Nice lesson you're teaching your kids there

[The cat whisperer]

Just a little background before I launch into the suck. My theatre is one of the few "brew houses" in the country. We serve dinner while you watch the movie and we also sell beer and wine. And each house has 1-2 servers depending on the size. All the fun of a restaurant and movie theatre rolled into one (end sarcasm).

So we had a potential walkout today. They were caught and had to do the walk of shame back into the building. It was a dad, mom, and two little boys who were around 9 and 6. They didn't want to pay for anything since they left because another customer (or server depending on who they were trying to sell the story too) had told them to STFU. This was after they had received two warnings from the server (we operate on a three strike basis). The other manager told them they would have to pay for the chicken basket that they ate and the beer that they had drank.

While the guy is settling the bill, after much SCism, the mom is going on about how we don't respect or value our customers to her two children, talking just loud enough that we could here her. And, how next time they would just continue on to their car since we can't physically stop them. Never mind we would get a plate number and call the cops before you could even get out of the garage, Lady. There is a police zone headquarters two lights up. Try your luck. I chose not to respond in any manner since my mouth to brain filter hasn't been 100% lately and I would have said something mean. Honest but mean.

Oh and the dad's parting shot: "I am never coming here again!" . Of course we'll see him next week.

I know I shouldn't be surprised after coming across this site, but to activly teach your kids that it's okay to walk out on a bill of any kind....

[AFpheonix]

That's ok sir, we don't particularly care to have "customers" who don't want to pay for services rendered coming to our place, anyways.

[Shironu-Akaineko]

Yeaaaahh, teachin' your kid how to steal...
A woman tried that when my mom worked in Zellers.
She took her daugther shopping for shoes, put the new shoes on her, stuck the old ones in her purse and whispered "C'mon honey we're going."

"But mom we didn't pay for the shoes!"
"Shhhh" *tug and walks faster towards the door.*
"BUT MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM WE DIDN'T PAY FOR THE SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOES!"

(My mom) "Excuse me ma'am, you might wanna pay for those shoes?"

[bigjimaz]

I was helping out in my grandma's coffee shop when I was a teenager when this happened. I was sitting at the counter because there were hardly any customers in the place.

SC: Lets go Honey.
SC's kid: Don't we have to pay for the food Mommy?
SC: Not today. Everything is free on Thursday.
SC's kid: But Mommy, today is Friiiiidaaaaay!!

Gotta love kids for thwarting the wayward parents of the world.

[BookstoreEscapee]

That's the "problem" with little kids...that mouth/brain filter hasn't been installed yet...always honest...no wonder today's parents have such problems

[RentalRacer]

Yeaaaahh, teachin' your kid how to steal...

At least they were doing a piss-poor job at it.

I used to live near 2 movie theaters that had the Beer/Dinner thing....big comfy leather chairs...not all that expensive either....I miss it.

[Antisocial_Worker]

My mom got to witness what happened after a lady was caught shoplifting with her daughter, who couldn't have been much older than five. As they were being escorted off to the office, the little girl asked her mother what they had done wrong and why they were being taken to the office. The mother replied, with a defiant glare at the store associates nearby that they hadn't done anything wrong, and the store people were just being mean to them. I wonder what the woman said after the cops arrived.

[wildcatgrrl]

The truly awful part is that you know some of the kids who unknowingly help to bust their parents probably get beaten at home after it's all said and done. Poor little things.

[Imogene]

"I am never coming here again!"

"Great, get your ass out of here, never to darken another stoop, never to bring down another child's birthday party, never to ruin the ending to the newest movie you're sitting in on opening night!"
/usually, a fate fit for the Wicked Step-Mother, but, eh

[Delphae]

We had a woman at our store (a story I will tell another time) who would shop lift and sometimes brought her kids in. Kids who I taught in school

[ringo]

Cinema Cafe

Just a little background before I launch into the suck. My theatre is one of the few "brew houses" in the country. We serve dinner while you watch the movie and we also sell beer and wine. And each house has 1-2 servers depending on the size. All the fun of a restaurant and movie theater rolled into one (end sarcasm).

We have a company that does that here in Virginia Beach. They have a couple of locations. One of the locations plays new movies. My pa and myself go every so often. usually a Friday if I can get the tickets in time. This place can sell out seats at cretin movies. I want to open one my self somewhere in Texas.

[repsac]

When I was at Moore's, we had this group of kids who while not instructed by their parents as far as I could see; were our biggest round of shoplifting problems.

Most of the time, the manager would catch them trying something, only to run them off. Later, the mother or mothers would come in and bitch and moan how our manager had targeted their little darlings. The boys of course had never done anything wrong. Most of the time, it was the manager calling the mothers to come pick their sons up, and then banning them from the store. I'm not sure how often he called the cops, or if he did.

I forget how the end came about, but I think ultimatly one of the boys did get arrested for something the mother couldn't deny. Murder or something similar I think.