A server went viral on TikTok after a table allegedly walked out on their tab and she was told she had to cover the cost of their meal.
Throngs of users on the platform decried the practice as "illegal" and urged the server to report the restaurant and/or sue the establishment for making her financially cover the cost of of the lost revenue on the table.
The video was uploaded by Katelyn Sullivan (@katensullivan) and has amassed over 65,000 likes, with hundreds of users leaving replies in the comments section. The Daily Dot has reached out to her via TikTok comment for further information.
A text overlay on Katelyn's TikTok reads, "When the table doesn't pay and the manager says you have to pay their $60 check and you don't have $60."
There were many users who protested the manager's bailed-table-coverage-policy. A user who goes by Kat on the platform wrote, "id be quitting that day or sue or both."
Another viewer named Gabbi wrote, "as a manager at a restaurant that is 100% illegal." One TikToker called Kitty cat said, "they legally can not make you pay that. my old manager tried that with me once but I didn't let it happen."
It seems that there are a number of users on the app, however, who say that they've been forced to do this themselves at their own server jobs.
"Me reading all the comments this is illegal when this happens to me all the time," a user wrote. TikTok user Diana also said, "I had to either pay or take a write up," while another viewer named Sydney...
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