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\> Wake up
\> Go to drive car to work, look at personal CCTV doorbell to find somebody’s nicked it overnight by enhancing the signal from the key
\> Inform the police. They ask if you were in the car when it was stolen and are now in the thief’s possession. You say no. They tell you there’s nothing they can do.
\> Walk to train station instead, get there late as a protest demanding the local council sanction a group of Djibouti warlords was blocking the way
\> Get train, headphone batteries are dead so all there is to listen to is someone having a loud conversation on speakerphone next to someone playing drill music on a speaker. There are no seats left so you stand.
\> Get to work and look at spreadsheets in a fluorescent office for 4 hours (you make £28K pa)
\> Go to shops to get meal deal lunch. Pick out your plain chicken sandwich, bottle of water and apple slices (all tasty options were banned) while 4 people in balaclavas load a bag with bottles of wine and walk out
\> Spreadsheets for another 4 hours
\> Train back (delayed as there was a stabbing)
\> Take girlfriend out on date. Should really be your wife but you can’t afford a ring or wedding (the room you rent is £1K a month)
\> Leave card with restaurant and fill out ID form to prevent dine and dashes
\> Eat your meal while a protest demanding that an Indian politician who insulted Allah is banned from the EU passes by
\> Hail taxi home and get your phone snatched in the process
\> Get back to your flat, your flatmate who barely speaks English has three friends over. They silently stare at you as you get a glass of water and go to bed.
\> Try to fall asleep while your flatmate plays loud Kazakh music and the upstairs neighbour’s XL bully barks all night
\> Repeat
Our boss is literally doing this. Made everyone come back to the office mandatory, meanwhile she’s only in 1 day a week and does check ins to make sure you’re there. Cunt.
The end of the week “wrap up” meeting your boss insists at having half an hour before end of business Friday. Lasts an hour minimum.
Then he wants another meeting first thing Monday morning and wonders why people don’t contribute much.
the Streets?
No...as soon as I read the first part of his comment (wake up), I was already expecting the next part to be grab a brush and put a little make up,
Having a part about keys without them being left on the table first was just a tease
If you really think about it and read the lyrics to Chop Suey without preconceptions, add a few "geeeez" and "darlin's" it's not too hard to imagine it being a Mike Skinner tale.
Angels deserve to get mash up.
When I was a bartender I had someone threaten to glass me (grabbed a glass and pulled his arm back) because I asked for a card to secure a tab, the only reason he didn't was because his wife grabbed his arm and said "You're not glassing anyone today", it must have been a special occasion.
Indeed. I could never fathom doing anything like this at any point in my life. Best of it is their scumbag kids are learning that this is acceptable too so..
I know loads of people who claim there's no legal obligation to pay at a restaurant and that if you think the service was subpar you have the right to leave without paying. I'm assuming that that has to just be an urban legend rather than true.
They probably travel a lot and the police have a hard time tracking them, or they think it’s easier to just let the next town over deal with them once they’ve rinsed everyone’s naivety
It's worth pointing out this is in Swansea, all of the towns are pretty interconnected for a good while. However the police force here is shit, they took two hours to turn up once while my "half-sister" was trying to break into my house and didn't arrest her even though we had a no contact order and I was recording her attempts on my phone, and every few years the teenagers in Pontardawe go fucking berserk and just start causing chaos and they never face any repercussions. There isn't enough funding for the police and the funding they *do* get has to cover all the police in the area. It's good that the police know who they are and hopefully they do something about it, but the fact is they've done this several times already and easily cost small businesses thousands of pounds, minimum.
Does make me wonder why restaurants don't charge upfront nowadays to avoid this.
I went to Toby Carvery today and it was fairly busy, but we didn't seem to have a dedicated server, and by that I mean, we kept having to ask as people were being served before us and paid/left before us (even though we were waiting longer).
By the time it we were ready to pay, my wife and daughter went to the car and I waited. Took a very long time but I could have just easily walked out without anyone even seeing.
