Police hunt couple who ate 12 burgers in six minutes in consuming problem then ‘refused to pay’

Police are looking for two individuals who claimed to have eaten 12 burgers in six minutes earlier than leaving a restaurant with out paying their three-figure invoice.

The pair are stated to have requested to aim an consuming problem run by a restaurant in Marlborough, Wiltshire on 5 February.

However employees on the Chew Me Burger restaurant – which presents prospects 12 free burgers if they’ll end them inside six minutes – stated they defined the pair couldn’t participate within the problem, because it needed to be pre-booked and it was a “very busy” Saturday evening.

The couple then ordered the dozen patties and ate all of them, earlier than refusing to pay – insisting that they’d accomplished the problem, employees alleged.

Marlborough Police stated it’s investigating the incident as attainable theft, and issued CCTV photos on Wednesday of a person and lady they want to communicate with.

Simon Wetton, the proprietor of the Kingsbury Road restaurant, stated that he’s owed £174 by the diners.

“To do the burger problem it must be pre-arranged, as we have now to be on-hand to time it correctly,” Mr Wetton stated.

“It was Saturday evening, we had been very busy and we did not have the employees and time to time it – it is meant to be pre-arranged. So we stated that, sadly, they could not do the problem.

“They nonetheless ordered 12 burgers and stated they needed to do the problem. We defined that sorry, that was simply not sensible. However when it got here to pay they stated they’d completed the problem in six minutes and wouldn’t pay for the burgers, the invoice was on us.

“Workers once more defined that it needed to be timed by us. They argued with the waitress about this, she went to get the supervisor and by the point he arrived they’d walked out.

“So I rang them and stated look you owe me this cash, please come again and pay it and so they hung up on me, after saying they had been going to slag off the restaurant on social media.”

He added: “Because it occurs, I might see from the CCTV footage that it’s crystal clear that they didn’t eat the burgers in six minutes, though it was not pre-arranged.”

The restaurant proprietor reported the incident to the police, who wrote on Fb: “We are actually investigating this as theft and would ask anybody with data to name us on 101, quoting reference 54220012944.”

Mr Wetton added: “I do not wish to waste police time or that of the courts however, on high of all that eating places have gone via with the lockdown, this can be a matter of precept and other people shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it.”

Further reporting by SWNS