Couple arrested after refusing to pay tip at Pennsylvania pub
Talk about a rough night. Two Pennsylvania college students were arrested recently for refusing to pay a tip.According to media reports, Leslie Pope, a senior at Moravian College, and her boyfriend John Wagner, a grad student at Lehigh University, wound up in the back of a squad car after complaining about the lack of service they received at the Lehigh Pub in Bethlehem, Pa. on October 23. They evidently had good reason to complain.
"It took over an hour for the wings and salad to get out," Wagner told Philadelphia's 6ABC WPVI-TV. Pope got drink refills, napkins and silverware for the table as their waitress took a break to smoke a cigarette.
When the establishment tacked a mandatory gratuity onto their $73 check (the group included about a half dozen or so friends), the couple had enough and refused to pay the $16.35 tip. Particularly galling was that the mandated tip was 22% and not the 18% charged to large parties,