It’s clear: this is what you steal the most from hospitality venues
What do you know? It turns out that lots of our readers are guilty hospitality thieves! The comment section exploded when we posted this message on Facebook – people responded en masse and the strangest stolen items came up! We took stock.
Pepper and salt shakers
Incomprehensible. By far the most responses were about stealing pepper and salt shakers. Isn’t this exactly the kind of thing you always have at home? Why pepper and salt?
Cutlery
Had a fight with your dining companion?
Bar stools
I found this one more creative. No fewer than three responses revealed that they had taken a bar stool home with them. Impressive on the thieves’ part, inattentive on the staff’s!
Toilet spray
Wow. Why?! Had you met a lovely girl in the pub who planned to go home with you, but your toilet spray had run out and you know how intense your bathroom visits can be with a hangover? Something like that?
Candles
Another favourite object to steal: candles. I can understand this one. The bar closes and you want to make things cosy or romantic at home for a little nightcap. But come on, candles cost a few euros. It’s not as if hospitality candles burn more beautifully.
Sauce cups
Sauce cups. Question: did you wash them first? Or do you wake up the next morning with a metal sauce cup in your pocket, along with half its contents of ketchup?
Flowerpots, plants and flowers
It’s a restaurant, you know, not a garden centre. And even at a garden centre, you don’t steal things—you buy them. Or you have a house without plants. Your choice.
“Reserved”
Reserved signs. For your partner’s bedside table?
Mirrors
Stealing mirrors from the bathroom. For the truly vain.
Glasses
I get it. You’ve had a lovely evening, the drinks were delicious and the glasses they were served in are beautiful. You want to take home a souvenir. Of course, there’s no excusing it, but still: I get the appeal.
Christmas baubles
“It’s beginning to look a lot like stealing.. Everywhere you go” Shame on you! And during Christmas, of all times!
Support your local
Secretly, I hope that after the entire hospitality crisis you now feel even guiltier. When everything is allowed to reopen: support them. Return your glasses. Refill your salt and pepper shakers and anonymously put them through the letterbox with a note saying “I’m sorry”. Support your local, always. Don’t steal from them. And if you do steal anyway, be a little more creative than salt.
Also read:
- 10 things hospitality staff absolutely don’t miss right now
- Bizarre and disgusting behaviour by hospitality guests #2
- 7 things that happen in hospitality venues that you don’t want to know about
