Bogus waiter tricks customers at 2 NJ restaurants

[Food Network Fan]

Bogus waiter tricks customers at 2 NJ restaurants
AP - Sat Apr 18, 1:55 PM ET Sent 511 times HOBOKEN, N.J. - Police say a man posing as a waiter collected $186 in cash from diners at two restaurants in New Jersey and walked out with the money in his pocket.

[Food Network Fan]

Guess we need to pay attention to who we give our money to now.

[Bentley Green]

Boy!! What a crock!

Imangine that! That is just obsurd. Goes to show that you just can't trust your restaurant, or in this case, the wait staff.

Guess you have to do dry runs these days to see if the workers in an eatery are real & legit.

That's about as bad as those waitresses who were getting peoples' credit / debit card #'s and overchaging them to get money from their cards! Remember that one?

[Food Network Fan]

Sometimes there will be a shift change or someone filling in for a lunch break while you are there. It would be tough to know.

[isilzha]

Sometimes I just forget what they look like.

[Food Network Fan]

Yeah me too. If I am focused on my husband or family and they aren't real talkative. They can kind of fade into the background.

[Bentley Green]

Some restaurants where I've dined, the employees all wear a name tag with their names on them as well as the logo of the restaurant.

Now that I think of it, they should all wear these so that you know who is who. And anyone who doesn't have one, that person can be suspected of being a fake waiter or waitress.

[Food Network Fan]

I haven't seen name tags for years. And places that did have them were very low budget.

[Bentley Green]

Kind of reminds me of the cancer-faking woman who recently bilked unsuspecting people who felt sorry for her out of over $10,000 with her supposedly sad story!

[isilzha]

Sometimes they tell you their name, but I never remember. I never expected people to remember my name at Quiznos either.