'Over $150 every time': Server rings up fake to-go orders every night at closing so she can eat luxuriously for free, gets caught red-handed and then fired on the spot

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Dec 29, 2024 7:00 AM EST

Stealing from the workplace is an unforgivable offense. While there may be a few small exceptions on exploiting the resources at work, the server in this next story took things way too far every night at closing, pushing the envelope on the 'throwaway' orders she could take home at the end of the night. 

After working in a restaurant all day, you start to get hypnotized by the soft smells of garlic aioli, simmering steaks, and freshly chopped cucumbers. With nothing but a shriveled piece of beef jerky and a single french fry bouncing around in your otherwise empty stomach, the scent of fine dining can make any server lose their marbles around closing time. But the woman in this next story got caught committing the cardinal rule of the food industry after repeatedly creating fake to-go orders that she could scoop up on her way to clock out. As her coworker, would you spill the beans to management? Or let this thievery go unchecked? Keep scrolling to read all the details of this lobster-crusted drama straight from the kitchens of a luxurious restaurant.

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    A coworker got fired for getting caught ringing in fake to-go orders and taking them home at the end of the night.
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    Apparently she's been doing this for a while now. And they're not small orders. The bill comes out to over $150 every time. She only got caught when the manager happened to see her pick up a
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    phone when it wasn't even ringing and put in the order. She called the customer back and the number in the system was a fake one. My manager confronted her and she acted all innocent first,
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    but when the manager threatened to review the cameras, she eventually folded and confessed. To be clear, it wasn't like she was struggling. The orders mostly always contained expensive seafood dishes.
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    Edit: we get big orders all the time, so it wasn't exactly suspicious. And she claims she only did it every other week for about three months. My boss is still reviewing the cameras.
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    crapbear83 A coworker of mine did something very similar. Any 6-15 top-ish, he would ring in extra food. Oh no the customer said they didn't order this. Manager would take it off of the check. And then my coworker would box it up and eat it in the break room. We all knew he was doing this almost every shift. It took management a year to take action.
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    magiccitybhm How on Earth did someone get away with $100-plus unpaid orders for that long? Cakeriel Guessing it's considered an unclaimed order so they just let an employee take it.
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    Yibblets In the past, I supervised several (up to 10 at a time) fast food stores. I caught this type of theft many times and not just by the hourly crew, the managers were worse, as they have an opportunity to steal a higher value of goods. I
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    tracked food cost, waste %, and average check, store by store. It led to these rules. "The only food that you were allowed to take home after close, is what you could carry in your stomach".
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    All trash had to be in clear trash bags and the manager had to open a locked door to let the crew put out the trash, (an alarm would go off if opened without a key, we did not lock people in).
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    I was known to show up unannounced at close and watch from my car what was happening. An a_h_le move, but my bonus pay was based on the profitability of each unit. If you steal from the store, you steal from me.
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    lowfreq33 People like this are the reason restaurants have strict rules that penalize the employees who haven't done anything wrong.
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    slamuri Same thing just happened at the restaurant my wife works in. The girl got hired a couple of weeks ago. On days they work doubles they get a free meal. However she was ordering for herself, her children and her baby daddy as
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    well. She would ring them in as to go orders at different points then store them in the employee fridge til she left. She was also ordering the most expensive meals like scallops, shrimp dishes, ribeye, etc. Denied it at first but when she was told they had her on camera carrying the food out she fessed up.
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    Dizzy Description812 And people wonder why it's often corporate policy to throw food away rather than give it to employees. There is always someone gonna ruin it for everyone.
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