Brazen women skipped out of restaurant to avoid $200 check...but made two idiotic mistakes

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Brazen women skipped out of restaurant to avoid $200 check...but made two idiotic mistakes

Daily Mail
By NOA HALFF
31 March 2025



Three brazen women allegedly skipped out of a restaurant after enjoying a lavish meal of chicken wings, alfredo pasta and drinks to avoid the massive check, but made two fatal mistakes that caught them in their tracks.

The birthday celebration at trendy Chicago restaurant Soul Vibez ended when the three women from Rochester, New York, allegedly left without paying their bill of $262.11 - not including tip.

Surveillance footage revealed the moment the women exited the restaurant one-by-one within just 30 seconds of their server stepping away from the table. One suspect can be seen wearing a distinctive blue wig during the heist.

Chicago police investigating the so-called dine and dash had their jobs made easier after the masterminds failed to conceal their identities.

First, they provided their real names and phone numbers when adding themselves to the restaurant's waitlist before being seated-which, as reported by FOX32.

The alleged thieves then took to social media to boast about their crime, actually tagging Soul Vibez in posts thanking them for the 'free food.'

The owners of Soul Vibez, who operate five locations across the city, claim this incident is just the latest in a troubling trend of increasing dine-and-dash crimes affecting both their bottom line and their staff.

The owner shared footage of the dine and dashers to her personal Instagram, calling them out for their 'disgraceful' criminal act.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14554907/rochester-ny-women-skipped-check-chicago-restaurant-dine-ditch-mistakes.html

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Eventually, all restaurants will required a swiped credit-card before serving customers.

[Wingnut]

Bunch of 1st names beginning wit "La" in that picture.

[rustynail]

Eventually, all restaurants will required a swiped credit-card before serving customers.

That sounds like a fair solution.

[240B]

That sounds like a fair solution.

I have been to places that already do this.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Bunch of 1st names beginning wit "La" in that picture.

You mean even the one wearing a blue wig?

[mountaineer]

Bunch of 1st names beginning wit "La" in that picture.

There has to be a "Q" in those names, too.

[Polly Ticks]

The post from the owner is ... interesting.

[mountaineer]

It strikes me as too much work to write ungrammatically intentionally, with deliberate misspellings. Is it just me?

[bigheadfred]

It strikes me as too much work to write ungrammatically intentionally, with deliberate misspellings. Is it just me?

I really think that is the way their brain prints it out in their head and here we are.

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I really think that is the way their brain prints it out in their head and here we are.

We are in the middle of the new age of American illiteracy. Not just minority and immigrant groups. There are many normal looking White people in college who cannot read, write, or do even rudimentary math. All of these are high-school graduates.

It has become common for a secretary or colleague at work to write in internet slang and emojis, because that is all they know.
C U b4 I go a la casa. Not trying to be cute. This is how they write, I will stop by and see you before I go home today.
It is normal for them, even in a business setting. It is all they know.

[mountaineer]

We are in the middle of the new age of American illiteracy. Not just minority and immigrant groups. There are many normal looking White people in college who cannot read, write, or do even rudimentary math.

I've read what such college students have written. Utterly unintelligible.

[Hoodat]

It strikes me as too much work to write ungrammatically intentionally, with deliberate misspellings. Is it just me?

My BIL does that all the time.  And always in All-Caps.