Foo - Pilfering at fast food resturants?

The other day I was in a local FF restaurant. A man is up at the condiment counter with a bag that obviously had a very small item inside. He goes and grabs a huge handful of napkins and stuffs them in the bag. Then grabs another huge handful of sugar packets and another huge handful of napkins.

I have no idea how he got so much into that bag.

I said nothing but chose to report it to an older lady working there. By that time he was gone. I kind of regret not confronting him. But then again maybe he was crazy and if I did I would not be typing this right now.

Please don't tell me this is built into the cost of doing business. Yes that's right and I am paying for it. Obviously this guy was not so in a way I and others our paying for this guy.

How would others have handled this?

P.S. What is sad I even have friends that do this on occasion. Their reasoning is they they don't want to have to buy a large quantity of whatever when all they need is a small amout.

Give me the address and I will go over there and drop off some napkins and a bag of sugar. I might get a small soft drink for $1.69 while I am there.

Ketchup packets for the win.

Ketchup packets for the win.

yep (http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/ketchup/ketchup.html)

Oh **** who cares?

yes, it might actually cost you .03 over the course of a year.

too bad they didn't catch him so you'd feel like a bigger tool

Oh be quiet, boy-buggerer. lmao

Is there somewhere else where one can get TP and scrubbing packets?

I'm that napkin guy.

I use probably...6 napkins on average per meal. I don't know what is wrong with me...

When I get take out I normally don't take anything other than the food. No condiments, spoons, forks, napkins and the like. I use my metal utensils and cloth napkins at home. If by chance paper napkins were given, I would use them to wipe my ass because I don't buy paper napkins for use in my house. If someone is taking a lot of napkins or packets, I don't mind because what I did not take, the next person did. If someone takes a lot of things then wastes them in front of me, I will say something to them. I dislike waste and wasters.

Oh be quiet, boy-buggerer. lmao
:cry:
I thought you'd understand seeing as how you're Canadian and all.

You sir are ridiculous. Maybe he made a large order earlier and was grabbing all that junk for his family you have no idea. What are you doing inside a fast food restaurant anyway? Poisoning yourself with that industrial waste which they pass off as food?

Poisoning yourself with that industrial waste which they pass off as food?

How DARE you insult industrial waste like that?

:cry:
I thought you'd understand seeing as how you're Canadian and all.

I'm half American, too. :lol:

Maybe the guy was OCD. I've got a buddy who wipes his mouth after every bite. I finally learned to just grab the whole dispenser whenever we eat together.

Conversely, maybe the guy has a pet monkey in his car and needed to clean the poo...

When I was in college I knew a girl who used to steal rolls of toilet paper from restaurants so she wouldn't have to buy it. She carried a big purse.

"What are ya in for?"

"Taking too many napkins at a fast food restaurant."

(Everyone moves away from him on the Group "W" bench...)

Who among us has not left Taco Bell with extra hot sauce packets?

One of my Mom's long time friend's who is in her early 90's - they get together once in a while and go to a restaurant and my Mom is mortified when the other woman - who is rather large and plays down the fact that she doesn't eat much and insists her hamburger be plain with a roll on the side (so she can take it home) - and with the assisted bag - she takes the jelly's and sugars, etc from the table. The woman has much money saved and doesn't need this stuff but still does it.

Asks for a couple napkins to take the breads that were offered with the meal, pilfers the jellys and sugars - while Mom has a silent meltdown ....

However, couple years ago in Houston - I went to either an In&Out or another good burger place and was amazed - and pleased to see when people didn't use their prepackaged condiments - leave them on the table or group them together for reuse. I guess some people may be appalled at that, but I think it was pretty darn cool to not waste stuff!

Oh be quiet, boy-buggerer. lmao

:roflmao2::roflmao2::roflmao2::roflmao2::roflmao2: boy-buggerer!!!:roflmao2:

"What are ya in for?"

"Taking too many napkins at a fast food restaurant."

(Everyone moves away from him on the Group "W" bench...)

lol, yes!

Who among us has not left Taco Bell with extra hot sauce packets?

me. my great crimes occur in kfc

However, couple years ago in Houston - I went to either an In&Out or another good burger place and was amazed - and pleased to see when people didn't use their prepackaged condiments - leave them on the table or group them together for reuse. I guess some people may be appalled at that, but I think it was pretty darn cool to not waste stuff!

A much higher class of junk food.

Why does this make op get his panties in a twist. what a strange moral stance.

I'm half American, too. :lol:

The ****** sig is specifically for Foo. You guys showed Michael Jackson so much love I figured "It's All Good!" should be Foo's motto now.

:hug:

Anyway, patrons steal ketchup packets, but fast food restaurants steal their employee's souls. Who do you report that to?

Well that explains a lot. My first job was at a fast food restaurant.

