Globe Trot: 100 flee restaurant without paying

Spanish police were on Friday hunting more than a hundred restaurant customers who fled without paying the bill.

The party enjoyed a $2,100 banquet on Monday at the Hotel Carmen restaurant in Bembibre, northern Spain, before promptly doing a runner.

“They were dancing, then suddenly they had disappeared. In one minute, a hundred people had left,” restaurant boss Antonio Rodriguez told Cadena Ser radio. “They didn’t leave in little groups — no, they went all at once.”

Restaurant staff were unable to stop them, Rodriguez said. “You can’t do anything when there’s so many of them.”

AFP