Estaurant.com is ruining by business. I had 2 guys approach me from the hotel across the street of my restaurant, they sold me on the fact that I would be featured nationally and the exposure was unlike any other sight out there. They said let us take some pictures and a menu and we will have you up in no time 4 hrs to be exact.
By the next day I had so many people coming in with these gift certificates. Until by the end of the week I went to my bank and my friend Robin told me that all the girls in the bank bought gift certificates for $1 and asked my if I will honor them. I felt sick and said their is a problem here.
After quick review of the accounting for the week, I realized that our profits were bleak at best and said there is something really wrong here. We had so many of those g/c this week why are we in such bad shape only to realize. The restaurant owners are the ones who suffer, people buy these g/c for a dollar and we give them $25 dollars worth of food and the waitresses make gratuity on these things.
This was insane to me I also have to pay the guys in the kitchen who prepare this stuff. Bottom line is stop it now. Put up an article in your window of your restaurant and let these people know they are a scam like I did and you cannot honor those certificates, If they want to come back to same restaurant 6 months from now.
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