A waiter once told me the best way to dine and dash is to go to goodwill buy a blazer for cheap then go out and dine. When you wish to dash simply leave your stylish blazer gotten at goodwill on the seat and the management will think you will be coming back.

A friend of mine tried to dine & dash at an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn. The manager and the waiter caught up to him and beat the crap out him. He had to get over 20 stitches on his forehead. They left him lying there on the pavement bleeding all over the place...

I wouldn't pre-plan a dash.. it's gotta just happen.

I dined and dashed was some restaurant in North Beach a couple years back. Our waitress got drunk and her friends came in. She never came back to our table. I started to get a lil tipsy and I told my friend to follow my lead..and we left! (shhh)

In college, we once had to dine and dash on a fraternity dare and I secretly went back the next day and paid for us all. I'm such a goddamn do-gooder nancie sometimes it makes me sick.

What are you, twelve?  Fucking idiots, businesses wasted food, labor and time on serving your asses, and you're jipping a whole lotta people with your infantile antics.  Grow the fuck up.

Gregor that is the cutest thing ever, I think.

WTF is that about?!  I'd love to open up a restaurant just for that kind of action.  It'd be a combo diner/shooting range.  Cuz if you try that crap with MY business, I'm sho-nuff gonna send some lead at that a**.

Why?  So I can be a big of embarrassment as you?  No, thx.

i agree with cindy and sheila.

that's a shitty thing to do. you wouldn't want it to happen to you, why would you do it to anyone else? i hope none of you have children. you're not fit to raise goldfish.

This is a horrible thread!

Okay confession = high school era, dropped acid went to a rave had the munchies in the morning.  Went to Denny's in San Pablo/ Richmond. Everything was so laugh out loud funny since we were frying balls, we finished breakfast when this large church group arrived causing commotion up at the front cash register, one of my friends said "BAIL" and we all got up and discreetly exited behind the commotion and sped off onto I-80.

We laughed soo hard all the way home.

dog, if i see someone do that while i'm dining, i will personally chase his/her fugging sorry ass down and kick him/her a few times until i see some blood, and drag him/her back to the restaurant...and i hope it's a russian restaurant.

Agree with Cindy.

And if you do Dine & Dash, hope you get caught and forced to wash dishes for several hours.

i'm certainly a bit biased here, because i'm a food server, and this thread isn't cool.

here's why: there are some restaurants that make your server pay for your meal if you dine and dash. that's right, the restaurant won't cover it... it comes out of your server's tips.

imagine working all night on your feet and then having to pay for some jackasses dinner because they thought it was funny to dine and dash...

all i'm gonna say is that karma is a motherfucker... think carefully.

While I don't condone this sort of action, there are times when you feel there is no other option.  Back in college, some friends & I were in Millbrae for a sorority's formal night and one of my friends and I were hungry so we went to Denny's for a quick bite.  After we were done eating, we got up and went to the register to pay.  With my wallet out standing in front of the register, we waited for a good 5-10 minutes and no one came by to help us.  Seeing as how the service was lousy, the waitress was inattentive & clearly no one wanted our money, we walked out.  No running away, just a casual walk.  No one chased us down or asked us to come back and pay.  

If it's lousy service & they don't want your money, why not?

Umm this is a "Consumer Review" site.  This thread totally compromises the integrity of any of our reviews.  On that note...

I accidentally left Jupiter without paying.  I later called with a credit card, but I still get nervous when I go there.

Dining and dashing is immature and dumb. If the service is bad, leave before you get food. If you eat, you pay. You can estimate the amount based on the menu prices, even at Denny's.

Then follow up with a note to the manager. But don't dine and dash. That is just lame.

I do just fine in public, cuz I pay for my shit, and therefore have nothing to be embarrassed about.  This is isn't about loosening up, sweetheart, and if you're confusing the matter, well there's no point in me trying to explain it to you.

i hope you people who do this get caught and the restaurant calls your parents. they should know how shitty you turned out.

People who dine and dash are assholes. Period. Not funny.

dine & dash is an INCREDIBLY shitty thing to do. Unless your experience is EXCEPTIONALLY terrible, don't do it. Some people really do rely on the tips to get by. I would know because I used to be one of those people. I only walked out on a place once and that was after flagging the waitress down at least three times for the check (and we almost didn't even get our food, we had to walk up to HER to order because she wasn't coming to the table) and then going to the front asking for the check, twice, to no avail.

i wonder if people who think dine and dash shit is funny because a. they've never worked in the food industry before. b. their  family members never owned a restaurant, therefore not understanding the difficulty of trying to get it to survive, esp with all the food chains around. and then having little creeps steal their food and not tip their staff or c. they're just into stealing shit which like Nadja said in so many words, not too fucking smart on this site to admit.

when i used to waitress a table dined-and-dashed on me.

fortunately though, management didn't make me pay for it, considering it only happened that one time.  but if it continues to happen to you, you definitely have to pay.

