Would you care for a $550 fine, sir?
Colourful businessman John Singleton has been slapped with an infringement notice by police for offensive behaviour over his drunken antics at a posh Sydney restaurant on Monday.
Images of Mr Singleton wielding a broken wine glass and lunging at friend and fast-food mogul Jack Cowin were splashed across the media this week.
The pair had been having lunch at Kingsleys steakhouse in Woolloomooloo on Monday afternoon, along with other mates including musician Jon Stevens.
The bill for the boozy lunch was believed to be $840, of which $385 was spent on alcohol.
Mr Singleton will now have to cough up another $550 for his behaviour.
The advertising executive joins the list of rich men behaving badly in Sydney - billionaire James Packer and television executive David Gyngell were hit with similar fines for their street brawl in Sydney's east last May.
It is reported Mr Singleton sent flowers on Wednesday to the waitress who had to calm him down at the restaurant, to apologise for what happened.
He said he was mortified by the pictures in the newspaper but played down the incident.
"If you were there you would have thought it was funny but if you saw the papers today or on the TV you'd think 'good god'," he told 2GB radio on Tuesday.
Mr Cowin, 72, passed off the fracas as "just like bear cubs playing around in a cage".
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