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    Restaurants warned after diner allegedly plants hair to dodge $600 bill at popular Sydney restaurant


    Restaurants warned after diner allegedly plants hair to dodge $600 bill at popular Sydney restaurant

    https://7news.com.au/news/restaurants-warned-after-diner-allegedly-plants-hair-to-dodge-600-bill-at-popular-sydney-restaurant-c-21629364

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    1. TwelveFish3168 on

      “Hospitality venues have now been warned to remain vigilant after a family was allegedly spotted deliberately planting a hair on their own plate before refusing to pay a $600 bill.

      The alleged incident occurred at Pony in The Rocks, Sydney, where staff say a family visiting from Ireland ordered some of the venue’s most expensive items.

      CCTV reviewed by the restaurant appears to show a man reaching under his arm, pulling out a hair and placing it onto his plate after finishing his meal.”

      Gross🤢….

    4. Armistice610 on

      I’ve worked in restaurants, for years. Hairs happen because we humans have hair. And I’ve been on the other side of the equation and found hairs in my food from time to time. You call the waitperson over, point it out, and in most cases just get on with the meal because it’s just not that big a deal. A hair won’t harm you and you probably ate dozens of your mother’s as you grew up. Maybe they’ll replace the meal, maybe it’s not necessary The appreciation from staff when you don’t make a huge deal out of it is palpable. And they’ll do something nice for you as a result.

      Grifters. Is there nothing they won’t try?

    16. Cube00 on

      > Nolan said he reported the matter to police but was advised there was little immediate action that could be taken.

      Surprised it wasn’t taken more seriously at $600

    17. roshhe on

      If they are Irish travellers and you know the kind I’m talking about, scamming is how they make their living!

      I used to work in a pub kitchen in the UK and the waitresses would beg everything was perfect so they didn’t complain, all while having to read them the whole menu because some don’t attend school and get an education.

      We once had a complaint of a long brown hair in the food from one family. Funny thing was that one cook had bright pink hair (me) and the other had no hair.

      Our local shopping complex was filled with travellers on Sundays, requiring the cinemas, Maccas, Nando’s, Pizza Hut all to have security guards working because their behaviour was so antisocial.

    18. Mysterious_Resident2 on

      Tip of the iceberg.
      So many scams to come that are unknown in our current Australian environment. Be vigilant. Their old scams will leave us the fools for we are too trusting. If you’ve spent time in Europe you know whats to come. Unfortunately for us locals public society will be less and less comfortable.

    20. ol-gormsby on

      I just copped a warning about what I presume is the use of the term pee-eye-kay-eee-wye in response to a comment on this thread.

      So don’t use the erm-tay ikeey-pay or you’ll be orry-say

    21. DizzyList237 on

      Traveller clans are known to visit Oz in summer, they also have relatives living here permanently. They usually travel in very expensive mobile homes & arrive at caravan parks in dribs & drabs. The women hit the local shopping centres hard, shoplifting & stealing anything not nailed down. The men run door to door scams such as cleaning or refurbishing driveways. It’s not until toilet paper & other items disappear do the park owners realise who their current tenants are. Usually they are evicted, they just move on to more victims. The crime rate spikes when they are around & drops when they leave town. This has been going on for decades.