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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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To: PeterPrinciple

I think the takeaway is if you have theft, it could easily be internal.


21 posted on 11/14/2024 6:34:33 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BobL

Maybe the real theft is restaurants paying su pch a low wage to employees.

All this does is the owner shifting blame and hate off themselves, onto customers.


22 posted on 11/14/2024 6:36:31 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: nickcarraway
Most people (hopefully) wouldn't steal from a store or a home, so why do diners think it's fine to come home with a pilfered fork, glass, toilet paper, or shaker?

They do?

Honestly some times I think I live in an entirely different world.

The only things I have ever taken is left over food and maybe jelly or other condiment packets if I am taking something that would require such. But usually not even that unless we are on the road.

People are so strange.

23 posted on 11/14/2024 6:40:01 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: nickcarraway

Back around 2002, my wife put her restaurant leftovers in a take-home box and unthinkingly put the fork into the box. I teased her about that for years, using that fork at her place setting and so on. I think she finally threw it away.


24 posted on 11/14/2024 6:44:09 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Fuzz

I paid for a pizza, I deserved to take the brick oven home!


25 posted on 11/14/2024 6:44:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Apparatchik

Canadians?


26 posted on 11/14/2024 6:45:20 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

Argument was ok, although factoring in the employee theft as another post did, makes sense. But when he got to requesting refills, that’s nuts. Usually $3 + for a fountain drink, no doubt a lot of people don’t take the refill factored into the price. Extra lemon wedge? Lots of people skip the first one and when you’re out, you’re out.


27 posted on 11/14/2024 6:45:47 PM PST by sopo
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To: Fuzz

“Lobster tank?”
Fuzz, now you’re talking!
Cmon!


28 posted on 11/14/2024 6:51:47 PM PST by BatGuano (DJ Trump and JD Vance, winners, Praise The Lord.)
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To: nickcarraway

It never occurred to me to take something from a restaurant. They whole point is going there,, have them bring out the meal, and then take everything away so we don’t have to do anything.


29 posted on 11/14/2024 6:54:02 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Fuzz

I tried to steal the Mongolian BBQ grill but it didn’t fit in my girlfriend’s purse....


30 posted on 11/14/2024 6:56:10 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: PeterPrinciple

95% of businesses encounter employee theft?
That’s hard to believe. I’ll accept 80% and that is a horrible percentage.


31 posted on 11/14/2024 6:56:48 PM PST by BatGuano (DJ Trump and JD Vance, winners, Praise The Lord.)
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To: P.O.E.

Yes, the college students all forget to bring silverware and things with them. At the end of the year they leave that and so much more in their rooms. There was a cleaner at a university in Boston who always volunteered for overtime at the end of the school year. The kids left radios, hair dryers, televisions, other things you can’t imagine. He cleaned up. Also, at year’s end people in apartments leave 1 and 2 year old furniture at the curb. It’s too expensive to ship home.

Many years ago, when our government arranged to remove the Shah of Iran, and again after 9/11 many students left their apartments and cars to return immediately to their home country.


32 posted on 11/14/2024 7:00:33 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: Sarcazmo

“Does the person you’re talking about’s name rhyme with fillary mintton”

LOL! No. Those trash never showed up there that I can recall.


33 posted on 11/14/2024 7:04:31 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Not the whore in '24.)
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To: T-Bird45

LOL 😆
Dieb.


34 posted on 11/14/2024 7:06:21 PM PST by ANKE69 (✌️🇺🇲 Let's MAGA)
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To: nickcarraway

Does taking sugar packets count? ... I usually bring my Sriracha.... because I love it and don’t trust anyone to have it.


35 posted on 11/14/2024 7:53:56 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (.+--)
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To: Antihero101607

My cousin stole many beer pitchers, a table and 4 chairs from a tavern. He even stole a Christmas tree from a Chinese Restaurant. He got got trying to take a pinball machine another time


36 posted on 11/14/2024 7:56:23 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (.+--)
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To: nickcarraway

They used to give you matchbooks as souvenirs; but nobody uses them anymore. I still have one from a Chinese place in Chicago from when my wife and I were dating.


37 posted on 11/14/2024 7:57:21 PM PST by Migraine ( )
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To: nickcarraway
"The one thing that’s okay to take from a restaurant is a pen, but only if it has the name of the restaurant on it."

Whew! Glad to hear that's OK. I took one from a cool little bar & grille (biker bar) when I was young and travelling. First, I handed the owner a generous tip, and she smiled and thanked me. Then, one of the regulars saw me eye the pen, and he said, 'Quick, take it,' handed it to me, and I slipped it into my bag. I kept that souvenir for years. I'm sure my tip more than covered it.

38 posted on 11/14/2024 8:44:01 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: Migraine

Same here. I still have some old souvenir matchbooks, one from Chicago. Sometimes, the little things in life make us happy.


39 posted on 11/14/2024 8:45:37 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: nickcarraway

Just a symptom of a failed generation, and the failure of their parents. Maybe there is a valid reason for abortion!


40 posted on 11/14/2024 9:13:56 PM PST by Herakles (Diversity is applied Marxism )
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