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    A Bartender’s Tip That You Have To See To Believe and A Teacher Eats School Lunch For A Year

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    After serving a customer chips, guacamole, and a pork taco, Seattle bartender Victoria Liss was left with a less-than-generous tip. On the receipt for $28.98 the customer wrote in $0 for tip and added a message that's created an avalanche of outraged responses across social media. On the receipt the customer wrote, "P.S. You could stand to loose (sic) a few pounds." An insulted Victoria uploaded a photo of the receipt to her Facebook page and even named the customer in question (he paid with a credit card). Hundreds of people are rallying around her, calling the rude tipster the "worst customer ever" and a "soulless, miserable person." Some of the many men named Andrew Meyer on Facebook have even received scathing messages and phone calls. When liberal sex advice columnist Dan Savage caught wind of the incident, he scolded the wrong Andrew Meyer on his blog. In a case of mistaken identity, he called out an Andrew Meyer who he said worked at Microsoft. (Microsoft has since announced that it doesn't have an employee by that name.) In an interview, Liss apologized to all the "sweet Andrew Meyers of the world" who have been mistaken for the customer. The real Andrew Meyer has yet to come forward.

    Remember the documentary "Supersize Me" in which a man eats McDonald's for a whole month (and gains 24 pounds)? Well a Chicago mother and teacher brought that idea to the lunch line. After being outraged by the food served in her school cafeteria, Sara Wu started a blog called Fed Up With Lunch, which she wrote under the pseudonym of Mrs. Q. For a whole year, she ate her school cafeteria lunch and documented her experience with photos of her meals. She was appalled at what she found. She ate 162 lunches that included sausage pizza, tater tots, cheeseburgers, "bageldogs," and a prepackaged peanut butter and jelly sandwich that literally made her sick. Wu finally revealed her identity to her thousands of followers with the release of her book "Fed Up With Lunch," which hits stores this week. The book launch coincides with National School Lunch Week and National Take Your Parents to Lunch Day, when parents are encouraged to visit their children's cafeteria, snap a photo of their lunch, and upload it online. You can check out our Facebook page to look at lunch photos and upload your own!

     
     
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    • Admiral Ferret  •  Spring Grove, United States  •  5 mths ago
      You know what I do when someone hands me a paper that says I could stand to loose some weight? .... I throw it away. Oo'
    • MAKEME  •  7 mths ago
      may he should have gone to Pollo Loco and bought the taco, chips and guacamole and saved the tip.
      • Rock 7 mths ago
        I'm thinking many will avoid Cha Cha and do just that!
    • ll  •  7 mths ago
      Chips,guacamole, and a pork Taco 28.98...thats what everybody should be talking about
      • Im a Paulbot 7 mths ago
        2 sides to every story. If you are satisfactory people tip. If not maybe she shouldnt work at a place called BIMBOS
      • Soulja Boy 7 mths ago
        and i'm sure her service was impecable bartenders are known to serve everyone in a timely manner oh wait she probably just flirts with the attractive customers like every other female bartender/male bartender
      • Soulja Boy 7 mths ago
        Thats Jagr in my picture but nice try
    • Mattfuccis  •  7 mths ago
      I always put a zero on the tip area of my bill and leave a cash tip , this is so the waiter or waitress can receive the tip right then , is not taxed and not cheated by the restraunt management , rock on.
      • DawnS 7 mths ago
        I do that, too, Mattfuccis.
      • Susan L 7 mths ago
        I've heard that's the best way to do it. I have yet to get in the habit, but I always leave a tip.
      • Bill Zuvela 7 mths ago
        Umm, it's still taxed unless she's a criminal and not reporting it.
    • Sigh!  •  7 mths ago
      So how is having all these morons who lash out at every Andrew Meyer any different then what he did?!!
      • Ted C 7 mths ago
        Exactly.
      • 3C-PO 7 mths ago
        What did he do ? Tips are for good service...maybe she was a lousy waitress ? Posting his private info can get her sued, and I hope it does.
      • Robert Hutchinson 7 mths ago
        well.. he started it.
    • Harold  •  7 mths ago
      I went to school in the 50's and 60's and my memories of school lunches were meats and mashed potatoes and fruits and vegetables. The same foods we ate at home. And maybe that's the problem. What are families eating at home now? It was a shock to see the foods that my grandkids are served in school today. I watched the Jamie Oliver shows and was amazed at the resistance from the school districts to any change toward healther menus or even letting the public know what they served to our children. I like most parents assumed that a school lunch would be much better than a sandwich, fruit and juice sent from home. Our schools are supposed to be educating our kids so lets start with the basics, like eating healthy.
      • coffeemate 7 mths ago
        You are so right.
      • Laura VB. 7 mths ago
        I'm all for healthy food, though money is probably the #1 factor here... It costs a lot more to buy a salad and bottled water, than for a burger and a Coke; when I was in high school, my business class had this discussion and, however sad it may be, money is always the bottom-line.

