Last Updated: November 15, 2023, 12:49 IST
The video exhibits the girl plucking her hair and placing it on the plate. (Photo Credits: Facebook)
A CCTV footage from a UK restaurant exhibits a girl pulling a hair and placing it on her plate to get a refund.
There have been a number of situations when clients demanded refunds from eating places and eateries upon discovering undesirable issues like bugs or hair of their meals. However, an incident has been reported the place a buyer intentionally planted her hair to get a refund at a restaurant in Blackburn, England. According to a New York Post report, the incident happened at Observatory, a well-liked eatery the place the girl got here for her meal with a companion. However, she failed in her intentions after the surveillance digicam captured her each transfer. Sharing the footage on Facebook, the restaurant proprietor Tom Croft warned different companies from such methods.
According to his Facebook put up, the proprietor needed to refund the couple’s beef roast dinner after she created a scene alleging that there was hair in her meal. The proprietor later reviewed the CCTV footage, solely to search out the stunning reality. The video exhibits the girl pulling out a strand of hair and putting it on her companion’s half-eaten plate.
Noting that he was “very disgusted and offended” after the incident, Croft mentioned how people are willing to put a business reputation and stuff shops at risk for just a $15 meal. He also noted that the allegations could have ruined that business’s reputation if it was not discovered.
“I was disgusted and very angry. We’ve not had anything happen like this before. If we hadn’t found the CCTV footage, then our reputation would be a major concern and a big worry. We have a five-star food hygiene rating and adhere to all the food safety guidelines. People don’t want to eat in places where you find hair in food,” he wrote.
However, earlier than he might have confronted the shopper, she was lengthy gone from the restaurant with the refund. While reacting to the video, a consumer wrote, “The audacity of some people” while another one said, “This is disgusting behaviour, well done for sharing.”
“Oh god that’s actually dangerous! I hope you hadn’t already refunded them earlier than you noticed this footage,” a third one commented.
Notably, this comes at a time when restaurants often face flak for actually preparing their orders carelessly, thus resulting in the violation of food hygiene.
