275 Cafe and Takeaway — Restaurant in City of Edinburgh

Check your money before and after. They tried to clumsily offload an old pound coin onto my partner today, accusing her of trying to pay with it.

I don’t mind being banned after I confronted them and told them it is a dirty trick to play to take cash and put it in the till then pull out the unusable coin and say ‘I can’t take this’, especially since my partner has an anxiety disorder and came back panicked and extremely upset by the lady behind the till accusing her of this. She stood her ground and refused to accept it was her coin, so I’m proud of her for this. When it didn’t work the lady grumpily said ‘Fine, give it back then’.

I gave them my thoughts on this and they were not pleasant at all about it, there’s better ways to deal with this stuff... but not doing it in the first place is step 1. It’s a shame cos I liked the bacon rolls, and they were otherwise relatively pleasant. This issue was not worth them banning me and my friends, their loss is more than the pound was worth. I hope they learn from this.

I also hope the legal £1 I left them as a token of the fact it isn’t about the pound (I don’t care about that) but the mentality of taking advantage of a customer made my point to them. If they’re so desperate for cash as to pull this dirty trick on someone with an anxiety disorder then they must need that £1 more than me.

But here’s the thing, it could be them saying it was a tenner you handed them not a twenty next time. Much...

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o one had acknowledged...