To be really pissed off at this restaurant??

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Booked a meal this afternoon in London for for 9 at 1pm. A restaurant a few people recommended to us and that friends we are staying with have been to and said was very good. We expected the price to be pretty high a) it's central London b) it has a good reputation

There was an office party of some sort in there- about 10 of them.

Anyway we had our meal and the bill came. There were 8 adults (My friends and their 2 adult children, DSDs, Me and DH) and 3 year old DD.

I looked at the bill at thought it was quite high. I offered to pay as we are staying with our friends and they took me and DH for dinner in Tuesday night but friends insisted on paying half and after tooing and froing we OKd it

Friend noticed we had been given the wrong bill after again noticing the price seemed a little high.

We were given the bill for the other group. Waitress and manager told us that we couldn't pay our own bill as it was already paid for and all they could do was give us a print out of a receipt.

DH said we wouldn't be paying and the manager threatened to call the police so I paid to keep the peace and because DD was getting upset. They have given us a gift voucher for the difference but I'm still pretty pissed off

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Sorry, I think I must have confused this thread with another one. Please ignore my message. There are still loads of troll hunting posts so if MNHQ haven't commented perhaps they should ....

Bananas.

Post a review on their facebook page warning others - if you do it on your own page and tag them it will appear on their page but they can't delete it ;)

Wow. I can believe this happened as the exact same situation happened when I was a restaurant manager. Genuine error on the part of the waiter, and similarly,the larger party made a quick exit. But I did the normal decent thing of taking the hit and fixing the bill for the table that was left. Can't believe they threatened to call the police! You really should have just let them.

To be honest, I can imagine paying under these circumstances.

Everyone's staring, the manager's being insistent and possibly quite aggressive, he's threatening to call the police, 3 year old's crying ...

I think I could easily freak out and pay before I went into a meltdown and embarrassed myself further. Yes, I'm a pushover. But I think there's a fair few of us around.

^ That. Everyone pointing out correctly that any decent copper would tell the manager he's an idiot, but that still means waiting however long for them to arrive. If OP and their family leave then the manager is free to tell the police whatever lies he likes. Or the manager could have threatened OP or simply locked the restaurant doors.

Also, the price difference between a party of 8 adults and a child, and the office party of 10 adults, probably wasn't all that much in percentage terms.

Doesn't make the restaurant manager any less of a scumbag though.

How likely is it the police would actually show up in a situation like this? Given that they have other stuff to deal with that often includes violence and threats of violence.

You were within your rights to pay a nominal amount and to tell them to eff off. Horrendous.

Wow. Please tell us you are going to take this further OP.

I'm actually angry you paid. Such an injustice really gets my goat 😡

Well I've now had 3 posts delete; 2 of which were just agreeing with others' thoughts.

I think, going by the deletion goings on, the only acceptable response is to say that I have no doubt whatsoever that the OP is being entirely honest and that this really did happen.

Even though she's never been back, Shelly

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User, you seem to know a Hell of a lot about the OP?

Been reading back over her other threads have you?

I suggest you report the OP if you suspect she isn't genuine, as opposed to playing armchair detective (and looking a bit like a stalker)

Ooh, super sleuthing! Nice work.

Wow Miss Marple!! Very impressive! 😮

I'm not convinced that pointing out discrepancies is the same as troll hunting as it's factual.

Like when posters Google search an image that's been used and it's found on the Internet.

By all means point this all out to MNHQ. Posting it publically is unnecessary and reeks of "look at how smart I am, piecing it all together and proving this poster is a fake" or "I have way too much time on my hands and am far too over invested in this"

MN is full of fakes and fantasists, as is the whole bloody Internet. The rules are is if have suspicions, you report.

• if you have suspicions then report.