{"id":858514,"date":"2026-08-17T13:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/858514\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T13:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:56:21","slug":"police-called-as-couple-refuse-to-pay-7000-dinner-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/858514\/","title":{"rendered":"Police called as couple \u2018refuse to pay $7000 dinner bill\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple are accused of racking up a huge bill at a restaurant and attempting to leave without paying before staff locked the doors and things allegedly turned violent.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall Thompson and Louise Leung were celebrating her 40th birthday in July at Ming Dining, a Chinese restaurant in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/australia-news\/vic\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police called as couple \u2018refuse to pay $7000 dinner bill\u2019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/5648d01229566d31738982ad984c24e1d91902bbf4bfc94c386faea2dc1547f8.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">A couple are accused of racking up a huge bill at a Melbourne restaurant and attempting to leave without paying before staff locked the doors and things allegedly turned violent.\u00a0NIne<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had a great time. We give whatever the good service we can,\u201d manager Tony said.<\/p>\n<p>The couple and their guests ordered up a storm and everything seemed to be OK, until the bill arrived.<\/p>\n<p>They racked up more than $7000, but Tony says they claimed they were overcharged and refused to pay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe says, \u2018F&#8212; you guys. You\u2019re a prick. I\u2019m not paying a single dollar\u2019,\u201d Tony said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe abused my staff, he tried to assault me, he tried to punch me, he kicked the doors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said, \u2018This wine, we didn\u2019t order. These drinks we didn\u2019t order\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tony says he locked the doors to stop them from leaving, and that\u2019s when things turned violent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police called as couple \u2018refuse to pay $7000 dinner bill\u2019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fcbb569d301305fa175444b9cfe79354b93c49d0bb1a7c4a7cbb0cd347931fbe.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">They racked up more than $7000, but Tony says they claimed they were overcharged and refused to pay.\u00a0NIne<\/p>\n<p>Tony claims he was assaulted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe kicked the doors, he come down the stairs, then he started abuse me, and then he tried to grab my neck, grab my hands, twist my wrists,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/victoria-police-jei\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Police<\/a> were called and they managed to convince the couple to pay for $5500 of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Tony claims the CCTV shows Leung ordering the nine bottles of chardonnay plus everything else and staff checking with her throughout the night.<\/p>\n<p>They even kept the bottles as evidence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police called as couple \u2018refuse to pay $7000 dinner bill\u2019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/e396ebdbccce63a8f82e0aaaaa5c5cadbf276ce078226030d569c7c128fafb74.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Tony says he locked the doors to stop them from leaving, and that\u2019s when things turned violent.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n<p>Leung denied they tried to walk out on the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s totally untrue, we did pay, but they overcharged us,\u201d she told A Current Affair.<\/p>\n<p>She also denied Thompson assaulted Tony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe that\u2019s true, and I think you should probably check with police for the actual incident,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple are accused of racking up a huge bill at a restaurant and attempting to leave without&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-858514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}