A customer was left stunned after he noticed an extra charge added to his $270 restaurant bill.

A man named Antonio Barbeito, from Madrid, Spain, recently enjoyed a meal at an unnamed restaurant while on vacation in Menorca.

The Spanish island is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea next to Ibiza and Mallorca.

The customer, who goes by the handle @barbeitovila on X, revealed that he ate a lobster for $180, shrimp tartar ($28), fried baby squid ($20), mussels ($15), ice cream ($7) and a few sodas and coffees.

A man paid $270 for his meal but was left shocked by an extra charge. Credit: Tim Kitchen / Getty

Barbeito was content with paying the hefty $270 bill for the fishy feast but was taken aback when he looked at the receipt and saw that he was charged $3 for an extra glass of ice.

The man shared his shock on the social media platform, writing (translated from Spanish to English): "I love national tourism and I almost never leave Spain to support a community as important as the hospitality industry.

"But on a bill of 250 euros, being charged 3 euros for extra ice seems extremely out of place," he said, posting a picture of the receipt.

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Many people felt his frustration and took to the comment section to share their thoughts, with one person commenting: "The hospitality industry is becoming increasingly shabby."

Another user shared that "it seems incredible to me that they charge me ice from coffee en ice and not from Coca-Cola," while a third urged: "It is worth it for you to put the name of the restaurant so we know what to expect and decide whether to go or not!!"

However, some people told the man that he should've expected the fee. "Ice packs are sold in supermarkets, why do you expect it to be free in a restaurant if the product is individual and is not part of the dishes & drinks you have ordered?" someone hit back.

A second user, who works in Mallorca, said: "The prices are not bad...charging you for ice is really cheap," and added that where they work "you would have paid more for the same thing, but we wouldn't have charged you for the ice".

"No problem if it is on the menu: if it is (extra ice bucket 3 € ) you should have read it before ordering. If it is not on the menu it is illegal. It is not that difficult," a third added.

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Barbeito clarified in a follow-up post that he did not want to “bother” anyone at the establishment but hoped a worker would recognize the bill and advise management against charging diners for a glass of ice.

Do you think he's right to complain about the extra charge?

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One diner was left shocked after he checked his receipt at the end of an evening out to find a $15 charge with the description "You're an a**hole" next to it.

Eating out can be a fun experience, and most people know to be polite to their servers and to tip well if the service is good.

But one man thought he had offended his server when he checked his bill after a night out to find a $15 charge telling him: "You're an a**hole".

He took to Reddit to share a copy of his receipt, telling fellow users: "My dinner receipt had a message for me."

Of course, getting what appears to be an extra charge on account of your behavior - especially if you've been well-behaved throughout your meal - might come as quite a shock, but it turns out there was a good reason for it.

He told fellow Redditors: "My wife and I went to a restaurant for her birthday and we both had cocktails.

"I completely forgot the name of the cocktail by the time the receipt came but its name was 'You’re an A**hole, Mr. Burton' lmao It definitely caught me by surprise."

The man responded to a comment which read: "Oh I figured they charged you $5 for taking advantage of the $10 birthday discount", telling them: "I thought so, too, but apparently it’s the name of a cocktail."

Sure enough, on the menu for the Westgate Bourbon Bar and Taphouse in Beaverton, Oregon, there is in fact a gin-based cocktail called 'You're An A**hole, Mr Burton'.

And that wasn't the only thing that caught people's eye on the receipt, as one of the dishes the man had ordered was named the "fried chicken t*t".

Coming in at $18, the dish is described on the website as: "breaded and fried DD chicken breast, havarti, lettuce, tomato, basil, mustard aioli, on a grilled ciabatta bun.

"Yes. we said t*t. ..from a chicken. go ahead. pretend you’re offended. i’m offended you’re offended."

Other notable menu items include 'Someone's Sloppy Sister', which consists of ingredients including soppressata salami, capicola cold cuts, turkey, and cheese, with a footnote adding: "I'd eat that".

