Arvin, free refills are include in pricing of a beverage as our mints. FREE refills and FREE mints are GIVEN by the business OWNER. You are comparing a complementary refill to blatant stealing.
Have you owned a bar or a restaurant? I have owned bar/restaurants, and yes, it's noticed when stuff is missing. Even if you're not a business owner, you may have heard of "inventory"? Right? It's when you count the items you have versus the items you sold, compared to what you purchase. We, along with other businesses COUNT EVERY OUNCE, just like every other item in stock. That's why it's called inventory. Some places have a computer system that measures and weighs bottles when it's poured.
You clearly do not have a business degree, so I won't even try to explain PLS, COS, COS, insurance, overhead and try to keep it simple. How about this? Do places have more than one employee? So if every server and bartender gave out, say, just one drink per night, there would be a loss equivalent to 2 bottles of liquor.
Again, to keep simple. Say I spend $1,000 a week on a product Whatsit, with a COS of 30% and I'm losing money by selling Whatsit because every employee (yes, most bars and restaurants have more than one!). I will have to increase the price of Whatsit or discontinue selling the product all together.
You are surely joking if you think that businesses don't raise prices. I haven't been in a while, but I guarantee that Taco Bell's tacos are no longer 59 cents! Businesses increase prices to cover loss, but also to deal with inflation. Or do you have a McDonald's by you that still sells 15 cent hamburgers? Please, share the info of all these places you go to that NEVER increase prices!
Furthermore, anyone that has to resort to calling names, like an idiot, to make their point doesn't have one. I usually wouldn't respond but clearly you're ignorant to how businesss are run. That's ok, I don't know how my car works but I certainly don't have the gall to go tell a mechanic how to run his garage, let him explain, and then tell him he's an idiot and wrong, like you have to me.
Also, by you're logic, it is ok to walk into a liquor store and grab a bottle of whiskey and walk out the door without paying. And to fill you car with gas and not pay. And to stop by the grocer and grab a few steaks. After all, it's not like the count them all right?
Go on and do that and let me know how you explain to the arresting officer that it's "not stealing". Let us know how your logic works in the real world. And in court. A person who takes something without paying is stealing, a sin, if your a religious man. A person who condones and excuses stealing is nothing but a thief.
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