Cliff "caged heat and food for sharks" B. says:

Agree with Cindy.

NC.  No Class.

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Suge K. says:

i hope you people who do this get caught and the restaurant calls your parents. they should know how shitty you turned out.

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agreed.

that's what you consider ape-shit, Gina?  huh, I do hope that you never see me when I'm actually angry :-]

cindy is probably one od the nicest sweetest person you can meet.....

and her reaction to this is completely dead on.

ok NOW its official. yelp has turned into myspace.

twin sis dined and dashed once, i showed up the next day with a date and had to pay for her meal.  they didn't believe I was the other sister.

mortifying,

in some countries, if you dine and dash, you will get anally raped. fact. google it.

gina, are you always this much of an asshole?

A coked out couple tried to stick me with their sixty dollar bill at Cafeteria at 2 am in NYC. Waiter asked if I knew them and I said no, I thought they said they were going out for a smoke, but did not return.

Well telling someone to "loosen up" or "calm down" or "Chillax" or whatever when they're obviously feeling strongly about a subject usually gets the opposite effect.  

I personally like, "Gee, tell me how you REALLY feel."  I'm like, I just DID mothafugga. Pay attention.

Screaming/ranting/yelling?  I'm typing - not speaking out loud, here.  And well yes, I do curse a lot, but that's my normal speech pattern. What the fuck's wrong with that?

Many times servers are forces to eat the bill from a dine and dash.  Personally, I have been forced to pay for one of these and have not forgotten.  Cheap, immature people should not be allowed to dine in public.  Why do you think Mickey D's makes you pay up front?

Cindy, Suge, Princess are completly right D & D is wrong and childish at best.  Gina when did Cindy yell? I missed that part

Lame thread.  

What's next, a thread about those 8th grade girls trying steal our 9th grade boys?.... facebook.com/group.php?g…

just when so cal people are breaking stereotypes and making meaningful contributions on yelp, here comes gina and "loosen up, dude". so sad. so sad indeed.

I'd never dine 'n' dash, but it's funny how some people lost their sh*t in here.

I think Nadja's correct that people writing about their dine 'n' dash experiences compromise the integrity of a website that allows the general public to to review local restaurants and other businesses.

However, Sheila's idea for a combination diner & shooting range would be awesome. Every waiter/waitress would be armed with some sort of loaded semi-automatic weapon, and the dashers get a 10 second head start. Imagine the ratings and the $$$ to be made. They could even turn it into a reality show. It could run between UFC and Iron Chef, 2 other reality shows about psychos...

jack "one of those preachy vegetarians" p. says:

Lame thread.  

What's next, a thread about those 8th grade girls trying steal our 9th grade boys?.... facebook.co...
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hahahahahahaha wow, is this thing for real?

jack "one of those preachy vegetarians" p. says:

Lame thread.  

What's next, a thread about those 8th grade girls trying steal our 9th grade boys?.... facebook.co...
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buwhwhahahahha

I think Cindy's point here is that this issue is enough of an asshole move that it's not something anyone should be aloof about.

well, if you're gonna defend a shitty thing like dining & dashing, like that's something we all should "loosen up" about, I do think it's an embarrassment.  you started up with me first, Gina, take it like a woman who apparently knows a little something about sand in vaginas. Whuh?

do people in the city call it frisco? i thought frisco and san fran were big no-nos...

you know, yelpers are a lot of things, but we do not dine and dash! it's even mentioned in the tos agreement.

Cat "puts nutritional yeast on everything" K. says:

jack "one of those preachy vegetarians" p. says:

Lame thread.  

What's next, a thread about those 8th grade girls trying steal our 9th grade boys?.... facebook.co...
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hahahahahahaha wow, is this thing for real?
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It was originally but then got hijacked.  The internet is an amazing place.

ok ok, lets take a breather. i think honeslty, it was just a big misunderstanding a la internet.

besides a few posters, i think most of us believe dining and dashing is a reall shitty thing to do and as an adult, you should know better.

cindy, don't waste your time - apparently myspace owns her soul - she can't be expected to behave

I watched a dine and dash where some girl left her cell phone behind.  Twenty minutes later she showed up for her phone, didn't have any money, and her credit cards were all but maxed so she had to divide her $20 tab between three different credit cards.

let's get angry!!!!!

its funny when a transplant tells me i cant say frisco, or san fran is wrong.

cat, dont worry. call it what you want. if people feel so strongly about it, well, let them.

