Oilers blamed for partially unpaid New Year's Eve tab

$14,000 tab in one evening... Looks like another of these "First Class" joints that charges $500 for a $60 bottle of liquor and then is appauled that someone might negotiate to something a little more reasonably ridiculous.

Putz.

You can't cheat an honest man. Sounds like 6 to one, half a dozen to the other.

It must be an Edmonton time-warp/alternative-universe way of thinking to expect to have your shooters charged by the bottle instead of by the shot. Ah, well, the Oilers can always get the pocket change back by upping the amount they charge per autograph, although with the way this season's team is going most Oiler autographs are probably being used to line the bottom of bird and guinea pig cages by now.

Truthfully, I don't care if it was a hockey team, football team or a bunch of Bill Gates geeks. I just have a loathing for gougers. Especially the victimized martyr breeds.

If you want to be charged by the bottle, you order a bottle, or you make a deal before you start, not after.
Walking out without a tip for the waiters who served a freaking group of 45 is just rude.

All in all, the bill was just $400 per head. If you spend a whole night eating and drinking at an expensive restaurant, I think you should not complain.

Assholes.

Bill skippers are worse than gougers, and I highly doubt any high-paid athletes when they're out eating or clubbing are unaware of the way the so-called upscale restaurants or clubs set their prices. It's not exactly a secret that these places deliberately do it just to keep the alleged "elite" (e.g. pro hockey players) in while simutaneously keeping Joe Schmo schlubs like you and me out. Well, that and so the boys have safe places far from the public eye to pick up the same sort of trashy whores that Tiger Woods does.

I'm amazed by the irony of the whole thing though. High-priced pro atheletes, who's very existential core run along the pure capitalist lines of "they pay me according to the standards of the free market so shut up" get pissed off when another industry charges them by the standards of their own free market. The collision of the competing philosophies is just breath-taking in the awesomeness of it's innate and total dumbness.

No kidding eh?

No kidding eh?

That's also true. Good point.



True dat, too.


I just think the whole thing was freakin' stupid.


What has our society come to.

Having had the pleasure of negotiating with bar owners for different events,
these things are always done before.



Prima donna think they are so special 'hockey players'.

wonderful

Why is this even news? Oh thats right because it happened to be Oilers players in a Calgary restaurant.

A little math now.

You have 45 people, $8K in drinks, $18K total. That's works out to $400 per person for food & drinks, of which $222 of that is in food alone.

Sounds like the owner saw an opportunity to make a quick buck and got caught in the process. Why did he contact the media and not the police??

If I was a restaurateur and it looked like I was going to be out $4000 on a legitimate bill. I would have been on the phone to the cops. And I wouldn't have donated $14000 to charity just because I got screwed. That is unless I was really screwing someone else and got called on it.

Hell I witnessed a man get free room and board at the RD Remand over Christmas for refusing to pay for a plate of Dried Ribs.

Two sides to every story Brenda:



Good thing the Oilers weren’t drunk enough to get taken advantage of by a hustler. Sounds like the staff were, as their tip went to the owner. Let’s just see if any of that goes to charity. Odds are it is all talk.

And he's laughing all the way to the bank because of the huge amount of dimwits living in Calgary who are going to visit his restaurant just because of his asinine tale...

Sounds like this place of business is kept in business from the dimwits from out of town.
They must have trouble with English and basic math.

A list of what the Oilers ordered - according to the controversial bill - at an upscale Calgary restaurant Wednesday:

- -1 hors d'oeuvres -- $450.00

- -45 SP dinner Oilers -- $4,500

- -45 mineral water -- $357.75

- -1 blow job (shooters) -- $39

- -1 blow job (shooters) -- $250

- -1 Crown -- $24.00

- -1 Sljivovica -- $200

- -44 Hiball -- $286

- -3 Amarone 2000 res -- $450

- -2 Brunello 99 -- $260

- -1 Ripasso Sup 03 -- $60

- -4 Ripasso 05 -- $260

- -8 Dom Perignon -- $2,800

- -2 Mags Dom -- $1,000

- -5 Conundrom 07 -- $375

- -2 Moet & Chandon -- $200

- -3 Moet & Chand Nect. -- $450

- -52 Menabrea -- $338

- -8 Coors light -- $44

- -30 Bacardi -- $165

- -65 Tequila -- $487.50

- -62 Grey Goose -- $434

- -18 Sambuca White -- $126

SUBTOTAL -- $13,556.25

GST -- $677.98

Total tab without tip -- $14,234.23

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