Normally get take out from the local Mexican place nearby, during COVID they were hurting and they’re DAMN good hardworking folks. Added $10 every order. After going through the ‘08 recession I know how it feels to be a business owner being choked out. I waited tables at Plantation key for 9 months when I was 18/19yo Guy owned a liquor store in Marathon would come in and ask for me once a week. Just he and his wife. They’d run up a $150 bill, he always wanted a water glass full of Dewars white label with a couple cubes of ice, Stone crab claws appetizer, prime rib for entree. As soon as I walked up he’d hand me a $100 bill and say “this is for the service you’re going to give us tonight”
First time it happened, with my other tables all in ear shot, he added “so if anyone’s has to wait tonight is it gonna be us or these people” as he pointed to my other tables. With all of them looking at me by this point, I quickly said “Them!”
