A new video appears to show the lengths some people will go to in order to avoid paying for a meal.
The Dial restaurant in Burton-upon-Trent took to the internet after two “aggressive” diners coincidentally found hair in their expensive steak dinners. While any restaurant would be mortified to see that their plates had been contaminated in such a way, CCTV footage revealed the disgusting truth.
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The video appears to show one of the diners pulling hair from his own head, examining it, and then sprinkling it on his own dinner plate. A second diner, wearing a blue jacket and black T-Shirt, reportedly indicated that he was “put off” by the hair, but still bravely finished his own plate before leaving. General manager Jez Hives explained that the pair ordered a”sharer steak, a fillet steak, sauces, fries, onion rings and cocktails” according to The Daily Mail.
“Two chaps came in and sat down. They got their food, perfect as always, and when they were eating the food the chap started sprinkling hair on his food,” Hives said. “You’d think that he’d complain then but he carried on eating his own hair.”
“The chap walked up to the manager on shift and was just not pleasant at all, explained he wasn’t going to pay anything and just turned around and walked out,” Hives continued. “The manager chased after them saying they will call the police. There was lots of swearing. It was around £165. There were cocktails on the table as well. There was the fillet steak with a side of onion rings, French fries, the fries on the sharer steak, a couple of sauces and cocktails. Quite a substantial amount of food. One of the guys ordered a fantastic sharing steak to himself, which is a hefty big bit of meat for one person, and the other chap ordered a fillet steak.”
“They guy who didn’t put his hair in his dinner said it put him off and that’s why they weren’t going to pay for anything. It wasn’t a conversation, it was just: ‘We won’t pay for this.’ Customers were in shock as to what was going on,” the manager added.
Despite spending a quarter of a century in the business, Hives revealed this is the first time he’s witnessed something so “mind-boggling.”
“It’s just another hoop we have to jump through in hospitality to try and survive. It’s really tough. The staff knew something was amiss. We know we do things right in the kitchen, all the chefs wear hats,” he defended the staff. “It was very argumentative words coming out of their mouths. I think they just wanted to shock (us) and leg it. I was in shock. He actually does it three times. It’s so brazen it must be something he does, he must have bald patches all over his head. Even to think of doing that is just awful. Unbelievable, it was definitely premeditated.”
Hives then revealed that he has contacted other restaurants to advise them of the pair in the hopes that he could prevent any other restaurant from being taken advantage of.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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