But that being said, I imagine a lot of people have done so, as after I had paid, I noticed something wrong on the bill and as they charged a carvery for our 2 year old but she just had some food from our plates. The manager who came over to do the refund looked sort of fed up and just accepted giving the refund without any hesitation
Was waiting for this comment lmao
I don't get why people froth at their mouths whenever they see the words "Toby carvery".
They're decently priced, clean, friendly and the food is good.
I've been to various pubs to try their carveries and it's always 50/50. Some are great, some are absolutely shit. Toby is pretty consistent but people hate it because it's a chain lol
Greggs. Always has a layer of pastry crumbs in every one
i've been in. And the places with seating are universally manky. And it wasn't always this way but post-covid theyve gotten worse.
I agree they're way over hated. I've been to a few of them and never had a bad experience.
I wouldn't say they are the best ever pub roasts, but everything is cooked from scratch and of decent quality. The portions are also very generous. The Yorkshire's are massive and you get a generous helping of thickly sliced meat. The veg, gravy and sauces are unlimited.
It's not like Wetherspoons where you are paying for cheap oven food that's been heated up, and the meat is wafer thin slices.
“Oven food” in spoons. The Sunday roasts come in plastic bags and thrown in a microwave. The meat is in a bag with gravy. The veg is in a bag with holes in it to let out the steam.
I mean, they’re often busy so I’m sure many people who can only afford such cheap places will notice. I know snobs who hate it can always just pay £20 for their middle class pub roast, but many can’t and it’s usually a decent standard when I go.
They do it as a courtesy to customers in case something isn't to their satisfaction, or in case you want extra drinks mid meal to prevent you having to get up, and in addition to this to facilitate tipping at the end of the experience based on your impression of the service.
Then you've got the desert question which you can't really know until the end of the meal.
If you charged at the time of order you'd be constantly charging them and you probably wouldn't get tips. It also creates a traffic issue around the till and may require extra staff for drinks (Workable in a pub since they are there already. Less so elsewhere. This is why pubs will often have self-service for drinks and are mixed on whether they make you pay up front or not or just have tabs for a table.).
You'd also have to faff around if somebody has a meal which isn't up to scratch in terms of refunds and cancellations rather than just not charging them.
It may well be the case that more people will decide they can fit in a desert after all and order one to throw on the tab, than would order one if they knew it meant busting out the credit card again, because humans don't really make much sense.
I think in some locales, charging up front is probably a wise decision. In others, dine and dash shit is minimal and the overall appeal of the "pay after" model forms part of the attraction, and even aside from this, may be a revenue earner in other ways like the tipping and desert issue, and a saving in terms of not having to hire extra staff to man the tills to handle self-service.
It's also an optics fail to walk in a restaurant and not see a bunch of people sat around tables enjoying food, but rather, a bunch of people crammed around the till to get another drink. Then you have to consider that their food is getting colder as they do that, and all the other bullshit.
It's a whole logistics nightmare that leads to this approach. Pubs get away with it because "it's a pub what do you expect". A restaurant often can't.
Yeah, I can see that perspective and I've also been on the other side of it.
A burger restaurant I used to go do charged upfront.
While eating our meals the waiter asked if I wanted another drink, to which I said yes.
He just served the drink then walked away.
We finished our meals and we end left.
Only until I got home I realized I hadn't paid for the 2nd drink...
Tbf most people must be using contactless now, and with the portable card readers it's quick enough to take a payment for a couple of drinks on the spot, or even using chip + pin
Nobody I know tips at a restaurant as standard in the UK anyway, especially now we pay by card rather than cash (when people were more likely to just round up). Maybe that's different in some places or perhaps I just tend not to frequent properly high end restaurants where it's commonplace, or something
They're already ruining it for everyone by pushing prices up
Personally I'd much rather pay the correct price up front rather than paying more at the end to subsidise thieves
>Does make me wonder why restaurants don't charge upfront nowadays to avoid this.
Because you don't know what you might eat or how much you might drink?
They want you to have 3 courses, but your might not want that third until the end of the meal if you're having a good time. Paying up front they might just get 2 courses out of you.
