A waiter has been slammed after revealing they gave "virgin" cocktails to a pregnant woman when she asked for alcoholic ones.
The server revealed they brought the woman in her late 20's round after round of non-alcoholic cocktails despite her asking for alcoholic ones after hearing her reveal to her friends that she was pregnant, saying she was "14 weeks along".
The waiter, who shared their story via Reddit, persuaded the bartender to mix virgin cocktails only for the woman, despite never confirming her pregnancy with her.
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The serve wrote: "During my shift last night, a group of four women in their late 20s came in. They were a pleasure to have as customers. They ordered four of our house cocktails to start with and then went over the menu for their entrees.
"This time, I went to the bartender, and asked him to make one of them a virgin cocktail. He was confused, but since he's a good friend of mine, I told him to just trust me."
When the group of friends came to pay, the waiter realised that the cocktails were marked as virgins on the bill.
When the woman realised too, she queried it with the server which lead to a hostile confrontation, resulting in management being called and the server being suspended.
"{My manager] also informed me that I could get the restaurant in serious trouble for discrimination, and upon examination of my state's laws, she is correct.
The server then went on to ask: "Am I the a**hole?"
Some users strongly disagreed with the server's decision to serve the woman non-alcoholic drinks without her knowledge.
One user wrote: "If you really didn’t feel comfortable serving her, you should have told your manager, not made a bad decision on your own."
Another pointed out that, without confronting the woman, the server didn't have enough evidence to make the call on her own: "Unless you saw the woman pee on a pregnancy test, you had no way of knowing for sure that she was pregnant. She could have been talking about someone else, a past pregnancy, or she could be planning to terminate the pregnancy. That wasn’t your call to make."
A third user said that even if the woman was pregnant, it was not the server's place to intervene:
"You don’t get to decide what another person of legal age decides to consume. Mind your own business."
A fourth reader suggested that they should have been brave enough to call the woman out:
“While it was a good thing to not serve her alcohol they should have sucked it up and said it to their face that she wasn't going to be served. Right to refuse service and all that but they handled it very poorly.”
