Food faux pas: China diner shocked by US$60,000 bill for meal after accidentally posting photo of dish ordering QR code online
- Woman posts innocent photos of eatery’s dishes online, landed with huge bill
- Other diners piggyback on her table’s QR code for orders when it appeared in photos of food
A woman in China was shocked to receive a 430,000-yuan (US$60,000) bill at a restaurant after accidentally posting the QR code for ordering food online, which others used to place food orders.
The woman, surnamed Wang, said she only wanted to post photos of the dishes from a hotpot restaurant she visited with her friend on November 23, but she accidentally included a QR code that was stuck to the table for ordering and paying for meals.
While she only posted the photos on her restricted viewing WeChat Moments page, which can only be seen by her contacts in WeChat, that list included a large number of people who began to scan the code.
When restaurant staff came to confirm her table’s 430,000-yuan order, Wang discovered that people had used the QR code she accidentally posted.
Wang deleted her post immediately, but people kept making new orders to their table. She assumed someone had downloaded her photo and continued making orders using the code.
According to a screenshot of the order Wang later posted online, people ordered 1,850 portions of fresh duck blood, 2,580 portions of squid and 9,990 portions of shrimp paste, each priced at a few dozen yuan (a few US dollars).
