The Pita Pit Offers Free Pita If You Get Their Stolen Chair Back
Some jerk stole a chair from The Pita Pit in Tampa, Florida. Who does that? "Dude, check out this wooden chair I totally stole. You can sit in it." The store, however, is taking advantage of the setback by turning it into a publicity opportunity. Who knows, they may even get their chair back if one of this guy's friends (he only has two, according to The Pita Pit) gets hungry enough.
(Thanks to Nathan!)
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He probably started experiencing psychosis shortly after realizing he was in South Tampa.
I love how the security camera doesn't show a good image of the "crook" but perfect image of the money going in and out of the register
@MyPetFly: If you go to the website and look at the comments, apparently some guy saw him with the chair later, drunk, and stealing a string of lights from some other business.
So, wow, yeah. You were almost spot on. :)
@SKURRY: Always. Always.
I worked retail for years and years and years. Those cameras above the registers are not there to watch the customers.
When I worked for Exxon, our manager would be there until the wee hours of the morning, watching tapes of us working, looking for any slight of hand where the money was concerned.
It always gave me an eerie feeling, like I had a creepy stalker at my job.
@SKURRY: Well that makes sense. The money is the most valuable thing in the room. It's what you want to watch, regardless of whether it's an employee or some robber coming in to take the money.
"Hmm, Pita. Well, I don't know about food from the Middle East.
Isn't that whole area a little iffy?"
Oh my gosh, that's great. I wish there was a Pita Pit near me, because I would absolutely go get lunch there someday after seeing them tackle this issue with lighthearted humor which might actually be effective, too!
I am loving the video. Good on the Pita Pit.
I keep telling people I'm psychotic or something like that, you know, able to see the future and junk like that.
@SKURRY: When I interned at a bank (in a non-money-handling position; I was in the marketing/product development department. We couldn't access anything), we were keylogged, screenlogged, and every workstation had a camera pointing straight down at our hands. And that's in addition to regular computer tracking through IT.
They made us aware of all the employee surveillance, both as a deterrent and because it's really a LOT of surveillance to ask someone to submit to, and people are more willing when they understand the why and the what. I recall part of the orientation was, "Look, if you back up 18 inches from your keyboard, we can't see you pick your nose."
@homerjay wants Boston Legal back!:
Hey, Im no geographer. You and I, why don't we call it pocket bread?
The Pita Pit here puts away all the furniture and anything on the counter that can be reached by the customer around 11p or midnight. It is pretty much the #1 stop for drunk college kids, other than the hot dog stand.
@SKURRY: That's because it's more likely for the employee to steal money from the register than it is for the customers to.
they should stop with the captions while they're ahead...and stick to making pitas
Also, where's that height tape sticker on the door jam? without size info on the chair, the pita pit has very little chance of seeing it again
It still boggles my mind why restaurants use the word "pit" in their names.
No more Pita Pit for me after a surly cashier snarled 'Nice Tip' when I put a line through the space where you enter a tip on the credit card slip.
I guess maybe I don't understand what the tip jar on the counter is for.
@I work as a meth lab technician isn't really a meth lab tec...: The you better check for millipedes.
@backbroken: You could have really made his head spin by shrugging and apologizing, "I'm sorry, but I can't support al-Quada front organizations."
@homerjay wants Boston Legal back!: So long as we're united in calling the falafels "garbanzo testicles".
That's cute. I like that video.
I looked on the blog site for a menu but all it said was "pitas." It didn't say what you could get on them. I would love to have a pita place here, though. I used to work at a deli in CA that make sammys on pitas. They were yummy.
If you're in Northern or Central CA, go here.
[www.eriksdelicafe.com]
I still remember how to make a lot of these! >:)
It's a Southern thing. Barbecue is best cooked in a Pit; Grills are a close second.
@I work as a meth lab technician isn't really a meth lab tec...: For future reference, whenever I put something in quotes, its a quote. :)
What if I just gave them a chair from my house that I don't need anymore? Can I get a free pita that way?
I just found out a few weeks ago that there is a Pita Pit near me. I never ate at one before that and, boy, was I pleasantly surprised.
@backbroken: Man, I hate that. There are a few restaurants near me that do this. I usually counter this by paying in cash if I know ahead of time. Almost nobody is crass enough to make some dumb remark when they hand you back your change. Somehow when you pay by credit card this is different.
However I don't expect a lot of retail clerks to get that having a line marked 'tip' obligates me to tip you. Some of the quick service restaurants here even ask you to tip in advance when you pay up front. Tips are an incentive based on service, and are earned.
@Eyebrows McGee: I wouldn't work under those conditions because that gives them access to anything else I might use - I know, I know, don't do personal business at work - and that isn't acceptable at all.
@backbroken: Your choice, but that's one employee, not the company itself. Seems a little misdirected.
@loueloui: That's exactly what happened. He got pissed that I didn't tip BEFORE he even started making my sandwich. And, of course, there was a tip jar on the counter where you pick up your sandwich which I guess he was assuming I just wasn't going to use. Don't know if I would have tipped or not, but I certainly wasn't going to after his comment at the point of sale. I thought these guys liked cash tips better anyway.
I wish the stores would use these videos to teach their cashiers to hand change back correctly: DO NOT PUT THE COINS ON TOP OF THE BILLS.
Argh. Just place the coins in the customer's hand first, then hand them the bills. This SIMPLE act allows the customers to get out of the way FASTER, enabling the next customer to be served quicker. Why? Because the customer doesn't have to fumble around, likely dropping the coins on the counter, or needing TWO HANDS to deal with the returned money.
Yeah, it's probably a fruitless effort on my part, but it's just stupid that young cashiers don't understand how to hand money back to customers.
It's ever MORE IMPORTANT at the drive-thru, because the coins can get dropped on the ground or all over the interior of the car.
@purplesun: Ever wonder why they say "If you don't receive a receipt, your meal is free?" It's for you the customer to keep the employees honest.
@coren: Well, the only Pita Pit in my area is the one with the obnoxious employee who is always manning the register at lunch time. There are only about 87 other options available to me. I will gladly go to a Pita Pit in another location.
@Antediluvian: put your fingers in the middle of the bill and your thumb of the top of the bill in such a way that the paper maintain a scoop shape, with the long edges being higher than the center. Then let the coins slide down the center of the bill into your palm. Then push the base of your thumb toward the base of you pinky. This is similar to the magician's technique of palming. From here you can either wallet the paper with the coins palmed or hold the bills with your fingertips while you drop the change in your pocket. Either way, it's one-handed and pretty quick.
Maybe he just needed to change a burned out bulb in the parking lot.