A report by Thai PBS said that while the restaurant was able to deliver the meal initially, the long waiting list meant that customers had to wait several months to claim their voucher.
By March, the restaurant announced that it was closing as it was unable to get enough seafood to fulfill the demand. The report by Thai PBS said that the restaurant offered to refund the customers who had purchased the vouchers and paid 375 out of 818 customers who had complained.
After over 100 people complained about the scam, the owners were arrested, and the court found them guilty on 723 counts and was sentenced to 1,446 years in jail each. But after they pleaded guilty and their sentences were cut to 723 years each. The company has also been slapped with a fine of 1.8 million baht and they also have to refund 2.5 million baht in damages to the victims. Although the court has given a sentence for an extended number of years, the perpetrators will serve only for a maximum of 20 years. In 2017 a court sentenced a Ponzi scammer was sentenced to 13,000 years in prison after he was found guilty of illicit lending and fraud.