Woman handed a Dunkin’ staff $20 bill for daughter’s meal. Then they deny taking it and the situation gets worse: ‘I know my truth’
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Paying with cash should be simple. But things can quickly get confusing when a customer says they handed over money and an employee says they never received it.
Having to argue over the change you’re owed is frustrating enough. But this time, the disagreement wasn’t about the amount of change. It was about whether the money had been handed over in the first place.
A video posted by the TikTok account Planet (@fejahsarah) shows a woman claiming that’s what happened during a visit to Dunkin’. She was sure she had paid, while employees disputed whether the money had ever been handed over. With both sides giving different accounts, there was one clear way to find out what really happened.
So who had it right?
The customer explained that she arrived at Dunkin’ with $72. Her daughter had $5, but after losing $2 outside, the mother gave her additional money to buy lunch. Her daughter placed an order, paid, and received her change.
That transaction was already finished when the mother placed a second order. According to the customer, she handed a female Dunkin’ employee a $20 bill, but the employee allegedly denied receiving it when it was time to settle the transaction.
The customer insisted she had paid. She explained that she planned to spend $55 elsewhere and keep the remaining cash as spending money for the week. “I just want my $20 back,” she said. “I had something to do with that money.” “I’m a hard working woman,” she added. “Yes, I just got paid, but I’ve got bills.”
Staff apparently checked the cash drawers, but the $20 wasn’t found. The customer said employees were trying to resolve the issue and planned to check the store’s security cameras.
A police officer was also present during the dispute. He went through the transactions with the customer, confirming that her daughter’s purchase had been completed before the mother placed her second order. The video does not make clear who contacted police.
The customer maintained that she handed over $20 during that second transaction. She was told that the cameras could show whether the bill crossed the counter and that if the footage showed no exchange, she wouldn’t get the money back. “I know my truth,” she responded.
As staff worked to resolve the dispute, the customer was eventually handed $20 back. A Dunkin’ employee apologized, but after spending nearly half an hour trying to recover the money, she still wanted an explanation.
“Sorry for what exactly?” she asked. “What exactly happened though?” Instead of receiving a detailed answer, the customer was told that it was “an in-house thing.”
That response left viewers wondering what had happened. “They have cameras, speak to the manager to run it back,” one person commented.
The police involvement also drew attention. “So they called the cops first before looking at the camera? I feel like they wanted to intimidate the customer!!” another wrote.
Some viewers accused an employee of taking the money. “So an employee tried to steal the money then owned up when they realised it was getting serious,” one claimed.
Another offered a different possibility, suggesting that the employee who returned the $20 may have been a manager simply trying to resolve the dispute. “That Manager probably gave her the $20 to get her to stop making a scene,” they wrote.
However, the video does not establish that an employee stole the money. The security footage isn’t shown, and it remains unclear whether staff reviewed it before returning the $20. The “in-house thing” response also doesn’t explain what actually happened. The customer ultimately got her money back. But when a cash transaction at the register goes wrong, that doesn’t always answer the question of what happened in the first place.
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