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Calling all ex or current food service industry people

UDT89

UDT89

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Hey all

I was just trying to inquire with people that have been involved or are involved in the food service industry.

I need to know all the ways that you "stole" from your place of employment. Like McDonalds type places, sit down places, chili's type places, basically all input would be helpful.

Examples would be discounts on bills, free drinks, free food, using your own "frequent diner card" on customers bills, etc.

I'm working on a report about loss prevention in the food service industry and my experience is limited to bars and pubs.

Thanks guys, everything I use will be used anonymously so don't worry about anyone knocking on your door.
 
First off, this is in regard to my 3 year stint as a pizza delivery driver. The most common occurance was "stealing" food. It wasn't really stealing though because the manager knew about it and allowed it to happen. Along the same lines, sometimes I would charge myself for one thing and make another (charge myself $4 for a cheese pizza and walk out with a supreme)

I would also give discounts to good customers (good tippers). We could get away with this because the manager didn't collect coupons.

Occasionally I would keep gift certificates and use them at other stores to get free food.
 
I worked in a hotel for a long time ago, the only thing I ever took was grilled jumbo shrimp from the refrigerator. They were huge, if I recall correctly we used to charge $6 PER SHRIMP!!
 
Originally posted by: Bumrush99
I worked in a hotel for a long time ago, the only thing I ever took was grilled jumbo shrimp from the refrigerator. They were huge, if I recall correctly we used to charge $6 PER SHRIMP!!
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Those are colossals 🙂
 
Important thread hijack!

Many of my coworkers are from pittsburgh. They are absolutely convinced that there is a Great Heinz Ketchup Conspiracy and that they are legally entitled to enact a class action law suit.

The premise is that restaurants buy heinz ketchup bottles and fill them with non heinz ketchup. They claim to be able to tell whether it's heinz ketchup by its color, taste, texture, smell from 50 miles, subatomic particle reactions, etc. They think they might win a class action suit due to mislabelled food.

I know that their case has no legal merit (no damages) but I am wondering how often people actually do the heinz ketchup bottle hijack.

That is all for now.

P.S. my friend who worked at mcdonald's used to pay for meals and then steal pies and other < 99c goods.
 
OOOOhhhhh Noeeeessss!!!11!!!! Teh catsup is fake!!!11!!!1 Pimp slap your friends for me please 😀
 
I live in a major tourist area and I worked in restaurants from the age of 12-22 . From my experience, resataurant owners treat their workers like shit! I was a cook the majority of the time and busted my ass for every penny I earned. A typical raise was a nickel and you were required to work 7 days /week for the 4 month tourist period. I wish I would be a waiter...the waitresses/waiters made 200/night on tips and I didn't make that in a week killing myself. This was back in the mid '70's to 80's.

Working in a restaurant sux major ass...

Ausm
 
Originally posted by: Ausm
I live in a major tourist area and I worked in restaurants from the age of 12-22 . From my experience, resataurant owners treat their workers like shit! I was a cook the majority of the time and busted my ass for every penny I earned. A typical raise was a nickel and you were required to work 7 days /week for the 4 month tourist period. I wish I would be a waiter...the waitresses/waiters made 200/night on tips and I didn't make that in a week killing myself. This was back in the mid '70's to 80's.

Working in a restaurant sux major ass...

Ausm
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didnt get tipped out?
 
Originally posted by: UDT89
Originally posted by: Ausm
I live in a major tourist area and I worked in restaurants from the age of 12-22 . From my experience, resataurant owners treat their workers like shit! I was a cook the majority of the time and busted my ass for every penny I earned. A typical raise was a nickel and you were required to work 7 days /week for the 4 month tourist period. I wish I would be a waiter...the waitresses/waiters made 200/night on tips and I didn't make that in a week killing myself. This was back in the mid '70's to 80's.

Working in a restaurant sux major ass...

Ausm
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didnt get tipped out?
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Cooks usually don't get tipped out. I worked as a cook as part time one summer and it was a lot of work but sometimes fun.
 
