Posted on Jul 24, 2023
A server recently sparked discussion on TikTok after claiming that a customer dined and dashed on a bill of $2.18 in a viral video.
In the clip, which has garnered over 952,000 views, TikTok user Mckenzie (@kenzietg_23) shows an empty table and a receipt for miso soup. The bill’s total after tax is just over $2.
“To whoever sat at my table and didn’t wanna pay their bill so they dine and dashed… you prob shouldn’t eat out if you can’t afford $2.18,” Mckenzie writes in the text overlaying the video.
In the caption, she adds, “literally its $2.18, like you could [have] just asked me to smuggle you a soup.”
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A 2018 study found that 5% of polled customers admitted to dining and dashing at one point in their lives. When a customer does this, the server may be on the hook for the bill, depending on the state.
“Under federal wage-and-hour law, a restaurant can require an employee to pay the loss from the dine-and-dash if it does not cause the employee’s wages to dip below the federal minimum wage, which is $7.25 an hour for non-exempt employees,” explained Johnny C. Taylor Jr. for USA Today. “A few states, such as New York and California, go further than the federal law, outright prohibiting...
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