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tourist busted for trying to stiff steakhouse 'simply did not want to pay:' Commissioner Kelly
New York Daily News ^

Posted on 01/26/2013 1:00:54 AM PST by SMGFan

A tipsy Italian tourist tried to stiff a tony East Side steakhouse on his tab before his NYPD-assisted arrivederci, police sources said Friday.

Graziano Graziussi, who spend the night in jail after a dispute at Smith & Wollensky, was carrying $118 in his wallet on the night when he challenged the $208 check, said NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/italian-tourist-simply-pay-kelly-article-1.1248327#ixzz2J4OOH9wj

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


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Require paying upfront before order prepared? /s
1 posted on 01/26/2013 1:01:48 AM PST by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

Whats a “tony” steakhouse?


2 posted on 01/26/2013 1:47:26 AM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: SMGFan

Maybe he thought that since Obama got re-elected, that no one has to pay for anything any more? (The government will pay for everything)


3 posted on 01/26/2013 1:50:00 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (Soon the "invisible hand" will press the economic "reset" button.)
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To: DesertRhino

A restaurant that charges $208 for a steak I guess.


4 posted on 01/26/2013 1:59:03 AM PST by albie
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To: DesertRhino

“Whats a “tony” steakhouse?”
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“tony” is a pretty outdated term for high or upper class.
I have not heard it used in many years.


5 posted on 01/26/2013 2:14:41 AM PST by AlexW
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To: SMGFan

So did the shlub forget his wallet or didn’t he want to pay? The media has made S&W out to be the bad guy in this matter. Another example of the media’s fine reporting standards.


6 posted on 01/26/2013 2:16:36 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: AlexW

“Tony” means if you don’t pay up, a guy named Tony will be out to reason with you.

(I can make that joke; I’m half Italian).


7 posted on 01/26/2013 2:20:02 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: DesertRhino

Tony Soprano’s cousin from Texas.


8 posted on 01/26/2013 2:21:01 AM PST by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: fatnotlazy
"So did the shlub forget his wallet or didn’t he want to pay? The media has made S&W out to be the bad guy in this matter. Another example of the media’s fine reporting standards."

From this article, it sounds like he had his wallet on him and just didn't want to pay - although the wording could be clearer. If he just tried to stiff the restaurant and lied to the media, as well, I hope he gets booted from the US and denied future entry for his trouble.

9 posted on 01/26/2013 2:34:02 AM PST by Truth29
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To: SMGFan

I don’t care how good the steaks are, they aren’t worth that much.


10 posted on 01/26/2013 2:35:46 AM PST by iowamark
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To: iowamark

Yup, no way a steak n taters dinner is worth that much.

He shoulda went to someplace like Outback or Western Sizzlin.

Ruth’s Criss is great! (perhaps a tad high-priced)


11 posted on 01/26/2013 2:53:55 AM PST by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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To: fatnotlazy
(I can make that joke; I’m half Italian).

Which half?

12 posted on 01/26/2013 2:54:45 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: SMGFan

I simply did not want to pay the one time I went to an Outback Steakhouse because it was such a total rip-off.

Of course I payed and never went back.


13 posted on 01/26/2013 3:01:03 AM PST by Bullish (This usurper is leaving one hell of a poop stain on our Constitution)
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To: iowamark

There were 2 people at the table so about $100 per and much of that is likely wine. Steak houses in NYC median steak is around 30/35 bucks.


14 posted on 01/26/2013 3:02:57 AM PST by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: SMGFan

The tourist’s response of forgetting his wallet is on the level of a kid saying a dog ate his report card.


15 posted on 01/26/2013 3:15:54 AM PST by driftless2
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To: AlexW

tony= any place that would look askance as the likes of yours truly entered the premises. No riffraff allowed.


16 posted on 01/26/2013 3:18:12 AM PST by driftless2
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To: wiggen
"median steak"

I like my steaks median well...how much do they go for in Manhattan?

17 posted on 01/26/2013 3:21:05 AM PST by driftless2
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To: driftless2

“Tony” steakhouses in NYC won’t cook one above a median, lol. If you insist they”ll butterfly it. Pretty well ruined.


18 posted on 01/26/2013 3:33:27 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: iowamark

If you decide to go to S&W, it’s the *whole experience* you are paying for. Besides the fact that they have the best aged steaks anywhere in the city. Also part of that *experience* is the waitstaff.

This tourist was out of his league. He would have been happier at Patsi’s or Peter Luger.


19 posted on 01/26/2013 3:37:48 AM PST by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: SMGFan

I thought he forgot his wallet, thats what all the other stories say.


20 posted on 01/26/2013 4:04:41 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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