She Called Out Her Cousin’s Fiancé For Ordering Extra Expensive Food At A Michelin Star Restaurant And Expecting Her Aunt And Uncle To Foot The Bill
Have you ever seen someone purposefully order a lot of food and drinks at a restaurant because they know someone else will pay the bill?
One woman recently confronted her cousin’s fiancé, who ordered himself some extra, very expensive food during a special family dinner her distant relatives were paying for.
She’s 34, and her family lives in Canada, but they’re of Chinese descent. She’s part of a large family and still gets the opportunity to visit her cousins.
However, her aunt and uncle, Gloria and Aaron, live in China and recently visited for the first time in four years. It was a very special occasion since they had a three-year-old son that everyone got to meet for the first time.
Aaron and Gloria very kindly hosted a large Chinese banquet dinner for their family of 16 at a Michelin-starred restaurant.
“Dinner is served family style [with an] 11-course set menu ordered in advance,” she explained.
“My cousin, Monica, brought her fiancé, Todd, who was not initially invited. So we ended up being 17 guests.”
“This wasn’t a huge deal, just a minor oversight. There was plenty of room and food to go around. Two dinner sets were ordered, enough food for 20 people. We had four Peking ducks, and everyone got a generous serving of five to seven wraps each.”
In the middle of the meal, another Peking duck, which cost $280, was brought to the table. Her aunt Gloria looked confused until Todd announced that he had ordered himself another duck, as that was the main thing he wanted to fill up on.
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Everyone was shocked, and her uncle was visibly stressed, but in order to keep the peace, no one said anything.
To make matters worse, when the bill, which cost thousands of dollars, came to the table, Todd said nothing about paying for his extra duck. He simply left the restaurant to smoke while her aunt and uncle paid.
On the way home, she carpooled with Todd, Monica, her parents, and Monica’s mother, and she couldn’t hold her tongue.
“I spoke up about Todd being out of line and rude for doing that [and] I told them it was a slap in the face,” she recalled.
“They were being more than generous [by] taking us to a Michelin-star restaurant. Todd rebutted back that if they are rich enough to take us there, they can afford to have a few extra dishes added.”
“I said that was beside the point. Monica said she would pay them back [but] my argument was less about the money and more so how Todd went about doing what he did without even acknowledging it as being rude or ungracious.”
Todd then said that if her aunt and uncle really wanted him to pay for his duck, they would’ve said something.
However, she knows her relatives were too gracious to do that. She asked Todd to acknowledge his mistake and apologize to her aunt and uncle, but he said he felt like he did nothing wrong.
Monica took Todd’s side, and the two of them had no intention to do anything about the situation.
Should Todd pay for his extra food, or did he not do anything wrong?
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