Dine And Dash Fail : Shady Man Forgets ID Inside Of Prop Jacket, Mortified When Caught Red Handed

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Eleonora Bader
Dec 27, 2022 12:00 PM EST

It's quite something when you can enter a restaurant, sit down, smile politely at the waiter, order food, smile at the waiter again when they ask you if everything is okay, tell them it's delicious, and have no intention whatsoever of paying. We have zero sympathy for those who do a dine and dash, mostly because a lot of the time the cash is taken from the server who was responsible for the table. It's ridiculously unfair and we hope illegal, but many servers don't argue with the fact.

 

While scrolling through r/TalesFromYourServer, we came across a post that made us laugh a little too hard. u/jalapeno_cheetos shared a story where instant karma was inflicted on the perpetrator, and it's hilarious. He should write a book about how to get in your own way. Scroll down to read what happened. We're lucky some people are that stupid. Click here if you want to read about another pair of blissfully unaware frat boys that thought they could get away with the ol' dine and dash.

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    Font - Posted by u/jalapeno_cheetos 13 hours ago 2 Man tried to dine and dash... he left his jacket with his ID in the pocket. Medium This happened just earlier today, not to me but to a server in a different section during our shift. It was the end of the lunch rush and this man who looked around mid-20s came in alone but said he was waiting for someone else. He ordered a beer and some wings to start. 20 minutes goes by and whoever he was waiting for still isn't there. He orders an entree anywa
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    Font - About halfway through his meal, he's talking on the phone. He gets up, leaving his jacket on the seat, and walks towards the front. He tells the hostess “I'll be right back, I just want to take this call outside but my jacket is on the seat". Then without waiting for an answer, he walks out the door. 15 minutes later, he's gone and nowhere in sight. The hostess felt so bad and she said something along the lines of "I shouldn't have just left him leave but I thought he would come back sinc
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    Font - the cops because we have security cameras that caught him. He was back within the hour lol EDIT: At the restaurant I work at and a lot of the ones around us, people use jackets and bags and stuff like that as props. It's a pretty common dine and dash tactic in my area. I thought that was a pretty common thing in general but I guess not though lol. He was also incredibly angry when he came in to pay, which I should have mentioned originally.
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    Font - magiccitybhm - 12 hr. ago The ones that manage to get themselves caught are always the best. We had a couple of teenagers who pulled it one night. Server talks to the manager. Manager goes outside to look. Manager comes back in and a nearby table flags him down. "Did they not pay?" the guest asked. Manager said no.
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    Font - Guest says, "I know his mother. Let me call her." Guest calls the mom. Tells the mom what happened. Tells her she better get kid to come up and pay before they call the cops. Kid comes back and pays. Guest who saved the day gets a free meal. 752 Reply Share
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    Font - jpopimpin777. 8 hr. ago Plot twist: it was all a plot to get the other guy a free meal. 200 Reply Share Hate_Feight 5 hr. ago Pay for a cheap meal to get an expensive one... 41 Reply Share
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    Font - Omw2fym. 8 hr. ago I worked at a restaurant attached to a hotel and we had many people dash on camera who stayed at the hotel. The bill and 30% gratuity was just added to their bill Reply Share 210 Self TaughtSongBird · 6 hr. ago as a front desk agent, i loved doing this whenever the restaurant manager came to me with one of those tabs. it's one thing to say "charge it to the room" it's another when they "forget" to say they're guests and just get up and leave. good thing we were a boutiq
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    Font - KleitosD06 11 hr. ago edited 11 hr. ago There's a good chance his jacket, wallet, and ID were all worth more than the price of the food to begin with, this seems like a genuine mistake. And if it wasn't a mistake, why leave the jacket behind at all? As it's already been said he probably just got distracted by the call. Reply Share 102 InternalWeary6820 - 10 hr. ago It's a prop. I had this happen to me once when I was a server. Guy goes out for a smoke but leaves his backpack. Never comes
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    Rectangle - archbish99 5 hr. ago How stupid do you have to be to dine and dash at the hotel where you're staying? 62 Reply Share Juggletrain 4 hr. ago idk apparently with how it works they could just say they thought it was charged to their room Reply Share 18
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    Font - Ok_Kaleidoscope1630 · 8 hr. ago I worked at an old 17th Century British pub with a basement dining room, which seated ten people. One night, I overheard the people (young, male college students) saying they were going to climb out of the basement window when the check came. They did, and I was there with a Cricket bat, to encourage them to climb back in and pay...which they did. Reply Share 240
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