Sega GameGear. That thing had a better screen than any portable gaming device would for another 20+ years, but it would eat 6 AA batteries in less than an hour. There were rechargable battery packs you could get for it but they were heavy as shit and didn’t last noticeably longer, you could play it with the battery pack plugged into the charger but then you’re not actually mobile at all so you might as well play the same games on the Genesis.

I can’t speak with confidence about the legal situation in other countries, but in the US frivolous lawsuits are routinely punished by having the plaintiff cover the defendant’s legal costs plus compensation for their trouble. Avoiding liability in general is still best practice, but there’s no significant risk of liability from actions taken by a customer in the dining area, customers are supposed to be there and nobody could reasonably expect the restaurant owner/management to predict and/or control the behavior of all of their customers. The customer would be held responsible for their actions and would be on the hook for any damages.

“they represent a highly complex and dynamic area of tort law. They pose especially complex legal issues”

Like I said, not simple at all. If the business owner wants to reduce liability they should definitely not be serving anything on a scalding hot piece of metal. A customer spilling any amount of non-scalding food onto another customer will absolutely not result in a successful lawsuit, at worst they might have to comp a meal or two. Feel free to try finding even a single example to the contrary, I’m open to being proven wrong.

Nothing in this wiki article proves me wrong, any injury to himself or other customers could just as easily occur without him carrying his own plate and the legal liability sitiation for it would be completely unchanged. And it is absolutely not simple, try actually reading the article you linked.

There is no evidence that he was carrying fajitas or anything else served on a scalding hot piece of metal, you can plainly see a normal plate in his hand. And yeah actually serving food on a scalding hot piece of metal is fundamentally fucking unsafe. There is no evidence he got in any employees way or disrupted any workflow. There is no evidence that he isn’t trained, dude could just as easily be a food service employee himself. Quit making shit up and just admit you don’t know enough to judge.

Not half as weird as the commenters here making shit up to justify getting mad about a relatively innocuous behavior, yourself included. He could just as easily bump into someone and spill food on them while walking across the dining area for any reason, him carrying his own plate changes absolutely nothing. And if the food was hot enough to geld someone then the restaurant is going to get sued for serving it at absurdly unsafe temperatures, and they’ll deserve it, that also has fuck all to do with this guy carrying his own plate.

That would be contaminating the food and plates, not the counter, moron. And no I didn’t ignore your other points, I said the liability situation is unchanged because they can all just as easily occur without him carrying his own plate, learn to read. If you’ve got some evidence to suggest this guy goes around coughing on people’s food feel free to post it, otherwise quit making shit up and just admit you don’t know enough to judge.

Another baseless assumption, I know goddamn well I’m not being nice to the many stupid commenters here. You do not have enough info in this post to judge, if you’re going to pretend otherwise I’m going to give you a hard time about it.

Likewise bud

These are reasonable follow up questions to ask, we do not have enough info

Fair, you did say years though, plural, which is still unrealistic

More baseless assumptions, and incorrect ones at that, be better

Impatient =/= rude or hostile, per the post he’s smiling with no visible indication of anger or displeasure, you don’t have a clue what his motives are or how nice he may or may not be about it

This is the first/only good point I’ve seen here as to why this would be a bad thing to do regardless of legal liability or his demeanor or intent. Management don’t need a legal or moral justification to be assholes.

Being surrounded by hot food and other guests is unavoidable in a restaurant dining area, that’s kinda the point of the space. Yes actually hot food can be spilled onto a customer by a different customer walking through the dining area for any reason at all, not exclusive to this scenario. I’m not concerned at all with who was “meant” to do the work, as long as the employee in question still gets paid the end result is the same. It’s weird behavior for sure, but not necessarily harmful or malicious.

“Contaminating the counter” isn’t a thing, nobody is eating off of the counter. Every other problem you listed can just as easily be caused by a customer walking across the dining room to the bathroom. I believe you when you say you didn’t think that hard.

He can just as easily do that walking across the dining room to the bathroom regardless of who brings his food to his table, it changes absolutely nothing about the risk involved or the legal liability.

Recycling still consumes energy which can be just as non-renewable as the energy used for making paper, and the impact of mining is far greater than hemp farming even at its worst. Try harder.

This is the first good point anyone’s brought up so far, the legal liability implications for carrying a plate across the room to his table are negligible but management don’t need legal justification for being assholes to their staff.

Nothing about the post implies he’s imitating the employees in any way beyond carrying his own plate. Idk what you mean by “consequences town” the only consequence for me so far has been responding to/correcting people who are hellbent on assuming bad things about this person for which we have no evidence. You are unique in that you weren’t satisfied making things up about him and felt compelled to imagine negative shit about me as well.

We have no idea if the food was on a tray or whether there were any other customers orders present to get mixed up. I agree it’s weird as shit, and you can welcome it or not as you please, assuming it’s an insult or passive-aggressive is still entirely baseless. Literally any hazard it could cause to another customer or server could just as easily be caused by him walking to the bathroom. Your boyfriend does sound nice, I also do that.