Warning: This place PHOTOCOPIES your credit card and driver's license!
The chicks are nice, but... here's what happened to me one night:
At the end of the night the waitress brings my bill which includes the credit card slip, the itemized receipt, and a color photocopy of my credit card and driver's license. I was surprised. "Why are you photocopying my credit card and driver's license?" I ask. She said it was their "policy." I signed the receipt, took the photocopy and then she said: "I actually need that, I'm supposed to turn it in." I wasn't going to get in argument with a pretty girl, so I said, "Could you send your manager over?" She said she would.
So a short haired guy in a suit comes over to my table and I ask him: "Why are you photocopying my credit card and driver's license?" He says: "Well in case the charge is disputed, we'll have a record." I asked if their photocopier had a memory card and if they were storing the images. He said "no" and offered to show me the copier. I said that wouldn't be necessary. I asked, "If you were going to photocopy my credit card and driver's license without telling me, why would you then show me those copies when it was time for me to sign my receipt?" He said it was the waitress's fault and she wasn't supposed to show me the copies. I said, "Well... she did. So that's my information you copied. My image. My stuff. Therefore, mine. So if you present it me, I'm taking it back. I'm not giving you permission to photocopy my credit card and driver's license." He tried to explain that they get a lot of chargebacks and he brought up "minimizing risk" again. But I continued: "Is there some LAW on the books that says if you photocopy this it's yours and I have to give this back to you?" He said, "It's our policy. We want to 'minimize risk.'" I said, "You can make any silly policies you want, but if you're in business these are the risks you have to accept." Then he said, "It's not 'your job' to tell us what our policies should be." I said, "F*ck that. It's my job to protect myself and my information as a consumer. I didn't give you permission to photocopy my credit card and driver's license. You did it anyway and then you showed me the copies. You weren't smart enough to buy a copier with a memory card and now you feel you're trapped into arguing with me about getting these particular photocopies back from me? No matter what? Nice plan." He wanted to get into a long-winded argument about business risk or something and I didn't feel like having that discussion. I said, "I tell you what, I'm not giving the photocopies back. You'll have to punch me in the face if you really want them."
So he says, "Well, I'll have to escort you out of here." I said, "Fine." I walk ahead of him and as we pass the door guy he loudly announces to the door guy: "Hey, Jerry," (or whatever his name was) "This guy is never allowed back in here again!" I was like, well whatever. My friend was outside smoking a cigarette and talking to another short haired guy in a suit and I said to my friend, "Sorry dude, I guess we gotta go now - they photocopied my credit card and driver's license and I took the copies back. I guess that bothers them enough to kick me out." So this new short-haired guy in a suit wants to talk to me about "minimizing risk" and their business policies. Again?! I was like, "Yeah, whatever man we'll have to disagree on that sh*t." And he says, "I'm sorry" and offers to shake my hand. (??) I was like, "No dude, I'm not shaking your hand! F*ck that! You just kicked me out, what the hell is the matter with you?" Me and my friend turned and left.
So what the hell? Are strip clubs everywhere photocopying credit cards and driver's licences without telling their patrons they're doing so? Anybody else run into this bullsh*t? You know a lot of cocaine and other shady sh*t goes through strip clubs, so it wouldn't be all that big a leap to set up a little selective identity theft business on the side if they wanted to. Hell, they've got the color photocopier. Who's to say that copier didn't really have a memory card? I guess in the future I'm just going to pay CASH only. So that's my beef.
If you're on Reddit: http://redd.it/f76oc read more