Do you ask for a doggy bag? Poll results/discussion

Blue_Fox

I never thought people were ashamed to ask for the leftovers to take home. For me it is something normal. I always ask: "Can I have this to go, please?". Only at one place they didn't have containers and I suggested "Do you have a little piece of foil?" with a very large smile:p. Sometimes I order more because I know I will be too lazy to cook the next day, and an already cooked lunch-dinner is more than welcome . It is also normal for the two of us to order one appetizer and one main and share when we are not that hungry.

Somebody mentioned tap water... 90% of time I ask for tap water. I don't drink anything else, except beer, if I am in the mood. I remember once, at a Chinese restaurant in London, they charged me 50p for the tap water. I left fuming and I didn't leave a tip.

mooncalf

Blue_Fox wrote: »

Somebody mentioned tap water... 90% of time I ask for tap water. I don't drink anything else, except beer, if I am in the mood. I remember once, at a Chinese restaurant in London, they charged me 50p for the tap water. I left fuming and I didn't leave a tip.

That is a service charge for them to cover the serving of the water, any ice or lemon they might of added and for washing up the glasses...I have also seen it in mostly chinese places but they do usually put it on the menu now that there is a service/glass use charge for tap water.

Brightness

If there's any meat left that my spoiled dogs would like then I usually ask if they would mind wrapping it in some foil for me. They never do and once or twice they have actually also given me steaks that have been returned to the kitchen through over or undercooking as well!

the dogs love it when we go out to eat LOL

kevgy

Only buy what I want to eat there & then. If I don't want to eat it, it's because it's unpalatable. Only happened to me once, at Crazy Otto's in Palmdale. Doggy bag ofered without asking - it's common practice in US. Waitress couldn't understand it's a long way back to UK. Besides, I thought it wasn't fit for the dog either.

maziechocolate_2

Last week we went for a meal, I had a voucher for the children to eat free, and yes I had the brass neck to ask to take home what the children left (half a pizza each !!) Why not, you pay good money for a meal so why should the food end up in the bin

bjornfree

alice wrote: »

Come on - get braver - restaurants can't even send their scraps for pigswill anymore and have to pay to have it taken away - you'll be doing them a favour really!![/]quote] I work in a Hotel Restaurant- This is true! the binbags of scraps We're having to dump on a daily basis as we can no longer send it for pigswill is unbelieveable! (not to mention they're blimmin heavy!:rotfl: )
I started a discussion on another forum site I use on the same subject-it's garnered the most responses of any discussion I've put up there so far,(it pays you for discussion posts-pm me!)and almost all responses are overwhelmingly positive so far, mostly on the theme of "We paid for it,Why shouldn't we take it home?

Tazness

Yes I do
Partner could not finish the profiterols (sp?) and we bagged them up and had them later with a cuppa.
Also take home steak and pizza in the past.

bobhope

when were out on large family get togethers , our gran always asks waiters to wrap up meat leftovers for her cats , they always come back with the rest of kitchen left overs as well , cats better fed than me:rotfl:

Little_Muvva

I always ask for a doggy bag if the food is the sort of thing you can re-heat and enjoy later. Also, if it's meat which my dog could eat. I work as a waitress some nights in a pub and would never think it odd if someone asked for one. We only throw the leftovers in the bin so it's better if it's being used.:beer:

Badger_Lady

When I've asked, I've never felt that it was rude or uncouth... quite the opposite, if I've left over half my meal because I'm simply not hungry enough, then I feel I'm demonstrating to the staff that there really isn't anything wrong with their food and that I do fully appreciate it.

After all, what else are they going to do with the "leftovers"? I'm sure they'd rather bag it up than throw it out...

I voted for "rarely" because I only do it when there's a significant amount left over... and generally when I go to a restaurant I get stuck in The most recent occasion was a posh Indian place where I decided to wear a corset that was digging into my ribs and we didn't sit down til 9:30pm. I struggled to finish 2 poppadums :rotfl: