said by DHRacer :

Well, there is this place called HomeTown Buffet. You pay when you walk in, and then eat all you want.

Sometimes I think they ought to weigh you on the way in, and then on the way out, and make you pay that way though. I've seen some disgustingly overwieght people in that place the one time I went in one.

said by FutureMon
You know usually, the waiter/waitress ends up having to cough up the money for the stolen food out of their pay for the night.
- FM
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Surely this can't be legal? In the UK we've had laws for many years preventing such losses from being levied on employees (known as "the truck acts").

said by seankelly :

May not be legal, but it happens. There are also some restaurants that require servers to bring in their own change every day in specific denominations.

- FM
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said by Midak :

I almost took a job at a gas station 14 years ago (times were tough) and they actually trained me how to profile so that I decided who paid up front and who did not. It boiled down to clean cut white people, over the age of 30 got to pay post-pump. Everyone else, pre-payment required.

said by FutureMon :

One of my friends who worked at a Dave and Busters had to cover a bill of almost $100 when her customers dashed on her.

(She quit a few weeks later after another incident with the manager after he verbally abused her in front of customers).

And I have been a pretty regular customer at Denny's for late night/early morning breakfast after partying. They too (at least in this location) told me that they had to cover the bill on dine-and-dash events)

- FM

said by arglebargle :

(I was also once served a cocktail with a dead roach in it).

said by dave :

What, you'd never had New York City Tequila before?

said by PolarBear :

If - IF - their dine and dash problem is that bad, why don't they ask the local PD to have a patrol officer hang out by the main entrance/exit to enforce the law? If the problem is really as bad as they make it to be, the local PD shouldn't object, as obviously they would probably be able to make an arrest or two.

And instead of their customers feeling invaded/exploited/etc., they would feel safer knowing a cop was on the premises.

Any thoughts?

said by La Luna :

Another possibility along that line is to have the cops routinely show up and walk into the IHOP on a regular basis....sometimes just their presence at random times can be a deterrent. I know they do that at our local convenience stores.

said by La Luna :

. . Or....how about guard dogs that they could sic on unpaying customers as they flee to their cars?

said by PolarBear :



You're right; this is a just-as-effective alternative that wouldn't warrant actually stationing an officer there. I also know that this is a good tactic (a cop randomly showing up for no apparent reason) because it worked great at the Tesoro I worked at.

Kudos, Luna

said by FutureMon :

Free coffee would work wonders in getting cops to voluntarily make pit-stops IMHO. . .