DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWWL) — The serial dine and dasher has been caught while eating at an Applebee’s in Davenport.

46-year-old Tracy Haas was at Applebee’s on Elmore and was taken to the Scott County Jail on a intrastate detainer.

Since 2016 Haas has been hitting up restaurants from Cedar Falls to Cedar Rapids. Due to his recent notoriety in eastern Iowa, a restaurant workers recognized him and called the police after 8 p.m. on Monday night.

Haas was at Applebee’s by himself having drinks and seemed intoxicated. The staff recognized him and was wearing the same outfit when he got his picture taken a couple weeks ago.

The staff kept an eye on him and he eventually stepped outside to smoke a cigarette. However, he was seen with no cigarette in hand and then the staff called the police.

Haas said he would go get his wallet and walked across multiple parking lots confused. He could not find where he parked.

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A local restaurant owner is speaking out to warn others after a man allegedly dined and dashed, leaving his bill unpaid after eating at Fieldhouse restaurant, last week.

According to the owners Facebook post this isn’t the first time the man, who was identified as Tracy Haas, has dined and dashed at the business.

The owner ran out and took a photo of the man before he could get away.

The Fieldhouse has posted flyers up in the restaurant, banning Haas.

She is encouraging other servers and restaurants to remember his face and ask for payment before serving him.

Other bar and restaurants in the area also say Haas has dined and dashed at their locations.

A server at Mount Vernon Bar and Grill, say they served him last Monday. When the same man from the picture allegedly skipped out before paying his bill.

“And he had like a beer, mixed drink, another beer, another mixed drink an order of appetizers.”

Bailey said the man walked outside to smoke a cigarette, never returning to pay his tab.

Vernon Bar called police, after seeing online that the same name, was accused of a “dine and dash” at another restaurant.

Fieldhouse bar and grill posted their story on facebook, after they say the man left without paying for a second time.

“We’re like we recognize him from a couple weeks ago, when he came in and had done the same thing to another bartender of ours.”

This time, they kept a close eye on him, the owner even confronting him.

“He says I’ll be back later, she said no you won’t you’ve done this before. and he basically used a few choice words that I cannot say out loud and then he left,” said Samantha Short, The Fieldhouse kitchen manager.

Just before taking off the owner snapped this picture. Then shared it to Facebook.

Both restaurants, warning others to beware.

“4.35 an hour, that’s our hourly wage. So if you aren’t making tips or you have to pay something out of your tips, you’re broke,” said Bailey.

“At least people know now, and they can put a face to the guy and a name, to what he’s doing,” said Short.

According to Haas’ criminal record, this isn’t the first time he’s “dined and dashed”.

The Cedar Rapids Police Department have similar reports of Haas refusing to pay his bill, all the way back to 2013.

Once, back in September 2014. Haas was arrested for Theft and Public Intoxication. Police say Haas was refusing to pay his bill at a bar at Papa Juans. He told Police he didn’t have money to pay and was allegedly waiting for a friend to arrive with money.

Haas was also arrested for Theft and Public Intoxication after refusing to pay his bar tab at The Keg Tavern back in May of 2013.