A restaurant owner claims a customer took a piece of plastic hidden in her bra and put it in her meal so she didn't have to pay her £170 bill. The woman was allegedly caught on CCTV pulling the wrapper off a cigarette packet and adding it to chicken curry before complaining to the waiter.
Restaurant owner Naseem Khan, 44, said the family-of-five "wolfed down" down their meals when they visited her curry house Namji on Monday. However, when the bill was brought to their table, they refused to pay because they had found "plastic" in their food - despite already receiving 20 per cent discount over the issue.
The family then left without paying, Wales Online reports. Naseem, who provided free meals to the homeless during the Wales Online reports., said she would have given the family the food for free if they couldn't afford them.
She said: "You could say, 'This is somebody who is not happy with the food,' but they woofed down the food and nothing was left at the end – they ate everything.
“If she was struggling with money, she could have come to me and I would have given her food for free. But she didn’t do that.”
Their bill shows they ordered four starters, seven side dishes, four drinks and six main courses - including two Tandoor Lamb chops - costing a total of £170.45. She said: “This particular couple started to complain about the starters first, but they ate all of them.
"When the main food came out, they ate all of it again. Later, the woman called the waiter and said there was plastic in her food.
“The waiter said, 'We don’t have this plastic in our kitchen, but I have the authority to give you 20 per cent off and not charge you for the dish.' The husband of the woman then stood up and said, “I’m not going to pay”, and the waiter said, “Fine, do what you have to do” and walked away."
She added: “The waiters have been given clear instructions not to confront anybody, as we have had a problem with people being very aggressive and abusive."
Naseem said she looked at footage of the incident on her security cameras. She said: "We went on the CCTV to examine how things could have gone better. That’s when we discovered that she removed the plastic from her bra.
“It was from a cigarette packet. She broke a piece off and put the rest back in her bra, then put it in the curry and called the waiter.”
Naseem gave away 250 free meals per week during the pandemic to homeless people while taking part in fundraising projects. She said: “When I sent the footage to a local group of restaurants, many of the owners said they’d seen something similar. It’s something we would never expect or wish to see.”
Thames Valley Police have been contacted for comment.
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