‘Dine and dasher’ gloats about being eating places’ ‘most wished’
- Woman has card declined earlier than heading to cashpoint and by no means returning
A feminine dine and dasher is believed to have cheated no less than six eating places and bars out of tons of of kilos by having fun with slap up lunches – then leaving with out paying her invoice.
The identical girl has been caught a number of instances on CCTV accompanied by two completely different males and typically with a toddler.
In a fastidiously rehearsed routine, the girl runs up a major invoice then goes to pay with a bank card which is all the time declined. She then tells workers she has to go to a cashpoint – and by no means returns.
She is aged in her early 30s and is all the time closely made-up and infrequently wears designer clothes.
The girl shamelessly posts images of her plates of meals on social media and her unlawful act is so extensively identified that one among her followers has requested her ‘did you rob that place too?’
A feminine dine and dasher (pictured, with toddler at Pinocchio restaurant in Christchurch, Dorset) is believed to have cheated no less than six eating places and bars out of tons of of kilos by having fun with slap up lunches – then leaving with out paying her invoice
The identical girl (pictured, leaving Chicken & Blues in Christchurch, Dorset final week) has been caught a number of instances on CCTV
The girl has been accompanied by two completely different males and typically with a toddler
She lately posted on Facebook of how she was on a date night time at a Miller & Carter restaurant. When one among her buddies jokingly requested her ‘aren’t you most wished for eating places?’ she replied with three emojis of a laughing face.
It is believed the girl has scammed eating places within the Christchurch, Bournemouth and Poole areas of Dorset over the previous 12 months.
Her newest ruse befell on the Chicken & Blues eatery in Christchurch final Tuesday.
She and a person with brief darkish hair attended the restaurant with a younger boy and racked up a invoice of £80 earlier than arising with the bank card ruse.
Owner Josh Simons posted images of the pair on social media, prompting individuals to determine the girl.
Other restaurant house owners recognised her from when she pulled off the identical stunt of their premises.
Mr Simons stated: ‘This girl and gent visited Christchurch Chicken & Blues lately for lunch and ran up an £80 invoice, which is loads of foods and drinks for 2 individuals.
‘After it appeared their card did not work, they then “had to visit the ATM” and by no means returned, inflicting undue stress to our hard-working group.’
She is aged in her early 30s and is all the time closely made-up and infrequently wears designer clothes
It is believed the girl has scammed eating places within the Christchurch, Bournemouth and Poole areas of Dorset over the previous 12 months
In a fastidiously rehearsed routine, the girl runs up a major invoice then goes to pay with a bank card which is all the time declined. She then tells workers she has to go to a cashpoint – and by no means returns
The proprietor of The Place restaurant in Bournemouth, claimed the girl (pictured on the restaurant) focused her enterprise final summer season
Her newest ruse befell on the Chicken & Blues eatery (pictured) in Christchurch final Tuesday
Mr Simons added: ‘It seems that lots of people know them they usually’re fairly infamous for doing these things to different eating places within the native space.
‘They are apparently recurring scammers of eating places.
‘Posting about this was not concerning the cash, it was extra about elevating consciousness that this kind of factor is occurring domestically, and with these individuals specifically.
‘It would not appear to be the primary time they’ve pulled this trick, but when the group will get collectively, it will be good if it is the final time they get away with it.’
Mr Simons has given the pair the chance to come back in and settle their invoice, after which the corporate will match the £80 and donate £160 to its charity of the yr, Bournemouth Foodbank.
Joanna Nowokunski, who owns The Place restaurant in Bournemouth, claimed the identical girl focused her enterprise final summer season however with a unique man.
Ms Nowokunski stated: ‘They got here in for lunch. They have been very well mannered and fairly effectively dressed. They had starters and a major course of half-a-grilled hen every and had tons to drink, the perfect whisky that we had.
‘When it got here to paying their invoice, which was about £80, their card declined.
The girl shamelessly posts images of her plates of meals on social media and her unlawful act is so extensively identified that one among her followers has requested her ‘aren’t you most wished for eating places?’
‘The man stated he would go to a cashpoint and the girl stayed behind. Then he got here again to say the money machine had swallowed his card and that’s once I bought suspicious.
‘They left a cellular quantity. I known as it and reminded them they needed to come again and pay. I then texted it and once I rang it once more they’d blocked me.
‘We had simply opened on the time and have been struggling and so each penny counted.
‘I noticed the girl a few month later, she walked previous the restaurant. I went out and reminded her she owed us cash and she or he bought aggressive and began swearing, saying “f*** you” and exhibiting the finger.
‘You do not try this to individuals. She is clearly happy with what she does as a result of she has executed it so many instances.’
The proprietor of the Italian restaurant Pinocchio in Christchurch claimed the identical girl did it to her final yr.
She stated: ‘A person and a girl got here in with a younger youngster. They ordered a number of foods and drinks, value £115. Then they stated their card wasn’t working they usually must get some cash out.
‘She waited for him however when he did not come again she walked out with the pushchair.
‘I known as the police however nothing got here of it. It is unquestionably the identical girl who has executed it to Chicken & Blues.’
Eva Nedna, who used to work in a restaurant in Poole, wrote on the Chicken & Blues put up how the identical couple did not pay for his or her meals final yr.
One one that shared an Instagram put up by the suspect with images of a number of plates of meals from one other restaurant, requested the query: ‘Wonder if she paid for this meal?’
Jane Ayles, the enterprise and occasions supervisor on the Poole Quay Hotel, shortly replied: ‘No they did not. This occurred in our resort. Same excuse. We confronted them they usually began to get aggressive.’
Joanna Nowokunski (pictured), who owns The Place restaurant in Bournemouth, claimed the identical girl focused her enterprise final summer season however with a unique man
Ms Nowokunski stated: ‘The man stated he would go to a cashpoint and the girl stayed behind. Then he got here again to say the money machine had swallowed his card and that’s once I bought suspicious’
She added: ‘They left a cellular quantity. I known as it and reminded them they needed to come again and pay. I then texted it and once I rang it once more they’d blocked me’
Ms Nowokunski stated: ‘We had simply opened on the time and have been struggling and so each penny counted’
She added: ‘I noticed the girl a few month later, she walked previous the restaurant (pictured). I went out and reminded her she owed us cash and she or he bought aggressive and began swearing, saying “f*** you” and exhibiting the finger’
A spokesperson for Dorset Police stated: ‘It is reported that between 1.30pm and a couple of.35pm on Tuesday clients left Chicken & Blues in Church Street in Christchurch with out paying for his or her meals.
‘The incident was reported to Dorset Police at round 2.10pm on Wednesday. Officers will probably be finishing up enquiries into this matter.
‘No arrests have been made.’
