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In article <308v7e$nbo@news1.digex.net>,
Damien Weiss <weissd@tulip.digex.net> wrote:

[Tale of severe manager overreaction deleted]
>
>	Nice guy.  Anyway. The food is good, just don't deal with the  
>managers- on a severe power trip.
>

Did you try calling the corporate headquarters to complain?  That guy
sounds like an immense idiot.

[CAUTION:  Long story follows! ;)]]


We've had Fuddrucker manager problems of our own.  We were at
the Fuddrucker's in Baltimore right across from the Inner Harbor.
When we first arrived, a panhandler was opening the door for
us, ostensibly in expectation that we'd give him a "tip".  We told
him that we didn't have any change (which was true), but after we
got lunch we would.  "I'll be here", he said.  Well, we kinda hoped
that he'd go away in the interim, but after we had our food and started
to eat, he came inside the restaurant and asked for money.  We offered
to buy him some food (he *said* he was hungry).  No, no, he'd rather
have the cash, thank you.  Well, my bf insisted on taking him to
the counter and getting him something to eat.  Eventually, the guy
convinced my bf to give him a dollar instead, after which the
pandhandler left.
Anyway, a couple minutes passed, and then the manager came up to
our table.  He wanted to know if the panhandler had been bothering
us, if he had just come inside or if we had invited us in.  We told
him that he'd accosted us before we entered the restaurant, but then
he came in on his own.  Well, we sort of expected the manager at that
point to apologize or something, but he started going off in this
mini-tirade about how we shouldn't have encouraged him by giving
him money (apparently, he witnessed the entire episode without doing
anything), etc. etc.

What we didn't understand was:  If the manager was truly concerned
with how it looked to have a panhandler hanging around (which is
what he said to us), why didn't he keep the guy away from the darned
front door of the place?  He was impossible not to notice, and he
had apparently been there for quite a while by the time we arrived.
Honestly, we got the impression that the manager wouldn't have even
questioned us if we'd just bought the guy some fries or something.

Anyway.

--M.