For myself (and any other employee): free drinks (anything fountain, not bottles), free food (anything but top-end), any 'oops' food (made the wrong thing, etc- not deliberate but if mistakes were made the food went home with an employee).

We didn't actually grab stuff and walk out but I suspect that most restaurant employees, faced with long hours, bad pay and indifferent management, will take advantage in the small ways.
 
I'm a waiter, we get free drinks, but the management has cups in the kitchen set aside for that purpose, so its not really stealing. We'll eat steak fries out of the pan sometimes, and we get to eat the orders that get messed up. I've never just flat out stolen something...maybe some straws lol
 
I worked in a cafeteria at a large manufacturing plant. I stole by eating food on the job, adding like triple the recomended meat to the sub sandwiches, and by not charging people for some of their food because I thought it was over-priced. 🙂 The customers loved me.
 
I used to work in a cafe/coffee shop place. All I (or anyone else as far as I know...) ever stole was food. The owner didn't care that much though, so it wasn't a big deal.
 
Actually in the 2 years I've been working in a Deli...I really haven't. I mean maybe while I was in a hurry and a customer asked for a sample I filled the sample cup up a bit too full. Other then that, I have a clean slate 😀
 
I worked in a fast food restaurant for 3 years. I never stole anything and neither did anyone I know. At least no one was ever caught. I'd get a few free things now and then (manager gifts such as a mistake food item that no one wanted) but that certainly wouldn't be called stealing.
 
You're freakin NUTS, you really think anyone here will admit that they stole ???
So far, all I've seen is "well I ate this and this"....thats not freakin stealing...everybody eats when they're working in a restaurant.
 
when I was working at a chinese restaurant, I'd steal their beef teriyaki, wings, ribs, jumbo shrimps to take home for BBQ, my dad didn't want to have anything to do with the foods, saying its too much "hot air" (if you are chinese, you'll know what I am talking about) and how restaurant foods are not good for you.





PS: my dad owns that restaurant. 😉
 
Originally posted by: Biggerhammer
For myself (and any other employee): free drinks (anything fountain, not bottles), free food (anything but top-end), any 'oops' food (made the wrong thing, etc- not deliberate but if mistakes were made the food went home with an employee).
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When I was a cook at pizza slut, a couple of the drivers would occassionally request a specific mistake. :evil:
 
I worked at a fast food restaurant and the owner would leave at about 6pm and the rest of the staff was there til midnight. Everyone there helped theirselves to free food even though we were supposed to pay for it at 50% of menu price. The owner knew something was going on because of all of the food missing. But he worked all day and didn't want to work all night. We would also give out free food to friends who came up there. I gave out a few meals to friends, took some to my gf, ate free everynight I worked.

We also would trade the liquor store, gas station for beer, and other fast food places for their food. We'd usually get drunk if it was friday night and we had to work. 😀
 
Originally posted by: richardycc
when I was working at a chinese restaurant, I'd steal their beef teriyaki, wings, ribs, jumbo shrimps to take home for BBQ, my dad didn't want to have anything to do with the foods, saying its too much "hot air" (if you are chinese, you'll know what I am talking about) and how restaurant foods are not good for you.





PS: my dad owns that restaurant. 😉
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Good one.
 
I worked in a dorm room where stealing already cooked food was pretty much the norm. Management generally looked the other way as long as it was food for yourself. At one point another student wrote a complaint that I had given someone free food (it was another worker) and that it was screwing up the prices or something and so they taped $5 to the complaint. My manager came up to me while I was working to point it out I thought I was dead but she laughed it off and went back her merry way. I never denied that I did give the free food.

Would also buy raw ingredients from them for fairly cheap, like $.20 for a bunch of veggies and stuff for cooking.

It was a fringe benefit of being the b*tches of the dorms.

I then worked food service at a grocery store later on and never stole anything aside from trying stuff which was allowed.

The big difference for me was one was more or less allowed since management didn't seem to care where as the other they explicitly said that any stealing of any kind at all wil result in immediate termination and possible charges.
 
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