I heard of a similar story when I was working at a Red Lobster. On New Year's Eve, an elderly couple was eating when something similar happened to the husband. The manager was eventually notified of the situation (described with shocking similarity to the one above). However, the manager decided to assign the dishwasher the unenviable task of cleaning up. The dishwasher, an incredibly hard working man by the name of Abdullah didn't even flinch when he saw what he was up against, he just grabbed his mop and went to town.
The elderly man was quietly escorted through the back door wearing a pair of rain pants which we used on rainy nights when we'd send someone with an umbrella to customer's cars to walk them into the restaurant.
Abdullah has never had to work a holiday ever again, and earned complete control over the shifts he works, something that's nearly impossible to do in a restaurant.
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