A restaurant owner has said a dine and dash epidemic will force him to close after a group of ten fled in a pickup truck without paying.
A restaurant owner has said a dine and dash epidemic will force him to close after he says a group of ten fled in a pickup truck without paying.
'They knew what they were doing, they're not stupid. It's getting more and more common down here,' Kimber said. 'It's people like you who will bring a small business like us down,' he said, adding that many other small businesses in Selsey could face similar challenges and 'cripple'. Despite the seriousness of the situation, he has not reported the incident to the police, citing a lack of action on similar matters. But he told MailOnline the restaurant still 'might'.'The dine and dash craze will ruin businesses,' Kimber said.'We are a family restaurant and we value our reviews.'
Professor Joshua Bamfield is director of the Centre for Retail Research and has carried out research on retail crime. He suggested there were some similarities between the motivations of people stealing from shops and those targeting hospitality venues. 'The people who are seen on CCTV eating and running away may well have done it many times before and got away with it.
'In all honesty I think there is an escalation because people have been able to get away with it, with limited or no action taken by the police in many circumstances,' he told Yahoo News.
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