Originally Posted by
teddybear99
At IHOP, I see many couples who get the never ending coffee pot, which usually costs $4.95 per person with only one "cup." They only get charged for one person, and after one finishes with the cup of coffee, the other then makes their own from the same "pot." Since I don't drink their coffee, I order myself a hot chocolate or tea instead. I never stick around to see if they charge the customers for multiple people as it should be when they see this.
If it was my restaurant, I would overlook it. A pot of coffee there can't cost more than fifty cents. And how long do most people sit there? Long enough to drink more than one or two pots? Yes, it's cheating/stealing but I suspect a small degree of theft is built into their pricing structure just the way a retail store sets prices to cover some level of shoplifting. So you and I paid for it, but the price was pretty small, I would think.