{
  "id": 14018574,
  "title": "A Hotel Employee Allegedly Stole 192 Lobster Tails. An Excel Log Helped Flag the Missing Food",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/a-hotel-employee-allegedly-stole-192-lobster-tails-an-excel-log",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-12T17:36:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Inc.",
    "slug": "inc",
    "url": "https://www.inc.com/moses-jeanfrancois/a-hotel-employee-allegedly-stole-192-lobster-tails-an-excel-log-helped-flag-the-missing-food/91417521"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Missing inventory isn’t always theft. Experts say operators need purchasing, waste, and portion data to know.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}