12,200 Euros Lost as Diners Flee After Meals in Spain
by Darinee Durai & Qian Leung
@ 24 Mar 2017
They booked banquets for hundreds of guests. They ate, drank, danced and even set off fireworks. But when dessert arrived, they drove away in the blink of an eye, leaving behind unpaid bills amounting to thousands of euros.
A trail of similar recent incidents in restaurants in north-western Spain is being investigated by police, who have detained one man from Romania, whose identity matches some of the bookings, authorities said on Tuesday.
Read full story here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/07/eat-dont-pay-120-diners-flee-spanish-hotel-with-2200-bill-unpaid