Gregor G. says:

In college, we once had to dine and dash on a fraternity dare and I secretly went back the next day and paid for us all. I'm such a goddamn do-gooder nancie sometimes it makes me sick.
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I love Gregor.

cat, my parents named me frisco after they fell in love in frisco, nc. i think it's kinda sweet.
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i personally like san franpsycho, but thats giving away my age.

Euge I love you.

frisco j. says:

cat, my parents named me frisco after they fell in love in frisco, nc. i think it's kinda sweet.
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seriously?  because that is really sweet. haha

Happened when I was waiting tables and I had to pay for it.  Big bill too.  I walked home with about 1/2 of my normal tips because of those a$$holes.  

Dick move.

i knew this thread was bad news as soon as i saw it posted.

Okay, what I was trying to say was, when people have an opinion about something, saying something dismissive like "loosen up" ain't always the thing to do.  

Now let it go.

oh, gina, you're a clever one. what a great addition to this place you are!

Allright - it's cool.  Everyone back offa Gina.  Just so you know, I'm not actually upset about any of this.  This is just how I "speak" - I talk shit and talk it pretty directly.  

And btw - I find it just hilarious that Euge said I was the nicest person in real life. You dumbass, you just can't remember all the shit I say to you cuz you're drunk all the time.

so uncool... especially if the wait person has to pay for the dine and dashers out of their own tips, that they are taxed on.

I see you just reviewed Goodwill.

Be sure to pop your collar before you dash so people recognize you as a douchebag.

How many different licenses do I need to obtain to get this combo diner/shooting range thing under way?  Seems like I'd have all kinds of business.

CINDY K. says:

Allright - it's cool.  Everyone back offa Gina.  Just so you know, I'm not actually upset about any of this.  This is just how I "speak" - I talk shit and talk it pretty directly.  

And btw - I find it just hilarious that Euge said I was the nicest person in real life. You dumbass, you just can't remember all the shit I say to you cuz you're drunk all the time.
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i was talking about your left tit. did i leave that out? damn typos

I lurve this thread.  Let me summarize:

Person 1: Have you ever committed an extremely minor crime?  Please share.

Person 2: Yes, I have committed an extremely minor crime.

Person 3: You two are horrible, awful wastes of carbon-based molecules.  I hope you both contract a painful wasting disease that slowly robs you of every sense except for your ability to feel acute pain.  Then, I hope your care giver wheels you out into traffic and you get hit by a bus and die.  And I hope your whole family catches AIDS and dies slow, painful deaths.

Person 1: Isn't that perhaps a bit of an overreaction?

Person 3: Fark you, you empty, hollow shell of a monstrosity of a human being.  I hope the next time you commit an extremely minor crime, the victim of your crime catches you and disembowels you with a rusty tuna can lid, then slowly burns you to death, takes your ashes, mixes them with low-grade meat, and feeds them to pigs.  Also, the houses of everyone who knows you should burn to the ground late at night, trapping the occupants inside so that they die a slow and painful death.

I love the high-quality discourse here on Yelp!  I haven't seen discussions this enlightened since I graduated from middle school.

Come on all it is Cinco de Mayo! Lets all relax  with an ice cold Corona or a chilled shot of some top shelf tequila!

Dude - that's the smaller one. Again - you are a dumbass.

Ben, don't criticize people being picked on, otherwise you will be picked on next.  geez, learn the rules guys!

Boo this thread! Dine and ditch is a punk ass thing to do! If you get caught, you deserve the ass kickin' you'll most likely get from the staff at the restaurant!!

oh good! ben's here. i was thinking that this thread was really lacking in arrogance and condescension. not anymore.

alex, ben's a certified asshole. no need to warn him.

CINDY K. says:

Dude - that's the smaller one. Again - you are a dumbass.

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thats a plenty for me hun, i aint greedy.

I have just left no tip at all. One time we wrote: "Here is a tip for the management: Fire this SOB who waited on us, he is an ass."

Never ran out on the check.

Person 3 - let's kick Ben in head some more cuz his paraphrasing skills haven't deteriorated far enough.

I'm sure that tip made it to management.

Angelo "Angel Ho" F. says:

I have just left no tip at all. One time we wrote: "Here is a tip for the management: Fire this SOB who waited on us, he is an ass."

