Deadbeat Diners Get Caught

Sharon

Sharon

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When two diners at Buckely's restaurant walked out last night without paying their tab, the owner took matters into his own hands. He wasn't going to say goodbye to $100 worth of food without a fight.

Their bill shows they ordered the works; the filet, two bottles of wine, and extras. Then, they asked the server to get two more glasses of wine and dessert while they went out to smoke. But instead of firing up a cigarette, the owner says they fired up their engine.

"These people hit the door and hit their automobile as fast as possible," says Buckley's owner Ken Dick who waited nearly two hours for the couple to come back. Finally, after a lot of thought, he sent out a newsletter to roughly eight-thousand people -- complete with the couple's pictures and a stern warning for other businesses to keep an eye out for them. The reaction came quick.

The restaurant went through the regular channels, including filing a police report. But in an era of tight budgets, Dick wasn't about to throw away profit on the age-old dine-and-dash.


"We've probably gotten over 700, 800 emails in just three hours," says Dick, who says customers are irate and upset.
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The :loser: deserve all the humiliation they brought on themselves.

Video at link.
Restaurant Publicly Shames Dine-And-Dashers Into Paying - WREG
 
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