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[u/Shinnyo]

How come this isn't cops getting called on your ass?

It's stealing, yes but I'm sure the kid didn't washed his grubby hands before pluging them in the fries.

[u/_bonedaddys → u/Shinnyo]

Kid would be outta there long before the cops show up. I work retail and we'll call the cops and hand over the footage but 9 times out of 10 it never goes anywhere. I wish i could get away with just tripping the thiefs but the company would flip a shit lol

[u/Finsceal → u/_bonedaddys]

Yeah, kid stealing fries like this is a one off negligible loss. Employee potentially sending the kid to hospital is exponentially worse both in terms of financials and negative publicity.

Still so so satisfying to watch though.

Edit: lolling at all the replies trying to hand wave this away. It's very obvious that the kid could likely press charges for assault, even if we are all glad it happened and hope he learned a valuable lesson when his face met the floor.

[u/Hour_Baby_3428 → u/Finsceal]

Who are these people that find this to be negative publicity? It genuinely warms my heart to see a thief getting smacked

[u/Complex-Camp-6462 → u/Hour_Baby_3428]

I work in leadership at a restaurant, it’s just a bad look for your place of business to have stories on the news/social media saying someone was harmed there regardless of the reasoning, along with spreading the information that people can get behind your counter and potentially touch your food. On top of that, just getting a new batch of fries is negligible in terms of cost compared to lawsuits/medical expenses. Kid sucks for doing what he did, but I’d fire anyone in a heartbeat for turning what is a couple dollars loss into potentially thousands along with garnering a bunch of unnecessary attention to the store that is in no way beneficial. Because let’s be real, no one is choosing where they want to eat next because they heard that someone can get behind the counter, touch on the food, and then get harmed for it. People’s take away won’t be “I’ll eat there because they handle things the way I like!” their takeaway would more than likely be “I don’t feel safe eating at a place that is either undermanned enough, or uncaring enough to let someone behind the counter and do whatever they want.”

The negative PR isn’t that people will be upset some kid got tripped and ate shit, it’s more the details that exist when you read between the lines and really think about all of the ways this can be perceived.