It also has a Caesar salad called "et tu, brute?", referring to the line from the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, in which the emperor utters the line meaning "Even you, Brutus?", after recognizing his friend Brutus among the gang of assassins stabbing him to death.

Other items are also named the 'Walk of Shame' and '(Bearded) Clams', while you can also get a 'Boring Betty' burger which is described as "your cheese (pepper jack, swiss, white cheddar, gorgonzola) lettuce, tomato, onion, garlic herb aioli, and a lack of imagination."

While the 'a**hole' charge might not have been what it first seemed, other Reddit users believed restaurants should be able to add on a charge for rude customers nonetheless.

They commented: "I wish we could charge customers for being a**holes. We would make so much money. People are garbage", while another responded: "I have charged an a**hole tax to some customers and fired other customers outright. Feels good."

Another wrote: "I genuinely wish wait staff could just tack on service charges like this," to which someone else revealed: "I used to be a waiter and there were times I seriously wanted to tack on a 'F**k you' charge."

Others just joked: "$15 a**hole fee, $10 birthday discount" and "I can be an a**hole for ten bucks. This god damn inflation."

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Restaurants really are a mixed bag, aren't they? On the one hand, I think they're one of the greatest inventions of modern society. It's such an incredible human achievement that we can have food made for us whenever we like, isn't it?

But sadly, on the other hand, restaurants always ask us to pay for that food. But one man on the run in the United Kingdom is sidestepping that minor inconvenience in a really big way, racking up quite the unpaid bill in the process.

For more, let's head to North Yorkshire, where the staff members at an establishment called the Wyvill Arms were left scratching their heads over a massive bill that will simply have to be written off. Described by a man in his late 20s to early 30s with strawberry blond hair and tall and "of large build", he's made off with a meal and a night's rest without paying so much as a service tip.

During his stay at the Wyvill Arms, this fearless dine-and-dasher managed to rack up a bill of £195 (around $250 USD), consuming a steak pie, a "pricey fillet steak", four bottles of beer, four "large white wines", 14 vodka-Cokes, two gins, and two pints of lager.

In one night. How is this guy still alive?

What's more, the man in question then ordered a £23 bottle of Prosecco for the night, saying he was feeling "tired and emotional" (read: drunk) over his wife reportedly not showing up. Then, in the morning, he skipped without paying for anything he'd ordered.

But this is where the story gets weirder: apparently, this isn't the first time this dine-dasher has been spotted in the region of Yorkshire. A man matching that exact description was also spotted back in mid-November, and wouldn't you know it: he was also accused of dining and dashing.

This time, Dave Bate says that his pub the White Horse in the Yorkshire Dales put up the suspect for a period of five days, vanishing having racked up a £500 ($634) bill for his stay. That included around £100 ($126) on just lager alone: the man apparently managed to drink 25 pints of the stuff in that period.

North Yorkshire Police have confirmed they're looking into both incidents to see if they were indeed connected, and if they are, let's hope our dash diner doesn't get caught. He could face as serious a punishment as a dine-and-dasher out in LA: Paul Gonzales was sentenced to 120 days in jail.

The 45-year-old was also banned from using dating apps, after he allegedly went on a date with around a dozen different women on expensive dinner dates, before leaving without paying for a single one.

It just goes to show, folks: there's no such thing as a free meal, and there's arguably no place that applies more than restaurants. Please, wherever you are in the world, remember to pay for the delicious food and drink you get to enjoy.

A couple of newlyweds have been accused of running away from their wedding in Italy without paying a $8,500 bill.

Moreno Priorietti and Andrae Svenja enjoyed an extravagant celebration at an upscale seafood restaurant in Italy - but have left the owner of Ristorante La Rotonda - Enzo Fabrizi - shaken by the ordeal.

As reported by the Daily Mail, the couple enjoyed a feast featuring high-quality seafood, meticulously arranged music, flowers, and decorations, before allegedly running off.

Fabrizi was left flabbergasted as he discovered that the newlyweds had not only departed from the town of Boville Ernica in Italy but had actually fled the country.

