<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by GeorgeBurdell:
In Georgia, if you leave an establishment without paying, it's call "theft of services", a misdemeanor.
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In CA, leaving a restaurant without paying is called "defrauding an innkeeper " (love the title) and was a common ploy for derelicts and homeless mental patients in the winter to get "3 hots and a cot" in jail...
We had an experience with a resto in SFO that had Amex on their door and folio but when we went to pay the waitron came back and said they didn;t take it anymore. We put up a mild fuss and they took it...