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It Is Not O.K. to Steal From Restaurants, So Why Do So Many People Do It?
Food & Wine ^ | January 5, 2023 | Darron Cardosa

Posted on 11/14/2024 5:30:30 PM PST by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 11/14/2024 5:30:30 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Oh, we all know who does this.


2 posted on 11/14/2024 5:31:51 PM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: nickcarraway

How else would I have gotten my lobster tank? Cmon!


3 posted on 11/14/2024 5:32:37 PM PST by Fuzz
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Who are these “many people” who steel from restaurants. I know many restaurant owners & managers and have not heard of this.


4 posted on 11/14/2024 5:35:31 PM PST by Wuli
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To: nickcarraway

https://www.lightspeedhq.com/blog/restaurant-fraud-theft/

What is restaurant theft?
Restaurant theft occurs when someone intentionally steals from your restaurant. These activities can range from employees stealing food inventory or undercharging friends to swiping proprietary recipes or pocketing cash payments.

According to statistics:

95% of businesses encounter problems with employee theft.

75% of employees say they’ve stolen from their employers at least once.

More than half (55%) of all embezzlement cases occur at small businesses with fewer than 100 employees.

Internal employee theft accounts for 75% of restaurant inventory losses and 4% of restaurant sales.

Employee theft in the restaurant industry costs businesses $3 to $6 billion annually.


maybe the employees are taking the tp.


5 posted on 11/14/2024 5:38:05 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: nickcarraway

Its ok, please steal those twist salt and pepper grinders that are the most disgusting things in the restaurant, next to the rest rooms.


6 posted on 11/14/2024 5:42:20 PM PST by 9422WMR
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We’ve got a few fast food joints who had to get rid of their serve yourself soda machines. I was glad to see that. Freeloaders come in with 44 oz cups from 7-11 and fill them up. Those days are over.


7 posted on 11/14/2024 5:44:39 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Jamaicans Haitians and Indians used to run motels and 7-11s. Now,they run Congress and the judiciary)
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To: Wuli

Are molcajetes brought to the table, or do these people sneak into the kitchen to steal stuff?


8 posted on 11/14/2024 5:48:16 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: nickcarraway

The Bear opened my eyes to just how hard it is to work in a restaurant and to keep it afloat.

Some of the real high end chefs that have appeared on the show have gone out of business.

Although, the chef that cooks without electricity or gas is still in business. Niklas Ekstedt


9 posted on 11/14/2024 5:49:26 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: Apparatchik

It’s them again, Yogi.


10 posted on 11/14/2024 5:51:38 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: nickcarraway

Many restaurants around college towns hide their condiments and plasticware during the time students are checking into their dorms, because they’re known to clean out the racks in order to stock their dorm rooms.


11 posted on 11/14/2024 5:51:46 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: nickcarraway

The REAL THEFT is not tipping.

(well, that’s what they think)


12 posted on 11/14/2024 5:53:59 PM PST by BobL
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To: Wuli

𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 “𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦” 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴. 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴 & 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴.

The worst I’ve ever heard of was people stealing a mug from Denny’s on occasion.


13 posted on 11/14/2024 6:04:08 PM PST by Antihero101607
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To: Apparatchik

“Oh, we all know who does this.”

You knew my mom? How do you like that?


14 posted on 11/14/2024 6:05:16 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Republicans are the party that says ‘Government doesn’t work.’ Then they get elected and prove it.)
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I worked in Food & Beverage at a five-star resort and the things I saw!

Women who were married to high finance men whose names you’d know were the worst. After finishing eating at a buffet, they’d go back and load up their purses with bagels, etc.


15 posted on 11/14/2024 6:07:47 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Not the whore in '24.)
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To: nickcarraway

It could get to where they’ll have to require payment up front. Which would be unfortunate, but may be the only way to stay in business given the reduced margins of profit from inflation due to ‘dine and dash’


16 posted on 11/14/2024 6:10:03 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Antihero101607

I did that once as a teenager from a pizza place and feel guilty about taking the mug to this day. Restaurant has been gone for nearly 50 years so I doubt anyone actually misses it now.


17 posted on 11/14/2024 6:12:03 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s like collecting souvenirs. They have insurance.

I mean who hasn’t slipped a salt shaker in their back pocket or a cash register in the back of the owner’s truck and driven it home?

We should focus on important things. Like high taxes or property taxes. That’s robbery, basically.


18 posted on 11/14/2024 6:22:04 PM PST by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Hmm. Does the person you’re talking about’s name rhyme with fillary mintton


19 posted on 11/14/2024 6:25:33 PM PST by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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To: nickcarraway

A German restaurant owner chased me down in Berchtesgaden to accuse me of stealing the “salz und pfeffer” shakers. My language skills were not adequate to communicate my denial but he eventually seemed to understand. Since I was a serving US Army officer, I sure didn’t want to get in that kind of host country kerfuffle. This happened in the late 70s but is still a clear memory. I don’t remember the shakers being particularly special or notable, however.


20 posted on 11/14/2024 6:30:49 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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