Imagine being so bad in maths that you get sued over it. Well, this is exactly what one customer did after the suggested tips on his $38.50 bill were between $11.50 and $16.94 for 15-20%. Not only this but he noticed that the same error in calculation happened when he visited the Cheesecake Factory location in Valencia, California.
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How bad you can be with numbers? Bad to the point that you get sued for errors in your calculations? Yes, this is what happened when Marcel Goldman caught an error and decided to sue the restaurant because the suggested tips on his $38.50 bill were between $11.50 and $16.94 for 15-20%.
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Goldman got suspicious of the numbers and the amount that was summed by the restaurant based on his total bill.
He noticed that the restaurant calculated numbers based on the total bill instead of just Goldman’s portion because the bill had been broken up for each person.
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Goldman’s attorney Julian Hammond said: “Consumers should be aware. Why are we left to our own devices to do arithmetic acrobatics when the suggested gratuity represented is not true? The mathematic calculation is misleading. It must end; it needs to change.”
