A dine and dash (also referred to as "dine and ditch" or "beating the check") is a form of theft by fraud, in which a patron orders and consumes food from a restaurant or similar establishment with no intent to pay, then leaves without paying.
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“... it is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence ...”
—Frances Trollope (1780–1863)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)