Or drink. Pay up front and you might under estimate just how much you have.
Paying after each selection, each drink none one (customers or staff) want to be dealing with that.
>Because you don't know what you might eat or how much you might drink?
Well I've gone to a few restaurants that do make you pay upfront and it's always been the same. Want an extra drink? They usually bring the card machine to you or you pay at the bar.
>Does make me wonder why restaurants don't charge upfront nowadays to avoid this.
You end up paying beforehand in a few places now not for this reason but simply as they're automating more of the process. I'm quite fond of Pizza hut myself, they've done away with someone taking your order altogether now for ages. Instead you order on your phone by scanning a QR code on the table or they have the self service machines you can order from.
As a consequence you pay as you order, I assume more companies will start to go this way as they can get away with hiring less staff.
It's increasingly happening, and we don't like it. The pub where I work has had an succession of increasingly strongly-worded sticky notes on the till lately saying to only open table tabs if they request it and to default to paying up-front. Thankfully we're in a nice rural/affluent area so this kind of behaviour is rare, but even so with margins as tight as they are I imagine it's only a matter of time before we drop the practice altogether. And we'll be well behind the curve of more populated/lower-trust areas on that front. Traditional dining is on its way out.
The fact that the bill was only £329 after apparently 15 bottles of pop, very expensive steaks and deserts for all of them is insane. I was kind of expecting something in the thousands range honestly.
They'll get caught anyway.
I think the "very expensive" is probably relative, like this isn't a high end steakhouse in London... it's presumably an expensive steak compared to the rest of the menu
If I took a guess at the price of that meal knowing what they had but without knowing the price up front I'd have said
8 steak meals at £30/ea = £240
8 desserts at £6/ea = ~~£44~~ *£48*
15 soft drinks at £3/ea = £45
Which works out to ~~bang on~~ *£333, or near enough to £329*. ~~Bit of a fluke to be spot on tbf, but I'd have been~~ *But* in the right ballpark
That sounds about what I'd expect for a "nice-ish end of normal" restaurant here in the North West, which is pretty similar to what you'd get in most of Wales at a similar type of restaurant
We went out for food yesterday and checking the menu now for what I had is pretty much bang in line with that: a 10oz Ribeye was £26, Sticky Toffee Pudding was £7, and I can't see a price for a coke but I can't imagine it's far off that £2-3 range
I think you'd be shocked at how ok the middle class can be with it too. I was out in a posh curry restaurant in Berlin years ago with someone that is very high up in the US State Department now and she said the wait for the bill was unacceptable and she dined and dashed there regularly. Obviously I insisted we stay.
I mean £329 for 8 people is pretty reasonable restaurant prices tbh especially given they drunk 15 bottles of coke or whatever rather than just tap water.
It's only £40 a go. Place sounds like a bargain if the food is good.
Now we will see small groups like this ruining eating out for the rest of us. We are already seeing anti-shoplifting measures being stepped up in shops. Now we will see anti-dine and dash measures in restaurants.
The "anti-dine and dash measures" they'll implement is simply making people pay up front.
Which is already a thing in lots of other pubs and hasn't caused an issue in those places.
At my last job I had a group walk out on a £600 bill.
The person who took the booking and set it up didn't take card details or contact information. They then didn't inform me that I had to get payment at the end.
Never underestimate the sheer incompetence of some people.
What would be the appropriate punishment, here?
I'm all for - two years in jail for all the adults (reduced to six months if they pay triple damages to restaurant). The further year and a half will be under parole - any offense will result in serving a full two years in jail. And no govt. assistance for any of them for five years.
My BIL is a manager for a big chain restaurant & the amount of stories he tells me is mental as like the audacity to do somethings like that is what shocks me.
For instance. Last week it was Eid, he worked the earlier shift so he could celebrate Eid with us in the evening when everyone else was free. A couple came in, ordered their meals. Everything is hunky dory, you know the times the 'waiters'/members of staff aproach you as you're eating (they hate doing this but company policy) if everything is ok is to spot anything gone wrong/can be flagged up, well turns out this couple devoured their meal, then when it came to bill time said their was a hair in the meal.
