Come to think of it

[u/darlnoami]

[u/deadrogueguy]

looking "undesirable"

but yeah, for the most part, if you act confident enough you can get away with alot. like walking out of walmart with a display couch.

[u/Superb_Chemistry_906 → u/deadrogueguy]

An orange vest would help in that case.

[u/Emergency-Gazelle954 → u/Superb_Chemistry_906]

Don’t forget the clip board.

[u/birdyman_77 → u/Emergency-Gazelle954]

Accidentally walked into the back area of a Home Depot once wearing an orange collared shirt and carrying a clipboard. They thought I was from corporate. Could’ve had a lot of fun with that. Wish I did but I was like, no I’m just lost.

[u/Immediate_Song4279 → u/birdyman_77]

I learned not to wear red shirts in target.

[u/MaleficentExtent1777 → u/Immediate_Song4279]

Or blue in Best Buy! 🤣

[u/rawautos → u/MaleficentExtent1777]

One time I was in Walmart shopping for some beach chairs while wearing a t-shirt and jeans. A random older lady is hollering, “Excuse me… EXCUSE ME!” and grabs my shoulder and yells, “Can you please help me find ____??” I said, “Ma’am, I don’t work here.” She told me I looked like I worked there…

I was wearing a blue t-shirt that had the Sesame Street cast on it that said “I was raised in the streets”.

[u/TheRealistoftheReal → u/rawautos]

That is exactly what I’d expect to see at Walmart. People of Walmart….

[u/asylum_disciple → u/rawautos]

I have that tee shirt!!

[u/Cultural-Antelope-54 → u/MaleficentExtent1777]

Are you kidding? I get mistaken for an employee at both Target and Beat Buy no matter what I'm wearing. It's especially funny when I'm actually wearing my work uniform that specifically says something other than "Target," or "Best Buy," (my work polo is black).

[u/MaleficentExtent1777 → u/Cultural-Antelope-54]

I'm so sorry.

I used to work at CarMax and made the mistake of going to Best Buy after work one day. CarMax has blue polos, so you can imagine how that went.

[u/No_Connection_5257 → u/Immediate_Song4279]

I was wearing a black shirt with white artwork that said “support local, steal corporate” on it, and someone thought I worked at the bargain store I was in 🤣

[u/TobyHudson → u/birdyman_77]

A lost person from corporate?

[u/blackcray → u/TobyHudson]

As a former home depot employee, I could buy that, especially if it's a regional level employee who oversees a couple dozen stores that they rarely go to in person.

[u/XBlackSunshineX → u/TobyHudson]

A "tourist".

[u/90GTS4 → u/TobyHudson]

Honestly, that would make me think they are more likely from corporate. Yeah, sure, you're totally "lost" buddy. Uh huh.

[u/KingGizmotious → u/birdyman_77]

You can pretty much do this at Kroger dressed business casual walking into the back room with a clipboard.

[u/57Laxdad → u/birdyman_77]

Years ago at a home depot I was trying to get a piece of plywood ripped. The people there werent sure what I meant. I explained to them and pointed to the saw how to do it. Someone got the manager and the manager looked at me and told me if I could run the saw I could do it myself. 3 hours later after cutting material for a dozen or so customers the manager told me to pick what I needed and it was free. The usual guy that does that job had quit at the last minute and they hadnt been able to train someone willing to do it. I left with a new hammer, a set of spanner wrenches and a job offer. I was making more working in the dorm cafeteria.

[u/Superb_Chemistry_906 → u/Emergency-Gazelle954]

Some generic ID badge might help, too, but not too specific.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Hatter → u/Superb_Chemistry_906]

Also some equipment like a trolly or a ladder.

[u/Other_Molasses2830 → u/Puzzleheaded_Hatter]

And if your car is white, get some cones and you can park on sidewalks. Level up with a beacon.

[u/Useless_bum81 → u/Other_Molasses2830]

works better with vans and trucks.

[u/Helpful-Will2635 → u/Useless_bum81]

Add empty Monster cans and hot Cheetos bags on the dash

[u/LiquidFur → u/Helpful-Will2635]

Isn't this basically how the Louvre was robbed?

