Your integrity would have you settling the contract soon, and they would have no reason to file suit. It would not be a criminal matter because you did not have criminal intent when you ordered you meal to evade payment, and will gladly pay in the form they advertised at the time you ordered. The restaurant could be suit against you for failure to pay. To be clear, if handled correctly by the consumer, this is a contract issue, and in the US would be a civil matter. This may create not only inconvenience or short term inability to pay, but it may also affect cost structures for the consumer. In this example, the restaurant held out that they would accept a certain form of payment, and without advanced notification changed their exchange. In the US Federal Reserve Notes and coins constitute legal tender, however there is freedom to contract for other forms of exchange. However in the scenario presented, the restaurant advertised that they would accept credit cards as payment, and only after the goods were delivered decided to change the terms. In retrospect, I thought that I should not have offered all the cash I had, and it left me in a different town, without an ATM card, and a full day ahead of me. Possibly less risk for them than relying on me to send a check.įrom a legal standpoint, they changed the payment terms mid-stream, after I sat down and ordered (contracted) and demanded payment in a specie which I did not expect. The manager accepted the $21 and agreed that the server would get $8 of it first. I also offered to take their address and send a check. I told the manager that I had $21, and that the server should get a tip before the bill was paid.
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