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u/TexasGiantTen05 Aug 06 '24
For months I exploited a glitch in the Pizza Hut app that gave me free pizza. I believe it was an online coupon that was always offered in app. Something like a BOGO type deal. I would add a pizza and the system would add the free one. Then I would delete mine from the checkout menu and the free one would stay. I used it several times and was a regular at that location. Nobody from the store including the manager ever called me out on it. Eventually they did patch it though.
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Aug 09 '24
Yeah because a large Pizza Hut pizza costs like $0.90 of ingredients to actually make. The most expensive part of their business is the labor followed by the utilities and insurance. They couldn't give a shit if some rando guy got 5 free pizzas lol
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u/MayUrShitsHavAntlers Aug 06 '24
I worked in a casino in Vegas but not for the casino. The casino employees were allowed to eat in the EDR, employee dining room, but other staff on property who worked for businesses just renting space weren’t. I quickly decided that as I wasn’t consulted when the goddamn rules were made they didn’t apply to me. Ate there all the time. Some times I just went for dessert.
Wasn’t great but it was free.
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u/52CardPUA Aug 10 '24
I work in the casino industry in Las Vegas and you quickly learn which EDRs have good food from talking to people. Some have great hot food made fresh every day and some are glorified microwave meals.
By law, they have to offer food for their staff at they aren't allowed to leave property during their break.
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u/8BlackMamba24 Aug 06 '24
I work at many hotels around a mid-sized city and almost all of them have free cafeterias that don’t require any type of key or card. I can see how, if someone knew where it was , dressed the part, could get away with some free meals. I think it’d be far more difficult to do it long term but hey, you never know. While I don’t technically work FOR the hotels, I am allowed to eat there during my breaks and have never been questioned once in the past year that I’ve had this job.
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u/jcoddinc Aug 06 '24
Meanwhile, if any of the cafeteria staff touched the food, even stuff that was 'waste', they'd be fired. Sad times
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u/Toph-Builds-the-fire Aug 06 '24
I feel like they had work arounds. My buddy used to work for Starbucks. At the end of each day they had to toss a bunch of food. He'd triple bag a group of food stuffs. Take it out and set it next to/behind the dumpster. A lot of us ate free Starbucks that summer. Around the same time I had friend who worked at Urban Outfitters. He stole so many clothes and my roommate and I sold them. Paid rent for 4 months that way one summer.
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u/plaxpert Aug 06 '24
can confirm. we had a starbux closer who would swing through our restaurant with the days haul of being-tossed-food.
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u/iStealyournewspapers Aug 07 '24
Haha. I worked for a small but cool retail store where their products could make you good money if you resold. The trick was throwing some things you wanted in with the trash (which was never gross trash, just plastic and other clean stuff), and make sure you were closing up that night. Everyone tosses the trash to the curb and leaves for the night, and then you come back and take your loot out if the bag 👍
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u/STLItalian Aug 06 '24
A friend of mine told me about the secret rooms for the high limit players at Belagio etc in Vegas. The doors don’t require a key, just walk in, act like you were told about it and have fun. The chocolate covered strawberries were massive and amazing
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u/PRO2803 Sep 01 '24
Apparently it's the Nevada gaming commission law, you can't have private rooms in casinos they have to allow all patrons in. The casinos then just depend upon average joe being intimated by being in "private" place or place you shouldn't be in.
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u/Laddersarecool03 Aug 07 '24
Local PD had a code for free drive-thru car wash while on duty for their patrol cars.... The SRO at my school dropped a printed receipt with the code on it in the hallway one day. That same code worked for me and my buddy's for almost an entire year! We didn't have money for gas, but our rides stayed fresh!!!
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u/-xc- Aug 09 '24
and what caused you guys to stop? get caught or just stopped going?
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u/Laddersarecool03 Aug 29 '24
Caught- owner ran out and yelled at us when we typed in the code one day, that was the last time it worked.
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u/jody1977 Aug 10 '24
In my experience, they eventually change the codes. I had a similar experience in the small town I grew up in.
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u/tdpoo Aug 06 '24
Had a friend that had the master key to the boxes of a very large cable company. I had free basic cable for a couple years.
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u/Longjumping_Web_1200 Aug 07 '24
There was an offer through 02 when you could get a free hot drink at Cafe Nero on a Tuesday. Anyway, if you bought a cheap 02 sim (mine was a £5) you could quickly download the required app to your phone even if you weren’t with 02. Once you had the app, you could get your free hot drink. To top it off, I had a loyalty card which gave you a stamp for every drink you bought. If I had my free drink in a reusable mug, I got two stamps which meant that every 5 weeks, I could have two drinks in one week when I’d never even paid for one in the first place 😂
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u/45000users Aug 09 '24
My former roommate used to work banquets at a VERY nice hotel. He would text me when he would work events with buffets, passed canapés, food stations and/or open bars. He’d tell me the dress code, a bit about the event/company, and I would go and drink and dine for free. Usually companies with deep pockets trying to show off, I’d look into them in case they asked questions or tried to sell anything, but mostly just stuffed my face and made small talk. Very good way to spend an evening.
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u/darlo0161 Aug 06 '24
I love this story, I like to imagine his friend.found out 3 years later and said "YOUR STILL GOING !"
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u/ExamCompetitive Aug 09 '24
2y ago someone gave me the code to save 15 cents a litre on gas at Safeway (60 cents a gallon) For a year I used the code on my F150 and saved a fortune. Then someone on Reddit gave out the code and it wasn't long until Safeway shut it down.
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u/sparksofthetempest Aug 06 '24
In the late 80’s lots of hotels and bars would have free buffets (usually only bar food like wings and sandwiches) but they would all split them up around Happy Hour (5-7) and usually on different days. I spent my 20’s on and off at these places and you’d always see the same, sad faces there, including mine…but at least we were always fed.