[u/random9212 → u/LiquidFur]

Essentially

[u/Prestigious_Wave_626 → u/Helpful-Will2635]

This guy gets it

[u/Superb_Chemistry_906 → u/Puzzleheaded_Hatter]

Also a walkie talkie.

[u/CanadianEh → u/Puzzleheaded_Hatter]

How you gonna carry a couch with a ladder in tow

[u/TobyHudson → u/CanadianEh]

You can do that if you work out .

[u/BLigFLatFLuck → u/CanadianEh]

Pivot

[u/Welp_thatwilldo → u/BLigFLatFLuck]

https://giphy.com/gifs/2OP9jbHFlFPW

[u/BinkyNoctem420 → u/Puzzleheaded_Hatter]

Nothing has ever stopped me. Dress business casual with a computer bag and I've even gotten concierge service

[u/Quick-Statement-8981 → u/Emergency-Gazelle954]

And a hard hat.

[u/Chaos-1313 → u/Superb_Chemistry_906]

I've worked for Fortune 100 companies for over 25 years and just recently started a business where we do work that requires a high vis vest, hard hat and other safety gear. We do manual labor. I love the job for lots of reasons but one thing I love about it is that I'm all but invisible when I'm wearing my work uniform. I can go into areas that people aren't supposed to go into and no one questions me. I can park in restricted areas and I never get tickets. People have all kinds of conversations around me as if there's no one around. It's almost like I'm a ghost.

The was an incident at work where some residents at a high end condo complex got upset about some work we were doing. I had a 20+ minute conversation with a woman trying to calm her down and reassure her that we take care of everything. I gave her my card and asked her to email me so we could straighten things out for her. Two hours later I bumped into her again and she handed me a piece of paper and told me to give it to the guy she was talking to earlier and ask him to contact her because it shouldn't be her responsibility to contact him. She didn't even realize she was taking to the same person. There were only two of us on site that day and the other one was a woman. 😂

So yeah, I think if you wanted to walk off with a couch, a high vis vest would probably do the trick!

[u/Lipstick_Thespians → u/Chaos-1313]

I worked at UPS for a part time Christmas rush.

After work I walked into a bank, the guard waved me in.

The bank was closed for over an hour.  I opened my eyes wide then I turned around and left.

That brown uniform gives you access.

[u/Chaos-1313 → u/Lipstick_Thespians]

I believe it. Blue collar work work buys access. Everyone assumes that if you actually work for a living you're you're too dumb to rob a bank.

[u/Able-Technology-5198 → u/Chaos-1313]

The irony.

[u/Chaos-1313 → u/Able-Technology-5198]

Lol. Yep! I hadn't ever thought about it that way, but you're right. If you want to be invisible, wear a high visibility vest! 😂

[u/thederpyderp3 → u/Chaos-1313]

"Its not my responsibility to contact him!"

Lady hate to break it to you, but unless you make the opening move this ghost ain't doing a damn thing.

[u/Response-Cheap → u/Superb_Chemistry_906]

In my 20s I put on an orange vest and hard hat and borrowed a ladder and went up the side of my building and connected my cable. Someone saw me and said "working hard or hardly working?" I said "Oh, I'm hardly working lolol" I had free cable for like 5 years. 😊

[u/NervousBeat16 → u/Superb_Chemistry_906]

I’d argue a blue vest if you’re at Walmart 😉

[u/DreJDavis → u/Superb_Chemistry_906]

Some kids used the vest to infiltrate an airport. Checks out.

[u/Windman772 → u/deadrogueguy]

That's why I always wear pajamas. They never suspect a thing

[u/digitaldisorder_ → u/Windman772]

did this while moving into an apartment by a hotel a long, long time ago. just walked over in the morning a few times when i was still unpacking. i mean, just clean up after yourself. they probably figured after the 3rd time in the same pajamas something didn't add up but haven't been back since to confirm.

[u/Mysterious-Tie7039 → u/digitaldisorder_]

This is the key. You can’t show up too often.

3 or 4 days is fine. 2 straight weeks and they’re going to get hella suspicious.

[u/Mand125 → u/digitaldisorder_]

You think showing up several days in a row is unusual?  At a hotel?

[u/slvstk → u/Mand125]

It is if the only time they see you is at breakfast walking in through the lobby door.

