My daughter is on holiday in a well known, popular uk destination at the moment. She is very pregnant, 34 weeks and is absolutely huge. She has just rang me in tears, as they have been out for a lovely meal and after they had left the restaurant she looked at the bill to find the word pregzilla printed on the bill. She said that she had only spoken to the waitress to order and then to ask for a glass of water. Could there be an innocent explanation for this being on the bill or is it an insult ?
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Pregzilla ... Could there be an innocent explanation or is it an insult ?
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Notwavingimdrowning · 17/08/2016 20:40
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botemp ·
17/08/2016 21:00
First of all some 
for your daughter and some 
for you.
An explanation, not quite innocent but an explanation nonetheless, is that in restaurants with a lot of staff turnover, or in this case more likely temporary summer staff, will use distinctive descriptors of patrons in their ticketing system, eg. redhead glasses, rather than table numbers as it's easier to work in staff that way and everyone knows where an order is supposed to go visually rather than remembering all the table numbers and their order. Unfortunately this can turn a little unkind, especially if there's a lot of unsupervised young staff. The descriptor is usually removed when printing the bill, I guess this didn't happen with your daughter.
An Asian woman successfully sued some large American franchise not too long ago when she was termed 'Lady Chink Eyes' and the worst of it was the staff just didn't understand how insensitive that was. If she still has a copy I doubt she'd feel up to it but someone really should put in a complaint with management to set this right if only to prevent it from happening again and ruining someone else's night.
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