{"id":670892,"date":"2026-07-03T02:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/670892\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T02:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:34:17","slug":"group-accused-of-400-dine-and-dash-at-worcester-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/670892\/","title":{"rendered":"Group accused of \u00a3400 dine and dash at Worcester restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking about Saturday&#8217;s incident, he said a party of six, three men and three women, arrived at about 15:00 BST and ran up a bill of \u00a3396.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Previous week, two of them came in and we thought everything was absolutely fine no problems,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Faulkner said the group complained about the lobster in the shellfish platter, with staff offering to first deduct \u00a35 for the lobster and then the full \u00a379 cost for the platter, but both options were refused. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They then had their meals and then, at the end, they said they weren&#8217;t happy with the lobster, &#8216;tasted earthy&#8217;,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So we basically said &#8216;OK, we&#8217;ll take that portion of the hot shellfish dish off&#8217; and then at the point they then refused to pay for anything. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They said everything was not very good and they decided to walk out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking about Saturday&#8217;s incident, he said a party of six, three men and three women, arrived at about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-670892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}