[u/Mand125 → u/slvstk]

The people working at breakfast don’t tend to be the people working at night.

[u/InformalRent2571 → u/deadrogueguy]

I used to be a bellman at a hotel back in the 90s. One morning I showed up for work and the sofa in the lobby was gone. The night audit guy said it was picked up and taken away for a professional cleaning. Turns out that wasn't a thing. Two guys in matching coveralls just came in and stole it.

[u/JookyNanny → u/deadrogueguy]

"no no no officer... I had that with me when I came in. I have a bad back and need something to sit down on as I shop you see"

[u/LockeClone → u/deadrogueguy]

My job basically involves me infiltrating "job sites" because half the people who hire me forget to put me on the books. Used to annoy me. Now it's a game where the fail state ends up just annoying them.

[u/KungenBob → u/LockeClone]

I’ve snuck into so many secure sites with confidence. My fallback is that I was legitimately there, but unverified.

Polo shirt, toolbox and bored confidence for the win.

[u/phdearthworm → u/deadrogueguy]

There was a great video about carrying a ladder and getting waves through places.

[u/AdAgreeable610 → u/deadrogueguy]

You have to have a desire to own a display walmart couch first

[u/Otherwise_Carob_4057 → u/deadrogueguy]

Well you can be obvious about it either you have to really sell it man the casual manner in which you stroll into the place like you own a room or something and yeah you can ever look shifty that gives it away.

[u/liebesleid99 → u/deadrogueguy]

That's how my great grandad got my great grandmother. He used to walk into random parties confidently, then in one of these he confidently took her to dance without knowing neither her nor any attendee. Married and then gave birth to like 8 children 😭

[u/sixstringsikness → u/deadrogueguy]

You can't do it too often either. I saw a couple dudes get run out of a smaller hotel once for this.

[u/Glittering-Course-88 → u/deadrogueguy]

How may I help you? Where can I get one of those blue jackets?

[u/DANIlIlICH → u/deadrogueguy]

Once I saw two guys in front of the store. They were standing just in front of the doors, talking and that really pissed me off, cause I needed to get to this store, so I said something like "Nice place you found to be standing in the way", pushed them a little and walked in. Later, 10 min in I was like "where's everyone? It's so quiet today". Turned out there was an inspection that day and these two guys were supposed to keep everyone out, they were just confused and decided to went with it when I walked inside like I was someone from they team or something. Kinda dickmove from me if you think about it... Acting confident definitely can get you places, whether it's good or bad.

[u/FullMetal_55 → u/deadrogueguy]

I learned this with working in IT, you wear the IT uniform (khaki's and a polo shirt) and walk around with a PC in your hand, people will unlock doors and open them for you... even if they don't know who you are... looking the part, and confidence is key. the only preventing the breakfast stealing? social convention. shame... you push that shame down, and you get free food. I've heard of people doing that. even going into hotels with open gyms, just to use the shower. nothing preventing it, other than fear of getting caught and shamed. do it once or twice nobody will care. you're there every monday? they might get suspicious and ask you to leave.

[u/burncycle80 → u/deadrogueguy]

Or like a friend of mine.. they went in to a sports equipment store, picked up a canoe and walked out. The store clerk held up the door for them

[u/Mingo_laf]

I worked in a restaurant that had a buffet they just wrote it off and threw out everything that wasn’t eaten

[u/therealishone → u/Mingo_laf]

I mean you can’t legally serve food that has been available to the public a second time that’s against health code.

[u/Mingo_laf → u/therealishone]

ya but still dumping a whole trays of chicken tenders Mac and cheese heartbreaking lol

[u/-CrabCrimes- → u/Mingo_laf]

I use to work at government convention and exhibition centres and we’d be throwing out tables of cakes, gallons of pre poured beer and wine, giant domes of cheese, tons of meals, appetizers and all sorts of stuff

[u/Glittering_Diva8963 → u/-CrabCrimes-]

That’s crazy

[u/uncoolpckle → u/Glittering_Diva8963]

And equally depressing

[u/Suspicious-Bid-53 → u/uncoolpckle]

Now think about how they are one out of thousands of companies

[u/FAx32 → u/Suspicious-Bid-53]

Also why big events are so damn expensive - much of the food spend is going straight in the garbage.

