>The dine and dash happened on March 23 at around 5pm at the pub, leaving staff scrambling to make up for the £140 loss.
Why were the staff scrambling! How’s this on them and what are they going to do about it?
>We are having to make up the loss by selling extra carveries to cover the cost.
How does this work? Like… just placing two on a persons table and saying you owe us for two now?
>Mrs Hutchins said: ‘It’s very rare that someone leaves without paying. It has happened a couple of times before where people have come back and paid, probably out of shame, but this lot didn’t seem to give a monkeys.’
Or they just forgot and came back to pay!
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I’ve worked at 3 pubs for my first 3 jobs as a teenager, and the owner was a right cunt at all 3 of them!
They don’t look like the kind of people that care if they get arrested.
That’s just gratuitous. £140 for 6 adults is cheap as fuck as it is.
Used to be called ‘doing a runner’ before yankspeak became so common.
£140 for dinner for 6? They were getting a steal already without actually stealing.
Imagine being so selfish that you don’t pay £23 for your meal, and end up with a mugshot in the papers. How embarrassing…
One of them seems to be searching for a succulent meal in her left nostril.
They had kids too, do this was super cheap per head.
Pay £23 for her and her kids’ food or get shamed nation wide with a picture of her thumb deep picking her nose ?
I worked behind the bar in a Wetherspoons about 20 years ago,
One matchday in town the pub was *rammed,* to the point you couldn’t really get away from the bar once you’d bought your drink. Almost dangerously full.
This is the precise moment the local council sent a 15yo in to use the cigarette machine round the corner where none of us could see it. (Remember those.)
Company got a fine from the council, we all got a bollocking and the cost of the fine divided by everyone on shift at the time.
Still angry about that to this day..
The woman on the right-hand side is preparing her dessert.
Police will be looking for them until they find out which community they’re from.
This really warrants a top 5 post on here, does it?
I wonder how this ends up being a national news story? Possibly easier ragebait than most thefts.
What is the charge?
Enjoying a meal?
A succulent Chinese meal?
Scummy for sure, big news that requires a search and national press? Nah.
I feel like I know where to look for them but I can’t say it publicly.
Some of our more transient friends and occasional neighbours, me thinks.
> The women dashed without paying a massive bill
It’s £140 between 6 people, that’s literally the cost of a Nando’s. Get a fucking grip.
Of all the pictures they could have used, they chose the one where one of them is picking their nose. Excellent work! That’ll teach her.
Nice they got one of them picking her nose. Amazing this got so much coverage, £140 is nothing in the big scheme of things when it comes to theft, what even was that in real terms when it comes to ingredients if it was a carvery. Not that they should get away with it, I just find it interesting that restaurant theft seems to inspire a lot more anger than just regular shoplifting. Maybe they had crap service, complained, didn’t get a bill then flicked the Vs and went off, just to play devil’s advocate.
Dine and dash threads tend to get set on ‘restricted mode’ on this sub.
Why are they considered controversial topics to discuss?
£23 per head doesn’t seem too bad. Are there any bigger miscarriages of justice that need to be solved?
When I read these stories, I sometimes remember the times when I’ve finished my meal and drinks and am desperate to pay, but can’t get the attention of the waiting staff for ages.
Imagine dining and dashing on just over 20 quid a person. Proper trash
Staff shouldn’t have been scrambling to cover £140 bill though, that’s the business’ problem.
Also call this sweeping generalisation but they do look like travellers, who wouldn’t expect to be easy customers.
Wait, so the bar staff has the make up the missing money? Instead of the business eating the loss. That’s fucking ridiculous.
They couldn’t even find a man who threw acid at people and was on every fucking cctv camera.
I know a much bigger group than this who did it for different reasons. The staff thought they were being clever adding extras which weren’t purchased to the bill. By the third bill still being wrong, it was clear the restaurant had no intention of giving them the proper bill, so they had no intention of over paying, fucked off with hundreds of pounds of food and drink unpaid for. Rightfully too. Don’t try and steal from people, or they’ll just steal back.
