What have you stolen from restaurants?

[Anonymous]

A clothespin from The French Laundry.

[Anonymous]

Never have. I take extra paper napkins, plastic forks, and sauce packets if I get takeout, but that's it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I walked out of a restaurant after happy hour holding a wine glass that I was still drinking and didn't realize it until I was a bout 3 blocks away and was too embarrassed to go back

Rhianna does that all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I walked out of a restaurant after happy hour holding a wine glass that I was still drinking and didn't realize it until I was a bout 3 blocks away and was too embarrassed to go back

Riri! You've found DCUM!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I walked out of a restaurant after happy hour holding a wine glass that I was still drinking and didn't realize it until I was a bout 3 blocks away and was too embarrassed to go back

Rhianna does that all the time.

LMAO I swear I didn't see your post before posting the riri comment above. Great minds

[Anonymous]

I took a beer glass from a restaurant in Germany on our honeymoon. And I think a pair of nice chopsticks once.

And regularly take a bunch of splenda/forks/spoons from chipotle and starbucks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:i order out at chipotle and I absof%^&kinglutely love to spice up the burrito/bowl with the tobasco smoked chipotle sauce they have sitting out.

so I keep a bottle at my desk. when the bottle get low. i do the five finger discount to replenish the supply.

I justify it, by the simple fact. that if i was eating the burrito or bowl IN the restaurant. I'd still be using the tobasco sauce.

Yep, I came to this realization one day when I was filling the plastic cup with tabasco, the way you're "supposed to," take the sauce, and it took fully half the bottle to fill. We use everything we take, so what's really the difference between filling a plastic cup every time we go and taking a full bottle every other time besides one being more convenient?

Unbelievable how you two think your justifications are anything but that. You are stealing. If everyone took the bottle every time they used it then there would never be enough for the customers in the restaurant, which is what they're for. Also, when you take the bottle, you can use it for other things, not just Chipotle.

You are a thief. Pure and simple. Just admit it.

Imagine simping this hard for a $48 billion corporation. Oh won't someone think of the millionaires!

[Anonymous]

When we were young, my husband would take branded pint glasses from bars. When we were older, our bartender friends would give us branded glasses from the bar they were trying to get rid of, so we figured it was okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When we were young, my husband would take branded pint glasses from bars. When we were older, our bartender friends would give us branded glasses from the bar they were trying to get rid of, so we figured it was okay.

The biggest theft from restaurants: Bartenders overtly undercharge customers to get bigger, cash (unreported) tips, so the customer and bartender are routinely stealing from the restaurant. Waiters do this too by writing off foods knowing they'll get tipped better for having done so. I've seen bills where the tip is half the bill.

[Anonymous]

I've never stolen from a restaurant, but I have gotten all of my umbrellas from going to bars during the day and claiming I left my umbrella there the night before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i order out at chipotle and I absof%^&kinglutely love to spice up the burrito/bowl with the tobasco smoked chipotle sauce they have sitting out.

so I keep a bottle at my desk. when the bottle get low. i do the five finger discount to replenish the supply.

I justify it, by the simple fact. that if i was eating the burrito or bowl IN the restaurant. I'd still be using the tobasco sauce.

Yep, I came to this realization one day when I was filling the plastic cup with tabasco, the way you're "supposed to," take the sauce, and it took fully half the bottle to fill. We use everything we take, so what's really the difference between filling a plastic cup every time we go and taking a full bottle every other time besides one being more convenient?

Unbelievable how you two think your justifications are anything but that. You are stealing. If everyone took the bottle every time they used it then there would never be enough for the customers in the restaurant, which is what they're for. Also, when you take the bottle, you can use it for other things, not just Chipotle.

You are a thief. Pure and simple. Just admit it.

Imagine simping this hard for a $48 billion corporation. Oh won't someone think of the millionaires!

I wasn't talking about the 48 billion corporation, I was talking about your character.

[Anonymous]

I love how people are so shocked! Are you being for real, clutching your pearls like this?

Like, don’t you know humans are awful and always have been? People kill each other all the time. Children, even. So many people do heinous, horrible things. They embezzle millions of dollars. We have prisons full of them. But you’re acting like you just can’t believe people steal Tabasco from Chipotle or glassware from a bar.

[Anonymous]

Nothing.

[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.

Yeah, my first apartment had all stolen pint glasses. I would take ones with logos of my favorites bars, beers, or sports teams. I'm pretty sure they're eating in my basement somewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:My grandmother would always have a ziplock one her purse for uneaten rolls that she would feed to the birds if she didn’t eat. I keep one in bag, too. It makes me think of her.

I take leftover rolls from the basket at the table, too, for eating that day or to fill a bag in the freezer for bread pudding but doesn't the restaurant just throw them away?

They are supposed to. That isn’t stealing.

I really wish restaurants would just pack those up for you as a matter of course. They just whisk them away and I know they can't serve them again. (or are they just serving them again? tell us!)
Like the pp, I'm pretty frugal and hate to think of food wasted. The only way I feel a bit better is if I knew they were put in a bin for leftover food for any takers at the end of the night (homeless, hungry) or if they were put in a food scrap bin for local farmers/livestock.