It started like any other day at Michael’s Bar & Grill on Manchester Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri, a local business known more for its quality service for 46 years.
On Oct. 14, a man then came in and ordered a hamburger with a couple of side dishes, and even paid his tab with a $1000 bill before leaving. The only issue is that no such bill exists. Recalling the dine-and-dash incident, Kristina Moriarty of Michael’s Bar and Grill said that the man asked the server at the end of his meal if she could give him change for a $100 bill, as his total had come to $40. But right when the server went to retrieve the change, the man dropped a counterfeit $1,000 bill that looked almost like a real $100 bill and drove off in his Lexus.
The fake bill was labeled as “paper ancestor money,” which is burned in traditional Chinese culture to symbolically send them to spirits for material goods in the afterlife. But, instead of quietly eating the loss, the restaurant went public. The business pulled out stills of the man from their security footage and posted them on Facebook along with a photo of his fake bill…