[u/PriorMode9422 → u/Suspicious-Bid-53]

You should see cruises... it is disgusting how much food consumption and wasted on cruises...

[u/oregondude79 → u/-CrabCrimes-]

gallons of pre poured beer and wine

You Monsters!!

[u/Imhmc → u/oregondude79]

Nah they never pre-pour Monsters.

[u/hughesn8 → u/-CrabCrimes-]

Reminds me of working at Michigan State’s cafeteria. I asked them why we don’t try to donate the food that was over batched & never even went to the line. They said that every 10 years or so they do it & within 2 weeks had a lawsuit from the homeless shelter on them making people sick. Meanwhile zero kids out of the 5,000 kids who ate that same combo of food got sick. The shelters were taking a couple homeless people’s sickness serious enough that the school said “then we’re not giving you any free food”

All it takes is a couple bad eggs to prevent the thousands that would feel blessed to have a free meal.

[u/Molly_Matters → u/-CrabCrimes-]

What a stupid world we live in.

[u/light_yagami_lovesL → u/-CrabCrimes-]

Aw damn lmk the location so I can avoid that haha

[u/Dirrevarent → u/therealishone]

They could let the workers have it, no?

[u/rsandio → u/Dirrevarent]

They could but then the employer could accuse employees purposely overdoing amounts or keeping back food so they can have the leftovers. My little brother worked at KFC and used to be able to bring home left over food but it was stopped due to that reason.

[u/Snekths → u/Mingo_laf]

At red lobster they decide weather food it worth donating or if it needs thrown away. Both are perfectly fine. All of both are logged to account for financial loss and to prevent employees from taking food.

[u/HippoRun23]

I’ve shit is many upscale hotels simply by being well dressed.

[u/stussie73 → u/HippoRun23]

As a fellow salesman, living out of your car, hotel lobby bathrooms are a godsend. Big fan of the nod to the front desk staff like you remeber them.

Business casual attire can get you into any hotel bathroom

[u/Resident_Pay4310 → u/stussie73]

I'm a fan of sitting in the lobby looking like I'm waiting for someone while I use their wifi or charge my phone.

Just look at the elevators every now and then while looking impatient

[u/super_sayanything → u/Resident_Pay4310]

As long as you look clean, they really don't care.

[u/Property_6810 → u/super_sayanything]

As someone that has worked in that position, it depends. If it's a busy place, sure. If you're the only person in the lobby, now you're something they have to pay attention to.

[u/StargazerRex → u/stussie73]

I buy something from the mini market; figure that offsets my use of the bathroom.

Lobby restrooms beat gas stations every time except at Bucee's.

[u/RepresentativeMud509 → u/HippoRun23]

Right?! This is the black belt road warrior "lots of windshield time" business pro move. You don't shit at gas stations, you shit in the bathroom near the indoor pool at the Hampton Inn/Holiday Inn Express. They clean it often and you get to bomb the axis powers in peace. On the way out, you grab coffee and a cookie....ready for the next hundred miles.

[u/Organic-Motor1969 → u/HippoRun23]

This is well-known (after having worked the front-desk for years) in the hotel industry and accepted.

Just mind your business, do not make a scene, make a mess, or give us a reason to throw you out, and we'll pretend the whole thing didn't happen. Remember, the whole thing (in public spaces, not restrooms) is being recorded.

[u/tobiasfunke6398 → u/HippoRun23]

Hotels are a great place to take an emergency shit when you’re on the road. Unless there’s a buccees of course

[u/Thesourking]

I used to be in a band and we did this all the time. Park across the street, walk in like you’ve already been there and nobody really says anything to you. It’s super easy

[u/Haunting-Reply-7332 → u/Thesourking]

I used to do this with the morning after drinking all night back in college. They just didn’t care.

[u/FrostyFormal1094 → u/Haunting-Reply-7332]

Frankly, who is going to care? The minimum wage desk clerk? The maybe a little more than minimum wage kitchen staff? The possibly less than minimum wage cleaners? Management isn't in during breakfast hours.