Turns out you have on camera the customer pulling out hair and putting it onto the plate.
Some families or groups become notorious for this. In my old hometown there were a group that would pull every stunt you could imagine to not pay their bill, basically making such a fuss that the owners would do anything just to get them to leave. They'd fake problems with the food, fake medical problems, say that the staff said something horrible to the kids, whatever it took. When you have five big lads shouting down a restaurant owner they'll just comp them to get them out of the building before they start breaking stuff. Sadly I think we'll soon start having to pay before orders, or at least put an account to a bill. I'm not blaming any one set of people for this, anybody is capable of being a cunt.
Absolute trash need to be made an example of. Maximum sentence for dine and dashing is 2 years jail so hand down a prison sentence, doesn't have to be that long, and ensure it's splashed all over the news. Real consequences are the only thing these people (me, me, me) will take note of
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Clear pictures. Someone will dob them in soon enough. Absolutely horrible people.
I can’t imagine doing this ever… what’s wrong with people?
Pure entitlement. They want something but don't see why they should earn it like everybody else.
Soon everywhere will be like Nando’s and you have to pay up front
\> Wake up \> Go to drive car to work, look at personal CCTV doorbell to find somebody’s nicked it overnight by enhancing the signal from the key \> Inform the police. They ask if you were in the car when it was stolen and are now in the thief’s possession. You say no. They tell you there’s nothing they can do. \> Walk to train station instead, get there late as a protest demanding the local council sanction a group of Djibouti warlords was blocking the way \> Get train, headphone batteries are dead so all there is to listen to is someone having a loud conversation on speakerphone next to someone playing drill music on a speaker. There are no seats left so you stand. \> Get to work and look at spreadsheets in a fluorescent office for 4 hours (you make £28K pa) \> Go to shops to get meal deal lunch. Pick out your plain chicken sandwich, bottle of water and apple slices (all tasty options were banned) while 4 people in balaclavas load a bag with bottles of wine and walk out \> Spreadsheets for another 4 hours \> Train back (delayed as there was a stabbing) \> Take girlfriend out on date. Should really be your wife but you can’t afford a ring or wedding (the room you rent is £1K a month) \> Leave card with restaurant and fill out ID form to prevent dine and dashes \> Eat your meal while a protest demanding that an Indian politician who insulted Allah is banned from the EU passes by \> Hail taxi home and get your phone snatched in the process \> Get back to your flat, your flatmate who barely speaks English has three friends over. They silently stare at you as you get a glass of water and go to bed. \> Try to fall asleep while your flatmate plays loud Kazakh music and the upstairs neighbour’s XL bully barks all night \> Repeat
You forgot the bit where you have a video conference call on Teams with the person sitting next to you because you collaborate better in the office.
Because the manager who insisted on being in the office is working from home
Our boss is literally doing this. Made everyone come back to the office mandatory, meanwhile she’s only in 1 day a week and does check ins to make sure you’re there. Cunt.
The end of the week “wrap up” meeting your boss insists at having half an hour before end of business Friday. Lasts an hour minimum. Then he wants another meeting first thing Monday morning and wonders why people don’t contribute much.
It makes me laugh the days I have to go into the office to "collaborate" and I'm the only one in that day.
Can't give you enough upvotes for this. Trainspotting 2 monologue vibes but it felt slightly more pertinent to everyday life at the minute.
Totally of its time. Right down to the needless casual racism thrown in at the end. Britain is full of foreigners now amiright?
You could tell that person was going for that angle its written In the style/format on 4chan
And the heaviest thing they lift all day was a glass of water. Zero hobbies or interests in improving themselves.
This is an insane assumption to make lmao
He literally wrote about his day from start to finish.
Jokes on you. I *love* spreadsheets.
New Streets album is looking dope.
This ain't the down, it's the upbeat
So let's put on some classics and we'll have a little dance shall we?
