From dinner with my bf.
I'm upset because of something he said during a disagreement in a conversation we were having during dinner.
He brought up how it was dumb that buffets don't do to go orders if you don't finish your food and that this place in California did.
(No buffet i've ever been to lets you do to go if you don't finish you're food so i'm not sure wth he was talking about). Since my parents own a restaurant and i know the cost of how much it is to run a restaurant down to the little details, i told him business-wise it doesn't make sense because if it's an all you can eat buffet already, you're giving away a lot of food + paying for boxes all for free. People would eat all they want and then get another plate so they could ask for a to go box. It's a lot of money that businesses cannot afford.
His argument was that if it's a buffet then people are already wasting a lot of food and it doesn't make any difference, and it will bring in more customers if they get to take their left overs home.
I told him, i get what he is saying but for businesses it doesn't make sense and i feel a little more qualified to say so because my parents own a restaurant and i know how much everything costs.
He comes at me with 'well your parents don't own a 'buffet', and you're ONLY A WAITRESS.
I'm pissed, that is such a personal insult to me and i'm REALLY hurt.
We left and i told him i'm leaving when we got to his house, which turned into him still trying to prove his point when i told him repeatedly i'm done with the conversation. He said i hurt him by disagreeing with him and 'shooting down' his idea.
BECAUSE IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE! And he's NEVER been in the restaurant business before.
He just texted me this:
"i'm apologizing so u don't need to respond, so plz don't. i didn't mean it the way you took it, we shouldn't have been arguing in the first place, u don't have to disagree with me on things U THINK ur right about. so if u didn't start disagreeing with me about something i've seen and experienced before then nobody would have gotten hurt cuz i'm upset too that u got to sit there and tell me i'm wrong when its something i've seen."
Yeah some apology that is. i'm still pissed. i didn't respond.