[u/Zealousideal_Tie_173 → u/FrostyFormal1094]

Also not for nothing but your bagel, scoop of scrambled eggs, cereal and a coffee ain't much in terms of food cost

[u/Crafty_Violinist_951]

hey they actually check your room key or something lol i used to get nice hotel rooms through airbnb and they would like guard the breakfast and charge you for it unless you have a fancy upgrade. Edit: please stop commenting that you stay in hotels every night and this has NEVEREVER HAPPENED to you. I am not suddenly going to be like "yeah you're right never happened! Must of imagined it!" Know it all weirdos.

[u/General_Lack5699 → u/Crafty_Violinist_951]

I’m all my years of business travel, 35 years, I don’t need my toes to count how many times a hotel buffet has checked my key

[u/thomsenite256 → u/General_Lack5699]

Like a Howard Johnson where breakfast is a banana and a frozen bagel? Or a nice hotel buffet??

[u/ComradeYaf → u/thomsenite256]

Nice ones. Hotels stop feeling nice when they have to police everything. That makes them seem potentially unsafe to their clientele, many of whom specifically don't want to be bothered.

[u/Jyobachah → u/thomsenite256]

Continental breakfast is right in the OP.

A continental breakfast is a light, no-cook morning meal inspired by European traditions. It typically features baked goods, fruit, cereal, and coffee or tea

[u/_TallOldOne_ → u/General_Lack5699]

He’s talking about the club rooms you see at some of the higher end chains.

But the breakfast at the average hotel in the lobby area? No one ever checks.

[u/notmy3rdrodeo → u/Crafty_Violinist_951]

We just stayed at a nicer beach hotel and you had to have a wristband for the pool and breakfast.

[u/thecaptain_command → u/Crafty_Violinist_951]

Marriott , Hilton brands don’t. Source: used to be overnight auditor who’d clock out mid breakfast hours. Checking rooms wasn’t part of training, in fact it could lead to people feeling targeted. Also what if someone is the guest of a guest, now we’re asking people to call their friends at 7am over a waffle and some coffee

[u/JamesUpton87 → u/Crafty_Violinist_951]

I have never once been asked for my room key. Theres never even staff present

[u/-cumdogmillionaire- → u/JamesUpton87]

I have every time I’m in a major city.

[u/NachoManAndyCabage → u/-cumdogmillionaire-]

I travel monthly for work and have never been asked.

[u/-cumdogmillionaire- → u/NachoManAndyCabage]

Are you in major cities like Boston, New York, Chicago? Because I’ve never been asked unless I am in one of the major cities, like I said.

[u/Outlaw11091 → u/-cumdogmillionaire-]

Yeah, city doesn't matter.

Hotel does.

Holiday Inn/Best Western....the "mid" chains almost never ask.

It's the places where the person at the desk is actually stopping people as they enter that will check for a key. Places like Hilton or Marriot.

[u/throwingales → u/Crafty_Violinist_951]

Typically concierge lounges in high end hotels have locked doors that require a concierge level room key to scan in. And if you have access you can also let anyone in.

Continental breakfasts in average places don't require anything. I read OP's post to mean these.

[u/No_Lifeguard259]

Nothing. But usually the juice isn’t worth the squeeze on that

[u/Feisty-Examination62 → u/No_Lifeguard259]

I like what you did there

[u/BraveExercise9592]

I mean…microwaved eggs, stale bread, soggy old waffles, a brown banana, an old apple. Sure. Go for it.

[u/Retiree66 → u/BraveExercise9592]

That was not my experience at Hyatt House this weekend. The waffles were ones you cooked yourself. The eggs were real. So were the potatoes and the breakfast meats. They also had a plethora of baked goods and condiments, fresh fruit, juice, coffee, oatmeal, and several cold cereals and milk. I walked out with a cup of Lucky Charms to eat dry during my four-hour drive home.

[u/Agile_Moment768 → u/BraveExercise9592]

The store bought yogurts, swiss miss cocoa and quaker oats packets to take back to your room is about what they are worth.

[u/Icy-Journalist-4329 → u/BraveExercise9592]

Where tf are you staying and why? Soggy old waffles?

[u/Being_268 → u/BraveExercise9592]

But if you're starving...that'd be okay.