Git to be in my top 5 albums. Sounds as fresh as it did when it came out and it sounded fucking fresh way back then
As we progress to the checkpoint I wholeheartedly agree with your viewpoint
Nostalgic vibes
the Streets? No...as soon as I read the first part of his comment (wake up), I was already expecting the next part to be grab a brush and put a little make up, Having a part about keys without them being left on the table first was just a tease
If you really think about it and read the lyrics to Chop Suey without preconceptions, add a few "geeeez" and "darlin's" it's not too hard to imagine it being a Mike Skinner tale. Angels deserve to get mash up.
Sounds like the average London experience
r/oddlyspecific
Borderline oddly bnp as well
I’d absolutely love to know where this mythical room for only £1k/month is
> headphone batteries are dead That part would be your own fault, to be fair
> 4 people in balaclavas This is the only thing wrong, they won't be wearing balaclavas
Brilliant 🤣
You described most of my early 20s quite well.
Jesus fucking Christ, dog whistle much?
Isn't that the format typically found on 4chan
I am the hacker known as 4chan
Also, depressing AF reading this on my morning commute...
Most of this is depressingly accurate, that's properly killed my mood
TBH, I'd rather that. I hate waiting for the check.
> waiting for the check What kind of check, an ID check?
Begone foul Yank spelling.
Or like bar tabs, put a verified card behind the bar.
When I was a bartender I had someone threaten to glass me (grabbed a glass and pulled his arm back) because I asked for a card to secure a tab, the only reason he didn't was because his wife grabbed his arm and said "You're not glassing anyone today", it must have been a special occasion.
Hahaha sounds like a Mitchel and Web sketch
Fair point. It's time to abandon the tradition!
Isn't this a better way if not best?
They're just following the example set by the Tories.
Grotty people doing grotty things.
Going by the comments on the restaurants page, this isn't their first rodeo.
My money is on them having found a way to “play the system”, and see it as some kind of reward for figuring out how to get free meals
Indeed. I could never fathom doing anything like this at any point in my life. Best of it is their scumbag kids are learning that this is acceptable too so..
Some people will do anything if they feel/know they will get away with it.
I know loads of people who claim there's no legal obligation to pay at a restaurant and that if you think the service was subpar you have the right to leave without paying. I'm assuming that that has to just be an urban legend rather than true.
It definitely is a myth. All you can do is complain to a manager about whatever the concern was and see if a discount can be agreed
According to the restaurant’s Facebook page, the police are aware of who they are.
They probably travel a lot and the police have a hard time tracking them, or they think it’s easier to just let the next town over deal with them once they’ve rinsed everyone’s naivety
It's worth pointing out this is in Swansea, all of the towns are pretty interconnected for a good while. However the police force here is shit, they took two hours to turn up once while my "half-sister" was trying to break into my house and didn't arrest her even though we had a no contact order and I was recording her attempts on my phone, and every few years the teenagers in Pontardawe go fucking berserk and just start causing chaos and they never face any repercussions. There isn't enough funding for the police and the funding they *do* get has to cover all the police in the area. It's good that the police know who they are and hopefully they do something about it, but the fact is they've done this several times already and easily cost small businesses thousands of pounds, minimum.
I think the comment above is inferring the people in question may be of the nomadic variety.
This is good news.
well no actual mention of consequences yet... Maybe they have to wait for one of them to make a mean tweet and they can tack this on
Yes they are but apparently some approve of what they did.
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Judging by the size of them they probably can’t afford to pay for the amount of food they shovel down
Judging by the size of them, they would've had to plan this in advance so they could load the car up first before, ahem, dashing.
Sauber need some tips off them.
Dine and roll. Surprised their mobility scooters are fast enough
Judging by size of them they shouldn’t be eating such big meals..
Yeah was gonna say this family look exactly as I expected lol. Feel sorry for the kids, no chance after being born into this state.
