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(OK Whatever) Hero Man sees near-full basket of shrimp tempura at the empty table next to his. Man grabs one shrimp. Then grabs the whole basket. It turns out the man does this all the time. What's more? He claims he never gets sick from doing it...just fat   (okwhatever.org) divider line
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Diogenes [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2019-06-24 2:04:42 PM  
Best suited for people with big appetites and frugal mentalities, it's also a practice that involves a bit of risk. You never know if you'll catch a cold or get caught and kicked out of an establishment.

Oooooh...they mean cheap fatasses.  It took me a second to parse that correctly.
 
2019-06-24 2:10:34 PM  
Best suited for people with big appetites and frugal mentalities

Just go to Golden Corral, ffs. It's cheap and you can eat all you want. I mean, you'll get dysentery, but you'll get full.
 
Weatherkiss [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2019-06-24 2:51:26 PM  
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2019-06-24 2:51:42 PM  

The Goddamn Batman: Just go to Golden Corral, ffs. It's cheap and you can eat all you want. I mean, you'll get dysentery, but you'll get full.



That's where I met subby's mom and caught the clap.
 
Stibium  
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2019-06-24 2:52:09 PM  
I don't see a problem eating something someone else didn't take a bite out of. Have you ever in your life seen someone hock a loogie or sneeze into their leftovers before they leave?

As for Golden Corral, I don't think I'd ever be able to get full, hell, just watching the commercials or thinking about the quality makes me want to puke.
 
2019-06-24 2:54:04 PM  
i do this all the time. free food
 
Bermuda59 [TotalFark]  
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2019-06-24 2:54:39 PM  
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Works for us
 
McGrits [TotalFark]  
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2019-06-24 2:55:05 PM  

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Does this look like a man who has had all he can eat?
 
2019-06-24 2:55:14 PM  
"But mostly, he eats others' leftover food to help the planet"


HAHAHAAHAAHAAHAHAHa

woooooo


HAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAAH
 
Salmon  
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2019-06-24 2:55:43 PM  
When I worked in the service industry it was very common for the wait staff to eat the leftovers or returned food in the back of the kitchen.

I never partook but can attest to always drinking the drinks that I farked up when bartending (many may have been intentional).
 
2019-06-24 2:57:27 PM  
I've done that with wine bottles. Some people just put them all on a rack in the front of the restaurant and just leave them, I guess.
 
kona [TotalFark]  
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2019-06-24 2:57:41 PM  
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TorpedoOrca  
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2019-06-24 3:01:58 PM  
I was sitting at a bar last weekend and one of the tables behind me placed a plate with an entire half of an untouched quesadilla next to me. I eyeballed it for a full minute and was just about to grab it, when that same person picked it up and sat back down with it. They were just rearranging spots at their table.

Almost had a real interesting night at the bar lol
 
Heamer [BareFark]  
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2019-06-24 3:02:35 PM  
I've done this before. Hey, free food.
 
2019-06-24 3:02:35 PM  

Salmon: When I worked in the service industry it was very common for the wait staff to eat the leftovers or returned food in the back of the kitchen.



This. So much this. When first witnessing this practice I thought "What if the patron has an open sore?"

CONGRATULATIONS! Enjoy your herpes!

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70Ford  
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2019-06-24 3:05:05 PM  
When they leave that unattended bagel....
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2019-06-24 3:06:13 PM  
Paging John Pinette to the thread.
 
mrshowrules [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2019-06-24 3:09:59 PM  
My CSB:  I love chicken wings.  I was with a buddy at a bar (after many drinks) and I'm going to town on a pound of wings.  When I eat a wing, I leave nothing on the bone.  However, I kept on noticed I was actually leaving lots of meat on the bone and would have to retrieve the wing from the discard bowl and finish it proper like.  I did this several times.

Anyways, it turns out my buddy was also eating wings, using the same bowl to toss the bones he leaves lots of meat on the bone.
 
2019-06-24 3:10:18 PM  
Even when I was a poor college student then graduate student I never was tempted to try this
 
2019-06-24 3:10:50 PM  
I don't do that often, but i've done it.  we were at breakfast once and the table next to us, they didn't touch their side of bacon.  literally did not touch it.  they left, and i grabbed the bacon.  wife looked at me with horror. "that's not your food!  you didn't pay for it!  that's stealing!"

i said it was abandoned property and they hadn't gotten their cooties on it, so better it ended up in my belly than the trash.  I've done it before but not very often as i said.
 
mrparks  
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2019-06-24 3:11:06 PM  
I feel dumber for clicking that link, then exploring the site.

