Asking to take someone's else's food at a restaurant

Mrhuth · 03-05-2018 02:55AM #1

So, I was eating at a restaurant and have seen a group of people beside me leave their plates half full. I was still hungry after eating my food and I was wondering if it's normal or if someone else has asked for their food to be put in a take away bag and brought home. Would save me some coin if I could take the untouched part of the food which otherwise would be thrown away and wasted.

padd b1975 · 03-05-2018 03:07AM

I'd rather starve personally, but each to their own.

Mrhuth · 03-05-2018 03:13AM

padd b1975 wrote: »

I'd rather starve personally, but each to their own.

I am not talking about half eaten burger here. More like a completely untouched hot dog. I know it's untouched because I was spectating. I guess our health and safety bs laws prevent this.

AllForIt · 03-05-2018 03:16AM

Don't like seeing food wasted to be honest. Especially if it's meat cause some ppl don't seem to be aware that meat comes from a once living creature.

AllForIt · 03-05-2018 03:22AM

I worked in restaurants for many years gone by and I absolutely would eat food that was untouched. For example I worked in a Spanish restaurant where it was all tapas and ppl wouldn't touch half the food they ordered. Eyes bigger than their appetite. I used to especially love it when ppl would leave behind the grilled goats cheese mushrooms. If they were still warm by the time I got my hands on them, even better.

bertsmom · 03-05-2018 03:22AM

Wouldn't do this even if I thought I'd never see food again!!! While people eat saliva gets on cutlery and then transferred back down onto the plate and food that's on the plate not to mention any hairs/dandruff falling from them or skin or worse.
When I was waitressing I would never have encountered a stranger asking for people's leftovers and to be honest I wouldn't have been packing it up for another person to take what somebody else has paid for.

Mrhuth · 03-05-2018 03:27AM

bertsmom wrote: »

Wouldn't do this even if I thought I'd never see food again!!! While people eat saliva gets on cutlery and then transferred back down onto the plate and food that's on the plate not to mention any hairs/dandruff falling from them or skin or worse.
When I was waitressing I would never have encountered a stranger asking for people's leftovers and to be honest I wouldn't have been packing it up for another person to take what somebody else has paid for.

Oh so it's better to throw it away rather than give it to someone else for consumption. Sorry but that's one of the stupidest things I have read today. Animal had to die for this to be on your plate and you would prefer to waste it.

Peregrinus · 03-05-2018 03:39AM

Is it normal? No, no normal at all.

Can you do it? Yes. It's not illegal. The person to ask, though, is the diner who has bought the food and is leaving it untouched; it is his to dispose of. (Plus, he's more likely to say "yes" than the restaurant is, because they might think that it is or might be illegal or improper.)

As for saliva exchange; the risks of infection are actually fairly low - otherwise teenagers would be dropping like flies. There are some infections that are transmitted this way - glandular fever is a well-known example - but in real life far more disease transmission occurs as a result of handshakes, exchange of money, etc than results from saliva exchange.

Sam Quentin · 03-05-2018 03:41AM

No disrespect.
But do you want a lend of a fiver?

Sam Quentin · 03-05-2018 03:45AM

AllForIt wrote: »

Don't like seeing food wasted to be honest. Especially if it's meat cause some ppl don't seem to be aware that meat comes from a once living creature.

Your sympathy and empathy (tho meaningful)was wasted the moment the poor animal past.

bertsmom · 03-05-2018 03:45AM

Mrhuth wrote:

Oh so it's better to throw it away rather than give it to someone else for consumption. Sorry but that's one of the stupidest things I have read today. Animal had to die for this to be on your plate and you would prefer to waste it.

The thing to remember is that when you look for opinions on a public forum you get just that...other people's opinions and shockingly they might just not be identical to your ownðŸ˜.
No need to apologise. You may need to read my post again I never mentioned an animal having to die for my food. However I'm not entertaining this notion any further or engaging with you. Fire ahead and help yourself to strangers food, enjoy the cold sores and skin particles and whatever else you get.
Consider paying for your own food like an adult.

Irish Guitarist · 03-05-2018 04:48AM

I met a friend for lunch the other day and I ordered a 10 inch pizza. Half way through I started feeling full but there was no way I was going to waste food so I forced it down. If someone had come up to me and asked if they could eat it I would have been delighted.

