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- A Sacramento restaurant owner claims that diners left counterfeit $100 notes to cover their bill.
- He said they left the fake money on the table and rushed out before their server could check.
- "Don't come to our businesses and eat for free and leave fake fucking money," the owner said.
A restaurant owner in Sacramento, California claims that a group of diners left counterfeit notes to cover their bill.
Danny Maya, who owns Maya Restaurant, a Mexican restaurant in the city, posted an Instagram video last week of him burning what he claimed were two fake $100 bills.
"I'm just letting you guys know, to all the restaurant owners out there, bar owners, there's people going around dining at your restaurant, leaving fake $100 bills on the table," Maya said in the video.
In comments on the video, Maya said that the diners left the money on the table "and walked out fast," before their server could collect the bills. He noted, however, that he had caught the group on his restaurant cameras. Business Insider has contacted the restaurant for more information.
"If you broke, stay the fuck home. Don't come to our businesses and eat for free and leave fake fucking money," Maya said in the video.
N'Gina Guyton, who owns the Sacramento diner Jim Denny's, told local outlet CBS13 that use of "Monopoly money" would soar during the holiday season.
Sacramento police told CBS13 that they hadn't noticed a recent increase in usage of counterfeit money at downtown restaurants, but said that it often isn't reported.