Using customers as a resource.
Sticker on the cash register in a sandwich restaurant - 'If you don't get a receipt, your meal is free'.
It's likely that this restaurant chain has a problem with staff theft. A staff member sells items on the menu, the order is not run through the cash register, and the money is pocketed (stolen). Although the sign faces customers it actually meant for the staff - they know that customers might pick them up on having a receipt they are less likely to steal. Seen another more obvious version of this at IGI Airport, New Delhi - 'if you don't get a receipt please call this number...'
Update: chatted with one of the store workers - turns out that as this is a franchise the head office insists upon these stickers to avoid the manager of this store and his/her workers from not running purchases through the cash register. It's an issue of trust, but between whom?
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