What have you stolen from restaurants?

[Anonymous]

I'm such a rules-following goody-goody, but for about a year when I was 17-18, I would steal those big chunky glass ashtrays that restaurants used to have. I have no idea why - I didn't smoke and none of my friends smoked.
Eventually I ended up with about 5-6 of them and then just stopped (this was about 1991, before places went smoke free).

[Anonymous]

I used to work at Outback in college and I can't tell you how many of those knives and ramekins I still have in my house and I'm 48 now. Oh, yea and a couple of those heavy beer mugs (and some half bowls too...the kind that the ranch comes in when your order cheese fries ). I have some of those too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing.

+1 I was taught that stealing was wrong.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Chopsticks rest. But it was stamped "stolen from X", and my dining companions remarked that it's very much expected that people take them as souvenirs, thus the stamp.

Omg what? No they’re trying to SHAME you out of doing it! It didn’t take I see

Nah it’s a marketing tactic

You can tell yourself that, but if you called them right now they’d set you straight.

Think. If they really had a problem with them being stolen they just wouldn’t have them anymore. I’ve never been to a restaurant with chopsticks rests. They’re not a necessity.

[Anonymous]

Nothing ever. I eat out many times a week

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing ever. I eat out many times a week

Reflected more. Tons and tons of high end toiletry samples at crazy high end NYC restaurants. What an amazingly fun night!

[Anonymous]

My friend stole a big cardboard cut-out of Michael Jordan from a Chicagoland McDonalds in the early 90's. We had it in our dorm rooms for the three years we had left in college. But since then? Nothing but an additional straw or two.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:An old college friend used to take beer glasses from bars, the ones with the name on them. He was young, we were all immature once. But as grown adults, nothing.

I did this in college too. Nothing as an adult.

[Anonymous]

ketchup packets, paper plates and forks and napkins.

In college a friend at a buffet packed food into his backpack for later.

[Anonymous]

Extra condiments, napkins, and plastic utensils from counter service type places. Never took the reusable things.

[Anonymous]

A Newport Creamery cow glass, back in HS. Nothing ever again.

[Anonymous]

We always took the cute shot glasses. Sometimes we'd stick a fork in one anothers purse and laugh hysterically the next day.

[Anonymous]

I moved into a group house in Bethesda a few months after the giant post-shutdown snowstorm in 1996. The three other girls in the house spent that entire week+ at various restaurants and bars stealing glasses to outfit the house.

[Anonymous]

College days, took a steak knife from a restaurant. One of my friends took the glasses from Red Robin. When you ask for a refill there they bring you a new cup, so when the table got filled with cups, she would take one.
The knife was the one and only thing I took.

[Anonymous]

A pint glass from the 4 P's back in college - I blame the Guinness, but still have it over 20 years later!

Also in college, I had a very well-endowed female friend who was known to smuggle whatever she needed out in her bra.