A restaurant owner claims a job candidate stole money from the tip jar while they were waiting to be interviewed

• A restaurant owner said a job candidate stuck their hand in the tip jar while waiting for their interview.
• Staff noticed a $5 bill was missing from the tip jar at Bubba’s Shrimp Shack in Virginia Beach, its owner told BI.
• More recently, a person who came in to use the restroom walked off with the whole tip jar, she said.

A restaurant owner in Virginia said that some diners and passers-by have been helping themselves to staff’s takings, including one job candidate who she claimed stuck their hand in the tip jar on the way into their interview.

Kendall Turbeville, the owner of Bubba’s Shrimp Shack in Virginia Beach, told Business Insider that after repeated problems she added a lid to the tip jar to make it harder for people to help themselves to cash.

“I tried to fix the problem by just making it less enticing, so people aren’t just standing there staring at money that’s easy to grab,” she said.

But one person who recently came in to use the restaurant’s restroom got around this by simply walking off with the entire jar, which had “probably $40” in, Turbeville said.

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