{"id":2510,"date":"2025-04-22T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2025-04-23T08:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T08:55:31","slug":"hunt-for-dine-and-dash-couple-who-fled-family-run-chinese-restaurant-without-paying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/hunt-for-dine-and-dash-couple-who-fled-family-run-chinese-restaurant-without-paying\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunt for dine and dash couple who fled family-run Chinese restaurant without paying"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018Please don\u2019t come take advantage of us\u2019, the restaurant pleaded (Picture: Jade Palace Restaurant\/Media Scotland)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A family-run restaurant has been left \u2018saddened\u2019 after two customers \u2018ran out without paying their bill\u2019 in Scotland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jade Palace Chinese <\/a>restaurant in Hamilton, outside Glasgow<\/a>, was allegedly hit by dine-and-dashers at 3.45pm last Friday.<\/p>\n

Praised for its buffets in Tripadvisor reviews, Jade Palace sells beef curries or chicken balls for \u00a38.20.<\/p>\n

But it seemed too steep a price for a duo accused of bailing on their bill<\/a>. The pair have not yet been identified.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Facebook, the restaurant said: \u2018We appreciate times are hard however we are a small family business, we still have to pay our bills, staff wages and stock.<\/p>\n

\u2018Please don\u2019t come take advantage of us or any other small business\u2019s as this is NOT acceptable at all.<\/p>\n

\u2018Lucky for us some genuine people have come forward and passed on their details. We also have CCTV footage.<\/p>\n

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CCTV footage of the accused couple in Jade Palace (Picture: Jade Palace Restaurant\/Media Scotland)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018This is not the type of post that we would have liked to share however we have a 0 tolerance policy for the safety of our staff and our small business.<\/p>\n

\u2018I hope you do the right thing & come forward to pay otherwise we will have to pass on your details to the police & notify all restaurants in the area of your non paying tactics.\u2019<\/p>\n

Nearly a third of hospitality businesses say they saw a rise in \u2018dine and dash<\/a>\u2019 incidents last year.<\/p>\n

One in 20 people admitted to walking out without paying for a meal in a 2018 survey.<\/p>\n

A Chinese restaurant in Hillingdon, London<\/a>, thought they\u2019d lost \u00a380 when two women sped away in a car without settling their bill in March.<\/p>\n

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Jade Palace has 3.8 stars out of five on Tripadvisor (Picture: Google)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Staff from Pangs had chased them outside, but the car sped off with its door ajar<\/a> while one man was still holding it open.<\/p>\n

More than a week later, the women\u2019s mother came to pay<\/a> and say sorry, the restaurant claimed.<\/p>\n

Pangs said: \u2018Just before closing I had an unexpected visit from the mother of the two ladies from the incident on 23 March 2025.<\/p>\n

\u2018She apologised for appalling behaviour of her two daughters running out without paying for their meal and nearly running me over. She settled the bill and left.\u2019<\/p>\n

Metro <\/strong>has contacted police for comment.<\/p>\n

Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

For more stories like this, <\/strong>check our news page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Please don\u2019t come take advantage of us\u2019, the restaurant pleaded (Picture: Jade Palace Restaurant\/Media Scotland) A family-run restaurant has been left \u2018saddened\u2019 after two customers \u2018ran out without paying their bill\u2019 in Scotland. Jade Palace Chinese restaurant in Hamilton, outside Glasgow, was allegedly hit by dine-and-dashers at 3.45pm last Friday. Praised for its buffets in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions\/2516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}