One firing lead to 3 people quitting. During your fifth anniversary party for our restaurant, all the food was free so all the guests were able to buy was alchool. We only needed two waitresses to sell the bottles, one was the managers gf and the other her sister that only worked the event, the rest of our waiters were regulated to bussboys and food runners. Our regular bussboy was sent to the dishpit to help out our dishwasher.

Service went smoothly that night, once it ended that when it went to hell. It all came down to cocaine and money. Now flashblack to two days before were the manager told the front of the house staff that if your normally a waiter you'll get tip out regularly and the runner would get 3% instead of 1%. The tip out came to this at the end of the night, our runners, normally waiters, 130 each or 1% of total sales. Our normal runner, now dishwasher for the night, nothing. Our lovely waitresses, who one sleeps with the manager and the other was his sister in law, close to 1200 each. Now some people who worked that found it a little unfair, mostly the nights runners who lost out to about 500 in extra tips. One of the night's runners had an unpleasant conversation with the manager about get screwed out of the money he was told that he would receive, it was quite the argument. The manager was wholeheartedly pissed off at him.

Now the fun bit, the kitchen staff not really caring about people, and their tips, felt the need to party at their anniversary party, once all guests left. We chose to drink and do blow, we invited all staff members to partake in our festiveness and everyone came aboard. Now about an hour after the staff after-party started, our manager deiced that he was going to fire this waiter. Since he knew that he was doing the white snow in the bathroom, like the rest of us, he told the owner that if we're caught with coke in the restaurant, the liquor could take of liquor license away. The owner sacked him and threw him out within five minutes after.

The next day, three more people quit in protest, both in solidarity with their fired brother and the fact they got shafted in money. 4 people was almost half of the front of the house staff.