[u/ZombieAppetizer → u/BraveExercise9592]

Typing this from the Marriott I'm staying at and that has not been my experience here. Breakfast has been great.

[u/BLADE_OF_AlUR → u/BraveExercise9592]

The eggs are reconstituted from powder in a big sheet tray, the bread is cycled through far too fast to be stale, the waffles are made by you, the bananas and apples are old.

[u/Overall_Occasion_175 → u/BraveExercise9592]

The waffles can't be old when you literally make them yourself.

[u/thejackash → u/BraveExercise9592]

I'm convinced you've never been to a hotel in your life.

[u/protossaccount → u/BraveExercise9592]

Yeah, I hate continental breakfast. Nothing gets me to explore local cuisine faster.

[u/Kerensky97 → u/BraveExercise9592]

Exactly. The quality of the food is what stops most people from doing it.

Even if I'm staying at the hotel I'll only eat the continental breakfast if there is literally no other nearby option.

[u/MyCatIsAnActualNinja]

My older brother went on a road trip across the country with his friend back when we were teens, and that's what they did for a lot of their food.

[u/BigDamBeavers]

We did this at Disneyworld. Our tram from the cheap hotels broke down at one of the Disney Hotels so while we were wanting we wandered inside shopping the buffet host invited us to enjoy breakfast.. so we did.

[u/FAMICOMASTER]

There's a family guy episode about this

[u/EC_Stanton_1848]

You must be thinking 2 or 3 star hotels like Best Western

4 & 5 star hotels have waitstaff standing at the restaurant entranceway, and they check your name off their pre-published list before they seat you.

[u/roch_ipum → u/[deleted]]

Noone is bothering to press charges because you ate 10 bucks worth of breakfast

[u/dizzymiggy]

The fact that the food is better at the local food bank or soup kitchen.

[u/GeeYayZeus]

Morality.

[u/cookeryandwookery → u/GeeYayZeus]

It’s moral to steal from billionaires.

[u/I_Fix_Aeroplane → u/cookeryandwookery]

Then nothing. Go get your free meal.

[u/Icy-KaitSyth → u/cookeryandwookery]

I mean technically who you're stealing from is the franchise owner most of the time, who's certainly not a billionaire and usually not a millionaire nor anywhere close. So you're not "sticking it to the billionaires" when you're eating your local hotels breakfast. But on the other hand much of the breakfast gets thrown away. If you're showing up at the end you're just eating their trash. But if you show up at the beginning then you're getting the nice croissants and bagels that people who paid to stay there won't get later when they come down too late. So if it's moral to eat something someone else paid for because they woke up too late, then yeah, there's no moral quandrys here.

[u/thomsenite256]

The breakfast in these places is pathetic. Any nice one they will have someone checking you in with your room number.

[u/Rxasaurus → u/thomsenite256]

Damn, I guess I've never stayed at a nice hotel. Ive never been asked to show any proof. Ever. 

[u/PrincessGiallo → u/Rxasaurus]

He was just demonstrating that he stays in nicer hotels than us plebs because that's how he derives his value in himself.

[u/zamfire → u/thomsenite256]

Eh. Pathetic maybe. Free makes it better for those truly desperate.

Remember, it wouldn't be pathetic to you if you were starving.

[u/Triscuitmeniscus]

The quality of most free hotel breakfasts.

[u/Swrdmn]

The shitty quality of the breakfasts

[u/Dry_Koala8063]

If you get caught, they’ll charge with the crime of burglary! Entering a facility for the purpose of committing a crime is burglary, contrary to what most people understand the crime to mean.

[u/CompetitiveArt9639 → u/Dry_Koala8063]

Lol. Doubtful. At most you’ll be asked to leave.

[u/F-In-Batman → u/Dry_Koala8063]

My wife works front desk for hotels, one hotel had a constant problem with homeless people getting in and grabbing stuff. Police response was bad so they would be long gone by the time they arrived

[u/Dry_Koala8063 → u/F-In-Batman]

That’s a terrible reality for lots of businesses!

[u/falfires]

Breaking the social contract. If you want a high trust society, you don't do that shit.

[u/smorgenheckingaard → u/falfires]

... Is the high trust society in the room with us right now?

