Timeline for At what point can you walk out of a restaurant if they make you wait to pay the bill?
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| Oct 17, 2019 at 2:49 | comment | added | Hagen von Eitzen | @Mazura which just means that a any later moment, payment is oner-due | |
| Oct 16, 2019 at 6:56 | comment | added | vsz | @Will : indeed, it's unlikely police will accept a "citizen's arrest" for not paying, especially if the customer indicated willingness to pay and just didn't have the correct means. Restraining a violent customer who poses a danger to bystanders, however, will typically not be "false imprisonment" if reasonable procedures are followed (e.g. no more excessive force than strictly necessary, calling the police and only holding the customer until police arrives, etc.) | |
| Oct 15, 2019 at 10:41 | comment | added | Will | @Mazura breaking any agreement concerning the timing or manner of payment is not in and of itself likely to be a criminal offence in your jurisdiction. At worst it's probably a civil wrong with some associated damages. So long as the intent behind breaking this agreement is not to avoid payment in perpetuity, I doubt there are any grounds for any sort of detention. | |
| Oct 15, 2019 at 1:28 | comment | added | MPW | Looks like my notion of false imprisonment was wrong. I stand corrected, @flexi . +1 for you. | |
| Oct 14, 2019 at 22:23 | comment | added | flexi | @MPW false imprisonment is correct. Kidnapping requires you to forcibly move someone to a different location. False imprisonment can be committed by anyone, for example a staff member blocking a doorway in a restaurant so you can't leave. | |
| Oct 14, 2019 at 21:56 | comment | added | Mazura | They probably missed the sign that says, payment is due upon services rendered. | |
| Oct 14, 2019 at 21:06 | comment | added | MPW | I think "false imprisonment" means being incarcerated (so, by the police) on false charges, right? This seems more akin to kidnapping than false arrest, at least to me. | |
| S Oct 14, 2019 at 16:53 | history | suggested | TRiG | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Something to break the run-on sentence was necessary, as it was quite hard to read. I decided on a semi-colon, though a full stop would also have been acceptable.
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| Oct 14, 2019 at 15:07 | history | answered | flexi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |