
Yesterday at Buffalo Wild Wings, A guy by the name of "Steven" (that is the name he gave me,i'm not sure if its real) walks into the restaurant and asks to buy a gift card. I am working the cash register and I say, "sure,pick one out." So he goes and does so and I start the process of activating said gift card. I asked for his form of payment. He then gives me a fifty-dollar bill. ON SITE,I can tell its fake. It looked slightly smaller that usual and the moment it touched my hand,I KNEW it was fake. So I say to him,"excuse me,I have to get my manager,there is something wrong with the barcode. Its giving me an error message." So I take both the gift card and the fake fifty with me and walk away. As I am walking through the kitchen, I say aloud to myself, " I like how people think i'm fucking stupid." I go in back by the coolers and call for my manager,Simba. I tell her the situation and she takes the bill and checks it AND THE BILL TURNS OUT TO BE REAL. My manager and I are BOTH not fooled. We determined that the ACTUAL bill was either a one dollar or a five dollar bill,(which is what I thought) that have been altered to appear like a genuine fifty dollar bill. So Simba confiscated the bill and she went out to speak with, "Steven." My teammate Ashley asked what was going on and I told her and asked her to do a "drive-by." (meaning sneak up front and see if said guest is still there.) I told Ashley that I wasn't going up there AT ALL. If he was still there. Ashley and I overhear some of the conversation and Simba walks back and relays the conversation to us. If I had of noticed immediately,he would've had a gift card with twenty dollars and I would've given him thirty dollars in change,thus he still would of had fifty dollars between the two and my drawer would of been short. She tells us that he "needed his change and his uber was waiting outside." To which she replied "NO." Then he has the AUDACITY TO ASK,"Why?" To which she responds, "BECAUSE ITS FAKE!!" He then CONFIRMS ITS FAKE by saying "Yea." Then asks, "Can I get it back,doh?" To which she replies,"No! Its confiscated!" The nerve of some people! My manager took the bill,and has it up in the office as an example for my teammates to see. This happens just a few months after the managers warned us that an influx of fake money was coming into our area. Again,the audacity!!!!