Restaurants eventually wised up to Bernard and Ann McDonagh
They dined on T-bone steaks, feasted on Chinese takeaway and gorged on three-course banquets. Their bills came to more than £1,000 in total.
However, she did not come back and the youngster then received a phone call and said words to the effect of "oh no! I'll be there now" before running off. Sharing an image and an appeal for information on social media, Bella Ciao set off a chain of events which would see the local community come forward and help identify those involved, with other restaurants claiming they too had been stung by two people in the same group.
The five incidents combined to a total of more than £1,150 in unpaid food and drink bills. Speaking to WalesOnline following the hearing, business owners described their shock and upset at the deceit. "I would say now we are more careful," she said. "We are constantly looking at customers to make sure they pay. Around a week later we were even too scared to let customers go outside to have a drink or a cigarette because we weren't sure if they would come back. That was normal before."
Then, upon receiving the bill, an attempt to pay using a card would always fail before staff were asked where the nearest cash point was or if it would be OK if they dashed to get "another card" from a vehicle parked nearby. Their 'dine and dash' crimes were certainly not the first time that the couple have been in trouble with the law, either.
"To do this to anyone is disgusting but to do this to a newly open restaurant is even worse!" The restaurant's manager, Tyrone Reese, told the Mirror after the incident: "They were ordering the most expensive things on the menu, like T-bone steaks and the like. My wife said 'something's not right'. They went full-on with their order but they were also sending plates back half empty.
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