Since the pandemic, having to pay a deposit when booking a table has become increasingly a part of going out to eat. But a chef from Beverley, near Hull, has sparked a debate online, after he refused to return a deposit to a customer who had turned up with one less diner in their party.
James Allcock runs The Pig & Whistle and took to Twitter over the weekend, claiming he was ‘screamed at’ and sworn at by the diner, and ‘was certain she was actually going to punch me’.
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