Elkhunter
New member
Lack of Tip Leads to Restaurant Violence
Rule No. 1 of dining out: Always tip your waiter.
Anthony Wayne Palmer was stabbed in the parking lot of a Clemmons, N.C., restaurant last Friday night after failing to pay the tip that had been included in the bill for his wife's birthday dinner.
His wife, Susie Palmer, who had met her husband while waitressing at the Sagebrush, the very restaurant where the attack occurred, defended his decision to the Winston-Salem Journal.
"We took the ticket and scratched out the gratuity and wrote 'Due to poor service,'" she told the newspaper. "Normally, we're great tippers because I have done the business and I know what it was like."
Even more strangely, the men who allegedly attacked Anthony Palmer were not Sagebrush staffers, but fellow diners.
The fracas began when a waitress, not the one who'd served the Palmers' large party, complained to them about the lack of tip while they and their relatives were still seated.
Anthony Palmer refused to pay it, but was confronted in the parking lot by two men who'd been sitting at a neighboring table. One man punched him in the face. The other stabbed him.
Forsyth County sheriff's deputies arrested one man and searched for the other. Anthony Palmer was treated at a local hospital and released the following night.
Rule No. 1 of dining out: Always tip your waiter.
Anthony Wayne Palmer was stabbed in the parking lot of a Clemmons, N.C., restaurant last Friday night after failing to pay the tip that had been included in the bill for his wife's birthday dinner.
His wife, Susie Palmer, who had met her husband while waitressing at the Sagebrush, the very restaurant where the attack occurred, defended his decision to the Winston-Salem Journal.
"We took the ticket and scratched out the gratuity and wrote 'Due to poor service,'" she told the newspaper. "Normally, we're great tippers because I have done the business and I know what it was like."
Even more strangely, the men who allegedly attacked Anthony Palmer were not Sagebrush staffers, but fellow diners.
The fracas began when a waitress, not the one who'd served the Palmers' large party, complained to them about the lack of tip while they and their relatives were still seated.
Anthony Palmer refused to pay it, but was confronted in the parking lot by two men who'd been sitting at a neighboring table. One man punched him in the face. The other stabbed him.
Forsyth County sheriff's deputies arrested one man and searched for the other. Anthony Palmer was treated at a local hospital and released the following night.
