A Minnesota ice cream shop worker was allegedly fired after a customer tipped $100 in the tip jar as the store’s owners seemingly accused her of taking advantage of an elderly customer with “dementia.”
Seth and Lisa Swenson claim their adult daughter Emily, a five-season employee at The Freez in Moorhead, Minn., was canned after the tipping debacle at the roadside eatery last month.
Emily had finished serving a customer when the patron tried to leave the large bill behind even though the worker said she couldn’t accept it, according to the family’s Facebook post.
“Our daughter was offered a $100 tip and told the customer she couldn’t accept it. The customer put $100 in the tip jar and drove away,” the couple said.
At the end of the worker’s shift, the management at The Freez was furious with Emily and allegedly accused her of “taking” the large tip.
This store said in the letter “Emily needs to comprehend that our some customers could be elderly and having difficulty behaving normally because of dementia or other health conditions”.
The notice, disclosed by Swensons, elaborately read, “No one makes such a huge tip to a cheap restaurant where everything on the menu costs less than $12.”
“As an employee of The Freez you have the onus to guard the image of the food store.” Such behavior would mean that this shop is viewed by the stockholders of Bagley as a place that exploits the old people. Avoiding to make tips on customers must take top priority over pursuing to gain tips on them.
She was sacked the day after and her family wondered if the fair big tip was against the cash-only policy of the Moorhead Freeze to take bills worth over $20.
“The whole policies lack any clause about staying the tip.” – Swenson’s said.
“The decision of not firing the person at-will employee of age 5 for getting a tip was taken because of… “It’s not just the story,” the shop expressed in the Facebook post.
It was not clear how old Emily is, but the elderly man working the ice cream stand seemed a bit perturbed when her parents defended their “grown daughter.”
We need not divulge any details of the matter it has to do with our private life. Yet we still think, that if parents are asking for their adult daughter- they have not asked their grown-up child the appropriate questions.
“Here, we are a small business which was established on the foundation of Moral and hard work. Our values and expectations are based on the community and customers’ values,” the post also added. “I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream; social media trolling definitely doesn’t work.”
it is Emily who has no malice towards the customer since they were sacked together.
Their daughter prases the lady who tipped her and thinks that she is [not][O] responsible for the girl’s accident.
In February, a Michigan cafe server was let go by the owner after she and other front-of-house workers had decided to split a $10,000 tip amongst them, which made the kitchen members feel they also deserved a part of the big tip.
It had been Linsey Huff (also known as by her last name Boyd), who, while the Mason Jar Cafe in Benton Harbor was used for a friend’s funeral, collected $32.43 tip on a $32.43 bill from a customer.
