Is it a sin to share bottomless iced tea?

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Restaurants are offering bottomless iced teas but prohibiting its customers from sharing. Reason is business.
 
yes…you are stealing. Just like it is not okay to take you cup home, wash it and go back another day for refills without paying.

You purchased a drink for yourself…not for you and your spouse or friend or whoever.

The only exception I would make to this, is if you are sharing with your toddler and that is because generally they are not going to drink very much of it.
 
cho_pilo said:
Restaurants are offering bottomless iced teas but prohibiting its customers from sharing. Reason is business.
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Why would the reason matter? If the menu or resturant says one per person…then yes sharing is stealing, it wouldn’t matter why the resturant has that policy if you knew it up front and still shared…you intentionally defrauded the resturant.

Just because a business is in business to make money is NEVER a reason to cheat them. If they don’t turn a profit then they will cease to exist, thus costing the owners and the employees who work there their jobs and livelyhoods.
 
It is if im not the one your sharing it with:D

Joking o’course, i would agree with the above posters.
 
Maureen1125 said:
The only exception I would make to this, is if you are sharing with your toddler and that is because generally they are not going to drink very much of it.
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If you’re going to take the opinion that sharing a drink with another adult is stealing, then sharing with a child is also stealing. It doesn’t matter if they’re only going to drink a little bit. Your reasoning for this exception is like someone justifying stealing a dollar because it was only a small amount and so does not really constitute theft.

That said, if a restaurant is going to tell me what I can do with something I have legally purchased, they can keep their item. I’ll go somewhere else.
 
Would you go to an “all you can eat” buffet, purchase one plate, and then proceed to allow your whole family to eat off one plate? If not, then neither can you share the drink.

Their policy.

If you don’t like it, you can go elsewhere. That is freedom!!
 
Catholic90 said:
Would you go to an “all you can eat” buffet, purchase one plate, and then proceed to allow your whole family to eat off one plate? If not, then neither can you share the drink.
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I think that is a good way of putting it, especially if this drink included free refills. If not, would there be a difference between this restaurant’s policy and say, a hypothetical new policy by Pepsi that says only one person per can of Pepsi?
 
Hm. I was about to hop in to post, “No, of course not,” but the others have made good arguments. CAF throws around the word “steal” a little lightly, but this would seem to be a case. They’re only able to economically offer bottomless beverages if their customers agree to these terms. Otherwise they’ll have to go back to the pay-per-glass of soda model, and nobody wants that.

So, stealing? Ehhh. Maybe. But you should stop doing it either way.
 
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