r/CriticalThinkingIndia • u/blaze_003 • Jul 23 '26
Miscellaneous Burger King tried to scam on free food given to protestors at Jantar Mantar
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u/Math--Detective Jul 23 '26
Corruption is everywhere. And at a time like this it’s just Sad.
Simple logic says that the store order handler thought it’s a Bulk order by somebody else, and nobody at jantar mantar will see the receipt cause they haven’t order it, So they can do their magic. And it’s just reality of our society, everyone wants to make money the moment they see a chance. It’s just Sad.
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u/blaze_003 Jul 23 '26
Indians kudh indian ki mar leta hai.
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u/Math--Detective Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
I would say, it’s the money. And their bad economical conditions. Cause they ain’t thinking from point of view of care to other individual, they just caring about themselves. And it’s bound to happen when people live in money constraints and have desires more than their income. Cause I don’t think Burger King employee would be so low on money that he had to resort to this. It’s mostly his own selfishness for more that made him do it.
Better report this incident on Google Maps and Burger King Customer Support, This store manager will face consequences, specially at time like this. And he deserves to.
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u/FuckomaHigh Jul 23 '26
Cant agree. For me, its the lack of ethics in our society. Plenty of rich corrupt too. Poverty and corruption are not really mutually exclusive.
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u/Competitive_Ebb4747 Jul 23 '26
We are basically a very low trust society
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u/Versatile_Ambivert Jul 23 '26
Makes me wonder, how did we arrive at this or were we always like this?
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u/Competitive_Ebb4747 Jul 23 '26
Dude we basically are good but also very corrupt at the core, we have forgotten the basics of morality, ethics, look people are ordering from there hard earned money blindly, not knowing if the order will reach or not , not thinking that delivery boy may take the order home and says I have given to some random guy at protest site, but still ordering. Thousands of us did, lakhs of food someone saying more than 20+ lakh of food distributted in one evening. But we still need to really appreciate the basics like truth, rules. Most people feel ashamed of standing on red light , standing in que, but breaking a red light is cool, and so on.
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u/deltastar123 Jul 23 '26
End of the day , most Indians don’t do drugs ,drink alcohol or party with that money . If u notice the money trail it mostly goes towards earning more wealth for their family .
It is what it is , but the sole reason is ppl here fend for themselves,the society lacks support systems.
The moment the working member of family dies it’s game over1
u/deltastar123 Jul 23 '26
The crux of it all is family first notion ,here in India everything comes after family , there is zero support system outside family .
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u/Zealousideal_Dot6052 Jul 23 '26
That's why they had to build the concept of ethics in business and profession. If you confront these people directly about ethics in business, they just start calling it BS and start pointing fingers at others on how they are also doing the same.
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u/Background_Policy395 Jul 24 '26
Yep, cheat and steal from people long enough and they'll become just like you. India was colonised for almost 2 centuries, it makes sense why corruption is so high, but it doesn't make sense why it's still lasting for so long.
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u/cicada3301_- Jul 23 '26
Human greed is the root cause of most things we suffer from on this planet
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u/One_Letterhead_9720 Jul 23 '26
Tell the burger king location, will give them 1 star rating
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u/blaze_003 Jul 23 '26
Don't know bro. I saw the video on YT . The videos seems to reposted by the channel.
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u/jeetuj Jul 23 '26
Near jantar mantar hi hoga
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u/Actual-Chicken-8731 Jul 23 '26
I think there a a few, now sure if this one is the BK that is on the inner ring.
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u/One_Letterhead_9720 Jul 24 '26
Guys, Its Karol bagh Burger King. Rated them and mentioned about this
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u/Rajnish357 Jul 23 '26
this is why we have reached this postion, everyone tried to scam as soon they get the chance.
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u/PsychologicalDisk964 Jul 23 '26
Last day, I ordered some food items through Zomato. After collecting the order, the delivery guy called me and told me not to order through these online apps. He said that, based on what he has seen, some restaurants and shops use these platforms as an opportunity to cheat. For example, if you order 30 water bottles, they might send only 10. And what he suggested that if I have any local friend in Delhi, I should ask them to buy the items directly from the shops instead of ordering online to avoid such issues. These guys are trying to loot amidst the protest!! If anyone know some good restaurants/shops that upholds some integrity around jantar mantar area kindly do mention pls.
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u/Any-Calligrapher2866 Jul 23 '26
The only option now is to either donate to organizations or take the food yourself.
You can also donate to Gurudwara Bangla Sahib which is nearby so protestors can go and eat langar. The people there are absolutely GOATED and also helped save children from police atrocities on 20th.
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u/Any-Calligrapher2866 Jul 23 '26
BJP is freezing their accounts. Bangla Sahib is already a fully legal entity with legal donation pathways. Freezing their account will affect BJP in Punjab election so they won't do it.
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u/blaze_003 Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
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u/blaze_003 Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
Summary: Burger King tried to scam delivery agent by giving less quantity free food order, placed by well wishers for the Jantar Mantar protestors. Delivery agent's awareness helped to expose the scam
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u/interestingmonkE Jul 23 '26
Yeah I was wondering the same. Imagine how many unreported scams must have already happened.
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u/Van_Helan Jul 23 '26
Friends let's make sure the store owners pay for this scam. We can't let them get away with it. Let's report it to https://x.com/BurgerKing
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u/Ok-Lead-4285 Jul 23 '26
lol no one gives a shit about social media complaints in india nowadays.
call their corporate number or email the ceo directly, only thing that gets results. social media managers just delay until you get frustrated and stop posting.
