Bill-dodging diners get nabbed on Facebook

AN AUSTRALIAN restaurateur left holding a hefty unpaid bill when five young diners bolted used the popular social network website Facebook to track them down — and they got their just desserts.

Peter Leary from seafood restaurant Seagrass on Melbourne’s Southbank was fuming when the diners ate their way through the menu, pairing oysters, trout and red emperor with some expensive wines, slipped out for a cigarette — and never returned.

But Leary, left with an unpaid bill of A$520 (€268), remembered one of the diners asking about a former waitress, whom he then contacted and she suggested they check through some contacts on Facebook.