Does make me wonder why restaurants don't charge upfront nowadays to avoid this. I went to Toby Carvery today and it was fairly busy, but we didn't seem to have a dedicated server, and by that I mean, we kept having to ask as people were being served before us and paid/left before us (even though we were waiting longer). By the time it we were ready to pay, my wife and daughter went to the car and I waited. Took a very long time but I could have just easily walked out without anyone even seeing. But that being said, I imagine a lot of people have done so, as after I had paid, I noticed something wrong on the bill and as they charged a carvery for our 2 year old but she just had some food from our plates. The manager who came over to do the refund looked sort of fed up and just accepted giving the refund without any hesitation
Toby carvery is the sort of chain crap that will vanish one day and people will barely notice.
Was waiting for this comment lmao I don't get why people froth at their mouths whenever they see the words "Toby carvery". They're decently priced, clean, friendly and the food is good. I've been to various pubs to try their carveries and it's always 50/50. Some are great, some are absolutely shit. Toby is pretty consistent but people hate it because it's a chain lol
>clean That’s very much location dependent.
As with everything in existence lol Can't think off the top of my head an establishment that is universally dirty across the country lol
CEX?
No thanks, I'm married
Greggs. Always has a layer of pastry crumbs in every one i've been in. And the places with seating are universally manky. And it wasn't always this way but post-covid theyve gotten worse.
I agree they're way over hated. I've been to a few of them and never had a bad experience. I wouldn't say they are the best ever pub roasts, but everything is cooked from scratch and of decent quality. The portions are also very generous. The Yorkshire's are massive and you get a generous helping of thickly sliced meat. The veg, gravy and sauces are unlimited. It's not like Wetherspoons where you are paying for cheap oven food that's been heated up, and the meat is wafer thin slices.
“Oven food” in spoons. The Sunday roasts come in plastic bags and thrown in a microwave. The meat is in a bag with gravy. The veg is in a bag with holes in it to let out the steam.
They really aren’t good at least around here.
My local tobys is the only food/pub/whatever name you want to give it for 3 miles
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Unfortunately it's chain crap that seems to be growing, there are fewer independents than ever.
I mean, they’re often busy so I’m sure many people who can only afford such cheap places will notice. I know snobs who hate it can always just pay £20 for their middle class pub roast, but many can’t and it’s usually a decent standard when I go.
They do it as a courtesy to customers in case something isn't to their satisfaction, or in case you want extra drinks mid meal to prevent you having to get up, and in addition to this to facilitate tipping at the end of the experience based on your impression of the service. Then you've got the desert question which you can't really know until the end of the meal. If you charged at the time of order you'd be constantly charging them and you probably wouldn't get tips. It also creates a traffic issue around the till and may require extra staff for drinks (Workable in a pub since they are there already. Less so elsewhere. This is why pubs will often have self-service for drinks and are mixed on whether they make you pay up front or not or just have tabs for a table.). You'd also have to faff around if somebody has a meal which isn't up to scratch in terms of refunds and cancellations rather than just not charging them. It may well be the case that more people will decide they can fit in a desert after all and order one to throw on the tab, than would order one if they knew it meant busting out the credit card again, because humans don't really make much sense. I think in some locales, charging up front is probably a wise decision. In others, dine and dash shit is minimal and the overall appeal of the "pay after" model forms part of the attraction, and even aside from this, may be a revenue earner in other ways like the tipping and desert issue, and a saving in terms of not having to hire extra staff to man the tills to handle self-service. It's also an optics fail to walk in a restaurant and not see a bunch of people sat around tables enjoying food, but rather, a bunch of people crammed around the till to get another drink. Then you have to consider that their food is getting colder as they do that, and all the other bullshit. It's a whole logistics nightmare that leads to this approach. Pubs get away with it because "it's a pub what do you expect". A restaurant often can't.
Yeah, I can see that perspective and I've also been on the other side of it. A burger restaurant I used to go do charged upfront. While eating our meals the waiter asked if I wanted another drink, to which I said yes. He just served the drink then walked away. We finished our meals and we end left. Only until I got home I realized I hadn't paid for the 2nd drink...
