Love to have opinions from this forum on the following:
I was one of five friends who enjoyed a nice dinner together at a fairly nice restaurant. Unfortunately there was a major snafu with the bill as follows:
Bill was $365. We decided to leave $420, i.e $84 each.
Persons A,B,C each left $84 cash, total $252.
Persons D and E each submitted credit cards and told the busboy to charge each card $84.
The credit cards were brought back, Persons D and E signed. Only slightly strange thing is that the waiter came to our table just before we were leaving and said he wanted to make sure, no change was due. We said no. He thanked us and we thought nothing more of it.
Next day Person E realized his card had been charged $281, instead of $84. Apparently the busboy had not transmitted our instructions correctly to the cashier, who had charged the bill of $365 to person D $84 and Person E $281. The $252 cash was apparently assumed to be a tip. Person E unfortunately did not check the amount charged before signing.
Person E is in the process of trying to get this straightened out with the restaurant but not having much luck (I don't know details).
My questions are:
1) What recourse if any do you think Person E has with the restaurant or credit card company?
2) If Person E unable to get relief from the restaurant or credit card company and you are Person A,B,C or D would you offer to chip in for Person E's overcharge of $197 (i.e. $281 minus $84).
I was one of five friends who enjoyed a nice dinner together at a fairly nice restaurant. Unfortunately there was a major snafu with the bill as follows:
Bill was $365. We decided to leave $420, i.e $84 each.
Persons A,B,C each left $84 cash, total $252.
Persons D and E each submitted credit cards and told the busboy to charge each card $84.
The credit cards were brought back, Persons D and E signed. Only slightly strange thing is that the waiter came to our table just before we were leaving and said he wanted to make sure, no change was due. We said no. He thanked us and we thought nothing more of it.
Next day Person E realized his card had been charged $281, instead of $84. Apparently the busboy had not transmitted our instructions correctly to the cashier, who had charged the bill of $365 to person D $84 and Person E $281. The $252 cash was apparently assumed to be a tip. Person E unfortunately did not check the amount charged before signing.
Person E is in the process of trying to get this straightened out with the restaurant but not having much luck (I don't know details).
My questions are:
1) What recourse if any do you think Person E has with the restaurant or credit card company?
2) If Person E unable to get relief from the restaurant or credit card company and you are Person A,B,C or D would you offer to chip in for Person E's overcharge of $197 (i.e. $281 minus $84).
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