Rapacious

"Grievances, including friction between kitchen and dining room staff, rapacious management and near-universal bitterness over tipping, are being revealed with gusto on the Internet by restaurant staff members."
[NY Times, "The Waiter You Stiffed Has Not Forgotten" by Julia Moskin*]

ADJECTIVE: 1. Taking by force; plundering. 2. Greedy; ravenous. See synonyms at voracious. 3. Subsisting on live prey.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, from rapere, to seize.
OTHER FORMS: ra·pacious·ly —ADVERB
ra·paci·ty, ra·pacious·ness —NOUN
#