Anything That's Not Nailed Down

It never ceases to amaze me what people will steal from my restaurant and normally right in front of my employees eyes!! One of my first restaurants was rather small and a player piano was near the front door. It was playing one evening and a woman wearing a rather long coat was walking by when just then a man who was dancing to the music took her by the arm and swung her around. Well, just like a slot machine paying off, a whole mess of silverware fell out of the bottom of her coat. She just hid her face and ran out. Now, remember were talking about restaurant flatware here....do you really want that kind of flatware in your home!!! Another incident not too long ago involved a giant shark head that was hanging in the barroom. Now were talking about a 4 foot massive thing here, not some little fish and it was hanging just a few feet from the bar high up on the wall. To take it someone would have to climb up on a stool or ladder, remove it and then maneuver it around the stools and dividers and out the restaurant. Now this all happened in the middle of the afternoon and with a bartender supposably in the bathroom at the time. A few weeks later I received a phone call from a guy who said he had the shark and it was done as a college fraternity pledge prank and that he was going to return it. Never happened. The lesson from all this.......don't leave anything even remotely valuable in the restaurant unless it's bolted down. Anything else has to be chalked up to the cost of doing business.....the RESTAURANT BUSINESS!!!!!!!