He emphasized the gravity of the situation, stating that failure to recover the unpaid bill could potentially jeopardize his business. His lawyer, Lugi Tozzi, has been compelled to file a formal complaint with local law enforcement for fraud.

"I will not give [the groom] peace until he has paid every penny," Mr. Fabrizi asserted. "I've been a restaurateur for 40 years, and I've never had this happen to me."

The events leading up to this baffling incident began seven months before the couple's wedding in August 2022. Priorietti and Svenja were introduced to Fabrizi and toured the venue, following a recommendation from the owner's trusted friend of two decades who knew the couple.

They, along with the groom's parents, visited the restaurant to sample various menus before settling on the fish menu for their big day. A deposit of $3,470 was paid, with an agreement to settle the remaining $5,780 by the Wednesday following the ceremony.

"I approached him [Priorietti] and let him into my office," Fabrizi recalled. "We did the calculations, and he shook my hand and told me he would come by the next day to pay."

After the celebrations in the Italian hills, where approximately ten guests, including the bride's father, had traveled from Germany to celebrate, Fabrizi assumed that the bill would be paid.

He explained that the entire ceremony took place at the restaurant, with a special altar set up for a German priest. The civil ceremony was held by the pool, followed by a lunch and festivities, with the guests departing around 10:00PM.

However, when Wednesday arrived, the newlyweds were apparently nowhere to be found. Despite waiting for Priorietti's arrival and making numerous phone calls to both him and his wife, Fabrizi received no response.

He even visited Priorietti's local address, only to discover that no one had heard from the couple since the day after the wedding.

"And to think that I thought of everything: flowers, music, SIAE [a wedding license fee in Italy]," Fabrizi said. "The decoration alone cost me [$420]. And to think that he told me that he would also tip the waiters."

It was reported that the couple drove to Rome and then flew to Frankfurt after their celebration.

Fabrizi's lawyer asserted that the legal matter is now in their hands, urging the couple to turn themselves in or, better yet, settle the outstanding debt.

However, Priorietti is now claiming that he did pay the outstanding amount.

According to Corriere Della Sera, the groom was pursued by German police, and his lawyer has stated that he paid by a bank transfer from Germany.

"He only disputes the total, but these are small details," his lawyer said. "We had closed at [$8,100], plus 400 for the waiters."

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Having a show with dinner is usually a good time, but how would you feel if you were being charged for it without realizing it?

We all love going out for a meal, right?

Though the worst part is when the check comes and you have to scan over in detail to make sure they haven't overcharged you or added some sneaky fees.

One Reddit user was the victim of such a charge when she came to pay and realized that she along with her three friends were each charged £8 ($10) for the live music at the venue.

Obviously paying for music isn't unheard of, but when you go to a restaurant with the intention of simply having a meal - the music can feel like an added extra, especially if there are no signs stating that it'll be added to the check.

The post stated: "GF and her friends were charged for live music at a restaurant," and an image of the check confirms it.

With the "live music" charge coming in at £32 ($41) in total, the group was left pretty stunned considering that they appeared to have no knowledge of it beforehand.

People in the comments were pretty baffled by the charge, as one person wrote: "Yea if you’re gonna charge then do it at the door. I’d be livid to see this on my bill."

A second person said: "What if you didn’t even go there for the live music and went for the food and there happened to be live music? Yea, I wouldn’t be happy with this."

Though another comment appeared to know the specific venue, and even offered insight as to why the group was charged the money.

They wrote: "This appears to be from the jazz bar and restaurant 'mu' in London, yes? From their website: Is the live music free? There is an optional £8 per person cover charge which is added to the bills of guests who are seated during the performances.

"The cover charge we collect goes towards the fixed performance fees we pre-agree with each musician that plays. Can I come for dinner even if I don't care about the music? Yes, that's why we make the cover charge optional."

So if this was the venue, it seems that all the customers had to do was to ask for the charge to be removed... though that would be a pretty awkward conversation.

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