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Dash Out on This BBQ Restaurant and its Owner Will Shame You on Facebook

February 27, 2017, 9:28 PM by  Alan Stamm

Southfield restaurant owner Tom Milosevich does more than contact police with photos and license plate numbers of dine-and-dash meal thieves. He also posts their faces on the Facebook page of Nikola's, his Telegraph Road barbecue spot.

The idea is to shame check skippers into settling their tabs.


Tom Milosevich: "These are just lowlifes who want to scam." (Fox 2 video image)

"We posted still images from our video surveillance system . . . so those people can be identified," the businessman tells Ingrid Kelley of Fox 2.

"If it was accidental, we like for them to come back and pay for it. . . . If they want pictures taken down, they'll come back and pay for the bill." Milosevich said. . . .

In addition to a surveillance picture, he posts license plate information, a police report number and a message for the dine-and-dasher. 

Payments have been made in two cases so far, though three others remain under police investigation.

"These are just lowlifes who want to scam," the owner says early Monday on Facebook, adding that unposted video footage shows them "looking around to see that the server is gone or sending the server to get desserts so they can scoot."

Milosevich, a 1985 graduate of St. Alphonsus High in Dearborn, on Sunday posted two videos of non-paying walkouts. "Another clown who just didn't pay," says one post. "Ran outta here like the place was on fire."  

He also reports a success story from that day: "Some ladies today ran out on $100 and saw their pics on FB and called back to pay with their card!"


Read more:  Fox 2 Detroit


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