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December 2, 2023
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Corey Mintz is the author of The End of Restaurants as We Knew Them, and What Comes After.

Ontario is proposing legislation that prevents employers from deducting dine and dash costs from employee’s wages. If you have to ask why, or why now, look to the story of Sharif Rahman, the Owen Sound proprietor of The Curry House, who was fatally beaten outside his own restaurant in August for confronting diners over an unpaid bill. Incidents of “dine and dash,” a too-breezy colloquialism drawn in stark relief by the ugliness of this crime, are on the rise.

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