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Woman Arrested After Sharing Her Applebee’s All You Can Eat Appetizer
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Posted on 08/10/2024 1:27:23 PM PDT by simpson96

Applebee's recently brought back their all you can eat appetizer, which includes their double-crunch shrimp, tender riblets and boneless buffalo wings for just $15.99.

With that, you also get unlimited fries — just as long as you don't share them. It's a rule the restaurant tells patrons of ahead of time (it's noted on the menu), but a woman in Illinois disregarded that warning and shared her appetizers anyway.

She likely regrets it now.

It all went down on August 2 at approximately 8:30 PM, when Portage, Ill. police responded to a verbal disturbance at an Applebee’s Bar & Grill.

Dispatch reportedly advised officers that while on the 911 call, they heard multiple females screaming and threatening people. When officers arrived on the scene, they were met outside by an unruly restaurant-goer.

The woman became involved in a verbal altercation with the local Applebee's manager because she was under the impression that "all you can eat" meant the whole table could enjoy one order of bottomless appetizers.

When informed by the manager that no, each person at the table would need to pay the $15.99 cost, words were exchanged, and things got out of hand.

Even with police on site, other diners told the offender how much she'd disturbed their dinner experience with her shouting, which led to more loud arguing. At one point, the woman even tried to cover another person's mouth with her hand while speaking.

After being warned of potential arrest for disorderly conduct, she continued to be disruptive. So, she was put in handcuffs and taken away in a patrol vehicle.

Shawneesha Cobbs of Chicago was taken to the Porter County Jail, where she was formally charged with disorderly conduct, a Class B misdemeanor.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food
KEYWORDS: after; applebees; because; crime; food; semantics
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1 posted on 08/10/2024 1:27:23 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96
Headline is a lie.
2 posted on 08/10/2024 1:28:36 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: simpson96

Did Applebees learn nothing from the Red Lobster fiasco?


3 posted on 08/10/2024 1:35:37 PM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: simpson96
NO APETIZERS FOR YOU!


4 posted on 08/10/2024 1:37:08 PM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
What part of the headline is a lie?

All YOU can eat, not all everyone at the table can eat!

5 posted on 08/10/2024 1:38:29 PM PDT by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: simpson96

“Per person” was written under the app on the menu.


6 posted on 08/10/2024 1:38:58 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

That is what started the problem. Her continued behavior is what got her arrested.IMO she KNEW what she was doing, and dared the manager to do something about it...they did, and I salute the police for doing their job.


7 posted on 08/10/2024 1:39:19 PM PDT by Rustybucket ( )
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To: simpson96
An all you can eat appetizer? Why waste time with the rest of the meal? They'll be belly up in no time.
8 posted on 08/10/2024 1:40:22 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
"Headline is a lie."

Depends on your interpretation.

Woman shares her appetizer.

Management calls police.

After police are on scene, which is after she shared the appetizer, she was arrested.

Therefore, the headline was true. She was arrested AFTER she shared her appetizer. Now, if the headline read that she was arrested BECAUSE she shared the appetizer, then that would not be accurate. "She was formally charged with disorderly conduct, a Class B misdemeanor."

9 posted on 08/10/2024 1:44:57 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: simpson96

The City of Portage is in Indiana, not Illinois. This young lady will shortly become familiar with the difference in the judicial systems of the two states.


10 posted on 08/10/2024 1:44:58 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: null and void
She did not get arrested for sharing her appetizer. She got arrested for acting like two year old in public and ruining everyone else's good time.

Her (probably former) friend tried to get her to calm down and ended up paying the bill because she apparently has a sense of decency.

So the headline is a lie.

11 posted on 08/10/2024 1:47:07 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: simpson96

I don’t go out anymore...


12 posted on 08/10/2024 1:47:42 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Enterprise
"When informed by the manager that no, each person at the table would need to pay the $15.99 cost"

And THAT my friends, will guarantee that the boo boo's will get fired up.

13 posted on 08/10/2024 1:48:41 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Agree. She was arrested for disorderly conduct, not sharing her appetizer. Most people would just either leave or accept the rules of the establishment. She became belligerent instead.


14 posted on 08/10/2024 1:49:30 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: null and void

“What part of the headline is a lie?”

The headline is not technically false, but it implies that she was arrested *for* sharing the all-you-can-eat thing. She wasn’t. The cops aren’t there to enforce Applebee’s menu policies. As noted in the thread, she was arrested for “disorderly conduct” which apparently involved shouting at employees and behaving in a physically threatening, such a putting her hand over someone else’s mouth.


15 posted on 08/10/2024 1:51:00 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: Rustybucket; Enterprise
Using that logic you could say "woman arrested because she was born".

She was not arrested for going to Applebee's, ordering the appetizer, sharing the appetizer or even not paying for the additional appetizers.

She was arrested for acting like a fag (south park reference).

16 posted on 08/10/2024 1:51:31 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: Rustybucket

THIS


17 posted on 08/10/2024 1:52:58 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: simpson96

“she was under the impression that “all you can eat” meant the whole table could enjoy one order of bottomless appetizers”

The Bell Curve at work.


18 posted on 08/10/2024 1:53:02 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: simpson96

Even before I saw the name, I knew without a shadow of a doubt what kind of entitled person it was talking bout. Every time.


19 posted on 08/10/2024 1:53:59 PM PDT by Bayan
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Her (probably former) friend tried to get her to calm down and ended up paying the bill because she apparently has a sense of decency.

So the headline is a lie.

Headline is not a lie.

Headline says she was arrested 'after' sharing the meal with the table. It does not say she was arrested 'for' sharing the meal with the table.

What the article leaves out is that when she said the manager told her that the all you can eat was per person, she claimed they weren't told this beforehand.

After the police pointed out that there was a 'per person' notation on the menu right under the 'all you can eat' heading, her friend paid the bill.

20 posted on 08/10/2024 1:54:57 PM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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