Our restaurant is self service now?

[purple]

So still not sure if I did the right thing.

Working night audit, hear the front door open around 4am. Get up to see the back of two people disappearing into the restaurant. Went to the door and couldn't see anything (it is a black glass door) nor hear anything.

Decided it was safer to call the police to come check it out who discovered a guest and her two male friends helping themselves to toast and ice cream.

Apart from being blown away by this logic I now have to explain to the boss why I calles the police for a second time in less than 2 months.

[Beowulf]

Honestly, you had no idea what they could have been up to. At 4am, when most desk people are on their own, and unless all the kitchen tools are locked away, they could have done a lot more than toast and ice cream. And just at the base, that's still stealing. I think you did the right thing, and made sure nothing went down.

[TheSnakeLady]

A random trio of people just saunter into a place they're not supposed to be in the wee hours of the morning, and you're working by yourself? I think you did the right thing. But why were your restaurant's doors open at 4am?

[purple]

The door was shut but it doesn't lock. Still a little odd that they went through that, around a wall and through the kitchen doors. And I heard no drunk laughter or anything when it happened.

[EricKei]

Calling the cops was definitely the right thing to do -- Unidentified people going into an area with easy access to blades, chemicals, fire, and (depending on how your place does it) possibly even cash? Yeah. time for a visit from the po-po.

[eltf177]

I can't believe you would have to justify why you needed to call the cops...

[Seshat]

Me either.

You're not trained for self-defence, and not being paid for putting yourself at risk of death or mutilation. Therefore, when someone is trespassing (entering the closed restaurant), contacting people who ARE so trained is the correct response.

[scorpionf]

I think you did the right thing!

I would assume you are not a trained fighter, so you should not have to justify calling the police who are trained for situations like this.

What if it had not been guests helping themselves?!?!

[wolfie]

Yeah. time for a visit from the po-po.

But what would warrant a visit from the Tinky-wink-Tinky-wink, the La-la-La-la, or the Bitsy-Bitsy?

[dalesys]

But what would warrant a visit from the Tinky-wink-Tinky-wink, the La-la-La-la, or the Bitsy-Bitsy?

...I've seen Puff Tubby with the Black Power fist head ornament...

[RealUnimportant]

As the kitchen is also the home of all things stabby, I'd agree with the consensus that you did the right thing.

[notalwaysright]

I have heard some horror stories of what goes on in the bathrooms of a local 24 hour grocery store... Like an employee goes in to use the bathroom and comes across a woman shooting up. Said woman freaks, there's blood flying, and general mayhem. Don't ask me why the woman wasn't in a stall, I just overheard bits of this.

Anyway, the people in the OP could have been going somewhere to do drugs or deal them, and that isn't something great to walk into.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I have heard some horror stories of what goes on in the bathrooms of a local 24 hour grocery store... Like an employee goes in to use the bathroom and comes across a woman shooting up. Said woman freaks, there's blood flying, and general mayhem. Don't ask me why the woman wasn't in a stall, I just overheard bits of this.

Anyway, the people in the OP could have been going somewhere to do drugs or deal them, and that isn't something great to walk into.

Our grocery store isn't 24 hours and we've had some strange stuff discovered in there.

Like the time our market guy wandered into the restroom to see someone taking a bath in the sink.

Bathing not-so-beauty booked it out before the MOD could find them. So as far as I know currently, this person either hasn't been back in or hasn't been caught so they can be banned.