Someone took our entire tip jar and ran off with it. So we have cut a circle in the bottom, that way when you pick it up all the money falls out of it

yeah people have tried that a couple times at our store. usually i’ll take the bills out and put them in the tip bag pretty often so there’s never more than a couple bucks in there at once

this woman i work with literally slapped someone’s hand when they tried to take the money from our tip jar. i can’t believe the nerve of some people

Apparently at my store people stealing money from our tip jar isn’t so uncommon. To the point where when it starts to have a bit of money in it we are supposed to take it in (usually the drive thru tip jar). Basically the story I gathered is that there were multiple people who would run through our drive thru to take our tips.

had it done to me a few times… quite weird tbh

I had two people steal both of our tip jars. I said "nuh uh". Got a description of the girl and the get away car. They got pulled over shortly after and I got picked up by one of the cops to go to the scene and identify them. The cop (a regular) said to me "let's go bust some bad guys" then sang the Cops theme song while we drove there
https://www.thereporteronline.com/2014/01/28/one-of-two-alleged-starbucks-tip-jar-bandits-a-no-show-at-district-court-tuesday/

When I worked at a retail Starbucks it happened pretty frequently. And our tip jar was literally bolted into the counter and people would just rip the whole thing off the counter somehow.

It usually happened when we weren't there, because the Starbucks closed about an hour before the store did. We'd still have tips in the jar after we closed because the store managers never helped us with anything (and they were the ones with the keys to the tip jar so we couldn't do it ourselves).

Then two days after I quit, I was still in the group chat and they said a homeless guy came in and stole tips with like 7 people in line behind him.

At my store, we had to get a locked box for our tips on drive because tip stealing was so common in our area

I always empty the front tip jar into the drive tip jar (which sits inside the window) for this reason. I leave a couple bucks in usually. But especially on the rare occasion we get a large tip, that comes right back out.

told a woman her total was $5.69. she gave me a $5 bill and took the rest from the tip jar (despite having more money in her wallet that i could see). i threw what she took back into the tip jar, moved it behind the counter and said “ok yea so that’s gonna be ¢0.69 :)” and she had the NERVE to complain to my shift lead.

Someone came in a took all the cash out of our tip jar once and then he hid in the bathroom. We called the police and the guy left with his friend before they got there. We literally found this mans phone and pack of cigarettes in the bathroom LOL. They eventually found him like walking the streets or something and he gave them $5 back… there was at least $15 in there but ok.

There is definitely a nice way to tell them it's not a take-a-penny. Like all theft deterrents, ya gotta be annoying helpful 🙃

This happened to me a while ago and I was peeved. Don't kno how I would act if this happened now.

To prevent people from taking money from the tip jar (especially to make change), my boss told us to tell people that only we’re allowed to put our hands in the tip jar and emphasize to the customers that it’s a matter of corporate policy and not a point of trust to avoid offending them. This has entirely stopped people from removing money from the tip jar when I’m on the register and avoids uncomfortable confrontations.

Once a woman was a whole 94 cents short on her order and she started digging through our tip jar for change… which was labeled “tips”… and had dollar bills in it.

When I said “That’s our tip jar, you can’t take money from it.” she was genuinely confused.

Both homeless people and straight up paying customers.

My favorite was someone who snatched a handful out saying that my attitude was so bad they were reverse tipping. The woman they were with literally shouted at them while snatching the money back and shoving it at me. It was jarring but kinda surreal and awesome.

I've never had anyone steal from the tip jar, probably because ours is a lockbox that gets locked down, but I have had people steal other people's receipts. Sometimes the receipts pile up next to reg and they just walk by and... Take them. Lol

You don’t ask them not to? Just like hey that’s actually our tip jar it’s not to supplement people who are short.

Sketchy starbucks locations have this. Idek what to think about it, I had some weekly regular come in who orders a water and dumps it in the trash after he tried stealing the jar 6 months back

I worked at Starbucks and people would bluntly ask me if they could and i’d simply give them the death stare and say “NO”. Tf you think this is! Like we as baristas barely getting paid good and we work for those tips so no lol.

yes, someone was too impatient for me to get them change (they didnt buy anything btw) and ran out after taking some money from the tip jar

I legit had a guy steal our tip jar during our closing shift. I think it was one of my last before I left the Bux. Two partner play so I had been in the back washing dishes and it was a whole ass mess, a security guard that was the equivalent of Paul Blart and useless cops.

Someone today treated it as a “take a penny leave a penny” thing. But it was him leaving a dollar and taking .50 cents and he did it before I could react

Last month our entire tip jar (jar included) got taken THREE times!!!

2 years ago someone stole both of our tip jars on new years eve :(

Everytime we have our tip jar outside during a rush or whatever in drive through we have to immediately pull it back in after the cars leave. We have a homeless man who will stand and wait till the cars leave to try and take it. We’ve offered him food and water but he declines, he just wants to steal the money. He even came in the store one day and tried to steal my managers laptop. We’re not nasty to him, we try our best to be civil, he’s still a person and deserves respect, but you can’t steal our tips. we work hard for them.

not so much? we keep it out of their reach and they hand us tips when they want to tip. we have a glass protection thing in front of our register, so we keep it behind that so it would be uncomfortable for them to try to get into it and on our drive thru it sits inside the window but still in view

got our tip jar stolen three times 👍

Our tip jar was taken from the drive one night like the jar and even the rock that was in it :(

Had this happen to me, first Christmas at sbux, front POS. Had a huge line during peak, when I turned away from the counter to assist my current customer, A guy snuck by the customers and stole our tips (which was at least thirty bucks). I didn’t notice until a customer down the line told me as the guy was already almost gone, but this same customer quickly grabbed a bunch of cash from her pocket and replaced most of it… I was so shocked by her generosity! Working here has had a lot of crazy and funny moments. Happy Holidays guys!

My store drops tills 2-3 times a day to keep the jars low. Generally, we have an open one in the safe ready to stuff like a turkey.

Also, if you have a DT, keep an empty jar outside and one inside to put the bills into. Minus theft, the wind steals tips too.

Happened yesterday ☹ fuck those people

Not at Starbucks, but had someone steal all the tip jar at a restaurant I worked at. Chased him out into the street and caught up to him. He had stuffed all the tips into his disgusting boxers and started pulling out toxic ones and throwing them at us

We had a Christmas gnome on our drive through ledge outside and someone stole it today 😂 like....the tip jar was there too but the gnome is what they took. People are legit insane. I wish i saw the girl but I did not. I would literally ban her over it.

These are homeless people. They come, grabbed it and zoomed out. Now every time we get a bill, we put it in the bag lol

Lol I used to work at chipotle and this would happen too!

I always say “oh did you want me to pay for your drink?” And then I smile and wink and they usually get embarrassed. I will short the drawer before I short the tip jar, though.

Never had anyone do this but I've watched a lot of people make change from our jar for smaller bills 🤷🏻‍♀️

We have had the tip jar numerous times and had baristas allow the customers to use the tips as change 🤦‍♀️

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This has been happening way more frequently at my store since the holidays started. We routinely take the bills out too.

If we keep any bills over $1 in our tip jar they tend to go missing. $5 bills & up immediately go into a tip bag, everything else gets moved every couple of hours.

We used to have our tip jar sit on the drive-thru ledge until someone decided to dump everything, hella coins and all, in their car and drive away