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Foodbme
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What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Mon, 02/27/12 1:42 PM
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Question courtesy of Tom Fitzmorris, food writer & critic in NOLA www.nomenu.com C'mon, you've all done it! What IS the most stolen item taken from restaurants? Take a guess. I'll post the answer a little later
<message edited by Foodbme on Mon, 02/27/12 1:44 PM>
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CCinNJ
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Re:What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Mon, 02/27/12 1:49 PM
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Snail tongs
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Foodbme
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Re:What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Mon, 02/27/12 1:51 PM
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CCinNJ
Snail tongs
Close, but no cigar!
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Sundancer7
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Re:What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Mon, 02/27/12 2:28 PM
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salt and pepper shakers???
Paul E. smith
Knoxville, TN
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Sundancer7
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Re:What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Mon, 02/27/12 2:32 PM
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Oyster forks???
Paul E. smith
Knoxville, TN
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porkbeaks
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Re:What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Mon, 02/27/12 2:44 PM
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Steak knives?
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ces1948
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Re:What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Mon, 02/27/12 2:48 PM
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Splenda
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Foodbme
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Re:What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Mon, 02/27/12 2:48 PM
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Sundancer7
Oyster forks???
Paul E. smith
Knoxville, TN
CONGRATULATIONS! The 6 foot stuffed Panda Bear goes to Sundancer!!! (Tell me you didn't look it up!)
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mar52
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Re:What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Mon, 02/27/12 2:48 PM
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Sweet and Low packages?
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Re:What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Mon, 02/27/12 2:54 PM
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Foodbme
Sundancer7
Oyster forks???
Paul E. smith
Knoxville, TN
CONGRATULATIONS!
The 6 foot stuffed Panda Bear goes to Sundancer!!! (Tell me you didn't look it up!)
I sorta recall my many trips to NOLA  Paul E. Smith Knoxville, TN
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ces1948
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Re:What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Mon, 02/27/12 2:56 PM
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I guess I shouldn't admit it but I probably haven't been to 5 places in my life that even had oyster forks :)
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Foodbme
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Re:What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Mon, 02/27/12 3:03 PM
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Re:What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Mon, 02/27/12 3:04 PM
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I wouldn't know an oyster fork if I saw one! The only thing I remember ever taking from a restaurant was in the early 1970's and my drunk friends and I took a squeeze bottle of horsey sauce from Arbys for use at home. We would return it and trade it for a fresh one from time to time! I still like horsey sauce when I get something from Arbys about every 2 years or so. They do have a good fish sandwich during Lent.
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Re:What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Mon, 02/27/12 6:02 PM
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My plastic soup spoons go out of here by the carload! 
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Re:What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Mon, 02/27/12 10:33 PM
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the BIG forks from steakhouses.
you just can't find them in stores. ..... so I've heard.
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Re:What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Tue, 02/28/12 2:54 PM
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Hello all ,
Salt and pepper shakers , sugar packets ,
little saki cups from those Japanese restaurants
Benzee
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CajunKing
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Re:What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Tue, 02/28/12 3:14 PM
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menus
sweet & low/sugar packs
tableware
unique glasses
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Re:What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Tue, 02/28/12 3:27 PM
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In my restaurants it was always S & P shakers.
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Re:What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Tue, 02/28/12 5:03 PM
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I would have guessed Splenda. Not because it's expensive, but because people who like it prefer it above all others, and many places only have pink and blue.
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porkbeaks
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Re:What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Tue, 02/28/12 5:04 PM
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I know a LOT of those giant beer mugs disappeared from the Lum's in Gulfport, MS in the 1960's what with all those larcenous airmen at Keesler AFB. pb
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Re:What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Tue, 02/28/12 9:28 PM
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Condiment packets...Salt, Pepper, Catsup, Mustard, Sugar. You name it, if it is laid out for use by the customers, it will disappear.
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FriedClamFanatic
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Re:What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Wed, 02/29/12 11:09 AM
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In ALL, Restaurants, I'd have to go with S and P......If it was just roadside or fast food type places, I'd bet on condiment packs
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bartl
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Re:What's The Most Stolen Item from Restaurants?
Wed, 02/29/12 11:17 AM
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I recall a couple of decades back, Wendy's (at least in the New York metropolitan area) had to make their packets of hot sauce for their chili only available from the clerks; it is a pretty decent hot sauce, with a nice cumin top note, and they were being stolen in droves from the condiment counter.
Bart
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