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salt, sugar, toilet paper, silverware and cups for home use. Bring an empty
school bag and load up after you've cased the joint. Also, if you can
stomach the food, you can use slugs at the automat. Finishing leftovers can
be worked in even the fanciest of restaurants. When you are seated at a
place where the dishes still remain, chow-down real quick. Then after the
waitress hands you the menu, say you have to meet someone outside first, and
leave.
There are still some places where you can get all you can eat for a
fixed price. The best of these places are in Las Vegas. Sew a plastic bag
onto your tee-shirt or belt and wear a loose-fitting jacket or coat to cover
any noticeable bulge. Fried chicken is the best and the easiest to pocket,
or should we say bag. Another trick is to pour your second free cup of hot
coffee into the plastic bag sewed inside your pocket and take it with you.
At large take-out stands you can say you or your brother just picked up
an order of fifteen hamburgers or a bucket of chicken, and got shorted. We
have never seen or heard of anybody getting turned down using this method.
If you want to get into a grand food heist from take-out stands, you can
work the following nervy bit: from a pay phone, place an order from a large
delivery restaurant. Have the order sent to a nearby apartment house. Wait a
few minutes in the booth after you've hung up, as they sometimes call back
to confirm the order. When the delivery man goes into the apartment house to
deliver the order, you can swipe the remaining orders that are still in his
truck.
In fancy sit-down restaurants, you can order a large meal and halfway
through the main course, take a little dead cockroach or a piece of glass
out of your pocket and place it deftly on the plate. Jump up astonished and
summon the headwaiter. "Never have I been so insulted. I could have been
poisoned" you scream slapping down the napkin. You can refuse to pay and
leave, or let the waiter talk you into having a brand new meal on the house
for this terrible inconvenience.
In restaurants where you pay at the door just before leaving, there are
a number of free-loading tricks that can be utilized. After you've eaten a
full meal and gotten the check, go into the restroom. When you come out go
to the counter or another section of the restaurant and order coffee and
pie. Now you have two bills. Simply pay the cheaper one when you leave the
place. This can be worked with a friend in the following way. Sit next to
each other at the counter. He should order a big meal and you a cup of
coffee. Pretend you don't know each other. When he leaves, he takes your
check and leaves the one for the large meal on the counter. After he has
paid the cashier and left the restaurant, you pick up the large check, and
then go into the astonishment routine, complaining that somebody took the
wrong check. You end up only paying for your coffee. Later, meet your
partner and reverse the roles in another place.
In all these methods, you should leave a good tip for the waiter or
waitress, especially with the roach-in-the-plate gambit. You should try to
avoid getting the employees in trouble or screwing them out of a tip.
One fantastic method of not only getting free food but getting the best
available is the following technique that can be used in metropolitan areas.
Look in a large magazine shop for gourmet digests and tourist manuals. Swipe
one or two and copy down a good name from the masthead inside the cover.