I would have just went about my business, even though there is grabbing extra napkins, then there is a point where it turns into theft.

Here in Austin, usually in the fall, the some university psych departments have classes to get students out there with a partner to do stuff just to write down reactions of others when something odd is going down. So, if confronted with a out of ordinary situation, I tend to make scarce unless someone's life in danger, so as not to end up on some amateur filmmaker's candid camera-like documentary.

As for toilet paper, one local place ended up going with a padlocked rod to ensure their TP rolls don't go poof.

Oh **** who cares?

this.

those packets of sauces and salt etc. are really handy for picnics, not that I would ever advocate stealing from fast food outlets. I nearly called them restaurants.

The reason I care is restaurants will just start to keep everything behind the counter and you will have to ask for what you want. As we stand in line or try to get someones attention to ask for another napkin, we may long for the days when we could help ourselves.

I think McDonalds can afford a little bit of Condiment thievery....

next time call 911

Some McDonald's actually charge for condiments.

I have an uncontrollable take-a-penny stealing fetish :p
http://users.aber.ac.uk/afc/pics/melbourne/purse.jpg

and pleased to see when people didn't use their prepackaged condiments - leave them on the table or group them together for reuse.

^^^This was the way people did it in the upper midwest until not too long ago. You don't see it now, but that's how I was raised.

I side with the OP. It's unnecessary waste and/or theft and it does make the overhead go up by far more than $0.03 I would imagine.

My wife used to take almost entire stacks of napkins and only use one, then throw the rest away. So now I get the napkins, give her 2 or 3, and she's just fine. Somehow, I manage to never use more than one single napkin when I eat fast "food."

My aunt was a manager for a certain pizza restaurant which shall not be named. Patrons would steal the condiment shakers. WTF.

My aunt was a manager for a certain pizza restaurant which shall not be named. Patrons would steal the condiment shakers. WTF.

if i had the nerve so would i.

i draw the line at stealing hotel towels. the little shampoos on the other hand.

Last month on a road trip from NYC to Baltimore MD my wife & I stopped at one of those Famous Person's Name Memorial Rest Stops on the New Jersey Turnpike to get some coffee. Being staunch haters of Starbucks, we opted to procure our coffee from the BigBoy...where they keep the sugar and cream at the condiment counter.

When we get to the condiment counter we spot a family of three (middle aged couple plus one of their parents) filling those tiny 1 oz paper cups -- that are ostensibly for ketchup -- with cream...and then drinking it.

And then re-filling their little 1 oz paper cups with cream......and then drinking it.

Again and again. They were just standing there bellied up to the bar, pilfering half&half and swigging it, 29.573529687517037 milliliters at a shot. They did not appear to have purchased anything from the BigBoy (they had no take-oyt bags or cups with them), they were just stealing cream in the stupidest & least efficient way possible.

*yawn*

When the stripper leaves her...um...bikini on my chair after the lap dance to go make change...


...well is that Kosher or not? Keeping them I mean.

yes

When the stripper leaves her...um...bikini on my chair after the lap dance to go make change...


...well is that Kosher or not? Keeping them I mean.

I used to have a bar tending gig at the jiggly room.
Leave the "bikini" where it lay. A stripper will kill you for that piece of fabric.

I used to have a bar tending gig at the jiggly room.
Leave the "bikini" where it lay. A stripper will kill you for that piece of fabric.


What about the napkins? Can I take the napkins?

Is this why the NA economy is in the tank? lmk

Last month on a road trip from NYC to Baltimore MD my wife & I stopped at one of those Famous Person's Name Memorial Rest Stops on the New Jersey Turnpike to get some coffee. Being staunch haters of Starbucks, we opted to procure our coffee from the BigBoy...where they keep the sugar and cream at the condiment counter.

When we get to the condiment counter we spot a family of three (middle aged couple plus one of their parents) filling those tiny 1 oz paper cups -- that are ostensibly for ketchup -- with cream...and then drinking it.

And then re-filling their little 1 oz paper cups with cream......and then drinking it.

Again and again. They were just standing there bellied up to the bar, pilfering half&half and swigging it, 29.573529687517037 milliliters at a shot. They did not appear to have purchased anything from the BigBoy (they had no take-oyt bags or cups with them), they were just stealing cream in the stupidest & least efficient way possible.I'm sure Governor Palin was just killing time before the rest of her family got there. Next time you see her wish her "Safe Travels!" from Airwick and the rest of the gang here at Foo.

*stifles laughter*

I used to have a bar tending gig at the jiggly room.
Leave the "bikini" where it lay. A stripper will kill you for that piece of fabric.

jiggly room. I like that. We call them "breast establishments"

I just put 5 lemons in my sweet tea at Schlotzsky's deli.

wedges or whole lemons?

I just put 5 lemons in my sweet tea at Schlotzsky's deli.

Criminal.