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Cheap Living: Free Food
by scuzzy-elo
Free Foodby scuzzy-elo
Guide by scuzzy-elo 2003
Introduction
In this guide I will discuss ways of obtaining free (or damn cheap) food from restaurants.
Drive-Thru
First off, drive-thru restaurants are just asking to be exploited. There are a few easy ways that anyone can easily do alone or with a few companions.
Run By
This requires two people, three to make it look better. One person is dropped off a building or two away from the restaurant with the drive-thru window while the driver and optional companion 2 go through the drive-thru. As the driver places his order, the friends dropped of should be making their way to the drive-thru window from behind. (The path where the cars drive up) The driver should pull up to the window and leave room for the “thief” to run through. The food is paid for and then the driver waits for their order. When the order is being handed to the driver, the thief needs to run through and grab the bag of food. The driver complains and optional companion 2 should jump out of the car and chase the thief. The driver waits for their new order afterwards. Next the driver gets the second order of food and goes to pick up the thief and optional companion 2.
Note
I suggest planning your drop off and pick up locations beforehand. Also, try to have two different locations.
Missing Food
Go to a drive-thru restaurant and order what you wish. When you have paid and received your food, smile to the worker and drive forward a bit. Stop near the exit and open your bag of food. Take out one item (i.e. – order of fries, burger, etc.) and store it somewhere in your car, or give it to your friend in the passenger seat. Now go back to the drive-thru window and complain that you were missing xxx (order of fries, burger, etc.) and it was part of your order. Show them your receipt. When you get your new food, give them a compliment and say that you have enjoyed eating there for xx years and you wouldn’t want to have to stop enjoying their food. Leave.
Fast Food
If you have to go inside
Missing Food
See “Missing Food” in Drive-Thru section.
Bad Food
Make an order and pay for it. When you go sit down, open your item and place some hair, egg shell, bug, etc. into it. Go back to the counter and complain.
Alternately you could remove the meat and bottom slice of bread from a burger or sandwich and complain you only got half your burger. This is a variation of the missing food technique.
Restaurant Scam
This scam requires 4 - 6 people to work best. One group of two and one group of: two, three, or four. For the example, I will use six people.
Picking The Restaurant
First, you're not going to be able to do this to some high class restaurant. The best type would be one where you order your food from a server, eat, then take your check to a cashier's station.
Arrival
You will need to divide yourselves in two groups, one of two and one of four. You need to be in the group of two.
Have the group of four go in the restaurant prior to your arrival and sit with a view of the exit and the cashier's station. The first group of four should order before you arrive. Cell phones are a help. When you arrive the first group should be getting their orders.
NOTE: You don't have to eat the orders.
The Scam
When the server comes for your desert order, say that you want to order six to-go plates for the table of four. Say they are your good friends and you owe them a meal and tell the server to put it on your bill. Wave to them and have them wave back. Order something for yourself too. The server will bring six expensive to-go plates in bags to the group of four. When you get your last order, the group of four needs to walk out the door with the six plates. If anyone asks about the bags, say that it was put on the bill of the group of two. Do the wave thing. Now the group of four is out with the six plates and all the group of two has to do is walk out quickly and meet up with the group of four. All together you had 12-14 plates all free and you have six to take home free.
Notes
When you order for the restaurant, order cheap. When you order the to-go make them expensive. Having two cars helps because the group of four can leave and go to the meet spot and not hang around the restaurant while the group of two waits to leave.
Milkshake Scam
I will discuss how to easily get two milkshakes for the price of one.
Materials
Empty cup (preferably clean but that is your decision)
Lots of napkins
Procedure
Enter your selected ice cream shop and order any milkshake you want in the same size of the empty cup you have waiting in your car with your friend. Pay for your milkshake, go out to your car and dump it into the other cup. Now stuff the cup from the ice cream shop with napkins about ¾ of the way then fill it the rest of the way with milkshake. Stick any straws and spoons back in the cup between all the napkins as well. Give the full milkshake to your friend and go back into the shop with the stuffed cup. Now complain to the worker about the taste of the milkshake, and how terrible it is. Show them the contents of the cup but keep it in your hand. Once you are sure you have a new milkshake coming, throw the napkin stuffed cup away in the trash bin. Get your new milkshake, go back to your car, and leave. Enjoy your milkshakes.
Notes
Make sure there is a trash bin in the customer area beforehand. This helps keep the worker from handling the stuffed cup.
This method also works for larger cups of ice cream.
If you happen to be doing this at a TCBY, an ice cream shop in the USA, there are certain displays for topped waffle cones. These displays have cones sitting out in them and can easily be taken for consumption. Keep a look out for these.
Free Drinks
This is a very simple scam. Go to a restaurant and ask for a large cup for water. If they can’t give you a large cup just get whatever size they offer. Go to the fountain and fill it up with whatever beverage you want.
Free Food
For this scam you will need spray chewing cum remover (the type that freezes the gum)
This is another very simple scam. Go to a burger restaurant in a food court with a friend and order the same items. You will need to order a burger each, at least.
Sit at a table far from the restaurant. Set out a few napkins on the table. Quickly unwrap your burgers and take off the meat, and other toppings you want, and put them onto your napkins. Take a handful of fries out of your order and set them on the napkins as well. Spray your fries with the chewing gum remover and shake them up a bit. Re-wrap up the buns and take them, and the fries, back to the restaurant. Raise your voice and begin complaining that your burgers have no meat and the fries are cold beyond enjoyable consumption. You will receive a new order. Take the order back to your table and put the other patties back on the new burgers and enjoy them with your fries.
