Stocking Up On Ketchup

  • Thread starter Thread starter Neil_Anthony
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
N

Neil_Anthony

Guest
Is it wrong for people who take lots of ketchup packets from fast food restaurants then take them home and fill up their ketchup bottles to save money?

Same goes for people who stock up on toilet paper and paper towels and public bathrooms to take home :rolleyes:

After all, the ketchup and stuff is given away free, right, so its not stealing, right? :rolleyes:
 
Hmmmmm

If you buy a hamburger and take 4 packets and end up needing only 2…you can keep the other two (you already touched them)

But to just take them is wrong because they aren’t free…their cost is factored into the cost of the food.
 
so its ok to take them then since you paid for the food?

it wouldnt be stealing since you paid for them.
 
If a person mistakenly takes more than they need, it would be OK, since as far as I know once it’s delivered to the table, it can’t be re-used even if it’s not been opened. Scooping handfuls into a purse from the bin at McDonalds, methinks, is stealing.
 
are you paying for a burger at a restaurant or are you paying for ketchup? Obviously you are paying for the burger with some ketchup on it. As far as I know, McDonalds does not sell ketchup as a menu item so why would one think it OK to take handfuls?

To take stuff from a restaurant with the intention of supplying your own home is stealing. Let’s not rationalize.
 
jrabs said:
are you paying for a burger at a restaurant or are you paying for ketchup? Obviously you are paying for the burger with some ketchup on it. As far as I know, McDonalds does not sell ketchup as a menu item so why would one think it OK to take handfuls?

To take stuff from a restaurant with the intention of supplying your own home is stealing. Let’s not rationalize.
Click to expand...
Yes and some people ask for ketchup for their fries or burger, and they DONT EVEN USE the KETCHUP. They just ask for it to take home. Not anyone I know, but I’ve heard of this.

i think if you aren’t planning on eating it with your meal, even if they offer it, say no.
 
The understanding between store and customer is that the customer has a right to regular little extras that make the purchased item culturally complete. The store has a right to make a profit except in the case of loss leaders and special promos. Even then, the store has a right not to take too much of a loss.
Anyone who can afford to go out for a burger can afford a bottle of ketchup. It’s a buck or two.
 
Taking something (anything) with the intention of using is for something other than the originally intended purpose is stealing.

The intention is that the business provides condiments (toilet paper, towles, sugar, etc.) for use at the time of service and/or with the product purchased.

This is stealing - stealing is wrong. Childhood 101 folks. Does this need to be explained further? :rolleyes:

~Liza
 
lizaanne said:
Taking something (anything) with the intention of using is for something other than the originally intended purpose is stealing.

The intention is that the business provides condiments (toilet paper, towles, sugar, etc.) for use at the time of service and/or with the product purchased.

This is stealing - stealing is wrong. Childhood 101 folks. Does this need to be explained further? :rolleyes:

~Liza
Click to expand...
Sometimes I take an extra napkin if I think I will need to later to blow my nose or something. I think that’s okay because its just a napkin 😊
 
Along the same lines my DH and I were on vacation about an hour away. as we were passing a cleaning trolly he helped himself to individule bottles of mouthwash and body wash-lots of them- his spiritual adviser made him return the unused bottles to the hotel, becuase it was dishonest and stealing , and greedy ect.
Bless him he did it. I can only imagine the faces of the front desk people when her returned the unused bottles. He is a grown man in his thirties. It was good for him to practise this if nothing else but for humility!!
So yes takeing handfulls og ketchup is stealing- someone has to pay for it.
 
Neil_Anthony said:
Sometimes I take an extra napkin if I think I will need to later to blow my nose or something. I think that’s okay because its just a napkin 😊
Click to expand...
Often times after eating we do have to do that - I don’t think that’s extraordinary. I’m talking about someone deliberately taking something with the intent to use it for another purpose - hoarding ketchup or even people who take towels from hotels and think it’s ok for some bizare reason.

There is a vast difference between a paper napkin to blow one’s nose, and a pocket full of sugar to fill your bowl up at home.

~Liza
 
lizaanne said:
Taking something (anything) with the intention of using is for something other than the originally intended purpose is stealing.
Click to expand...
I don’t think that’s true for things that are offered for free and without (express or implied) condition.
 
If you feel bad about that, go through the drive through. At McDonalds when you go through the drive trough they give you like 20 ketchups and a bunch of napkins. And it wouldn’t be stealing because they give it to you. Right? please tell me if I am wrong in saying this.
 
No I agree with you I had that same thought today about it your purpose was not to fill up your own supplies. also what would be worse saveing thex-tra or throwing it away!
 
(assuming you’re not going to McDonald’s for the sole purpose of loading your pockets with ketchup packets…)

Okay… you’re too poor to buy a $1.00 bottle of ketchup, but you’re not too poor to go buy a $3.00 fast food burger in order to stock up on the ketchup you’re too poor to buy…

Let me ponder that a while…:hmmm:
 
SacredHeartFan said:
If you feel bad about that, go through the drive through. At McDonalds when you go through the drive trough they give you like 20 ketchups and a bunch of napkins. And it wouldn’t be stealing because they give it to you. Right? please tell me if I am wrong in saying this.
Click to expand...
This is not stealing, because they gave it to you. What it is,is a waste of the restaurant’s resources and the fault is management’s for not training their personnel to be reasonable in their distribution of the items. Nobody needs 10 packets of ketchup for a single order of fries. These kids at the drive-through just grab the stuff by the handfuls and throw it in the bag. Same with the sauces when you get take-out Chinese food. We have baskets full of these condiments at work, and somebody eventually just throws them out and we start all over again. What a waste!
 
Oh boy try telling my parents it’s stealing.I go to their house and they have little ketchup packets, mustard packets, little creamer containers & jelly packets in their fridge, salt & pepper packets in a kitchen drawer and Burger King napkins in their napkin holder.:rolleyes:

My mom gets a senior coffee cup at Burger King, fills it with diet coke at the self serve area, drinks it with her meal and then goes back and fills it with coffee afterward. Trust me I’ve tried explaining it’s wrong she looks at me like I’m nuts.

There’s a popular gourmet burger place my mom loves. They have a self serve bar with all kinds of toppings you can put on your burger, she tops her burger and then makes a salad with the toppings and uses the vinegar they have for the fries as dressing.:eek:

And no my parents are not poor or even close to it. They have always been this way and it is quite embarressing I have to say.
 
If you’re too poor to afford your own ketchup, then you probably too poor to be spending your food money in restaurants. Save some cash by cooking at home and then buy yourself a big bottle of ketchup.
 
SacredHeartFan said:
If you feel bad about that, go through the drive through. At McDonalds when you go through the drive trough they give you like 20 ketchups and a bunch of napkins. And it wouldn’t be stealing because they give it to you. Right? please tell me if I am wrong in saying this.
Click to expand...
I doubt they would give it to you. In my fast-food days, we were told to give out a maximum of three ketchups per food item, and one napkin for each food/drink item ordered. (So, if they ordered a burger, fries, and a drink, you could give them up to three napkins, and up to six ketchups. If they had little kids with them, you could give more than that, but ordinarily, that was the rule.)
 
jmcrae said:
I doubt they would give it to you. In my fast-food days, we were told to give out a maximum of three ketchups per food item, and one napkin for each food/drink item ordered. (So, if they ordered a burger, fries, and a drink, you could give them up to three napkins, and up to six ketchups. If they had little kids with them, you could give more than that, but ordinarily, that was the rule.)
Click to expand...
Wow, one napkin never cut it for me.😊
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top