Years ago, I was eating at Appleby's with 3 friends. I look at my friends plate and it had a big plastic bag in it. Appleby's obviously just heats up their meals but someone forgot to remove the bag. I said, "dude look at your plate" and started laughing along with the other friends. He was like "WTH" but was ready to let it go. We all said, hell no, we have to report it. So he calls over the manager and had the plate covered up. He then said, "hey is it standard policy for customers to eat plastic pieces in their food". The manager was apologetic, saying he was sorry, that it was an honest mistake but wasn't saying anything to make good on it. He should have at least comped his meal. Okay, this guy is a hard ass. I called one of my lawyer friends and another who was a photographer. They come up there and we started taking pictures of the table, the plate, down my friends throat, etc. The entire restaurant guest started asking questions. That manager was turning ghost white. He comes over, we introduce our lawyer, he was like "oh no", we don't need all that, look you all come back whenever you want bring as many people as you like and the entire meal will be on me, tip included. He writes up a letter and we leave.
About 2 months later, we invite ~11 people back to that Appleby's and we buy up all kind of shit. I think I had 3 dinners, we had wine, appetizers, deserts, galore. The waiters really thought they had a huge tip coming that night. We pull out the paper and the manager on duty was like, "we can't honor this". (The bill was like $1,400). We told him to call the other guy. He come's back to the table and tells us, "have a good evening, Do you want to take home anything?"
To this day, I still don't know how we rang up that much of a bill. Do you know how hard it is to ring up a $1,400 bill at Appleby's (without getting expensive wines that they don't have). That's incredible in itself.
Don't have me win on a slot machine and tell me it was a mistake.