THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1980
Page 5
IN MEMORY OF
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Died Dec. 7, 1979
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Policies differ on check-walkers
Check-walkers plague some eateries, leave others alone
By JANA L. SIMS
Battalion Reporter
With the rising cost of living,
many are finding it harder to enjoy
an evening away from the kitchen.
But the check-walker is not affected
by rising meal prices; in fact, his
meals are free. He simply walks out
the door without paying.
Some local restaurants are not pes
tered by check-walkers. Others are
bothered intermittently. And for
some, it is an accepted part of busi
ness.
Harmon Wilson, manager of Pizza
Inn, estimated that 10 food tabs are
walked each week in his restaurant.
He said the lost revenue adds up to
about $30 a week and the majority of
the check walkers are college stu
dents.
He said the worst times are during
their Tuesday and Sunday night
buffets. Sometimes as many as 100
people will go through the buffet,
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he said, and with that many eaters it
is hard to watch for people sneaking
out.
Wilson said customers will also try
other ways to avoid the price of a
meal. Some scratch out part of the
items ordered on their ticket or
order one buffet meal and share it
with other people.
When he or one of his employees
catch someone attempting to walk
out, Wilson said, “We are not hos
tile. I don’t even like to get rude. We
ask for payment of the tab and let it
go at that.”
However, Steve Larson, co-owner
of Rebels, has a different attitude to
ward check-walkers.
Unless he’s in a very good mood,
Larson said, he’ll send almost any
check-walker to jail.
Rebels has been open about two
months and Larson estimated that
his business is visited by a check-
walker not more than twice a week.
He said he and his employees
catch 80 percent of their check-
walkers. If the culprits have been
outside more than two minutes, Lar
son said, they usually get away.
He said that if a customer slips out
because the waiter or waitress was
not paying attention, the cost of the
ticket comes out of his or her pocket,
unless it was a very busy time, such
as happy hour, and the waiter or wai
tress was busy ringing up tabs.
Larson estimated that 50 percent
of all walked checks are the result of
someone waiting a long time to have
his money collected. Larson said
these are one of the few types he
does not prosecute.
He said the most common check
that is walked is for one drink, which
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he will neither prosecute nor run
down.
“Its not worth my time and trou
ble,” he said, “to go outside and
chase someone for $1.50. ”
But for those who try to walk
checks as a “game, ” Larson has a firm
policy: “A night in jail will teach
them how much of a game it is. ”
He said he has had checks walked
by people from age 12 to 60, by
“well-dressed businessmen, to peo
ple who look like they just finished
working on a road.”
Walking a check is classified as a
theft of services because the provi
sions of restaurants are considered
intangible. A person convicted of
walking a check is fined, which he
said “is like a slap on the wrist,”
while a person stealing an item that
costs the same as a tab is treated
more severely.
Furthermore, Larson said, if
someone sneaks outside without
paying, and is caught and forced to
pay the tab, under the law he has
committed no crime. If a restaurant
owner wants to press charges, he
must refuse payment for the check
even if the walker offers it. Thus,
Larson said, the restaurant owner
loses his money if he wants to prose
cute.
He said that tabs for small amounts
are not worth his time to go to court
and if he prosecutes for large
amounts, he loses the money.
Fortunately, not everyone is
affected by check-walkers.
Raymond Tonai, owner of Tokyo
Steakhouse, said in the past, some
times he has had checks walked dur
ing busy football weekends. But now
he said he has no trouble with check-
walkers. He said he serves a lot of
honest people — people who will
sometimes tell him when an item or
the bar bill has been left off of their
checks.
John Beltrand, owner of Tom’s
Barbecue, also said he rarely has
someone walk out and leave an un
paid ticket. He said when someone
does leave without paying, it is
usually a mistake and the person will
remember and come back and pay.
El Chico Assistant Manager
Robert Rodriguez has been at his
position for five months and has not
had a check walked. But, he said, if
someone attempts to leave without
paying, their policy is to prosecute.
Julie’s Place does not prosecute.
Dana Tharp, manager, said that
those who are not caught and asked
to pay are written off as business
losses.
Tharp said he has had three checks
walked in the dining area in the six
months he has been here. But, he
said, about one check per week goes
unpaid in the bar. He said checks in
the bar are usually not paid because
of forgetfulness, while those walked
in the dining room are premedi
tated.
He said in the bar, it is usually
single males that walk the checks.
He said one man made a point of
asking the waitress for the menu to
see the desserts, causing the waitress
to think that he would be there lon
ger. He got up to go to the bathroom,
but she eventually realized he had
been gone too long. His tab went
unpaid.
Joe Ruiz, manager of Fort Shiloh
Steakhouse, also noted that check-
walkers will get up to go to the bath
room and sneak out. But he said that
his restaurant does not have a prob
lem with check-walkers; they make
up less than .01 percent of his sales.
But when someone does slip out
without paying, he said it is usually
because the person will get full at the
salad bar, go to the bathroom, and
think that as long as he is near the
door and has a full stomach, why wait
for the rest of the meal?
Larson said that some people
order without keeping up with the
cost and then find themselves short
of cash. If more than one person was
in the party, he said he will hold one
member while the others are
allowed to leave and scrape up the
money. If it was one person, he said
he uses his discretion.
Mark Conlee, manager of the
Three C Bar-B-Q on Texas Ave., said
checks are walked in his restaurant
by people slipping out when there is
a crowd at the cashier. He said at the
peak of lunch time and on weekends
is when it is the busiest and is hard
for the cashier to watch.
He said his restaurant gets about
one check walked a week. If the
check-walker is noticed before he
leaves the area, Conlee said they will
go outside after him and make him
pay.
He said he makes a point to tell the
waitresses to notice whether their
parties stand in line to pay, or head
for the door. He said the waitresses
are not held responsible for walked
checks because he has a cashier
whose job is to collect the money.
Symphonic Band highlighted by tenor
By JENNIFER AFFLERBACH
Battalion Staff
Kenneth Alford, composer of the “Colonel
Bogey March,” gave his song that title because he
felt certain the bogey in his game of golf would
always outrank him. The Texas A&M University
Symphonic Band’s rendition of the march, and its
entire concert Thursday night, was certainly up to
par.
The 72-member band, under the direction of
Maj. Joe McMullen, put on a smooth program in
Rudder Auditorium for an appreciative audience
of about 500.
Judging from the audience’s reaction, the favo
rite piece was “Sleigh Ride,” a lively Christmas
song complete with simulated sleigh bells, clip
clopping of horses’ hooves, and neighing that
brought laughs from the audience. Even the little
boy two rows in front of me who had dozed
through earlier, more staid pieces perked up for
this one.
The band added to the holiday mood with their
impressive performance of the traditional
“Greensleeves,” which put a lump in my throat
and a hush over the auditorium.
Rounding out the Christmas theme was a selec
tion from the Nutcracker Suite, “Dance of the
Reed Flutes”, performed by the flute trio of Gin
ger Daniels, Perilou Goddard, and Angela
Newton.
After the intermission, the band took a back
seat to special guest Arturo Sergi, a tenor with the
Metropolitan Opera. He quickly built a rapport
with the audience, chatting about the recent
Aggie football victory in Austin; then launched
enthusiastically into a repertoire of operatic and
American folk songs. The brevity of the songs and
the energy Sergi poured into them kept the audi
ence attentive.
His wife, Leonore, a soprano, joined him brief
ly in a duet from the opera “Tosca” before the
hand reminded the audience of its presence with
an adequate, but not grand, finale by
Tchaikovsky.
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