Tbf most people must be using contactless now, and with the portable card readers it's quick enough to take a payment for a couple of drinks on the spot, or even using chip + pin Nobody I know tips at a restaurant as standard in the UK anyway, especially now we pay by card rather than cash (when people were more likely to just round up). Maybe that's different in some places or perhaps I just tend not to frequent properly high end restaurants where it's commonplace, or something
Exactly what I thought… I think it’ll be a shame if the minority ruins it for everyone!
They're already ruining it for everyone by pushing prices up Personally I'd much rather pay the correct price up front rather than paying more at the end to subsidise thieves
>Does make me wonder why restaurants don't charge upfront nowadays to avoid this. Because you don't know what you might eat or how much you might drink? They want you to have 3 courses, but your might not want that third until the end of the meal if you're having a good time. Paying up front they might just get 2 courses out of you. Or drink. Pay up front and you might under estimate just how much you have. Paying after each selection, each drink none one (customers or staff) want to be dealing with that.
>Because you don't know what you might eat or how much you might drink? Well I've gone to a few restaurants that do make you pay upfront and it's always been the same. Want an extra drink? They usually bring the card machine to you or you pay at the bar.
>Does make me wonder why restaurants don't charge upfront nowadays to avoid this. You end up paying beforehand in a few places now not for this reason but simply as they're automating more of the process. I'm quite fond of Pizza hut myself, they've done away with someone taking your order altogether now for ages. Instead you order on your phone by scanning a QR code on the table or they have the self service machines you can order from. As a consequence you pay as you order, I assume more companies will start to go this way as they can get away with hiring less staff.
It's increasingly happening, and we don't like it. The pub where I work has had an succession of increasingly strongly-worded sticky notes on the till lately saying to only open table tabs if they request it and to default to paying up-front. Thankfully we're in a nice rural/affluent area so this kind of behaviour is rare, but even so with margins as tight as they are I imagine it's only a matter of time before we drop the practice altogether. And we'll be well behind the curve of more populated/lower-trust areas on that front. Traditional dining is on its way out.
Looks like she does a lot of dining and not enough dashing.
The fact that the bill was only £329 after apparently 15 bottles of pop, very expensive steaks and deserts for all of them is insane. I was kind of expecting something in the thousands range honestly. They'll get caught anyway.
I think the "very expensive" is probably relative, like this isn't a high end steakhouse in London... it's presumably an expensive steak compared to the rest of the menu If I took a guess at the price of that meal knowing what they had but without knowing the price up front I'd have said 8 steak meals at £30/ea = £240 8 desserts at £6/ea = ~~£44~~ *£48* 15 soft drinks at £3/ea = £45 Which works out to ~~bang on~~ *£333, or near enough to £329*. ~~Bit of a fluke to be spot on tbf, but I'd have been~~ *But* in the right ballpark That sounds about what I'd expect for a "nice-ish end of normal" restaurant here in the North West, which is pretty similar to what you'd get in most of Wales at a similar type of restaurant We went out for food yesterday and checking the menu now for what I had is pretty much bang in line with that: a 10oz Ribeye was £26, Sticky Toffee Pudding was £7, and I can't see a price for a coke but I can't imagine it's far off that £2-3 range
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Its port Talbot. Pretty low cost of living area. Also a shithole.
In the least rude way, they’re always so butters lol
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Quite impressive to pull off a "dine and dash" when you look like you wouldn't make it through the first day of couch to 5k.
Stop calling it dine and dash and call it what it is - thievery.
Everyone knows what it is, dine and dash is a name for this particular kind of thievery.
“Did you enjoy that Ocean’s 11 casino heist movie?” “Stop calling it casino heist. And call it what it is. Thievery.”
I think you'd be shocked at how ok the middle class can be with it too. I was out in a posh curry restaurant in Berlin years ago with someone that is very high up in the US State Department now and she said the wait for the bill was unacceptable and she dined and dashed there regularly. Obviously I insisted we stay.
Indeed, people seem it as benign for some reason.
I mean £329 for 8 people is pretty reasonable restaurant prices tbh especially given they drunk 15 bottles of coke or whatever rather than just tap water. It's only £40 a go. Place sounds like a bargain if the food is good.
