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With their usual smorgasbord of awful, breakfast-related puns, the Post is reporting (with a "It's scam and eggs" headline) on an expensive scam that went on at the Belvedere Hotel on West 48th Street. Mary Comis, the 62-year-old controller of the hotel amassed $208,000 over three years by scamming patrons through the hotel's breakfast specials. The hotel had two specials for guests: The American Breakfast priced at $19.95, and a Continental Breakfast at $13.95. While calculating the large breakfast totals, Comis would charge the $6 difference to herself, meaning "she would have had to pull the scam roughly 34,699 times." The amounts she charged were so small that nobody caught on until recently. She's expected to serve 300 hours of community service, and is currently paying all of the money back to the Belvedere. Too bad, otherwise it would have been a parfait crime. (Your move, Post.)
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35,000 times?! That's what you call a cereal scam artist.
I can certainly tell the difference between $20 and $14 when they bring the bill. Not because $6 is huge, but because I would be a bit curious that I paid $20 for a shitty continental breakfast.
No one would be overcharged (beside the overcharging that $20 for a breakfast buffet may be), and no one would see an incorrect bill. People ordered the $20 meal, and would be billed $20 and would pay that amount. Ultimately it would go into the hotel's books as if they'd only been billed and paid $14, and she'd keep the difference.
If people did order the $14 meal, she didn't do anything and didn't get anything.
It's probably also incorrect to say that she had to pull the scam nearly 35,000 times. She was the controller; she wasn't working a cash register. She likely just made a blanket change to a bunch of records at once... daily, weekly, or maybe even monthly.
Thanks for the clear and logical explanation. The NY Post account didn't make a lot of sense (no editors there?), but then that's the NYPost for you.
The real crime is an overpriced shitty hotel charging $14-$20 bucks for breakfast. What do they get per night in that place? $500 or more? The hotel owners should get community service for charging for breakfast as well.