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>The dine and dash happened on March 23 at around 5pm at the pub, leaving staff scrambling to make up for the £140 loss.
Why were the staff scrambling! How’s this on them and what are they going to do about it?
>We are having to make up the loss by selling extra carveries to cover the cost.
How does this work? Like… just placing two on a persons table and saying you owe us for two now?
>Mrs Hutchins said: ‘It’s very rare that someone leaves without paying. It has happened a couple of times before where people have come back and paid, probably out of shame, but this lot didn’t seem to give a monkeys.’
Or they just forgot and came back to pay!
——-
I’ve worked at 3 pubs for my first 3 jobs as a teenager, and the owner was a right cunt at all 3 of them!
They don’t look like the kind of people that care if they get arrested.
That’s just gratuitous. £140 for 6 adults is cheap as fuck as it is.
Used to be called ‘doing a runner’ before yankspeak became so common.
£140 for dinner for 6? They were getting a steal already without actually stealing.
Imagine being so selfish that you don’t pay £23 for your meal, and end up with a mugshot in the papers. How embarrassing…
One of them seems to be searching for a succulent meal in her left nostril.
They had kids too, do this was super cheap per head.
Pay £23 for her and her kids’ food or get shamed nation wide with a picture of her thumb deep picking her nose ?
I worked behind the bar in a Wetherspoons about 20 years ago,
One matchday in town the pub was *rammed,* to the point you couldn’t really get away from the bar once you’d bought your drink. Almost dangerously full.
This is the precise moment the local council sent a 15yo in to use the cigarette machine round the corner where none of us could see it. (Remember those.)
Company got a fine from the council, we all got a bollocking and the cost of the fine divided by everyone on shift at the time.
Still angry about that to this day..
The woman on the right-hand side is preparing her dessert.
Police will be looking for them until they find out which community they’re from.
This really warrants a top 5 post on here, does it?
I wonder how this ends up being a national news story? Possibly easier ragebait than most thefts.
What is the charge?
Enjoying a meal?
A succulent Chinese meal?
Scummy for sure, big news that requires a search and national press? Nah.
I feel like I know where to look for them but I can’t say it publicly.
Some of our more transient friends and occasional neighbours, me thinks.
> The women dashed without paying a massive bill
It’s £140 between 6 people, that’s literally the cost of a Nando’s. Get a fucking grip.
Of all the pictures they could have used, they chose the one where one of them is picking their nose. Excellent work! That’ll teach her.
Nice they got one of them picking her nose. Amazing this got so much coverage, £140 is nothing in the big scheme of things when it comes to theft, what even was that in real terms when it comes to ingredients if it was a carvery. Not that they should get away with it, I just find it interesting that restaurant theft seems to inspire a lot more anger than just regular shoplifting. Maybe they had crap service, complained, didn’t get a bill then flicked the Vs and went off, just to play devil’s advocate.
Dine and dash threads tend to get set on ‘restricted mode’ on this sub.
Why are they considered controversial topics to discuss?
£23 per head doesn’t seem too bad. Are there any bigger miscarriages of justice that need to be solved?
When I read these stories, I sometimes remember the times when I’ve finished my meal and drinks and am desperate to pay, but can’t get the attention of the waiting staff for ages.
Imagine dining and dashing on just over 20 quid a person. Proper trash
Staff shouldn’t have been scrambling to cover £140 bill though, that’s the business’ problem.
Also call this sweeping generalisation but they do look like travellers, who wouldn’t expect to be easy customers.
Wait, so the bar staff has the make up the missing money? Instead of the business eating the loss. That’s fucking ridiculous.
They couldn’t even find a man who threw acid at people and was on every fucking cctv camera.
I know a much bigger group than this who did it for different reasons. The staff thought they were being clever adding extras which weren’t purchased to the bill. By the third bill still being wrong, it was clear the restaurant had no intention of giving them the proper bill, so they had no intention of over paying, fucked off with hundreds of pounds of food and drink unpaid for. Rightfully too. Don’t try and steal from people, or they’ll just steal back.