Dine an Dashers. young people ordering $100 plus in food and running before paying bill

[Demovictory9]

[ChazII]

1. Hope the video

helps catch these dashers.

[mnmoderatedem]

2. hope they at least left a tip

had a high school friend, who did this sort of thing, after graduation. Bragged about it like it was some sort of badge of honor, he and his other friends who participated. I kept looking at him, thinking what the fuck are you trying to prove. He was young at the time, still no excuse. We drifted apart over time, largely over things like that.

[Demovictory9]

3. my college's football team ordered big steak meals then walked out.. restaurant contacted

the university. of course, it was clear it was the town's football players. easy to identify. was big story at the team. embarrassing for the university.

[Duppers]

10. Sorry, "drifted"?

I couldn't have tolerated them another min. There are too many decent people to tolerate such dishonest & mean behavior.

[North Shore Chicago]

4. This really saddens me.

I read an article that over 50% of Asian restaurants have closed due to Covid, and now........this.

Hope they are caught and prosecuted.

[fescuerescue]

20. Not just Asian restaurants too

All restaurants are having massive financial problems.

It's basically the Great Depression for restaurant owners.

[blueinredohio]

5. Make them pay up front.

If there's something wrong with the food you can take it up after the meal.

[COL Mustard]

6. Restaurants Are Already On Razor Thin Margins

It really sucks that people do this. I hope they’re caught, but even if they aren’t, karma will catch up with them.

I’m glad the restaurant reported them.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Require credit card surrender for the tab before service

Pretty standard at bars, totalled up at the end of the night.

[smirkymonkey]

27. That's what I was going to say.

It seems like the logical thing to do. If people don't like it, they can either leave or get their food to go.

[CentralMass]

8. This sort of thing was known as a "chew and screw" in my "ute"

I witnessed it a few times. Not funny.

[malaise]

9. And they think that was funny

sickening

[Duppers]

11. Agree, it's sickening!

[Duppers]

12. Horrible people. 😤

They were not the starving poor, it seems, just selfish assholes.

[ck4829]

13. Band together and say "Give us positive ID on dine-and-dashers and get free food"

Nobody will be doing a dine-and-dash much longer after that.

[Oppaloopa]

14. Are they still taking it out of the waitress salary ? They used to.

[GregariousGroundhog]

21. That depends

If the deduction would bring your pay below $7.25 an hour, such action would be illegal at the federal level. Some states go further, and do not permit an employer from deducting business losses from an employee's paycheck. California is one such state, and this incident happened in San Francisco.

[48656c6c6f20]

15. Dine and dash?

Common criminal Thieves. Let's call them what they are.

[wnylib]

16. Reminds me of a time when my husband and I went out

for a celebration dinner several decades ago when we were very young. No credit cards and for some reason did not have checkbooks with us. We planned on paying cash.

The dinner bill was higher than we had expected and did not have enough cash on us. So while he nursed a drink at our table, I went to the ladies room and then slipped out the door. Drove home and picked up some cash we kept on hand and rushed back to the restaurant. We paid and left, laughing from nervousness and embarrassment at being so naive about what a really good restaurant cost. Yes, with the added cash, there was enough to tip the waitress.

Never would have occurred to us to try to slip out without paying.

[rownesheck]

17. Punish them

by forcing them to work a 10 hour shift as a waiter.

[Hortensis]

18. "Dashing" strikes me as an aggressively hostile act, as well as criminal of course.

I'd bet the cost of that meal that the ones driving these acts in those groups are naturally strongly conservative because that's where by far most of the mean people who act out aggressive hostility are found.

[marble falls]

19. I caught both guys trying to eat and run right on me as they went out the door, sat on them until ..

... the cops got there. The other option was to pay $35.00 (in '73- a lot of money) for the missing check. I was still buff - I'd gotten out of the Navy about six weeks before.

[LizBeth]

22. Run a cr card and put on hold when a person orders. Pays when they are done.

[bluestarone]

23. I'm sure THIS is how pre-pay gas started!

THIS will effect us all, i'm sure!

[sarcasmo]

24. Money up front before ordering food.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

25. Those are some pretty good images.

Better than most bank security cameras, lol.


Have they been caught yet? Should only be a matter of time. Then comes the water works...

[PCIntern]

26. I worked in restaurants my entire young life

“Walking the check” was fairly commonplace and we were responsible for the entire amount if we were the server. One guy I knew kept a steel bar in his jacket and would run after these miscreants and believe me , they paid. Now of course, he’d be in jail. The “good old days”, right? 😄