Forecourt crime has reduced dramatically since the introduction of cameras, NPR, panic button direct to local cop shop.
This will not deter the most determined robber who will turn up in a stolen car or on a stolen bike & wear a disguise & if they are wearing a helmet they will not pull up at the pumps & wait to be told to remove their lid.
Incidentally Bev's uncle used to own a petrol station on Stanningly road in Leeds, he had a number of cases with people driving off without paying, not one of them was a biker, he didn't insist on riders removing their lids & neither he nor his staff suffered because of it.
The argument that staff may feel intimidated is a load of bollox, what if they feel intimidated by people with beards do they make them shave before they serve them
Some petrol station owners are twats & have little man syndrome they bully their staff into imposing stupid rules that they probably don't have the balls to impose face to face.
There is a petrol station in Barnsley not far from the Hospital, I have called in there on a couple of occasions & seen some of the staff stood outside smoking, they put their cigarette ends in the sand skip (the one they use when there's a spillage) I am sure there are many stations like this but what would be said if you were to roll up with a cig in your gob?