Please remember that when you eat out on Thanksgiving, the servers are not celebrating the holiday with their friends and family. They are busting their @ss, sacrificing their holiday, so that you can enjoy yourself. You guys lighten up on Criolla's and just be thankful that they were open for you to take your family out for lunch, so that you could have it easy. We are only talking about an extra 1.5 cents on the dollar. If you spent $200, that is a whopping $3, and hardly worth groaning about, especially on a holiday like Thanksgiving. Get-fo-real.
SJ - the servers chose their profession. Working shifts on holidays and such is part of the job description in the restaurant business. Sacrificing their holiday...busting their @ss so everyone else can enjoy themselves?? That is bologna -they chose to be there (it's always a choice) and don't deserve any special accolades - financially or otherwise - IMO. It is their job to be there.
This whole conversation boils down to principle - it was not right for the restaurant to do what they did based on principle IMO. You are right - the amount in question is insignificant. But that is not the issue - it's that the restaurant (or server or whoever?) took it upon themselves to break regular procedure. And the restaurant here has acknowledged that they made a mistake.
