People are angry, they demand answers and, most of all, they demand free food. It’s their right. If they took the time from their life to visit your restaurant every day, then you as the owner should certainly respect that sacrifice. And reopen your goddamned restaurant. Eventually, you do that, but with one small difference. Now you tell people that, unless they don’t have the courtesy to at least smile and say thank you, you will not be serving them free food. Some people take grave offence to that. Tell you that you’re being arrogant and selfish. You should just close the restaurant. Others agree to this arrangement, get their food and then sneak out when you’re looking the other way, and later on they’re bashing you on restaurant forums for demanding such a thing from them. Because the natural state of thing is *you* are supposed to be happy that *they* paid you a visit. It’s just free food anyway. Not like owners of real, paying restaurants demand you to say thank you or anything. You keep on hoping that most of your customers are simply unaware of the amount of work and time you invest into your restaurant, but more you interact with your customers, more you seem to think that they actually *do* believe they’re perfectly entitled to barge into your restaurant, eat your free food and leave. And then, if you’re angry enough, you close your restaurant one day. Maybe even leave an angry notice. Six months later you find out that people have stolen all your recipes and are sharing them between themselves while wondering what happened, what could have possibly made you shut down your restaurant. You obviously wouldn’t have run out of customers, considering how many people want to have your recipes right now. And after that, give me one good reason why I’d want to reopen my restaurant. Or make another free meal for anyone outside of my closest circle of friends.
Notes:
You are free to voice your opinion if this bothers you, I am most certainly not going to play censor. But don’t expect me to answer. Or god forbid, coddle you.
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Eventually, you do that, but with one small difference. Now you tell people that, unless they don’t have the courtesy to at least smile and say thank you, you will not be serving them free food.
Some people take grave offence to that. Tell you that you’re being arrogant and selfish. You should just close the restaurant. Others agree to this arrangement, get their food and then sneak out when you’re looking the other way, and later on they’re bashing you on restaurant forums for demanding such a thing from them. Because the natural state of thing is *you* are supposed to be happy that *they* paid you a visit. It’s just free food anyway. Not like owners of real, paying restaurants demand you to say thank you or anything.
You keep on hoping that most of your customers are simply unaware of the amount of work and time you invest into your restaurant, but more you interact with your customers, more you seem to think that they actually *do* believe they’re perfectly entitled to barge into your restaurant, eat your free food and leave.
And then, if you’re angry enough, you close your restaurant one day. Maybe even leave an angry notice. Six months later you find out that people have stolen all your recipes and are sharing them between themselves while wondering what happened, what could have possibly made you shut down your restaurant. You obviously wouldn’t have run out of customers, considering how many people want to have your recipes right now.
And after that, give me one good reason why I’d want to reopen my restaurant. Or make another free meal for anyone outside of my closest circle of friends.
Notes:
You are free to voice your opinion if this bothers you, I am most certainly not going to play censor.
But don’t expect me to answer. Or god forbid, coddle you.