        As for me, I brown-bagged it nearly every day. My mom always provided our family with lovely, healthy food, so there was no reason for my siblings and I to be eating that cafeteria garbage... Except the odd craving for fries. :)
    • SchoolBoardLady  •  7 mths ago
      While the zero tipper with the mean streak seems like a jerk, do all the amateur detectives realize that transmitting the credit card information about this person is illegal? Restaurants are notorious for being collaborators in credit card fraud. If I was the owner of the restaurant at which this rudeness occurred, I would reprimand the waitress for giving out receipt/credit card information. Patron may have no class, but he did not break a law.
    • J-Law  •  7 mths ago
      Can't believe this is front page yahoo news. The real crime here is that chips, gaucamole, and a pork taco cost $29.
    • ceddy  •  7 mths ago
      I think the weight joke was taking it a step too far but this is hardly the worst customer ever, what about a story about the worst bartenders ever alot of them are rude and over charge your for water down drinks.
    • TheBeast  •  7 mths ago
      I frequently pay my bar tab with a credit card and leave the tip in cash. Maybe I ought to be noting "Cash Tip" on the receipts...
    • Buddy  •  7 mths ago
      Big deal, where I live, most teachers eat school lunch to save money!
    • Semper Fi...  •  7 mths ago
      NOTICE TO LAWYERS:
      ..."An insulted Victoria uploaded a photo of the receipt to her Facebook page and even named the customer in question (he paid with a credit card)"
      ----Beside the fact that her job would be on the line.......
      ----The employer for which she was working for when this transaction was made is open for multiple suites for damages to the "Andrew Meyer".
      ----It doesn't matter what he wrote beneath his signature. The customer can write anything he wants on a document where he places his signature---even if what he writes is incorrect.
      ----This is a clear case for any lawyer to file for "invasion of privacy" by DISCLOSING PERSONAL FINANCIAL INFORMATION FROM A CREDIT CARD ACCOUNT AND TRANSACTION THAT WAS MADE BY THE CARD HOLDER AND OWNER OF THE ACCOUNT.
      ---In addtion to this "Andrew Meyer" can also sue for DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER.
      ---"The real Andrew Meyer has yet to come forward".----maybe that he is busy talking to a Lawyer.....some eager Lawyer out there could retire comfortably on this event.
      ---Get a grasp on this---maybe "Andrew Meyer" KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING.
    • BOOGSTER  •  7 mths ago
      Not only can she be sued for disclosing this mans personal information, the credit card companies can revoke the establishment merchant number which would prohibit them from accepting credit cards as payment. What he did was in bad taste, what she did is criminal.
    • Hitman Pedro  •  7 mths ago
      And this is the usual profiling in America. Let one person's name get thrown out there and everyone starts accusing everyone with that same name. If that guy was rude enough to leave a message like that with no tip do you think he gives a rat's ass whether some random idiot chews him out on facebook?
    • DavidD  •  7 mths ago
      There are actually two separate issues with the tip scenario. The customer left no tip - if the service was unacceptable, that was his right, whether the waitress liked it or not.

      However, the customer stepped over the line by including the unsolicited comment about her weight. That was definitely rude.
    • Steve  •  7 mths ago
      Of course all of you realize what lawsuit this guy could throw at her and the bar where she works.
    • Penny  •  7 mths ago
      Wow!!! It's not often I don't tip but it for sure is not because of the size of the waitress, maybe because of the poor service.
    • Danny  •  7 mths ago
      I'm more upset at the woman for posting the guy's name for the entire country to see. Being called fat is one thing, but now hundreds of guys with the same name are being persecuted for no reason. Way to go, lady.
    • Pedrin  •  7 mths ago
      I would like to hear why he did it.
    • MarionR  •  7 mths ago
      2 things: maybe this chick is cool, and the guy is a total deek. I suspect he's a loser (or is that 'looser'?) BUT I have NO problem zeroing the tip for rude or shi++y service. I don't think it was a good move on her part or yahoo's to narc him out without getting his side of the story. Lastly, I always write CASH in the tip line for security. That is very scary that someone would put your signature online like that. I can't believe that would be within policy for the restaurant.

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