What have you stolen from restaurants?

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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?

Restaurants refill those bottles. You are stealing something they were planning to lose.

Is this worth having a criminal record over? Losing your job over? If not, knock it off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Brilliant.

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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.

Yep. My mother would always wrap any leftover bread in a paper napkin and tuck it into her purse. I do the same now. I don't consider this stealing. That quantity of bread was allocated for our table. I would never squirrel it all away and ask for more bread, though. That would violate my sense of ethics.

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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.

Yep. My mother would always wrap any leftover bread in a paper napkin and tuck it into her purse. I do the same now. I don't consider this stealing. That quantity of bread was allocated for our table. I would never squirrel it all away and ask for more bread, though. That would violate my sense of ethics.

I agree that this is not stealing, it’s just using up what was allotted to you. In Tex mex places I pack up our leftovers and include the rest of the chips on the basket too.

This is also a good way to make sure the restaurant isn’t re-serving food to other customers. My aunt always mixes a bunch of salt or soy sauce etc into the leftover kimchi dish at Korean restaurants to make sure they aren’t going to re-serve or cook it into stew.

[Anonymous]

Those tiny glass jelly jars. Sorry they’re fascinating. Like a relic from the past.

[Anonymous]

Nothing from a restaurant, but back when you used to get real silverware in economy class on airplanes, I stole an espresso spoon.

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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!

Your moral education is lacking. Taking something that doesn't belong to you = stealing = wrong. It doesn't matter who you are stealing FROM. Would you like someone homeless to come into your house and take whatever they want, simply because you have more than they do?

Plus, lots of people are hurt by shoplifting, retirees who own stocks through their pension fund, employees who benefit from profit-sharing, franchise owners trying to make it in a low margin business, and yes, other customers who are asked to pay for your bottle of Tabasco.

[Anonymous]

As a kid I took a spoon and ice cream dish. We were on a ski trip and the bus was ready to go so I took my dessert with me.

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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!

Your moral education is lacking. Taking something that doesn't belong to you = stealing = wrong. It doesn't matter who you are stealing FROM. Would you like someone homeless to come into your house and take whatever they want, simply because you have more than they do?

Plus, lots of people are hurt by shoplifting, retirees who own stocks through their pension fund, employees who benefit from profit-sharing, franchise owners trying to make it in a low margin business, and yes, other customers who are asked to pay for your bottle of Tabasco.

Please explain exactly how any of these parties are negatively affected by 4 ounces of tabasco leaving their store in one glass container that they were going to throw away anyway as opposed to two plastic containers.