IT'S CLEAR: THIS IS WHAT YOU STEAL THE MOST IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY
Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: what we steal the most in the hospitality industry.
What turns out? Among our readers, there are many guilty hospitality thieves! The comment section exploded when we posted this message on Facebook; there were massive reactions and the most bizarre stolen items came up! We took stock.
Salt and pepper shakers
Incomprehensible. By far the most responses were about stealing salt and pepper shakers. This is something you always have at home, right? Why salt and pepper?
Cutlery
Argument with your dining companion?
Bar stools
I found this more creative. No less than three responses indicated that they took a bar stool home. Impressive from the thieves, inattentive from the staff!
Toilet spray
Wow. Why?! Did you meet a nice girl at the pub who was planning to come home with you, but your toilet spray is empty and you know how intense your toilet visits can be with a hangover? Something like that?
Candles
Also a favorite stealing object: candles. I understand this one. The bar closes and you want to make it cozy or romantic at home for a little nightcap. But come on, candles cost a few euros. It's not like hospitality candles burn better.
Sauce containers
Containers for the sauce. Question: did you empty it first or do you wake up the next morning with a metal sauce container and still half of the ketchup content in your pocket?
Flower pots, plants, and flowers
It's a restaurant, not an Intratuin where you are sitting. And even in the Intratuin, you don't steal but buy. Or you have a house without plants. Your choice.
‘Reserved’
Reserved signs. For your partner's nightstand?
Mirrors
Stealing mirrors from the toilet. For the real narcissist.
Glasses
I get it: you had a nice evening, the drinks were good, and the glasses from which all this goodness was poured are beautiful. You want to take a memory home. Of course, it's hard to justify, but still: I feel it.
Christmas ornaments
‘It’s beginning to look a lot like stealing, everywhere you go’. Shame! And especially during Christmas!
Support your local
Secretly, I hope you feel even guiltier during this whole crisis in the hospitality industry. When everything can open again: support them. Return your glasses. Refill your salt and pepper shakers and drop them anonymously through the mailbox with a note saying ‘I’m sorry’. Support your local, always, don’t steal from them. And if you do steal, be a bit more creative than salt.
