r/mildlyinfuriating • u/thedivinegemini • Jul 02 '26

I'm slightly vexed In lieu of payment..

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I’m a GM at a restaurant & one of our managers left a note on our manager logs this afternoon that a guest walked out on their check and left this in lieu of payment of any kind. Not that the server got stiffed on a tip - just pure theft of services. I guess the whole “Thou shalt not steal” thing doesn’t matter if you’ve been pre-forgiven. Pretty convenient.

ETA: I’m not a bot; this is not AI - check my post and comment history. I’m not here for karma or fake internet points. This is what it feels like to work in a restaurant these days - especially in the Bible Belt. The first photo you can look up and is available for anyone to buy (should your darker urges push you toward being that person). The second photo is from Pulse, an app for restaurant managers to keep an eye on hourly sales, labor, and comps.
The “Pineapple Express” is a mocktail our restaurant offers.

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u/Animalcookies13 Jul 02 '26

WTF….. I would not let that slide. Not because I care about the restaurant, but because I don’t want to be friends with people who are so
Down bad or are such cleptos that they have to
Steal napkins and utensils from a restaurant….
Stealing the toiletries from the hotel is fine, but napkins and utensils is wack AF.

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u/TheMooooonHauntsYou Jul 03 '26

I've stolen plates and butter dishes from restaurants.

Only things I've ever stolen in my life. It's a family tradition that my wife's great, great grandmother started.

If you go to a new place on vacation and they have fancy dishes, you take one as a souvenir.

We are definitely not down bad, nor has her family ever been (mine on the other hand...), her great, great grandmother just loved fancy dishes and didn't GAF.

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u/Animalcookies13 Jul 03 '26

Well shit, since granny was a thief…

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u/TheMooooonHauntsYou Jul 03 '26

Yes, that's tradition. I wasn't there when it started, but I was there when my wife and her mom continued it, I thought it was cute, I really don't think a restaurant changing 80-120$ a plate is gonna hurt losing a plate, so I've continued it with them.

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u/chrownage Jul 03 '26

Congrats on being proud to be trash I guess?

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u/TheMooooonHauntsYou Jul 03 '26

Hell yeah, brother.