The douchebag SC and the 1% tip

[Boozy]

I want to see the "real" receipt before I agree that this was faked.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/...nt-hoax-879234

[crashhelmet]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/...nt-hoax-879234

That is a copy of the Guest Copy, not the Merchant Copy provided in the original articles. He could've quoted Shakespeare on it for all he cared. The only evidence is does show though is that the bill was only $33.54 instead of $133.54. unless, of course, that's the forged picture.

Being that it's the guest copy, did big bad banker dude provide it?

Did BBBD fill out the Guest copy as payment and someone else created the controversy with the merchant copy?

Questions everywhere

[AdminAssistant]

In an e-mail, restaurant spokesperson Jami Reagan noted, "The guest took the merchant copy but completed and signed the guest copy."

In other words, the guy filled out and left the guest copy and took the merchant copy home where either they or someone else perpetrated the hoax. This makes the whole deal even more douche-y, since I don't know that the restaurant will be able to use the guest copy.

There is no Big Bad Banker Dude. He doesn't exist. Also, Santa Claus isn't real and Rosebud was a sled.

[crashhelmet]

In other words, the guy filled out and left the guest copy and took the merchant copy home where either they or someone else perpetrated the hoax. This makes the whole deal even more douche-y, since I don't know that the restaurant will be able to use the guest copy.

There is no Big Bad Banker Dude. He doesn't exist. Also, Santa Claus isn't real and Rosebud was a sled.

So that entire receipt is a fake? They photoshopped different sections of different receipts to make it look legitimate?

How can they have the merchant copy if the customer took it?

[MaggieTheCat]

Seems to me like it played out like this:

Banker ate at the restaurant, paid by credit card. Wrote the tip, total, and signature on the Guest Copy of the receipt, which he left at the restaurant. Took the (then blank) Merchant Copy home. At some point after that, he or someone else filled in the Merchant Copy with the 1% tip and "Get a real job" note, took a picture of it, and posted it to the internet as a prank.

The server did not take the picture of the 1% tip Merchant Copy of the receipt. The restaurant has never seen it, hence the Guest Copy picture they provided after the Merchant Copy went viral.

[AdminAssistant]

Dude, really?

Let's go back to the beginning. Jerk goes to True Food Kitchen (judging from price, he goes with a friend). Jerk decides, "Hey, I'm gonna play a prank on the internet LOLOLOL!" Jerk fills out the GUEST copy of the receipt, and leaves that for the waitress. Jerk then takes the MERCHANT copy home with him, takes the picture, does some photoshoppery, uploads picture to a blog. Waits a few hours. Then anonymously posts it to reddit, and sits back and waits for the internet to do its thing.

The restaurant doesn't have the merchant copy anymore. Douchebag took it. Which means that the restaurant may not even get paid for the meal, which makes the dude a double douchebag, IMO.

[crashhelmet]

So banker dude pulled a douchebag move to try and show off in front of his friends...

"HAHAHAHA Wilson! You should've seen what I did to that lowly peon at the restaurant. I gave her a dollar and told her to get a real job! HAHAHAHA!! Like she could ever get into Douchebag U, let alone get her MBA"

Or...

The original poster that supposedly works for the guy found the blank receipt and tried to smear him by doctoring it up.

[lordlundar]

The restaurant doesn't have the merchant copy anymore. Douchebag took it. Which means that the restaurant may not even get paid for the meal, which makes the dude a double douchebag, IMO.

Incorrect. The labels are simply for organizational purposes and serve no real authority. In fact, if the purchase was made by either debit or credit card the transaction is all electronic and goes through regardless of who has which copy.

The only difference between the two copies is the label and the merchant must keep a copy (not specifically the merchant copy) for possible fraud claims. I've had a number of merchants give me the merchant copy before. There's not difference between the two.

[AdminAssistant]

Oh, okay. I've just had waiters chase me in the parking lot because I accidentally took the wrong copy, so I assumed there was a difference.

[jackfaire]

Oh, okay. I've just had waiters chase me in the parking lot because I accidentally took the wrong copy, so I assumed there was a difference.

Some waiters think there is but I think these are the same ones that don't think their boss will chew them out for having to eat a 75 cent card processing charge for charging a quarter.

[Racket_Man]

The only difference between the two copies is the label and the merchant must keep a copy (not specifically the merchant copy) for possible fraud claims. I've had a number of merchants give me the merchant copy before. There's not difference between the two.

Some places there is a difference. at my pizza place there is certain information on the customer copy and other information ONLY on the Merchant copy. the 2 are not just carbon copies of each other. when things happen the Merchant copy is needed because it has the "on that copy only" information.

Note that your mileage may vary depending on the CC processor and company.