Everyday when I start work, the first thing I'll do is to make sure that I have enough pens with me. I need pens to take orders, note down reservations, and for customers to sign credit slips. What annoys me the most is when I lend my pens to the customers, I don't get it back.
Not all restaurants provide pens for their staffs. Like me, I bought the pens with my hard earned money and I really get very frustrated when customers keep my pen into their pockets. Taking a pen without asking is just like stealing.
There was once when I handed my pen out to a customer to sign the credit slip. After signing, he said to his friends, "This pen writes smoothly!", then he popped the pen into his pocket. That was my pen and he took it without asking. I did not ask him for my pen, but I felt really annoyed. He was dressed in a nice suit, looks just like a working professional, but he 'steals' my pen in front of my eyes.
It is not very expensive to buy a pen, but as a waitress, I am writing with a pen everyday. If I lost 1 pen per day, $1 per pen, that means $26 per month. $26 is equivalent to almost 8 packets of chicken rice.
The reason I wrote this post is because this is something that is happening in almost every restaurants. I hope that everybody who dines in a restaurant can be a nice customer. If you really like to keep the pen, ask the waitress, I am sure that the waitress will not reject you.
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