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'Just sick of the crime': Restaurants dealing with in an increase of people dining and dashing (winnipeg.ctvnews.ca)
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"I can tell you that the people that are doing it aren't the people who are coming here because they're looking for a sandwich because they're hungry," said Ravi Ramberran, "It's the people who are not afraid of consequences period."

In the wake of the increase in dine and dashers, Ramberran said his restaurant has ramped up how they deal with it.

"We blast them on Facebook, we hold them, we make them wait for the cops...We do what's in our power to do."

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[–] Showroom7561 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They'd probably do it like gas stations... put a $200+ hold on the card, then actually charge the amount you pumped.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fair point, makes cash customers trickier, but for better or worse, more and more people don't use cash anyways, so that might be a non issue