NYC restaurants hit back at dine-and-dashers with social media shame: ‘Nothing that police can do’

Don’t fork around with these New Yorkers!

Pushed-to-the-limit NYC restaurateurs are faced with another battle in the fight for their financial lives — a growing scourge of dine-and-dash incidents.

From deluded influencers to old-school scofflaws, this latest affront is just one more headache for inflation-embattled businesses to handle — and seemingly on their own, too, in an era where law enforcement, plates heaped high with meatier crimes, tend to view the Class A misdemeanor as small potatoes.

Some fed-up proprietors aren’t taking the insult lying down — instead flocking to social media to name and shame the culprits, often with the help of their followers. Throwing the perps into Instagram jail, it turns out, is a much quicker way to justice than ratting out tab-sentee customers to the cops…

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