ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 The video has been viewed and shared on Instagram hundreds of thousands of times.<\/p>\n
It shows two adults and five children sitting at a table at the restaurant \u2018@ The Diner\u2019 last Sunday. At the end of the video, they leave.<\/p>\n
What the video does not show is the adults paying the bill. That\u2019s because the owners of the restaurant say there was no payment — just a dine and dash.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey never asked for the check,\u201d Anthony, co-owner of @ The Diner, told News 6 Wednesday. \u201cThey never got the check. The server was making drinks for another table.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anthony and his mom, Diane, sat down with News 6 at their Universal Boulevard location — the same location where they say the people in question bailed on the bill.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey came in with the intention of eating and not paying,\u201d Diane argued.<\/p>\n
After the group left Sunday and employees had realized what happened, Diane said she got the phone number that the adults had left with the hostess stand.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe immediately start texting and calling,\u201d Diane recalled. \u2018Ignore, ignore, ignore,\u2019 until finally I said to them, \u2018I\u2019m reporting them to the police and we\u2019re gonna post this.\u2019 Then, we got a reaction, but the reaction was gloating, \u2018I don\u2019t care, you\u2019ll just make me more famous.\u2019” <\/p>\n
After days of obfuscation and deflection from the alleged dine and dashers, Diane and Anthony called the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office and filed a report.<\/p>\n
The report has a breakdown of the alleged stolen goods and services, and characterizes the adults in question as \u201cpersons of interest.\u201d<\/p>\n
Diane and Anthony told News 6 that they would not proceed with pressing charges if the two people paid the bill and issued a public apology.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want accountability,\u201d Anthony said. \u201cYou didn\u2019t just do this, but you did it with kids, too, so we want accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shortly after our conversation on camera, Anthony told News 6 that the man in question called and agreed to pay the check. <\/p>\n
Around the same time that we confirmed the payment was processed, News 6 was able to get in touch with the man listed as a person of interest in the report.<\/p>\n
Over the phone, News 6 tried to ask him questions about the incident, but he insisted that the conversation be conducted over Zoom, where he said he wanted to issue a public apology.<\/p>\n
After about 20 minutes of waiting, it appeared that he bailed on the Zoom.<\/p>\n
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