Nothing was ever his fault always someone else's fault, and he would blame anyone and everyone. Mr. F. would also steal tips, I am serious, take the tip right off the table, and if a customer said give the change to the waitress, he wouldn't give you all of it, and sometimes none of it. The first time I quit, it was a Friday night, and they called me back in after working lunch, he knew I needed the money, so he knew I would come back. Anyway I had a party of about 20 people, and it was a very big, everyone wanted something different, and guess what, Mr. F. was cooking, I knew this was a mistake, I turned in their order and went and got their salads.
When the food started coming out, I notice I had a couple extra of one dish, and the stuff they really ordered wasn't there, so myself and one of the other girls, went in the kitchen telling him, he had made too many of one dish, and I was missing these three dishes, he threw a plate at me, started screaming profanities at me, and told me to tell the people that he wasn't cooking their food over, they would have to eat what he cooked. I was shocked, I have been waiting table for 15 years and I have never had a manager, owner, or anyone tell me to tell a customer that. most places say the customer is always right, but in Mr. F.'s world he is the only one that is right. By this time I was in tears, and very angry, I went to the table, crying and told the customers exactly what he had said, and told them another waitress would be taking over their party, I was leaving, the main man at this table got up and followed me right to the kitchen, I kept walking right out the back door, but apparently he stopped and talk to Mr. F.. The man demanding to know what was going on, and of course since I wasn't there to defend myself so he blamed everything on me.
This had not only happened to me, but a lot of the other waitress's too, it was a very common thing, and for some reason Mr. F. always came out smelling like roses. After that night, I heard from other employee's and customers how he said I was stealing from him, and all kinds of crap, he would just make things up. During the time that I was there, we went through so many employee's, if they pissed him off, he would have a waitress get rid of them, and some of the reasons were just plain stupid and he always talked down to everyone, I still don't understand why he is still in business.
That Friday at lunch, the other waitress and I had eaten lunch and took food home to my kids, which I didn't have to pay for my food, and the kids food was half price, he said I could pay for it the next day, but since I pissed him off that night, he took the entire check, dinner prices, which were more expensive, including my food and the other waitress's right out of my check. When I first started working for him there was this young girl, I will call Sharon, he didn't like her and wanted to get rid of her, one night she came into work, he told her he didn't need her that night, so she went in the bathroom to use her hair straightener while she was waiting on her ride, her boyfriend. The was a man eating in the restaurant and talking to Mr. F., when all of the sudden Mr. F. said hey she took a bottle of wine, now I am here to tell you, all I seen in her hand was the hair straightener and nothing else, no one asked me though, the police came and arrested the poor girl, I wanted so bad to tell them that he was a jerk and I didn't see her take anything, but I needed this job, and the guy at the table was an off duty police officer.
I was in court the next day paying a traffic ticket, and there she was, crying her eyes out, telling the judge she didn't take the bottle of wine, I should have and wished I would have stood up and told the truth, but I knew if I did I would be next. I never heard what happened to Sharon, and I am truly sorry, but you have to understand how this man was. I never met anyone in my life that could lie so much and get away with it, this man was pure evil and everyone who meets him knows it.
