Alexa R.
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TLDR; was called a liar and had money pocketed by bartender for being confused.
Editing to note that I have been to Coyote Club once before. I was really looking forward to this evening. We walked in with a large group, about 20-ish people all doing a bar crawl; when we arrived, the bar was not busy. Our host had reached out via DM several days in advance to give a heads up that a large amount of people would be showing up, but was not responded to. We do not arrive in a loud manner. Several of us notice the bartender with the shaved + tattooed head was visibly annoyed. We set our things down and my partner goes up and orders a beer, a shot, and hot dog. He’s told there’s a wait for the hot dog and says “No problem!” I go up shortly after and order a Blue Moon and hot dog. Again, 15-20 min. I say “no worries! Thank you.” He doesn’t tell me a total, but I know everything is decently priced, so I hand him a $20. He hands me my change and tbf, I wasn’t paying attention to the amount of change. I had been drinking since 2:30 and it was about 7:30 at this point, but in no way am I being a rude drunk patron. So, I leave all the singles he hands me for the tip. ($3?) was that enough for hot dog and beer? No, not even at their good prices but again, I am drunk! I assumed he put it on my “tab” because several other people in this group have ordered hot dogs already and were told there is a wait.
About 20 minutes later, my friend gathers his food, so I go check for my order. The other bartender with a black bob is available, “Hi. We ordered some hot dogs earlier, are they ready?” They walk away and grab 2. They come back and I say thank you but they say something I don’t quite hear. While I’m picking up the trays, I hear “$8 for the hot dogs.” “Oh! I thought we had paid for them earlier?” They walk away to ask the #1, and he says no. My partner is telling me he definitely paid for his, but at this point, it’s a couple bucks and I don’t find a need to argue or try to figure out what happened—I just I take their word for it, because I know I am drunk at the end of the day, so I hand them a $10 bill. #2 takes the money from me, starts laughing and says: “Oh so you lied. I just caught you in a lie.” She continues to loudly exclaim, “You said you paid, but you’re giving me money. So you know you didnt pay.“ “I’m gonna be honest, I’ve been drinking since 2:30. I wasn’t paying attention to how much cash I was given.” #2 walks away with my $10 and doesn’t return my change. My partner and I are standing there asking what just happened to ourselves, and I frantically grab a menu to double check our math. My partner is frustrated and lost, so he tries to speak with #1 who took both of our orders and he doesn’t do much explaining. When we try to clarify the situation, #2 very angrily says “it’s a cash bar. We don’t have tabs.” And tries to brush it off that it’s “not a big deal” (while being the one who made it a big deal).
I’m an honest person. I am not going on bar crawls to try and pull a fast one on a bar over a hot dog. I was willing to pay twice, since I truly believed I had paid for everything I ordered but they immediately accused me of lying in front of the entire bar.
I understand if I was in the wrong, but never in the exchange was I insistent I had paid for anything, nor was I angry in any capacity. I do not understand why someone who is clearly not being aggressive would be met with such a reaction. All they could have done was ask me how much I paid earlier/what I ordered.
Other individuals in our group were met with terrible attitude and I cannot stress enough how none of us were being rude or belligerent. At the next bar, I heard several people talking about how poorly they were treated. Our host for the crawl is a regular and had never seen these bartenders before, nor had anyone else who frequents.