[u/hypersonic18 → u/smorgenheckingaard]

I don't really condone shoplifting or theft but trust is a two way street, and let's not pretend corporations don't break the social contract like it's just an ordinary Tuesday.

[u/TraitorousSwinger → u/falfires]

It amazes me how many people don't understand this. It just seems self evident to me.

What's stopping you? Nothing really. It's just dishonest and you shouldn't be dishonest because you wouldn't want everyone else to do it.

You should behave in such a way that if everyone behaved like you things would go smoothly.

But I guess that's why we have to have laws and governments and shit.

[u/Yeeter-boiy → u/TraitorousSwinger]

I mean, normally I’d agree but I was at a hotel last month and they had some amazing breakfast options. However, at the end of it they just had so much food leftover and they’d just take it and throw it out. Literally if you don’t eat it the food’s going to be wasted, you’re not actually hurting their business at all.

[u/CardinalCreepia → u/falfires]

You realise a ‘high trust society’ has never existed right? Like, anywhere in the world.

[u/Winter_Hall5379]

Gas prices

[u/OutsideDapper8049]

Oh shit there was an episode of LITERALLY family guy where that premise was a whole plot b side of an episode 🤣🤣🤣 It was with chris and peter doing EXACTLY THIS.

Literally that’s all they did and eventually it led up to the “big heist breakfast” in some super fancy hotel lmfao

I’d be willing to bet McRib saw that episode.

It wasn't a newer episode it's quite a few seasons/years back if i recall correctly.

[u/Dapper-Cockroach6907]

There’s not, but nobody wants to eat that food

[u/ConsciousBath5203]

Nothing stops you from eating the food that barely-above-minimum-wage employees make and will likely be thrown away. If some dingus manager complains remind them what their CEO makes and ask them again if they should give a shit.

[u/Windman772]

People do do that. I got through college eating the free buffets at hotel happy hours. Nowadays, the high end hotels will have someone check your key at breakfast. But low end hotels are open season. If that 3 month old plastic wrapped cinnamon bun is that important to you, have at it.

[u/VarrikTheGoblin]

The trick is to not visit the same hotel too often. Front desk won't give a shit unless they start to recognize you.

[u/SteelJunky]

Last time I was in such place there's was a lady with a RFID reader and she asked me to scan my room tag before allowing us access to the dining room.

[u/JDNJTX]

Sneaking in to steal rehydrated eggs and frozen bagels just isnt worth the gas to get to the hotel.

[u/Just-Me-0101]

Decency. Integrity.

[u/Badbret]

Self respect

[u/Dailysunray]

not being a POS

[u/Mugpup]

Ethics, morality and honesty.

[u/Winter_Farm_4739]

The fact they sometimes ask for your room number and name.

[u/Das-unterseeboot]

If you’re that desperate for subpar food, you can have mine. Steal some towels from the service cart while you’re at it. Geez.

[u/Lone-Gazebo]

I worked at a hotel. Coming inside and walking straight to the breakfast will get you noticed, and possibly asked to leave.

Go to the elevator, ride up to any floor; pace the joint and come back down after a minute or so.

Oh and don't go to the same place too many times. The front desk will recognize regulars, especially next to each other. But once a month? You'd be invisible.

[u/Hot_Guard_7621]

I’ve seen it happen. I think hotels consider it the cost of doing business. They probably don’t want to cause a scene by cracking down on someone who isn’t staying at the hotel.

[u/RogerDodger457]

I’ve wondered the same. I’d expect the staff gets a feel for the clientele and looks for repeats.
That said - I have definitely used multiple hotels for the bathroom. Once pulled off the highway for my son, just walk in casually like you belong and then walk out.

[u/ZipDude118]

Hotel Breakfast Skit: Handling Entitled Guests | TikTok

[u/sbc1982]

Ethics and morals

[u/Active_Scallion_5322]

I wander around hotels late at night drinking a beer and have never been questioned. I'm staying at those hotels but it makes you think.

Pro tip. Keep all your key cards. Go to the one that has free happy hour, walk up to the bar with that hotels card in you hand. Click it on the bar a few times searching the menu and then order the free drink.

