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An Italian restaurant in Taichung suffered a huge loss after serving a group of unruly customers. It all started when the group started making unreasonable requests for free drinks and wanted to cook the food themselves. But things escalated when a man in the group went up to the bar and took a sip of an expensive liquor directly from the bottle when the staff wasn’t watching. When asked to pay their NT$20,000 bill, they refused and left without paying. Furious, the owner posted surveillance footage of the incident on social media, to warn other restaurants of these people. The owner added that he’s especially upset that they were foreigners, just like himself.

In this surveillance footage, a man can be seen walking toward the bar area in a restaurant. He picks up a liquor bottle and quickly puts it down when approached by a staff member.

But it didn’t take long before he picks up another bottle. When he’s sure that no one’s watching, he picks up the previous bottle and takes a glug directly from it, before putting it back nonchalantly and heading back to his table.

The owner of this Italian restaurant on Xiangshang Road in Taichung posted the footage online and condemned the man’s actions. He wrote that not only was it unsanitary, it was also completely disrespectful. In the original post, the owner added that the group of diners that included the man had been a complete nuisance. They asked to try out some drinks, which was not allowed, insisted on having the restaurant sell them sold-out dishes, and demanded to make the food themselves with the restaurant providing the ingredients.

Friend of owner
Italian restaurant
They asked to try out some drinks. At the time the staff tried their best to satisfy their demand.

Even if the restaurant did offer wine and liquor tasting, drinking directly from the bottle, like the man did, would still be completely out of the question.

Friend of owner
Italian restaurant
It’s completely unacceptable for him to just pick up a bottle from the counter and drink directly from it. It’s not like it’s a bottle of beer he’s bought, in that case it wouldn’t matter.

The restaurant ended up having to charge the group of the bottle, bringing the tab to around NT$20,000. The group was asked to pay and leave, but they refused to pay then, and they’ve still yet to pay now. The owner said that he’s especially dismayed that the group was foreigners, just like him. He added that he only publicized the incident to warn nearby restaurants of the troublesome group.

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