The Prinsep Street bar that took to social media to track down some irresponsible non-paying customers has escalated matters to the authorities after finding out that it wasn’t “accidental.”
SMOObar first aired its frustration with four customers by putting up a notice seeking help from the public to identify and get them to settle the unpaid S$275 ($170) bill they incurred on Saturday night.
The group had drank and left in batches after requesting that the bill be left on the table.
Yesterday, the bar announced that they had resorted to filing a police report after they managed to track down the drink-and-dashers but they had yet to make any payment.
“We believe the unpaid bill of $275 is NOT ACCIDENTAL as it has reached the attention of the group and remains UNPAID,” the bar wrote in a Facebook post.
The bar went so far as to attach the customers’ full names, headshots, social media pages, and screenshots of text conversations.
Heads up, the conversations may highly annoy you.
According to the screenshots, one of the customers, named ‘Damian’, told the bar that he would come and settle the bill after work but didn’t show up and tried to complicate things further by saying that he can’t pay the full amount.
The bar said they believed Damian also owed money to another joint that had published his photo and other personal details.
The other two customers, named ‘Andrew’ and ‘Kelvin’, were also contacted but made empty promises to settle the bill.
When the bar messaged Andrew’s number, the receiver even claimed to be his father. How convenient.
The bar also found Andrew to have been involved in shop theft in 2018. His Instagram account, which features the handle @sexyassdrew FYI, has been deactivated since.
“[W]e have decided it is in our interest to reveal the identity as we have established to be a person without integrity based on numerous accounts from his friends,” it wrote.
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