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Two French tourists who left a restaurant in an Italian seaside town without paying their bill were stunned when the restaurateur tracked them down the next day.<\/p>\n
The two women had enjoyed a pizza each and several glasses of spritz at a restaurant in Civitanova Marche, on the Adriatic coast in the Marche region, running up a bill of \u20ac44.<\/p>\n
However instead of paying, the pair decided to do a runner, walking out the front door of the Ai Due Re pizzeria.<\/p>\n
“They arrived without a reservation” – the pizzeria’s owner Michela Malatini told newspaper Il Resto del Carlino<\/em> – “They ordered two pizzas and several spritzes, four or six. When it was time to pay, they got up and walked out the front door, slowly walking away.”<\/p>\n It wasn’t the first time Malatini had encountered such incidents – a few days earlier her staff had foiled a similar attempt by another tourist couple to run off without paying – but this time she decided not to let it slide.<\/p>\n Through word of mouth with other restaurateurs in the town, she discovered where the two customers were staying.<\/p>\n The next morning, with permission from the owner of their guest accommodation, Malatini knocked on the door of the French tourists, showing them the video that incriminated them.<\/p>\n “They were sleeping” – she said – “I asked if there had been a problem with the bill and showed them the security camera footage. They didn’t say a word, but they paid.”<\/p>\n “It’s not so much about the amount as it is about the act” – Malatini explained – “We work hard, and seeing customers trying to leave without paying is a slap in the face for our work.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tourists enjoyed pizza and spritz before doing a runner. Two French tourists who left a restaurant in an Italian seaside town without paying their bill were stunned when the restaurateur tracked them down the next day. The two women had enjoyed a pizza each and several glasses of spritz at a restaurant in Civitanova Marche,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9808,19964,8543,2547,19962,6985,14126,19963],"class_list":["post-27408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eventi","tag-dash","tag-dine","tag-french","tag-italy","tag-owner","tag-restaurant","tag-tourists","tag-tracks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}