My aunt did the same thing to me but with pasta! I was boiling a whole box of spaghetti for myself and she just stared at the pot like I was committing a crime. Told me my eyes were way bigger than my stomach and she wasn't wrong. Now I do half a box and somehow I'm not starving at 9pm digging through the pantry like a raccoon. The worst part is she was right and I hate admitting it.

That dollar coin part is wild because most registers don't even have a slot for them anymore, so where did he even get that many? I'm wondering if your diner has a backup plan for when the card reader dies, like an old school knucklebuster machine tucked under the counter. Because hand writing 14 receipts while a line builds up sounds like a total nightmare, especially with church crowd people who are already hungry and impatient. Did the owner ever spring for a second terminal or a wifi hotspot backup, or is it still just the one machine that holds the whole place hostage? Seems like every spot I've worked at waits until the thing fully dies before they even think about fixing it.