Perth's infamous "dine-and-dash" woman, Lois Loder, has been told to expect a jail term of up to two and a half years for a "brazen" crime spree that included running out of businesses after having $1,180 hair appointments and expensive restaurant meals.

Key points: Lois Loder ripped off restaurants, liquor stores and hairdressers across the city

Lois Loder ripped off restaurants, liquor stores and hairdressers across the city Her lawyer told the court drug addiction was the motive for her offending

Her lawyer told the court drug addiction was the motive for her offending Loder has been told to expect a term of imprisonment for her "brazen offending"

About 10 months after being arrested, 45-year-old Loder pleaded guilty in the Perth Magistrates Court to 82 offences, including gaining a benefit by fraud, possessing unlawfully obtained property and stealing.

Loder, who appeared in court via video link from Bandyup Prison, first came to public attention in April last year, when a Henley Brook restaurant posted CCTV footage on social media showing her and her co-accused leaving the venue without paying their $290 food and drinks bill.

That restaurant was not Loder's only victim, with the court hearing she had also run out on restaurants in East Perth, Floreat, Scarborough, East Victoria Park and Crawley after racking up bills ranging from $83 to $763.

Her biggest fraud was committed on a city hairdressing salon, where she spent five hours getting extensions and a colour treatment.

She tried to pay the $1,180 bill with a stolen credit card, but when that failed she left, telling staff she would come back to settle the account, but never returned.

Loder committed similar crimes at a North Beach motel where she used a stolen credit card to pay for accommodation, a Duncraig liquor store where a false credit card was used to pay for $289 worth of alcohol and a Glendalough petrol station where she left after claiming she could not pay the $44 bill because she had forgotten her wallet.

Inheritance spent on drugs

Prosecuting Sergeant Tim Connolly also outlined an incident in June 2017 in which police stopped Loder as she was driving an unregistered Jaguar car along Albany Highway, and found a number of credit cards in the names of other people in her handbag.

Lois Loder was captured on CCTV after committing a crime. ( Facebook: Elmar's in the Valley )

In another spree, she committed a series of fraudulent transactions with stolen cards over a six-day period in August 2017, while in January last year she was found in a car with a small quantity of methylamphetamine, five debit cards that did not belong to her and a chequebook in her bra.

Defence lawyer David Manera said the motive for all the offences was his client's drug problem, saying at the time of the offences Loder had "a significant daily addiction to methylamphetamine as well as alcohol".

Mr Manera said Loder had "a very stable and healthy upbringing" and after the death of her parents had received an inheritance which she used to buy a house.

He said all of that money had gone on drugs and alcohol, and since the death of a partner Loder had encountered "a few bumps along the way" including relationships that were marred by domestic violence.

He said she had "gone back to the drugs, time and time again".

Loder 'clearly screaming out for' help

Mr Manera submitted his client, who has been in custody since September, when she breached her bail, was now "straight" and realised she needed "to grow up, take responsibility and stay off the drugs and alcohol".

Loder's lawyer said a methylamphetamine addiction fuelled much of her crime spree. ( ABC: Four Corners )

He said she was hoping to eventually be transferred to the Boronia Pre-release Centre, where she could undertake rehabilitation programs — something he said she was "clearly screaming out for".

Deputy Chief Magistrate Elizabeth Woods noted that Loder's crimes had attracted the attention of the media, saying there were some "fairly brazen photos of her, with her partner … looking fairly smug".

She said the expectation in the community was that these sorts of offences could not be committed without any consequences.

"This was a fairly brazen course of conduct over a fairly lengthy period of time … you can expect a term of imprisonment … the reality is it's going to be two to two and a half years, something like that," she said.

Loder, who an earlier court hearing was told had previously been imprisoned for dishonesty offences, will be sentenced next week.