'I left a restaurant without paying after a huge wait - my friend is furious'

A antheral has been near fuming aft his person stormed retired of a edifice without paying for the nutrient aft they had waited much than an hr for it to beryllium served to them

A antheral has sparked a fierce statement online aft helium stormed retired of a restaurant pursuing a achy hold for nutrient that ne'er came.

He shared his communicative connected Reddit, revealing that the proposal for the eatery came from a person for an day meal with his girlfriend, but the evening was acold from perfect. The anonymous poster recounted: "I went to spot her past play and to instrumentality her retired for our 1 twelvemonth anniversary.

"I wanted to instrumentality her determination bully truthful we went to a spot my co-worker recommended. I looked it up and it had large reviews for nutrient and service." When they arrived, the mates was amazed to beryllium asked to hold connected a quiescent night. Eventually seated, work woes continued.

The antheral explained: "It took a agelong clip for the waiter to travel for our order. I was trying to person a bully clip but I was hungry. We ordered consecutive disconnected the menu. No substitutions oregon deletions. And past we waited. We had different drink.

"I asked the waiter astir the nutrient [and they said] 'It'll beryllium close out'. I saw radical that were seated aft america get their meals. One hr aft we sat. I had enough."

He past decided to cheque with his woman if she was good with leaving, to which she agreed, having hoped helium would suggest it. They made for the exit and headed to a steakhouse instead, but not without the waiter confronting them arsenic they tried to leave.

"So I near wealth for the drinks connected the array and we walked out. The waiter saw america leaving and came implicit to inquire america what the occupation was," the writer recounted. "I said that we had waited agelong capable and that we had different plans. So we left. We went to a concatenation steak edifice and had a large meal."

After sharing their erstwhile eating mishap with the steakhouse staff, they were treated to top-notch work and adjacent scored a complimentary dessert.

However, the crippled thickened erstwhile the antheral relayed the incidental to a colleague, who was incensed by his determination to permission the archetypal restaurant, arguing helium should person paid for the food. But the antheral stood his ground.

Online supporters person rallied down the diner, with 1 commenting: "If a edifice makes you hold an hr oregon much with nary nutrient astatine each past they merit to beryllium walked retired connected without payment."

Another chimed in: "No 1 should expect to hold an hr for nutrient and person others seated aft you person theirs. You paid for the drinks you consumed and that was bully enough."