And finally…Scot buys world’s most expensive meal

An Aberdeenshire restaurant owner has been left in shock after a customer accidentally paid more than £1 million for a three-course meal at his Inverurie eatery.

The diner, who subsequently didn’t want to be named, was having the meal with two friends at Inverurie’s Rajpoot Indian Restaurant.

According to the local The Evening Express newspaper, after the meal, the customer approached owner Abdul Wahid to settle his bill, which included three courses and drinks, and came to about £100.

Mr Wahid said that when the diner input the tip amount in the restaurant’s credit card reader, the transaction didn’t go through. But after phoning the diner’s bank and obtaining a confirmation code, the transaction was successful.

It wasn’t until the diner handed the card reader back to Wahid that the owner realized his customer’s £1,006,082.04 mistake.

All was not lost, however. After calling the bank to note his mistake, the customer got his money back and paid a more sensible amount.

Mr Wahid, 51, who opened the restaurant on the town’s High Street in December, said: “When he came to pay I gave him the card machine and he asked to put in the amount himself but it didn’t go through.

“I then had to phone the bank for him and I answered all of the questions and they then gave me the confirmation code.

“At this time he still had the card machine so I never saw the amount he had typed in.

“But 10 minutes later I took the machine and looked at it and I just said ‘oh my god what’s happened, what have you done my friend’. I looked at the receipt and then he looked at it and he just said ‘oh my …’

“He then rang his bank up to say it was the wrong amount and cancel it before paying the correct amount.”

Mr Wahid, who has been in the industry for more than 30 years, added: “This has to be one of the most expensive meals there has ever been. I have never experienced anything like this. It was really, really shocking.

“I still can’t believe it.”