Please clarify. The boy cashier was the same boy who brought the cake out? If so, he knew the story behind the cake and the big mix up. Otherwise, if it were another cashier, chances are very likely that they didn't know about the drama about the cake and may have overlooked or assumed you paid at the bakery?

I have never ordered a $45.00 birthday cake. It must have been a very nice cake, (and you did reply that it was one of the best cake you ever had). I would have demanded for a discount because of the mistake, but I could not in good conscience enjoy the cake knowing that I didn't pay for it.

Would it make you fell better to go back and explain to the manager that it may have been overlooked and you would like to pay for it now? And then if the manager there tells you that he authorized the free cake, but didn't tell you, that's cool.

Now, same scenario but your 18 year old son is with you. Same outcome?

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