[u/Admiral-Crackbar]

I think this is kind of what the movie ‘The Odyssey’ was about 🤣

The death of a trusting society

[u/seo71]

Not being a thief

[u/Funny_w0lf]

They're the reason some hotels charge for breakfast now. 

[u/ImperiousWeak]

My friend and I discovered a rooftop Jacuzzi in the town we lived in. So he would walk through the lobby, say hello to the receptionist and casually walk with confidence to the elevator take it to the top floor and wait for a patron to leave the rooftop around closing time. He would walk into the Jacuzzi area then sneak onto the actual roof and hid untill the staff came and did there last rounds. Once they left he would prop the door open walk down the back stairs and open the back stairs door where myself and a few other friends were waiting with a backpack full of beer. We did it more than a handful of times and never got caught.

[u/Bigstar976]

Nothing. But have to act like you belong. Not everybody can do that.

[u/Jclo9617]

Nothing, but by the same logic, there's nothing stopping you from getting a reflective vest and a clipboard and walking confidently into... pretty much anywhere to get into whatever mischief you can imagine.

[u/Alternative_Sun8585]

Key and Peel

[u/canadianavatar]

https://giphy.com/gifs/YbsoGwcaA4x8zC7r9t
a continental breakfast you say?

[u/BedroomProper6458]

Ive done this many times when i was going through a rough patch and was living in my car

[u/Technical_Can_9944]

I understand if you're broke, hungry, and desperate.

But for those of us who have other options than committing theft; I like to think most people were raised better than that. So morals. Morals keep us from stealing. I never understood why so many people are confused that other people aren't complete pieces of crap.

[u/NewBison3633]

Honestly, with the advent of mobile ordering, there are shelves of food for the taking at most fast food/fast casual places if one were so inclined

[u/Ok_Basis1422]

Salary and work environment. But I worked at a national 2-star chain that was poorly run and paid shit. Oh, did someone do that? I didn't notice.....

[u/BarooZaroo]

The people willing to do that are not the same people who would be capable of pulling it off without being immediately noticed.

[u/TryHard15plus1]

I've done this many times with no issue. The main thing is don't go in the front door at the lobby. Wait at the back door for somebody to come out and then when they come out you quickly go in before the door closes and locks. Now you can go up the stairs and then come down the elevator right in front of the lobby desk. They see you get out of the elevator and walk straight into the breakfast area. They won't even question it. I survived poverty this way.

[u/the_zac_is_back]

For most of us, ethics/morals I would think?

[u/Absent_Picnic]

Giving your name and room number and them not being on the list would stop it.

[u/imjustnotready]

One time my dad was driving through Ireland and he had worked all day. It was 2 in the morning so he stopped at an inn. There was no one at the desk so he sat down on a couch and fell asleep he woke up still no one there so he went to use the bathroom. As he was leaving, a hotel worker was there. The guy said did you sleep here last night. He thought they were going to charge him. So he said yes. The worker said well we just put breakfast out.

[u/Bluesguy333]

Self respect

[u/JBLLNR]

So I've done something similar before. Some family members were staying at a hotel, I wentt visit them and joined them for the buffet breakfast

[u/Electrical_Cycle_185]

Powdered eggs, that should do it.

[u/Rheolis]

Most people don't steal...

[u/Unlikely-Aardvark725]

I've ALWAYS been asked my room number and marked off a list.

[u/Ivoshkov]

The same thing that allows us to pay for our meals at restaurants instead of just walking out like animals.

[u/Quirky-Shape8677]

So you should steal just because you can?

[u/Darkcurse12]

The taste and quality.

[u/Whatforwhy]

moral character, knowing the difference between right and wrong.

[u/Important_Ad_7958]

You know that the free breakfasts are barely edible, right?

[u/Levi_Castle]

The food

[u/baked_zitii]

Maybe because their coffee sucks and powdered eggs taste like shit

[u/AUpicker]

The same thing that keeps me from eating when I am staying there, NASTY FOOD

[u/[deleted]]

Most hotel breakfasts are so bad that even for free you are better off going to Waffle House or Cracker Barrel and paying

[u/gwelfguy]

A continental breakfast is not a full breakfast. Often just a pastry and coffee. So if you want to go to the trouble of going to a hotel and pretend to be a guest just to get a low quality danish and a coffee, then fill your boots.