A survey of 400 assemblage students who person lived successful pupil accommodation revealed that a whopping 65% person had their nutrient nicked.
The astir commonly stolen items were beverage (45%) and breadstuff (33%), with leftover pizza (18%) besides proving irresistible to some.
Over fractional (52%) of the respondents said nutrient theft was 1 of the biggest causes of arguments among students.
To effort and forestall their grub from being swiped, 60% resorted to penning their names connected their food, but this didn't look to deter the thieves, arsenic 46% caught their flatmates red-handed.
Food theft ranked arsenic the 3rd biggest interest for those surviving successful pupil digs, aft messy conditions (48%) and large roommates (43%).
On a much affirmative note, the survey recovered that surviving with mates (39%) and having your ain abstraction (35%) were among the champion things astir pupil accommodation.
In effect to these findings, Domino's has created a lockable container to support leftover pizza safe, conscionable successful clip for fresher's week.
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PinPep)The pizza concatenation is giving distant these limited-edition safes, which acceptable perfectly successful a fridge and support pizza unafraid from bare flatmates.
Melanie Howe, from Domino's, stated: "There's thing worse than reasoning you've got immoderate tasty leftovers acceptable for the adjacent time - lone to beryllium near fuming erstwhile idiosyncratic has pinched them."
"For astir students, that's an all-too-common reality. [So] To marque definite you don't go a unfortunate to the aforesaid misfortune, we wanted to make the Slice Security harmless which fits successful fridges and keeps precious leftover pizza harmless from greedy housemates."
The boxes are disposable to students oregon anyone other astatine hazard of fridge thefts done their website