Don't be like me.
 
2019-06-24 3:12:16 PM  

Salmon: When I worked in the service industry it was very common for the wait staff to eat the leftovers or returned food in the back of the kitchen.

I never partook but can attest to always drinking the drinks that I farked up when bartending (many may have been intentional).


Did you work for a corporate entity or a more privately-owned place?

The two corporations I worked for when waiting tables/tending bar were very adamant the NO employee was allowed to eat leftover stuff, even if untouched.

A lot of food got wasted. I'm sure there is a legal reason behind it, but it always seemed a bit over the top to me.
 
2019-06-24 3:17:46 PM  

Mudd's woman: Salmon: When I worked in the service industry it was very common for the wait staff to eat the leftovers or returned food in the back of the kitchen.

I never partook but can attest to always drinking the drinks that I farked up when bartending (many may have been intentional).

Did you work for a corporate entity or a more privately-owned place?

The two corporations I worked for when waiting tables/tending bar were very adamant the NO employee was allowed to eat leftover stuff, even if untouched.

A lot of food got wasted. I'm sure there is a legal reason behind it, but it always seemed a bit over the top to me.


I'd venture it has more to do with employee squabbles breaking out over it.
 
The_Sponge [TotalFark]  
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2019-06-24 3:18:01 PM  
I occasionally do this with my friends:

I say "French fry tax" and then take a few off of their plate.
 
Stibium  
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2019-06-24 3:20:29 PM  

mrshowrules: My CSB:  I love chicken wings.  I was with a buddy at a bar (after many drinks) and I'm going to town on a pound of wings.  When I eat a wing, I leave nothing on the bone.  However, I kept on noticed I was actually leaving lots of meat on the bone and would have to retrieve the wing from the discard bowl and finish it proper like.  I did this several times.

Anyways, it turns out my buddy was also eating wings, using the same bowl to toss the bones he leaves lots of meat on the bone.


I like to think that good wings have so much spice that any microbes are nuked on contact.
 
CluelessMoron [OhFark]  
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2019-06-24 3:22:17 PM  

rickythepenguin: I don't do that often, but i've done it.  we were at breakfast once and the table next to us, they didn't touch their side of bacon.  literally did not touch it.  they left, and i grabbed the bacon.  wife looked at me with horror. "that's not your food!  you didn't pay for it!  that's stealing!"

i said it was abandoned property and they hadn't gotten their cooties on it, so better it ended up in my belly than the trash.  I've done it before but not very often as i said.


Is that really legal though?

I don't mean taking the bacon. I mean abandoning bacon. Surely that must be a crime.
 
2019-06-24 3:25:14 PM  

Mudd's woman: Salmon: When I worked in the service industry it was very common for the wait staff to eat the leftovers or returned food in the back of the kitchen.

I never partook but can attest to always drinking the drinks that I farked up when bartending (many may have been intentional).

Did you work for a corporate entity or a more privately-owned place?

The two corporations I worked for when waiting tables/tending bar were very adamant the NO employee was allowed to eat leftover stuff, even if untouched.


Worked in a fine dining establishment where this was the rule, but no one obeyed it unless a regional manager was afoot.
 
2019-06-24 3:26:10 PM  

Salmon: When I worked in the service industry it was very common for the wait staff to eat the leftovers or returned food in the back of the kitchen.

I never partook but can attest to always drinking the drinks that I farked up when bartending (many may have been intentional).


One of my favorite examples of this (and I don'tremmber if a friend told me or I heard it here) was where the guys roommate (who was a waiter) was eating leftovers and the guy saw lipstick on the chicken. He says to the roommate "dude are you eating some woman's leftovers?" and the roommate replies "yeah, but she was hot."
To which the guy says "how does that make it better?"
The roommate says "I look at a girl, and if i think, yeah, I'd eat her ass, why wouldn't I eat her leftovers?"
 
2019-06-24 3:26:12 PM  

The Goddamn Batman: Best suited for people with big appetites and frugal mentalities

Just go to Golden Corral, ffs. It's cheap and you can eat all you want. I mean, you'll get dysentery, but you'll get full.


