“Did you refuse to pay correctly?”
Posted on CDT on April 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
We’ve all heard of them “pay it upfront.”
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When a barista informs you that your previous customer has paid for your order, you are at the Starbucks drive-thru. Whether you love or hate it, many people continue to chain and pay for the people behind them as well.
However, many people are opposed to drive-throop traction, which is common online. Whether it’s McDonald’s, Chickfil A, or Dunkin, most customers hate the pressure to pay the unknown amounts that the person behind them pays. Several employees have also called for this practice.
But what if you pay back instead?
That might sound like that something Straight from Tim Robinson’s Comedy Sketch Show I think you should leavehowever, one Dunkin’s customer actually tried it.
Do you want to pay backwards with Dunkin?
A fellow Dunkin customer, Samantha (@samanthawhitebrochu from Tiktok), falls into an interesting predicament after trying to pay at the drive-thru. She says the man before her said he would pay Dunkin’s employee for his order.
She shared some strange situations in the trendy Tiktok with over 948,000 views.
“Through a dunk drive that lied to the employee, I told the random guy in front of me I’d pay for his order. The video shows her doing her Dunkin’s iced coffee as she sniffs in her car with a stoic look.
The commenter was shocked that Dunkin’s employee believed in the man.
“Why do they believe it?” asked one viewer.
“I think shocking employees believe in paying for the opposite scenario,” joked the second time.
“Did you refuse to pay correctly? They couldn’t force you to do that,” another said.
Had Samantha had to pay for his Dunkin’s order?
It’s definitely not.
Follow up videoSamantha makes it clear that he didn’t pay for his coffee. She paid only her order.
“Employees were pretty good about it once they realised what actually happened,” she says in the clip. “It was pretty seamless after that, because I was just surprised by the fact that someone would do that.”
“But let’s do this the right way, for a good way,” she says.
Samantha then raises to the Dunkin’s drive-through window and offers to pay for the order Behind she. It’s not in front of you.
@samanthawitebrochu I mean this with the greatest disrespect #Karma #coffee #dunkin Doing well in by Marino – promoting sound
Is the Pay-it-Forward chain a scam?
Whether you’re happy about them or not, pay-it-forward chains are a relatively common event in drive-thru. But they are not usually a scared scam. You can tell employees at drive-thru facilities that they don’t want to participate.
1 Taco Bell customer in 2023 It has been reported A fellow drive-thru customer who comes after her on pay-it-forward “scam.” The woman above got out of the car and charged the customer behind her for an order of $60.
However, the woman behind it said it was becoming a mess on behalf of Taco Bell employees.
So unless someone catches you trying to pay it backwards, there probably isn’t a scam.
Daily Dot contacted Samantha via Tiktok’s comments and emailed Dunkin.
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