false analogy, sir: everyone has to get into a car at some point. Attempting to portray driving or traveling in a car as some sort of senseless and irrational act does nothing but make you appear to be senseless and irrational.
Which is your prerogative, I suppose.
And frankly, if you want to give up breathing, there's little I can do to stop you. It is, after all, your respiratory system and I can't force you to operate it if you don't deem it worth your while.
said by Jahntassa :Yes, I know identity theft is real and you'd be more sensitive to it But I am sensitive to it. Why else would I insist on taking precautions against it?
said by Jahntassa :if you had it done to you once, but honestly the chance of having someone skim your card has got to be pretty damn low. If you're comfortable with the odds, that's okay with me. After all, it's your credit card, right?
said by Jahntassa :Thousands of transactions have gone through my cards since i've gotten them and i've NEVER had a problem with an unauthorized charge showing up. Do you do much investing? Because a popular disclaimer on propecti is "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."
So if you're comfortable with asserting that just because you've never been ripped off in the past you are, therefore, not likely to be ripped off in the future.......well, as I say: it's your credit card.
said by Jahntassa :Seriously, there's paranoid and there's 'sensible'. If my card disappeared like that I would certainly not return to that restaurant, and I would have it out with the management. I would also talk to Visa/Mastercard/whoever about that particular facility about said event. The entire point of my post (which seems to have been completely lost on you) is that if you make it a practice never to allow your credit card to leave your sight, you will never have to worry about it mysteriously disappearing in restaurants, or having to explain to the credit card company why you allowed someone else to take possession of your credit card and lose it on you.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, as they say. And I think you'll find that the point of "paranoia" is, quite frequently, to head off problems before they become problems.
said by Jahntassa :However I have never seen someone walk with their card to the register, and honestly it has to be a statistically low possibility that someone would actually skim cards. Who told you that credit card skimming is a relatively rare ocurrence? The credit card companies? I don't think so.
When it comes to the probability of being defrauded, the kind of probability I prefer is that of zero. And as long as I keep my credit card in my field of view at all times, I'm confident that the chances of getting my card skimmed are pretty close to that.
If, however, you happen to view handing off your credit card to a complete stranger and having them disappear from view with it for a few minutes as "no big thing," then that
doesn't pose a problem for me. Luckily, my political philosophy allows other people to be as silly as they like, provided they don't try to stick me with the bill for their silliness.
After all, if people didn't allow their credit cards out of their sight, we wouldn't see posts like the OP's, would we? And where's the fun in that? |
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The Olive Garden has always failed to deliver -- the food is expensive and mediocre, and service is almost always lousy. I always find it strange that the parking lots are full every time I drive by the location near my house. 
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| said by removed :The Olive Garden has always failed to deliver -- the food is expensive and mediocre, and service is almost always lousy. I always find it strange that the parking lots are full every time I drive by the location near my house. Mediocre is what the lemmings crave-now and always.
Parking lots are full-Herd mentality: "Hey look at the crowd in that place. The food must be good there."
Expensive-of course. All that TV advertising doesn't come cheap. They know the lemmings will pay rather than look for something better or less expensive. |
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MotherNature
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said by removed :The Olive Garden has always failed to deliver -- the food is expensive and mediocre, and service is almost always lousy. I always find it strange that the parking lots are full every time I drive by the location near my house. Same here. The one next to my home is always packed with people waiting outside. |
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ilikeme
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said by removed :The Olive Garden has always failed to deliver -- the food is expensive and mediocre, and service is almost always lousy. I always find it strange that the parking lots are full every time I drive by the location near my house. This happened at the Memorial City location. I will not be returning to it or any other location.
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said by removed :The Olive Garden has always failed to deliver -- the food is expensive and mediocre, and service is almost always lousy. I always find it strange that the parking lots are full every time I drive by the location near my house. I wonder the same thing, but about McDonald's and Starbucks instead.
OP: If the manager had disciplined the waiter right then and there, would that have any effect on your decision to avoid Olive Garden? It's the waiter's fault, not Olive Garden's.
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said by ilikeme :said by removed :The Olive Garden has always failed to deliver -- the food is expensive and mediocre, and service is almost always lousy. I always find it strange that the parking lots are full every time I drive by the location near my house. This happened at the Memorial City location. I will not be returning to it or any other location. Wow. For losing your card, the meal should have been free or dramatically reduced. Sounds like you were dealing with a bunch of schmucks that may be working together in a credit card scam.
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