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Destructor [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2019-06-24 3:26:15 PM  
Harness your inner cat.
 
2019-06-24 3:28:00 PM  

We Ate the Necco Wafers: I've done that with wine bottles. Some people just put them all on a rack in the front of the restaurant and just leave them, I guess.


Grab one of the free umbrellas on your way out.
 
2019-06-24 3:29:11 PM  

Salmon: When I worked in the service industry it was very common for the wait staff to eat the leftovers or returned food in the back of the kitchen.


I worked at an upscale seafood restaurant in college that gave us a ridiculous discount (85% off, I believe). I'm pretty sure it was to prevent us from doing exactly that.

Still though, it was quite the perk to be able to order a 30 dollar lunch and pay 5 bucks for it (when they bothered to charge us at all). Cedar plank salmon over shrimp yakisoba noodles was a big boost to my mental wellbeing when I was 19, broke as hell as sleeping 4 hours a night.
 
2019-06-24 3:29:26 PM  

rickythepenguin: I don't do that often, but i've done it.  we were at breakfast once and the table next to us, they didn't touch their side of bacon.  literally did not touch it.  they left, and i grabbed the bacon.  wife looked at me with horror. "that's not your food!  you didn't pay for it!  that's stealing!"

i said it was abandoned property and they hadn't gotten their cooties on it, so better it ended up in my belly than the trash.  I've done it before but not very often as i said.


Fun Fact: Shirley Manson has a bacon fetish.
 
Chevello  
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2019-06-24 3:31:54 PM  

Salmon: When I worked in the service industry it was very common for the wait staff to eat the leftovers or returned food in the back of the kitchen.

I never partook but can attest to always drinking the drinks that I farked up when bartending (many may have been intentional).


Very common when I was a dishwasher. Trim off the part people were eating from and down it goes.
 
2019-06-24 3:31:57 PM  

Magnanimous_J: Salmon: When I worked in the service industry it was very common for the wait staff to eat the leftovers or returned food in the back of the kitchen.

I worked at an upscale seafood restaurant in college that gave us a ridiculous discount (85% off, I believe). I'm pretty sure it was to prevent us from doing exactly that.

Still though, it was quite the perk to be able to order a 30 dollar lunch and pay 5 bucks for it (when they bothered to charge us at all). Cedar plank salmon over shrimp yakisoba noodles was a big boost to my mental wellbeing when I was 19, broke as hell as sleeping 4 hours a night.


Heard.
 
Kid Lester  
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2019-06-24 3:33:54 PM  

Mudd's woman: Salmon: When I worked in the service industry it was very common for the wait staff to eat the leftovers or returned food in the back of the kitchen.

I never partook but can attest to always drinking the drinks that I farked up when bartending (many may have been intentional).

Did you work for a corporate entity or a more privately-owned place?

The two corporations I worked for when waiting tables/tending bar were very adamant the NO employee was allowed to eat leftover stuff, even if untouched.

A lot of food got wasted. I'm sure there is a legal reason behind it, but it always seemed a bit over the top to me.


I served at a seafood oriented restaurant by the Delaware Beaches. It was a two restaurant, independent and privately owned establishment. To this day I've never had a broiled flounder stuffed with crab imperial that has compared. One night another server accidentally ordered the stuffed flounder for a customer who requested a crab cake dinner. I inquired as to why there was a stuffed flounder sitting on the Alto Sham potato warmer.

You better f*cking believe I DESTROYED that bad boy.

/Servers also got first crack at NY Strips and Prime Rib that were cooked too well for the customer. Couldn't hold a candle to that flounder though. Gottdammmmmmmmm

//also served at Olive Garden for 6 months. Those bastids would write you up for scarfing a frickin breadstick.
 
Salmon  
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2019-06-24 3:33:57 PM  

Mudd's woman: Salmon: When I worked in the service industry it was very common for the wait staff to eat the leftovers or returned food in the back of the kitchen.

I never partook but can attest to always drinking the drinks that I farked up when bartending (many may have been intentional).

Did you work for a corporate entity or a more privately-owned place?

The two corporations I worked for when waiting tables/tending bar were very adamant the NO employee was allowed to eat leftover stuff, even if untouched.

A lot of food got wasted. I'm sure there is a legal reason behind it, but it always seemed a bit over the top to me.


Everything from fine dining in massive hotels to local pubs and yeah, we all had policies around it as well.

