New video shows behind counter staff when plates allegedly thrown at Capalaba cafe Whisky Business

Shocking behind-the-counter video shows staff at a bayside cafe duck for cover when a diner allegedly threw full dinner plates of waffles and eggs at them after he was asked to pay a public holiday surcharge. VIDEO

New startling video footage from behind the counter of a bayside cafe shows young staff running for cover after an irate customer allegedly hurls two dinner plates after being charged an extra 15 per cent for public holiday service.

The new footage shows two young teen staff and a trainee on her first day of work at the popular Whisky Business at Capalaba behind the cake cabinet and cash register when the plates were allegedly thrown across the counter.

A red circle shows an airborne dinner plate at Capalaba’s Whisky Business Cafe which is owned by Kylie Baker, who is also pictured in the image, which was taken from cafe video footage. Picture: Contributed.

Staff were forced to move and run into the nearby kitchen when two dinner plates of eggs benedict and a Nutella waffle allegedly came flying across the counter at full force.

They had been busy serving dozens of customers during the morning rush when a man allegedly started arguing about paying a 15 per cent public holiday surcharge, levied in Redland City for the Ekka public holiday on Monday, August 14.

Whisky Business owner and manager Kylie Baker outside the front of her Capalaba restaurant. Picture: Contributed

Previous footage released shows a man at the counter talking to the manager before returning to a table, and then picking up the plates and allegedly throwing them.

The new footage shows staff watch as two objects are thrown across the counter at speed.

Cafe owner and manager Kylie Baker said she had just explained the holiday surcharge to a man, when the plates were thrown.

Video footage of a man inside a Capalaba cafe on the Ekka Monday public holiday. Picture: Contributed

She said one of the plates missed her head “by inches”.

The new footage shows the young staff looking at each other before one runs into the kitchen.

Ms Baker said the incident happened on the first day of work for one trainee staff member.

Police have charged a 48-year-old Capalaba man following the alleged incident, at the Old Cleveland Rd restaurant just before 10am.

No one was physically injured and some cafe patrons are seen in the video surrounding the man before he leaves the restaurant.

Staff at Capalaba’s whisky Business Cafe during an incident on the Ekka Monday public holiday. Picture: Contributed.

The man has been charged with one count each of attempted common assault, common assault, wilful damage and committing public nuisance and is due to appear at Cleveland Magistrates Court next month.