friend pinched a glass from a restaurant

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i know people pinch glasses
from pubs all the time , it’s wrong , but people do it. My friend has done this and she said she thinks the owner saw her and is now worried , I’ve told her to take it back , I’m sure it’ll be fine . I don’t know . Has anyone got in trouble before for stealing a glass ? Or for returning it ?

It'll probably be plastered all over the local facebook page by tomorrow.

Tell her to take it back. Why did she take something that didn't belong to her?

Is your friend an 18YO student?? If not then WTF? Imagining that I’m talking to my teenage nephew for a moment I would say no don’t go back, avoid that restaurant for a while and for god’s sake grow up.

It’s something most people have done when drunk. Don’t worry about it.

DD works in a pub. If she catches someone stealing a glass, she’ll take it off them and refuse to serve them again.
If someone asks if they can take a glass, she gets them a clean one from behind the bar

As someone whose friends once stole barstools from pubs and an entire table from a restaurant, I sympathise with your embarrassment.

There’s a Thatchers Glass that I really like the shape and feel of. A perfect shape, well balanced and good size.
I want to steal one, but I’m too scared of ending up on the local ‘Spotted’ Facebook page I know stealing is wrong.

I can't get my head round why anyone would do this as a fully mature adult.
Pint glasses etc with branding are supplied free to the venue but they do have to buy their own glassware for everything else.

I think she should be questioning her motives and what she hoped to gain by taking a glass she could no doubt afford to buy anyway

More often that not you can buy such glasses on a well-known auction site. (They may have been stolen in the first place though!)

Has anyone got into trouble for returning a glass? Just asking for a friend?

Possibly the daftest “dilemma” I’ve read on here.
You both need to calm the fuck down and get to bed

I know a local land lord ( independent of a pub in our area and he cannot believe the amount of money he has to pay for people taking glasses home with them - Now whether they take them home or just leave them down the street somewhere - whatever. The costs surely have to be passed on somehow. )

It is not yours - do not take it. Just put it back on the bar or near enough so the pub can take it back. If you give it back the next day they will be grateful so don't worry about that.

I think if the owner had seen her and was really that bothered they would have said something there and then.

Why did she do it if she thought the owner was watching? You sound as daft as each other.

I worked in pubs for years when I was younger. No one I worked with would have cared about a missing glass, most pubs have boxes of spares from the drinks companies in the store room. There was glasses broken most nights anyway. If it's an upscale restaurant then it might be a bit different but you're probably overthinking this.

I used to manage pubs, we once had a gambling machine stolen, barrels from the cellar by masked men and even joints of meat from the carvery. These were an issue the glasses were not. They get broken all the time anyway and a huge amount are given from companies anyway. It's a massive non issue

I bought this from the Thatchers shop about a year ago. It's not on their website but I'm sure if you contacted them they could arrange something?

If you ask nicely the next time you are in the pub they will probably let you have one. Branded glasses are usually provided for free by the breweries as promotional items.

😆😆😀 Christ, where do you live? Remind me to move there when I need somewhere to die.

OP - pub glasses are ten a penny. What do you think they do, count them pre and post shift? Come and live in the real world.

It's hardly crime of the century.

Hasn't everybody got a couple of years old pub pint glasses in their cupboard?

Nope. Bought my pint glasses from Asda.

Stole this from a campsite bar in Portugal about 12 years ago. Bloody love it, drink out of it every day, zero regrets ✌🏻 (plus, said bar had fed us rotten saltfish and potatoes with the mud still on them so didn't feel bad. Bastard ex kept the other one of the pair 😭)

More fool you then 😂

Dd was telling me about going to a bar (lives in amsterdam) with mates just after lockdown. One of the girls nicked one of their very nice and branded glasses. The manager came and told them to return it or he’d put an extra 15 euro charge on their bill.

Hardly. It's a wee bit scuzzy to half inch glasses from pubs.

Surely if you ask nicely to buy one most places will let you have it or at least not charge much, seeing as the cost to them is small, much easier than trying to nick one and worrying about it.