We also had policies about drinking on the job that we all ignored as well.
 
2019-06-24 3:34:30 PM  
Is the hero tag sarcasm, an fat thumb accident? WTF?
 
Lady J [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2019-06-24 3:35:02 PM  
Why would you expect to get sick?

I have no stats to back this up but from what you guys say on here, you get food poisoning in restaurants waaaay more than we do.
 
2019-06-24 3:36:00 PM  
Heard.
Behind you.
Corner!
On your left.
Get me a bacon stretcher.

What are some phrases from your restaurant days?
 
2019-06-24 3:37:32 PM  
I've seen people leave 2/3 of a pizza. You bet I'm eating that. As will my drunk friends. Who doesn't take that sort of thing to go?
 
Kid Lester  
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2019-06-24 3:43:58 PM  

Non Sequitur Man: Heard.
Behind you.
Corner!
On your left.
Get me a bacon stretcher.

What are some phrases from your restaurant days?


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2019-06-24 3:44:42 PM  

Abe Vigoda's Ghost: We Ate the Necco Wafers: I've done that with wine bottles. Some people just put them all on a rack in the front of the restaurant and just leave them, I guess.

Grab one of the free umbrellas on your way out.


I knew a guy who did that.

Had that umbrella for years.
 
2019-06-24 3:46:18 PM  

Salmon: When I worked in the service industry it was very common for the wait staff to eat the leftovers or returned food in the back of the kitchen.


Worked in a nice restaurant in high school. I was very very choosy but did eat a lot of what people left. Stuff that was totally untouched.
These were the years I would often eat supper at home, then eat supper with my girlfriend's family, then eat a whole pizza later with my friends. Hungry every minute of the day!
 
McGrits [TotalFark]  
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2019-06-24 3:46:24 PM  

Non Sequitur Man: Heard.
Behind you.
Corner!
On your left.
Get me a bacon stretcher.

What are some phrases from your restaurant days?


Make a hole, make it wide!
At your back!
Mas pan!
 
NevynFox  
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2019-06-24 3:48:05 PM  

Natalie Portmanteau: Salmon: When I worked in the service industry it was very common for the wait staff to eat the leftovers or returned food in the back of the kitchen.

I never partook but can attest to always drinking the drinks that I farked up when bartending (many may have been intentional).

One of my favorite examples of this (and I don'tremmber if a friend told me or I heard it here) was where the guys roommate (who was a waiter) was eating leftovers and the guy saw lipstick on the chicken. He says to the roommate "dude are you eating some woman's leftovers?" and the roommate replies "yeah, but she was hot."
To which the guy says "how does that make it better?"
The roommate says "I look at a girl, and if i think, yeah, I'd eat her ass, why wouldn't I eat her leftovers?"


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fsufan  
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2019-06-24 3:55:16 PM  
I worked at a high end place.  One of the waiters was slicing a Chateaubriand at the table on a tray when it broke and that juicy med rare tenderloin went all over the floor.  I didn't eat it but the damn dog had a great snack that night.

Also, I learned to barter with the staff. Go the bartender and take out his trash for a 6-pack.  Take the beer back to the kitchen to the cooks and get a NY strip or stuffed shrimp made to order.
 
2019-06-24 3:57:42 PM  

Mudd's woman: Salmon: When I worked in the service industry it was very common for the wait staff to eat the leftovers or returned food in the back of the kitchen.

I never partook but can attest to always drinking the drinks that I farked up when bartending (many may have been intentional).

Did you work for a corporate entity or a more privately-owned place?

The two corporations I worked for when waiting tables/tending bar were very adamant the NO employee was allowed to eat leftover stuff, even if untouched.

A lot of food got wasted. I'm sure there is a legal reason behind it, but it always seemed a bit over the top to me.


It's also to stop waiters sending the chef the wrong order 'by mistake' so they can set it aside to eat. 'Oops, he wanted his steak rare, not well done, never mind, I'll have it.'
 
UltimaCS  
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2019-06-24 4:00:54 PM  
I didn't even realize this was a thing until I ordered a shake at Godiva and they accidentally made me the wrong one. I was halfway through "It's okay, this one is fi-" when the big girl behind the counter gave me the meanest stinkeye. I relented and let her make me a new one while handing over the "bad" one.
 
mononymous  
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2019-06-24 4:04:20 PM  
I, too, like to live dangerously.
 
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