Louisiana Server’s Shocking Dine-and-Dash Story Goes Viral

A Louisiana server went viral on TikTok after sharing surveillance footage of a table of customers dining and dashing.

Hannah Francis works at Firey Crab in the Baton Rouge area, where she recently became the victim of a dine-and-dash incident for the first time. She told WBRZ that she never imagined something like this would ever happen to her, "I just always thought when I do good to people, it would be returned to me. I never thought that would happen to me."

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Security footage shows a group of five customers eating their meal and then getting up from the table, leaving behind a bill of $400. Hoping to raise awareness about the struggles people in the service industry face, Francis posted the video footage on TikTok.

"As a server, we go through so much, and I feel like people don’t really understand that."

In the video, one of the customers comes back into the restaurant after dine-and-dashing to retrieve the cell phone they left on the table.

The Firey Crab staff, including Angus Wong, the manager, were shocked by the incident. "I was shocked and sad to see that people think it is okay to do that, but it’s not acceptable."

The video quickly gained over a million views before the brother of one of the customers in the video asked her to take the video down.

Apparently, he was concerned that the video would 'jeopardize his sister's college scholarship'. Francis saw a video of the customer laughing off the situation despite her brother's concerns, "She was kind of making a joke out of it, and if she’s really on scholarship, that’s a really big thing. The fact that she would throw it away over a seafood boil doesn’t sit right with me."

Francis says she's happy the dashers saw the video because, at the very least, they know they did something wrong.

Hopefully, the customers in the video will do the right thing and pay for their meals at Firey Crab that they skipped out on paying initially.