Video: Bold Dine-And-Dash Thieves Hit Albany Restaurant Twice In One Week

CBS San Francisco

September 7, 2022

Restaurant owner Michelle Phan's Vietnamese-meets-Cajun seafood restaurant, 938 Crawfish was hit twice in one week by thieves who skipped out on their bill. Dine-and-dashers ate more than $200 worth of food each time. The most recent incident happened on Saturday.

Surveillance video shows five women walking in, sitting down, and eating a meal. Some of the women are seen looking around several times, before one by one, they dash out the front entrance.

"It's not fair to us, you know all the hard work and although we are doing our best, it's hard, it's really hard to be a small business owner at this time," said Phan. "Even though we're still trying to feed the houseless every week, that's what we do on a weekly basis, it's really hard when stuff like this happens because that takes away from what we try to do in the community."

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