Lisa Ann Fabela, a resident of Burley, Idaho, and, for more than two years, an employee at Dairy Queen, pleaded guilty on Friday to stealing nearly $100,000 from the restaurant’s register by voiding out sales and keeping the cash. That’s a whole lot of Blizzards. How many? Let’s do the math.As the Times-News
reports today, the filching apparently took place from April 2007 to December 2009. The grand total that Fabela pleaded guilty to stealing was $97,590.So if a medium Blizzard treat costs $3.59, plus tax (we’ll round it up to an even $4), Fabela would have had to void the sales of 24,397 delicious, topping-filled ice-cream cups during her tenure at the drive-through. And given that she was working at the restaurant for 20 months, she would have had to average 1,219 falsely voided Blizzards per month. So then you figure that if she worked five days per week and around four weeks per month, that’s 304 stolen Blizzards per week and 60 per day.Breaking it down further, that’s 7.6 voided Blizzard sales per hour in an eight-hour-day, or roughly one Blizzard stolen every eight minutes.Obviously, Dairy Queen sells other items than Blizzards (their chicken tenders are to die for), but, for tradition’s sake, it seems fitting to stick with the company’s most famous offering.How the restaurant owner went almost two years making nearly $5,000 worth of free food each month is an incredible feat of incompetence.And apparently now that the woman is gone, the restaurant’s number of voided sales has dropped from around 75 per day to around three or four. Isn’t accounting fun?