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'Just sick of the crime': Restaurants dealing with in an increase of people dining and dashing (winnipeg.ctvnews.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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"I can tell you that the people that are doing it aren't the people who are coming here because they're looking for a sandwich because they're hungry," said Ravi Ramberran, "It's the people who are not afraid of consequences period."

In the wake of the increase in dine and dashers, Ramberran said his restaurant has ramped up how they deal with it.

"We blast them on Facebook, we hold them, we make them wait for the cops...We do what's in our power to do."

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also how do you handle things that pop up mid meal? Like a second beer/cocktail with your meal.

I think a deposit when you sit down makes the most sense. If paying by card, then just keep their card on file for the duration of the meal, if cash, then do a small deposit per person - less than the cost of the meal, but enough to make dining and dashing really not worth the risk/effort.

Not exactly perfect, but itd work

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They'd probably do it like gas stations... put a $200+ hold on the card, then actually charge the amount you pumped.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fair point, makes cash customers trickier, but for better or worse, more and more people don't use cash anyways, so that might be a non issue