Never ran out on the check.
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ive done that. no tip. bad review. owner contacted me, stated that guy has been fired already, apparently, i wasnt the only one who recieved terrible service. sometimes things work out.

Cindy, after all that reading i'm too lazy to kick.

cindy - it couldn't make him less charming.

i equate d&d to stealling.

its funny watching people get caught stealing.

their knees fall out from under them .

lol...didn't say we left in on the table.....more like in the suggestion box. With the SOB's name, date and time....etc.

"i'm certainly a bit biased here, because i'm a food server, and this thread isn't cool. "

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Nothing wrong with having two asses! LOL!!! :)!!1

Actually the goodwill review reminded me of the waiter at Cattleman's who told me this. Chicken and the egg.

guy guys...I think we're missing the point here

As a former 8th grade ho, I feel very offended by this thread and those trick 9th grade girls. But not their BFs.

When I waited tables I use to HATE the church people who would leave me the "God loves you" cards instead of a tip.

I got so mad one day..I knew I was quitting, I actually went after the people and asked them if God wanted to me eat and have a roof over my head and make a decent, living wage because I was only paid $2.15 for waiting on them and I had to make it up to minimum wage with tips. I wasn't sure how the religious card was going to help me pay my electric bill.

They were so embarrassed, they gave me a fiver.

AND, the manager didn't care!!

landman, would you LARP a game of dine and dash?

speaking of stealing, my boss caught some high schoolers breaking into their garage, as they fled one ran into a wheelbarrow  and was then thoroughly beaten by a broomstick. The end

I will admit in my youth I did this once.  I had a huge meal at a chain restaurant with some friends.  After waiting  for our bill for about 30 minutes we took off.  After reading some of these posts, I feel bad that I did it.   But that is why you are only 19 for one year.

Devon F. says:

As a former 8th grade ho, I feel very offended by this thread and those trick 9th grade girls. But not their BFs.
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nowadays, it's the teachers who are stealing those 9th grade boys.

Wow. This is near Satanic in nature. Sure, I've stolen stuff, mostly books and CD from places like Borders, bottles of wime back when too young to buy it legally, but dine and dash? You know, many places will force the waiter to pay for your dine and dashing ass? That's pretty dark.

*neck snap* Wait.  I could totally make more money by designing an amusement park, with Ben's mind as the main theme.  The diner/shooting range might have to wait.

12th grade boys, frisco

at least give me SOME credit

(and to anyone else, i am completely kidding)

Alex M. says:  speaking of stealing, my boss caught some high schoolers breaking into their garage, as they fled one ran into a wheelbarrow  and was then thoroughly beaten by a broomstick. The end
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I guess they shouldn't been wearing that cheap Goodwill blazer, it must've gotten caught on garage door.

Devon F. says:

(and to anyone else, i am completely kidding)
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damn it, cause i could totally pass for a 12th grader.

devon likes the seniors on the basketball team. fact.

if i have the authorities at my front door later today, you're so gonna get it frisco.

oops, devon steals the senior boys on the basketball team. fact.

wanna know how to do this in STYLE kids?  then listen up...

1. make a reservation at a stellar fine-dining establishment
2. dress up and go
3. show up slightly wasted
4. order the most expensive shit on the menu (kobe steak - $150, bottle of chateau le pape, 1966 - $2065, etc...)
5. eat, but keep drinking to the point that your server becomes uncomfortable when you try to order another bottle of $2000 wine.
6. hit on everyone around you, keep knocking stuff over and piss off your 'date'
7. go to 'have a talk' with your date outside/get asked to leave/get outside somehow
8. run like crazy
9. never go back

I wondered how long this would actually maintain its purpose of a "how to" steal thread.
Can we cover shoplifting, tax evasion and how to hotwire cars next?  If I'm goin down, it's gonna be in a blaze of glory.  Oooh ooh, insurance fraud too.  I can rock a neckbrace for a while.

Idiots.

this happened to me last week.  i was very impressed with their tactical assault and bravado.

i borrow, i never steal.

sadly they don't have goodwill in Humboldt county, instead they make clothes out of leaves that are sown together.
That's what must have caught on the garage door.

jennifer, i can teach you how to hotwire a car. my neighbor used to do it to his mom's when we were growing up.

as for insurance fraud, i know a guy who can "disappear" your car (yes, i meant to use it as a verb).

JT can probably cover tax evasion.

and there's got to be a trust fund baby with sticky fingers and a "rebel" streak who can teach you hot to shoplift.

It's hard being proven right all the time.

But it's a curse I have to bear.

i know a guy who can disappear people too.

i should call him.