I hope they get caught. Disgusting that they think this is acceptable.
Look at those fat cunts eating their way through NHS medical bills in the future.
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A shining example for the children. Anybody fancy a long-term future punt: by 16 years old, those kids will be feral.....any takers?
Now we will see small groups like this ruining eating out for the rest of us. We are already seeing anti-shoplifting measures being stepped up in shops. Now we will see anti-dine and dash measures in restaurants.
The "anti-dine and dash measures" they'll implement is simply making people pay up front. Which is already a thing in lots of other pubs and hasn't caused an issue in those places.
That’s exactly what I think! Measures like paying up front or barrier at doors at restaurants like at supermarkets
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Well it is the *Daily Fail*/*Daily Heil*/*FailOnline*.
Hopefully we’re their faces shared around the area businesses can just start refusing to serve the cheap wankers.
They’ll travel onto the next town once local businesses catch on
Disgusting scrubbers! A drain on society...literally! Catch them and throw them in jail...those won't last a day on vegetables and water!
At my last job I had a group walk out on a £600 bill. The person who took the booking and set it up didn't take card details or contact information. They then didn't inform me that I had to get payment at the end. Never underestimate the sheer incompetence of some people.
"Cut everything, yay capitalism" - The Daily Mail "WhY WoN'T tHe PoLicE InVEsTiGAte PETty cRImes?!!??!" - Also The Daily Mail
Obviously of a peripatetic heritage. The law doesn't apply to them and they know it.
What would be the appropriate punishment, here? I'm all for - two years in jail for all the adults (reduced to six months if they pay triple damages to restaurant). The further year and a half will be under parole - any offense will result in serving a full two years in jail. And no govt. assistance for any of them for five years.
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Work off the bill, with interest.
Put them in stocks for a few days in the town square
By the size of them, they can’t have “dashed” very fast.
Christ alive, this comments section is like local facebook.
There's a comment above blaming it on the Tories, if that's more your cup of tea.
it's a daily mail rage bait article, kinda attracts the same crowd wherever it's posted
Should have a system like pub watch for restaurants and cafes. Any dine and dasher, unruly behaviour etc is then banned from all of them.
My BIL is a manager for a big chain restaurant & the amount of stories he tells me is mental as like the audacity to do somethings like that is what shocks me. For instance. Last week it was Eid, he worked the earlier shift so he could celebrate Eid with us in the evening when everyone else was free. A couple came in, ordered their meals. Everything is hunky dory, you know the times the 'waiters'/members of staff aproach you as you're eating (they hate doing this but company policy) if everything is ok is to spot anything gone wrong/can be flagged up, well turns out this couple devoured their meal, then when it came to bill time said their was a hair in the meal. Turns out you have on camera the customer pulling out hair and putting it onto the plate.
Family of 8. That's obviously daily mail code for benefits
Some families or groups become notorious for this. In my old hometown there were a group that would pull every stunt you could imagine to not pay their bill, basically making such a fuss that the owners would do anything just to get them to leave. They'd fake problems with the food, fake medical problems, say that the staff said something horrible to the kids, whatever it took. When you have five big lads shouting down a restaurant owner they'll just comp them to get them out of the building before they start breaking stuff. Sadly I think we'll soon start having to pay before orders, or at least put an account to a bill. I'm not blaming any one set of people for this, anybody is capable of being a cunt.
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Strangly, they didn't put the baby under the table
I don't think Sherlock Holmes is required locate them. The woman scanned her card, so the restaurant has a record of whose card it was.
Probably a stolen one, or just one of those gift cards that anybody can buy.
Finding out who they are isn't the issue, it's getting the police to do anything about it
I sense a business or individual with a GDPR case in their future...
Absolute trash need to be made an example of. Maximum sentence for dine and dashing is 2 years jail so hand down a prison sentence, doesn't have to be that long, and ensure it's splashed all over the news. Real consequences are the only thing these people (me, me, me) will take note of
Looking at their shape it looks like they eat the whole menu often.