What should be done about a company accuses you of stealing from a restaurant ?
Question Details: A friend and ate at a restaurant. Paid the bill and left the building. While we were sitting in the car talking, about 10 to 15 min later the manager came and asked if we were sitting in a booth and we said yes. He immediately said ya'll need to pay for your meal. We said we did and he basiclly said we were lying. He went in to get "our ticket" and he told the waitress make sure they dont leave. I got out the car and immediately we started disagreeing. Even when i showed him the receipt he still did not apologize at first he directed his attention to my tone which at this point was vey angry.
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There isn't much in the way of help from the legal system for this one. While it sounds like there's a good chance that his remarks were slanderous, if the parking lot was the end of the story, there hasn't really been any damage to your reputation that would make a year or two of litigation worth going through. If there's a case, it's just not worth much in money terms.
Your best bet here is non-legal remedies. You might want to write a letter of complaint to the owner, and if it's a chain, that's a big corporation that doesn't like this kind of headache. And I hope you aren't going to be eating there again, any time soon.
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