Former Yummy Pub Co manager jailed for £19,000 theft

Sheridan was jailed for eight months after pleading guilty to taking the cash where he was the general manager until July last year.

According to a report in the local Kent online newswire prosecutor John Fitzgerald told Canterbury Crown Court how the 33-year-old man’s thieving was exposed when owners Yummy Pubs carried out an audit.

Sheridan admitted "borrowing"​

Sheridan was confronted and admitted “borrowing” the money and offered to hand back £6,000 if he could keep his job.

However, Yummy dismissed Sheridan and called the police and he was arrested in the Summer of 2013.

In the Yummy blog​ Tim Foster said: “Theft always hurts, its a symptom of the trade and handling cash, it always happens whether its dipping into tips that starts it or the people doing it feel hard done by, ‘I deserve a little more’ they tell themselves, ‘I work hard for it, why shouldn’t I’  or the odd drink after work, but £19,000 is just a little too much to ‘borrow’ as we were told when he realised we had been onto him for a while.”

Weddings booked​

Yummy also highlighted that people had paid deposits for weddings which were stolen and there was no record of them at the pub.

Yummy said it had not claimed on its insurance for the theft as it would put its  premiums up substantially.

It also said it has taken a complete overhaul of its “processes, standards and measurable systems” in the past six months.

Yummy admitted their was an additional theft from the pub at 2am one Monday morning where £22,000 was stolen from the pub safe. However, no-one has been arrested for that theft.