Know any restaurant thieves?

[MIGrandma]

Well, you can discount one of the "I do's," then. Oh wait, I forgot...I usually do take some salt packets when at Wendy's (which is maybe three or four times a year), because I LOVE their salt. If I could find extra-fine salt in my grocery store, I'd gladly buy it, but I can't.

Yes you can find it in the grocery store. It's called popcorn salt, and it's very, very powdery fine.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Yes you can find it in the grocery store. It's called popcorn salt, and it's very, very powdery fine.

I've looked down here (Kentucky) at Kroger, Walmart, and Meijer, but couldn't find it. Is it readily found in Michigan? If so, next time we go up, I'll get some.

 

[CocozMom]

Last Christmas my boss gave me 12 black, cloth napkins with our initials embroidered on them. She was so proud to tell me that she got them from her son who is a server at a local upscale mexican restaurant. She handed out at least 6 dozen around the office. She said they were great napkins because she used them all the time at home and it only took a few minutes on her embroidery machine to add the monogram. It blew my mind.
So it is not always patrons taking things, many times employees are just as guilty.

My FIL takes handfuls of sweet and low packets from the gas station when he goes in. Just fills up the pockets of those wind pants. So humiliating.

When DD and DS were little we always let them chew on spoons at restaurants, arriving at home with a few. Once I noticed when we were getting in the car and ran one back in. The hostess looked at me like I was crazy.

Chick-Fil-A always gives us too many BBQ sauce packets and I take them home. DS loves their sauce and will eat it on just about everything.

 

[Princess Nancy]

nevermind

 

[sbell111]

Is this the day's thread where we get to feel morrally superior to others? Oh goody.

 

[Dolce27]

I had a former co-worker once steal the salt and pepper shakers from a restuarant. We had all gone out to dinner before a baseball game and my other coworker thought that the way they used old Corona bottles for salt and pepper was cute. Well when we got back into the car and we heading to the game the other coworker pulled them out of her purse to give to the one who liked them. I was dumbfounded.

Was this a Red Lobster? I know they have the Corona salt and pepper bottles there (or at least did). When my sister was in college she did take them - not on the same visit. A pepper one visit and the salt another visit. I bet those go MIA a lot. To my knowledge, that's all she has swiped from a restaurant.

 

[charming23]

Was this a Red Lobster? I know they have the Corona salt and pepper bottles there (or at least did). When my sister was in college she did take them - not on the same visit. A pepper one visit and the salt another visit. I bet those go MIA a lot. To my knowledge, that's all she has swiped from a restaurant.

No it was at a little hole in the wall place (they are now closed). It just struck me as odd because I had not known anyone who had taken actual "hardware" out of a restuarant.

Now when I was little my grandma used to always take sweet and low packets. She always told my dad she did so incase she had a guest over for coffee who needed them.

 

[NotUrsula]

Last Christmas my boss gave me 12 black, cloth napkins with our initials embroidered on them. She was so proud to tell me that she got them from her son who is a server at a local upscale mexican restaurant. She handed out at least 6 dozen around the office. She said they were great napkins because she used them all the time at home and it only took a few minutes on her embroidery machine to add the monogram. It blew my mind.

So it is not always patrons taking things, many times employees are just as guilty.

Very true, but do you think that it is possible that her son simply used his connections to allow her to purchase them at cost? I buy things like this from restaurants and hotels all the time, things that they buy in bulk that are not readily available in small quantities. I just approach the manager and negotiate what I consider a fair price; most of the time they go along, because money is money, and if I'm offering more than they paid for them, then they are still turning a profit.

I do the same thing with condiment packets. A couple of years ago DS' Scout Den needed some for a campout, but not enough to make buying whole cases cost-effective. The catering manager at my office building's onsite restaurant was happy to sell me the number I needed for $6, (7 cents each, which was a profit because he paid 5 cents each for them.)

 

[worm761]

I stole a bunch, like two packages around 2000, of straws from work. They were force shipped to the restaurant for some promotional cups we had going on. Once the cups were gone we had a ton of the straws left but were not allowed to use them with the regular cups so they were going to the trash. I told my employees they were welcome to whatever and grabbed two bags myself. DS and my niece and nephew like them. They are entirely too long to work with anything else. I just cut them down to size for us. I am still using them and I haven't worked in almost three years. Does that count?

 

[SOnotLayuh]

When I waited tables I had a lot of problems with people stealing the little cups that we served things like cocktail sauce in. We had them in a few different colors.

People liked to steal those, and they also liked to steal the entire contents of our sugar cup on the table.

 

[Big Cuddly Bear]

Is this the day's thread where we get to feel morrally superior to others? Oh goody.

Why, do you feel inferior?

No, this was not really the point. But I don't see how anybody who takes handfuls of ketchup packets that they know are not going to be used on the food they just purchased is anything less than stealing. All this does is drive the prices up for people who use what they need, and don't take home dozens of extras because they are too cheap to buy their own.

 

[mickman1962]

Got you all beat. Our family went out to dinner with my brothers new GF and after dinner, after we paid the bill and were putting on our coats, she called the waitress over and asked for some more bread???? We all sat back down thinking she was still hungry but when the server came she grabbed all the bread, put it in her purse and walked out.

 

[tomthebarncat]

Got you all beat. Our family went out to dinner with my brothers new GF and after dinner, after we paid the bill and were putting on our coats, she called the waitress over and asked for some more bread???? We all sat back down thinking she was still hungry but when the server came she grabbed all the bread, put it in her purse and walked out.

We have a winner! If this happened to me, I would have died and hid under the table!

 

[tlbwriter]

We have a winner! If this happened to me, I would have died and hid under the table!

Me too... and I bet the server is telling this story on another board somewhere!

 

[agnes!]

I had a friend once who took everything not nailed down from the Yacht club room we stayed in. Her excuse was that she paid for it. Um, no you didn't. Never vacationed with her again. She brought an empty suitcase just for towels.

Ah HA!... So THAT'S why the deluxe prices are so high !

agnes!

 

[LuvLDM]

My husband takes splenda/sweet-n-low packets from pretty much every restaurant we go to.
What a low life thief...I should probably consider divorcing him

 

[castmemberb4]

I've looked down here (Kentucky) at Kroger, Walmart, and Meijer, but couldn't find it. Is it readily found in Michigan? If so, next time we go up, I'll get some.

It's stocked with the popcorn.

When I waited tables I had a lot of problems with people stealing the little cups that we served things like cocktail sauce in. We had them in a few different colors.

People liked to steal those, and they also liked to steal the entire contents of our sugar cup on the table.

We have one of those little ramakins a server put it in our togo box


Years ago my SiL Father saw her little sister take the tip off the table as they were walking away, when he said something to her she said "But Daddy you always leave money behind!" She had been taking the tip thinking he had forgotten it !