If you know guy who can disappear Yelp profiles, that'd be a good place to start.

I dine and dash all the time. When I dine at home I cook myself a shitty inedible steak and dash my ass over to Taco Bell for some decent eating.

i do indeed, jennifer.

Yes Malcolm, typically they do.  But if you're unlucky enough to have it happen to you more than once or twice, it can get you fired.  So yeah, thanks dashers!  And to think, Quinn got death threats just for saying someone was a bottle flipping idiot.

I dislike how this knavery has been shortened to the acronym D&D. A lighthearted fantasy pastime shoukld not be associated with this vile behavior.

Jeremy L. says:

I dislike how this knavery has been shortened to the acronym D&D. A lighthearted fantasy pastime shoukld not be associated with this vile behavior.
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Your right, it's got many word associations of it's own.

I dunno Ben, Burglary and Conspiracy might not be considered a petty crime to some folks.  (I LOVE common law crimes).

i could never do this.  it's wrong!

Jeremy L:  "knavery" ?  Really?  Are you wearing an eye patch and fencing sword, perchance?

This is STEALING!!!!!!!!!!!!

And very immature...wow!

If you purge in the bathroom before you leave is it still stealing?  

Tee hee...

Ha, no, then I think it's a return Dwayne.  Defective merchandise.  Not to be resold.

I have never dined and dashed.  I have been chased down outside of a restaurant, screamed at for not paying my bill, and humiliated in front of a lot of people.  I walked back into the restaurant with the woman, who didn't see the cash on the table, along with her 40% tip.

She felt dumb.

Sheila G. says:

*neck snap* Wait.  I could totally make more money by designing an amusement park, with Ben's mind as the main theme.  The diner/shooting range might have to wait.
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Dang, I had already dusted off my Smith & Wesson .45 and called up my shooting buddies to tell them about the idea...

I can't wait to shoot up some cheapskate hippies trying to get out of payin' for a meal.

"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?"

i've never ran out on a bill. It's a pretty shitty thing to do. I know some acquaintances that did. never understood why.

ben's a lawyer with a superiority complex. expecting him to know right from wrong is way too much to expect.

I walked out once; the waitress took forever to bring me my bill, so I just left.

I have to admit, I've been tempted to walk out when we couldn't get the server to bring us our bill for a ridiculous amount of time.  In the end, we wound up tossing down a best guess on the amount, or finding a manager or someone to get it for us.  

But premeditated dine and dash is just wrong.

I want to steal from McDonalds (the bastards) ... too bad dine n dash is impossible there.  

One time my friend said he would treat me and his brother to dinner.  He had a huge stack of money in his pocket.  He said we could have anything we wanted.  Then at the end of the meal he said, "Ok, let's go."  And I asked him if he was kidding.  But he wasn't.  I had no money so I ran out after them.  

Only time I ever dined and dashed and it wasn't by choice.

Three or so years ago I was forced to semi-dine-and-dash on a dare:

Ate meal
got check
put money in envelope
ran like hell out of the restaurant with the very fat line cook chasing me.
Left a $20 tip on a $15 meal ;-)

Fun, but I think I threw up after.

The closest I have ever come to dining and dashing was that time I ate at my Nana's and left before watching Jeopardy with her.

She felt used.

I felt ashamed.

erin, i thought you were a nice guy! wow. was i wrong!

We all hide darkness Suge.

A kid at my hometown Bennigans DIED being hit by a car when he went out to ask someone for money when they did this. (Yeah the driver was the dasher.)

Bennigan's staff aren't allowed to chase down a check anymore, I believe. And a lot of other restaurants changed their policies on pursuing check dodgers.

I don't believe in the dine and dash, as it is stealing, pure and simple, but once my cousin and I walked out of a restaurant after receiving our sodas....we were the first in the restaurant during the lunch rush, and 45 min later others had received their pizzas and we had not. We got up and left without paying for the sodas, after our waitresses answered our questions with an attitude and a "You haven't been waiting THAT long.." answer.

a quote from one of my favorite movies:

if crime showed on a man's face, there'd be no mirrors.

When I was 18, I worked at a Greek restaurant where people (mostly jocks from the Uof W) would occasionally dine and dash. When this happened, I would have to pay for it and it would come out of my wages.

So back then, I would take home $40.00 for the day. About $5.00 of your "fun" dine and dash meal would come out of my pay.

I realize your parents are probably paying your rent, but no one was paying mine. I was trying to get through school too, and people like you weren't making it any easier.

Dine and dash.  Real classy.
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