By Rory Tingle For Mailonline
Published: 09:40 BST, 17 June 2019 | Updated: 09:41 BST, 17 June 2019
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Mexican restaurant chain Wahaca has changed its policy of forcing waiters to pay part of the bills dodged by runaway diners after it provoked an outcry on social media.
Sarah Hayward tweeted on Saturday that a waiter had been told to foot the bill for a table that left without paying at a branch in north London, a decision she called 'utterly shameful'.
Responding to the former Camden Council leader, Wahaca admitted it had made the waiter pay £3 towards the £40 unpaid bill, but said it would no longer require this in future.
Sarah Hayward tweeted on Saturday that a waiter had been told to foot the bill for a table that left without paying at a branch in north London, a decision she called 'utterly shameful'
Wahaca's previous policy required the waiter to pay part of the bill for runaway diners in cases of 'total negligence'.
Ms Hayward had tweeted: 'Hi, Wahaca, just eaten in your Kentish Town restaurant for the last time.
'Ppl next to us left without paying and their server is made to