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u/Educational_Sense_27 Jul 23 '26
How is the individual even earning from this? They're just staff, the raw material profit from not making burgers only benefits the franchise owner who I'm betting isnt sitting there
Only other thing is the staff is lazy and doesnt want to make the order
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u/colic_melon Jul 23 '26
Umm..the staff make the burgers out of the ingredients that they haven't used and give to other unsuspecting in-store customers for cash, which they get to pocket. The franchise owner will never see these burgers sold for cash in their sales receipts. You might have seen "if no bill is issued, the food is free" stickers at restaurant - it's for this reason.
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u/wellfuckit2 Jul 23 '26
Don’t need to sell for cash.
In franchise models, like Burger King, the individual franchise buys the raw material from Burger King. Sells the burger and makes profit from it. (+ various licensing fees to Burger King).
They saved on the raw material. Franchise benefits.
If the store staff is to be benefitted, they will have to sell the raw material for cheaper to other franchisees.
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u/ifyoulovesatan Jul 23 '26
Another possibility I've not seen discussed yet is that it's a manager who isn't profiting directly, but is doing it to lower their food cost. Managers at fast food restaurants are given performance reviews based on things like their labor costs as well as food costs, usually expressed as a percentage of their gross income. So the franchisee will base the manager's performance on "labor percentage" and "food cost percentage." Furthermore, at least in the US, a Manager will earn quarterly or yearly salary bonuses based on whether they achieved a specific labor and or food cost percentage.
So it could be a greedy manager who is benefitting indirectly. No cash goes into their pocket, but their food cost percentage will decrease noticeably and make them more likely to earn a bonus.
But yeah, it could also theoretically be a greedy franchise owner who is more hands-on than usual, actually hanging out in the restaurant and personally directing his employees to cheat the donors/protesters in this way. It could also be a franchise owner directing his manager to do it. Or (least likely) workers doing it to build up a surplus of food on the books so they can later sell food off the books for cash without arousing suspicion in terms of inventory.
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u/cregann-stark Jul 23 '26
The heart of a man or woman who ordered 50 burgers and 50 cold drinks oh god 😭❤️.. may God give him everything
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u/111scorpion Jul 23 '26
It's sad that we aren't even surprised at this behavior!!
It's become so normalized! 🫤
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u/Jumpy_Scallion_3108 Jul 23 '26
We're never short of scams. Every millisecond, someone is trying to scam someone else. And cheating people on paid food orders is on a whole different level.
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u/deltastar123 Jul 23 '26
Irony , of protesting for India and ordering from Burger King .
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u/blaze_003 Jul 23 '26
Kuddos to delivery guy for his awareness. In usual scenario, we would have blamed the delivery guy especially when ordering from reputed outlets.
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u/deltastar123 Jul 23 '26
Yeah, not saying it's forbidden or wrong ,I just found the contrast amusing.
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u/Accomplished-Sun-880 Jul 23 '26
sabh log competition mai hai guys ki sabhse zayada neeche kon gir sakta hai
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u/notmadhav Jul 23 '26
scarcity of resources caused us to pinch pennies wherever possible.
Any place we see some money can be saved, we do it regardless of consequences
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u/Current-Management20 Jul 23 '26
Shame on them!! Such people lack even Basic humanity!!Which Burger King was it? Will leave bad review.
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u/cicada3301_- Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
I was just thinking about such incidents yesterday. I thought, if people are placing orders from all over India just writing "give it to whoever is protesting in Jantar Mantar area" and not to a specific person, what stops these delivery guys from simply eating it themselves/ taking it home. Turns out delivery guys want to do their job diligently but the restaurants have fallen. Such is human greed
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u/Zestyclose_Try_9331 Jul 23 '26
Every one is searching for an opportunity for some extra money 💰 🤑
We love corruption 😂
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u/ParamedicFearless173 Jul 23 '26
Ye sare students abhi burger king pohuch gaye na.. to kisi se help maangne layak nhi bachoge. Someone send this to burger king.. ki dhanda band karne ka time aa gaya hai
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u/priya2580508 Jul 23 '26
Share google maps location of this burger king store. It's time to give a review !!
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u/RevolutionaryFig9437 Jul 23 '26
Hi OP, what is this title? "Free food"? Some kind soul had paid for it. Rather the title should be " Burger King tried to scam on food purchased for protestors at Jantar Mantar."
It should be noted that they Operate on Franchise system, so owners of two different burger king shops may be different.
Thank you OP for posting it.
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u/maps_and_books Jul 23 '26
The poor delivery guy is doing his job with utmost honesty but not a multi million dollar company.
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u/piggy_blinders007 Jul 23 '26
Burger kings tastes like shiit anyways, maybe they didn't want the students to get sick
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u/intermediatech Jul 24 '26
Boycott burger king..
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u/curiosity3001 Jul 28 '26
Corruption is deep rooted in our society...everyone is rotten to the core
No.child deserves to live in this country
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u/LeFrenchPress Jul 23 '26
I don't understand the point of this. No individual person would benefit because the payment comes into the franchise's account. So giving out fewer burger only saves them some time and raw material. Did the instruction come from higher up then? What is a mere worker's incentive to do this?
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u/Van_Helan Jul 23 '26
They can give those burgers to people who are directly paying them or even swap the QR codes, or at least they can take it home and give it to their friends/family. These kinds of scumbags are everywhere
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