Group of 14 diners walk out of restaurant without paying £400 bill
31.01.2022 - 19:47
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A group of diners walked out of a restaurant without paying for their £400 bill for food and drink.
Staff at Rokka in Wirral have now issued a public plea to find the group of diners who didn't pay for the expensive bill on Saturday night.
Christina, 35, who works front of house in the restaurant, said the cheque totals to more money than she earns in a week.
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She told the Liverpool Echo that the whole ordeal has left the restaurant's team feeling "deflated".
An ultimatum has been released by the restaurant's bosses who state that the group must return and pay the bill or they will go to the police.
In a post on their Instagram page, the restaurant said: "Unfortunately tonight we have had a party of 14 leave an unpaid bill of over £400.
"They received the same great service and good quality good as all our paying customers this evening.
"We are giving this table the benefit of the doubt, to pay within 48 hours before we report this incident to the police and release their images on our social media.
"We are an independently run business with a small team and we work hard to get where we are and we deserve better than this."
Christina, who helped serve the group, said the booking was originally for 10 people, but they accommodated for 14 people by moving tables and chairs.
She said: "We are a very small independent business. We only have 14 tables so what they did last night - we turned people away for them because we didn't have room for them because they took extra tables and extra chairs - so we've lost paying customers as well as losing £400."
She added that four men from the group came