St stealing objects like dishes or kitchen utensils at the restaurant has become trendy on social networks, where internet users proudly display their booty. Intended to make views, this challenge is not trivial if the police get involved.
Comma game, threat of shooting in schools, SkinnyTok… Tiktok is a factory with new trends, sometimes anything but ethical or very risky. This time, it is the theft of objects in restaurants that unleash users from the Chinese social network.
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Plates, cups, cups, dishes, saltchn … All objects are coveted and some influencers pride themselves, on their account, to have a whole “collection”, like a tiktucer who presents it in a video. She also announces that she wants to recover other trinkets of this type “soon”.
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A “memory”
Another boasts of having left with a cheese grater and asks his subscribers if they also have a “collection of memories of restaurants”. In the description that accompanies her video, she even quotes the name of the restaurant where she filmed herself.
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What is the motivation of these offenders? A third influencer explains in a Tiktok video that raised a million likes That these acquisitions are for her “as a memory” of the moments spent in these establishments.
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If Internet users proudly display their finds on social networks, they may be in trouble with the police, because such acts can be assimilated to the flight, punished by law [lire encadré].
Some Internet users are also protested from these discoveries in the comments of the videos in question. One is concerned, for example, of having become “accomplice”, another request not to take objects in “small establishments”.
But not all of them react this way: comments under the video inviting to share their collection rather resemble a confessional: glasses, forks, tacos support … The list is long.
All types of restaurants concerned
The phenomenon seems to touch all types of restaurants and not have an echo only in the United States. The Japanese restaurant Lucky Cat by British chef Gordon Ramsey in London, for example, has shole nearly 500 chat-shaped lucky figurines in February, a loss of around 2,300 francs.
In France, a Le Parisien’s daily survey revealed in 2023 that after the entry into force of the Law against single -use plasticreusable dishes in McDonald’s establishments, for meals on site, multiplied.
Reverse of traders
Failed, several restaurateurs seek to fight against a phenomenon that costs them money. Several of them have used new technologies by equipping their chip dishes in order to know the stocks in real time. However, these devices do not make it possible to draw the missing containers.
In London, some restaurateurs have chosen to denounce the practice with a certain humor, affixing the mention “This object was stolen in our restaurant” on their table accessories.
In France, an association was born in 2023 to fight against several types of flights (display and in the restoration in particular). “Ras-le-Vol” asks the authorities to be able to disseminate the photos of the Cleptomaniacs in their establishments. The creator, Jérôme Jean, who holds, among other things, a clothing shop, had been stealed the equivalent of 950 euros in goods, reported the 20 minutes French In 2024. In reaction, he disseminated the faces of the faults on social networks. A buzz of five million views for which it incurs up to 45,000 euros fine and a year in prison.
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