Page 5 | Steeling sauces in weatherspoons

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 23/09/2025 14:29

We used to nick the whole basket of sachets when we were students in the 90's!

CustardySergeant · 23/09/2025 14:37

Itsasecretnow · 23/09/2025 13:37

And rediculous! Putting it in they’re bag would of had me apologetic with rage!

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😁Very good!

Ariel896 · 23/09/2025 15:01

Horrendously rough! 😂 please explain why they were horrendously rough

WaxworkWarboys · 23/09/2025 15:03

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CasperGutman · 23/09/2025 15:51

UnctuousUnicorns · 23/09/2025 14:00

So what's the difference between stocking up on drinks supplies at reception, say, five or six times a day, and just having tea/coffee etc. once each morning, and taking the two or three sachets left in the tray on the day of departure? I'd actually be taking less away in the latter instance. Anyway, ime the staff on reception tend to chuck virtually a week's supply at you if you request replacements outwith the room being serviced! It really doesn't seem to be a issue - the £30 to £40 per night - at an absolute minimum - more than covers a few teabags and sachets of instant coffee.

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If everyone who didn't drink any tea or coffee during their stay took a handful of stuff home that would add up to a significant additional cost for a large hotel chain.

I can't really see how this differs from the Wetherspoons sauces example: my son could easily consume 6-8 sachets of ketchup on the premises with a meal. If I have no ketchup with my meal but take four sachets home for my kids then I've used less ketchup and cost Tim Martin less money. And yet the consensus is that nicking sauce sachets isn't in the spirit of things.

the5thgoldengirl · 23/09/2025 16:06

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UnctuousUnicorns · 23/09/2025 16:12

"If everyone who didn't drink any tea or coffee during their stay took a handful of stuff home that would add up to a significant additional cost for a large hotel chain."

No, it simply means they wouldn't have saved the money had these paying guests been such good folk as to leave the tray untouched each morning. I'll say it again, they've paid for it. They're entitled to take it home. Ditto those sachets and miniature bottles of toiletries, if they so choose.

Similarly, if you've paid for a meal in a café etc, you're entitled to either use the sachets provided on your table, or take them home with you. It's not like there's dozens of sachets left out, at least not in my experience. I can also use five or six sachets of ketchup on a meal. It makes no difference if I empty them onto my food at the time, or pocket them for later at home.

maddiemookins16mum · 23/09/2025 16:15

I’ve been known to snaffle a mustard sachet (or 5) from Spoons.

Antimimisti · 23/09/2025 16:18

@BriefEncountersOfTheThirdKind I could have gone in if I'd been prepared to bin my shopping - I obviously wasn't going to do that. There were three of us, so I left the others to go in while I took the shopping home. I can take or leave pubs.

Antimimisti · 23/09/2025 16:21

WalkDontWalk · 23/09/2025 14:24

….so you think the point of my post was an observation about the taking of sauces?

It’s just possible that, unbeknownst to my conscious self, I’m writing your posts in order to have this conversation with myself.

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I just dislike inaccuracy. If your subconscious want to write posts on my behalf, please ask it to check its facts 😆

PastaAllaNorma · 23/09/2025 16:28

If you're in a Spoons, I'm guessing that Las Iguanas meal with the boss cured you of your aversion to chains after all, OP.

Going to blame your spelling on red wine again?

WalkDontWalk · 23/09/2025 16:32

I suspected I'd say that.

PrincessHoneysuckle · 23/09/2025 16:35

*stealing
*their

BriefEncountersOfTheThirdKind · 23/09/2025 16:35

Antimimisti · 23/09/2025 16:18

@BriefEncountersOfTheThirdKind I could have gone in if I'd been prepared to bin my shopping - I obviously wasn't going to do that. There were three of us, so I left the others to go in while I took the shopping home. I can take or leave pubs.

I'm just shocked at the idea of anyone being turned away from a Spoons

BriefEncountersOfTheThirdKind · 23/09/2025 16:35

PastaAllaNorma · 23/09/2025 16:28

If you're in a Spoons, I'm guessing that Las Iguanas meal with the boss cured you of your aversion to chains after all, OP.

Going to blame your spelling on red wine again?

Og is this that poster???

Mousewoman · 23/09/2025 16:53

WalkDontWalk · 23/09/2025 09:11

People are so quick to judge. You haven't walked in that couple's shoes. They may have been very poor. Or really hungry. They may have only been in Weatherspoons because they had stumbled through a time-portal from Victorian London, and were appalled at the prices. They may have been projections from an alternative reality in which ketchup sachets are sacred artefacts that need to be collected in order to earn additional years of life. It could be anything. You just don't know and yet you judge. People like you discust me. Their. I sed it.

After lurking for months I've signed in to MN purely to like this.

WalkDontWalk · 23/09/2025 17:01

Mousewoman · 23/09/2025 16:53

After lurking for months I've signed in to MN purely to like this.

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I’m flattered. Thank you.

gmgnts · 23/09/2025 17:21

Why were they eating a Greggs sausage roll in Wetherspoons? Is that not stealing, in that they were cheating Wetherspoons out of providing the sausage roll?

Bananamanananana · 23/09/2025 17:23

How many off thum was their op? Fore or to? Too couple sea?

janehopper · 23/09/2025 17:26

PastaAllaNorma · 23/09/2025 16:28

If you're in a Spoons, I'm guessing that Las Iguanas meal with the boss cured you of your aversion to chains after all, OP.

Going to blame your spelling on red wine again?

Oh this is brilliant.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 23/09/2025 18:48

Antimimisti · 23/09/2025 07:28

It's 'rough' to lunch somewhere that's reasonably priced, quick and reliable, if not very exciting? I wouldn't usually want the full restaurant experience at lunchtime. Spoons is cheaper than, e.g. M&S cafe and helpfully highlights the items on the menu that are lower-calorie. If the weather is fine, I usually have a sandwich al fresco if I'm on a day trip, but if it's eating inside weather, Spoons is a decent option in my view.

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No, not particularly. Which means they're no different from the OP, except they gave the kid something that it would eat whilst they probably ordered something for themselves.

Antimimisti · 23/09/2025 20:28

NeverDropYourMooncup · 23/09/2025 18:48

No, not particularly. Which means they're no different from the OP, except they gave the kid something that it would eat whilst they probably ordered something for themselves.

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Sorry, not sure what you're saying 'no, not particularly' to in my post?

Jc2001 · 23/09/2025 21:15

WalkDontWalk · 23/09/2025 09:11

People are so quick to judge. You haven't walked in that couple's shoes. They may have been very poor. Or really hungry. They may have only been in Weatherspoons because they had stumbled through a time-portal from Victorian London, and were appalled at the prices. They may have been projections from an alternative reality in which ketchup sachets are sacred artefacts that need to be collected in order to earn additional years of life. It could be anything. You just don't know and yet you judge. People like you discust me. Their. I sed it.

I always walk a mile in someone's shoes before I judge them. That way, I'll be a mile away and they won't have any shoes to chase me.

UnctuousUnicorns · 23/09/2025 21:22

Jc2001 · 23/09/2025 21:15

I always walk a mile in someone's shoes before I judge them. That way, I'll be a mile away and they won't have any shoes to chase me.

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Anyone who walks a mile in my shoes can get to fuck, the thieving twat.

JaneEyre40 · 23/09/2025 21:41

Amy34555 · 22/09/2025 18:41

I went for lunch in weatherspoons, thre was two horrendously rough couple with a child eating a greggs sausage roll. They put sauces from the table in there bag. It's stealing plain and simple. I'm utterly appalled at some people these days.

Steeling with what?! Copper? Lead?