I was just sitting there eating my meal and for no reason at all the owner of the restaurant, who is chinese, runs up to my table and screams, "YOU BEEN HEAR FO FOUR HOUR!!!! YOU WEAVE, YOU WEAVE NOW YOU EAT EGG ROLL AN YOU GO HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!" (sorry for the sarcasm, im just very pi**ed about it.).....I don't know WHAT triggered this burst of outrage and he ran me out before i payed the bill...I was just sitting there, taking my time (it takes me a while to eat..was there 4 hours).............Anyway should i file a lawsuit against him? I really thought he was going to literally chop of my head the way he ran to my table.....advise greatly appreciated. THIS WAS UN-CALLED FOR
2006-10-10 21:42:48 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
To those of you who said "i should have been kicked out", maybe if he would have gave me a "warning"about the time before he flew off the handle it would be more "proper"??...listen, my IQ is 154, you're not going to outwit me here.
2006-10-10 22:30:02 · update #1
Forget a lawsuit, unless you have names and contact information of enough witnesses.
Try calling the local newspaper. if they print it, it can be more effective than a lawsuit
2006-10-10 21:51:32 · answer #1 · answered by Chief BaggageSmasher 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
My question is- why the hell was it taking you 4 hours to eat? I'm surprised you haven't been kicked out from other restaurants.
I've had dinners that would take a few hours- but they're in fancy restaurants where they purposefully don't rush you to eat so you can enjoy the time you spend there, not to mention that I would be with other guests. We have drinks, appetizers, the main course, dessert, and coffee, and we chat the whole time. This can take three hours. However, your question suggests that you were alone. What were you doing the whole time? Your egg roll must have been ice cold by then.
However, in many typical dining places like Chinese restaurants, the custom is for people to just eat and get out, and people who linger too long -especially if they're not ordering anything else during that time- are costing them money. Starbucks employees will get annoyed at customers who come in and nurse the same cup of coffee for 2 hours while they work on their laptop for the same reasons.
The only thing I find wrong with your situation was that the owner was rude to you, but then again, Chinese tend to be rather blunt.
2006-10-12 10:26:58 · answer #2 · answered by Kaonashi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would of done the same if you clogged up a table for 4 hours so better paying customers had to be turned away. Are you sad why do you need 4 hours to eat a meal?
I cannot blame the chinese guy you were costing him a lot of money and being as he didn't care about the few bucks you ate he just wanted your sad butt out of there and will probably never serve you again. Good for him.
No you cannot sue him as you didn't pay for anything your losses were nothing. 4 hours - you need a life so badly. If I had been the restaurant owner I would of kicked your sorry butt right out of the door after 2 hours regardless if you had food left to eat or not.
2006-10-10 21:49:42 · answer #3 · answered by Spadesboffin 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Four HOURS!! How slow can you possibly eat. While you are sitting there contemplating your egg rolls the restaurant is losing money because you are blocking the table. The owner may have over-reacted somewhat, and there's no excuse for that, but he is trying to make a living. He probably just opened his electric bills or something and lost the plot for a minute.
2006-10-10 21:50:27 · answer #4 · answered by stienbabe 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cultural differences. Chinese restaurants are usually geared more like "fast food" than a regular restaurant. It's actually bad form, what you did. 4 hours! Yet, you didn't know this, so the owner should have tried to enlighten you, instead of being rude.
2006-10-10 21:57:39 · answer #5 · answered by ladybugewa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no Law-suit. No basis. Not worth it. It's most likely a communication gap with the chinese fellow. He has undoubtably had to deal with people who are disrespectful of his restaurant and ordered little or nothing and then proceeded to hang out all day. Not very polite. He just made a mistake and assumed you were doing the same. By the way, he can tell you to leave any time he wants, with no explanation!
2006-10-10 21:52:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Four hours to eat ? Where the hell do you live, and what do you do for a living, that allows you 4 hrs for evey meal, you must be eating all of the time.
2006-10-10 22:09:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No reason for a law suit. No harm was done to either party. If he feels four hours is too long in his restaurant then don't eat there. It is your choice to go to another place. Maybe he thought you were a spy with a weapon.
2006-10-10 21:46:39 · answer #8 · answered by peppermint_paddy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
never eat at Chinese restaurant again many Latin guy don't want to eat at Chinese restaurant cause we heard that they served cats meat in there or even dogs meat u may never know the egg roll ur eating is made up of stinking bird shiit cause Chinese people are dirty people okay especially their food and they eat anything from monkey, snake ,python, tiger , gorilla and even cats okay
2006-10-13 01:27:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard similar complaints like this - funny how they are always about a Chinese buffet.
Anyway, you have the right as a consumer to pay and take as long as you wish. There is no "time limit," in my experience!
File a lawsuit, or go back and complain. That is unacceptable the way he treated you.
2006-10-11 00:15:55 · answer #10 · answered by STV0726 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
4 Hours!?!?!?
Wow, that's slow!
Hmmm... I think the manager found you as an obstacle to more money, since you were sitting at table for four hours when he could have had 7 more customers.
And with the world today, I dont blame him for wanting more money. He may have needed it.
2006-10-11 00:08:27 · answer #11 · answered by Marco A. J. 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