Dine and dash

[DavidII]

thats not cool man.. those checks don't come out of Denny's pocket they come out of the pocket of the waitress serving you.. she has to take your meal out of her wages.. if she is a bitch, then go for it, but if not then think twice before u do that.

Is this a Denny's policy country wide? I have never heard of making a waitress/waiter pay for a tab when the customer bolts. The restaurant simply eats(pun intended) the bill.

I worked at a Big Boys in the early eighties, a bunch of drunks came in one night and ate and ran. The manager ran after them and acted like he was taking their plate number down. He could not actually read it but they didn't know that. About an hour later one of them came back and payed the bill. He said he thought the bill was being paid because he had already left the building. He said he was not aware that a dine and dash was being committed.

Anyway, the manager said that had they not payed the bill, the restaurant would simply have to take the loss, not the waitress.