Tit for Tat

[Misty]

When my sister worked at a bar in San Francisco, she and the rest of the staff would order take-out from the restaurant that was just around the corner; in turn, her bar was frequented by the staff of that restaurant. It was often joked that the same money kept changing the same hands over and over again.

In my current job we have something like that with the pizza place across the street, except it's tit for tat. Every weekend they send over a free large pizza in exchange for some frozen yogurt. Everybody's happy, and it makes the most stressed-out day of the week a little more tolerable.

Anyone else have a similar arrangement?

[Dave1982]

Not currently, but at the first of the two Bent Staple stores I worked at we had a similar arrangement. We were across the street from a major furniture store and on the weekends, we allowed their employees to park in our lot so as to save more spaces for their customers. In exchange, once a month their store would have lunch catered in for us.

[dragon_wings]

My sister tells a story from when she worked at the Pizza Pizza place they would 'accidentally' cook too many pizzas and give them to the restaurant next door on exchange for.. Something. It's been a while since I heard this story but I may have been a Way of Sub and their cookies.

[kpzra]

The last movie theater I worked at we used to do this occasionally with a local pizza place. We got free pizza, they got free movie tickets.

[Immortal1982]

Years ago when i worked for Casa de pizza, we had a few of those. We would trade with some restraunts, ice cream parlors, and hell, we traded with the kfc up the road a few times too. Those biscuits...

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Oh yes. This was business as usual at Kinkos.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Nothing unofficial like that, but when I worked at Store1, they had a reciprocal discount agreement with the Starbucks that is attached to the store (they don't have their own cafe), so we got their employee discount and vice versa. At some point Starbucks decided not to do that anymore (don't know if it was just the district manager or higher up the chain) which was kinda stupid. I'm sure they got a lot more out of it than we did. They got business from at least several of our employees every day; we certainly didn't get their employees buying books every day. Then again, I'm sure there weren't too many of us who stopped buying Starbucks every day, so it probably worked out better for them anyway.

I did occasionally get free drinks from a couple of their employees, but I couldn't exactly reciprocate on that front.

[Jester]

The Bar's previous GM had a long-time affiliation with another restaurant/bar here in town. When he was our GM, he set it up so we have reciprocal discounts. In other words, their employees get discounts at our bar, and our employees get discounts at their bar. It's a pretty sweet deal all around, considering there is no other tie between the two places. (Which differs from the other places we get discounts in town, which are the places our bar's owner has bought full or partial shares in.)

[NateTheChops]

The Dunkin Donuts next door to the discount store I worked at knew quite a few of us. They would sometimes sneak their employee discount onto a coffee or they'd comp us an extra donut or two.

Most D and D's I've been to will throw you a free donut now and again, or pop a couple extra holes in a bag especially when my parents go through the drive through.

[BlaqueKatt]

we traded pizza with the dairy queen next door, manager's of both places were fine with it as employees of both places got free food on the clock, or to take home.

[dendawg]

Okay, since no one in this thread is gonna say it, I will.

Tat.

What?

[dalesys]

Okay, since no one in this thread is gonna say it, I will.

Tat.

What?

You wanna bust in the mouth? (as Linda asked John, the 16-y.o. behind her in Algebra II)

[Android Kaeli]

Used to do this all the time with the Golden Arches that was near the Taco Hell I used to work at. Food was swapped between each of the stores often enough, it was a good trade.

[Mytical]

You wanna bust in the mouth? (as Linda asked John, the 16-y.o. behind her in Algebra II)

In the mouth, hand, or even just to look at....


What?

[Bella_Vixen]

Unofficially.

At my 2nd gas station, the Glass Doctor guys would come in for cigs and would trade me 4 cans of cleaner for 1 pack of the cheapest cigs in the store. Awesome!