OldMrBrennan83 · 03-05-2018 04:53AM

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Doltanian · 03-05-2018 04:56AM

There once was a stingey thread, this belongs there.

freshpopcorn · 03-05-2018 05:02AM

A lot of restaurants food go to farmers who collect the waste food for animals. So, it doesn't go to waste.

Irish Guitarist · 03-05-2018 05:03AM

DunnoKidz · 03-05-2018 05:36AM

I've gone hungry a good half of my life. It may not be ideal or proper to eat or request a random strangers' food, but looking back, I can certainly sympathise with craving even a morsel. When you're that hungry, sharing someone else's leftovers would be a Godsend. Food is a necessity and I can't give out to anyone wishing for some of the excess.

My friends and I have no problems sharing (untouched food) amongst ourselves. At the end of a restaurant meal, we generally ask who wants to take what home, or if not, someone usually says something like "are you gonna eat that? if not, I'd love to take some home to dad." Sharing is caring.

Wanderer78 · 03-05-2018 05:38AM

We are over producing, overselling, overeating, over wasting our food, this is unsustainable!

OldMrBrennan83 · 03-05-2018 05:40AM

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evolving_doors · 03-05-2018 05:58AM

Doltanian wrote: »

There once was a stingey thread, this belongs there.

---》 https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057136862/351/#post106867597 still going strong

DunnoKidz · 03-05-2018 06:00AM

Patww79 wrote: »

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Haha, it's not like that at all! It's fun! Never been awkward and I never self-sacrificed anything, lol. If I like my plate of food, and I want to take it all home, I do. "I am gonna enjoy this for lunch tomorrow, mmmm" ...simples! (altho it's much more fun to be generous and/or switch)... We do it all the time, and no one ever goes home empty handed... unless they freely offered it all in the first place, and even then they go home with foooood, cos we are like that with each other

...Guess it depends on how close your friends are.

evolving_doors · 03-05-2018 06:00AM

Mrhuth wrote: »

Oh so it's better to throw it away rather than give it to someone else for consumption. Sorry but that's one of the stupidest things I have read today. Animal had to die for this to be on your plate and you would prefer to waste it.

Animal .... he ded bruh... you ain't gonna do no Dr. Frankenstein on that hot doggy.

Graces7 · 03-05-2018 06:46AM

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I met a friend for lunch the other day and I ordered a 10 inch pizza. Half way through I started feeling full but there was no way I was going to waste food so I forced it down. If someone had come up to me and asked if they could eat it I would have been delighted.

The rare occasions I have eaten out, I have requested a "doggy bag" it take the remaining portion home. Portions are too big for me.

DunnoKidz · 03-05-2018 07:31AM

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I met a friend for lunch the other day and I ordered a 10 inch pizza. Half way through I started feeling full but there was no way I was going to waste food so I forced it down. If someone had come up to me and asked if they could eat it I would have been delighted.

love this!

Mrcaramelchoc · 03-05-2018 07:35AM

Anytime that happens in a takeaway particularly with chips.id discreetly take them and feed the birds with them.i hate seeing wasted food.

razorblunt · 03-05-2018 09:09AM

Are we talking about another table or people at your own table?
Your own table? Go for it.

Chancer3001 · 03-05-2018 09:12AM

A "restaurant" selling hot dogs

Post at 3am...

Me thinks the op didn't have enough cash for the chipper and wanted to eat their chips

Mrhuth · 03-05-2018 09:52AM

razorblunt wrote: »

Are we talking about another table or people at your own table?
Your own table? Go for it.

Not my table, 2 people were eating on the table beside me and left whole pieces of food worth around €15

sbsquarepants · 03-05-2018 09:58AM

No need to embarrass yourself by asking - simply nip around the back and retrieve the €15 worth of food from the bin.

Seriously what goes on in some peoples heads - asking for a strangers left over dinner - Jaysus Christ!

Mrhuth · 03-05-2018 10:00AM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

No need to embarrass yourself by asking - simply nip around the back and retrieve the €15 worth of food from the bin.

Seriously what goes on in some peoples heads - asking for a strangers left over dinner - Jaysus Christ!

Oh, look at me, I am so posh.

sbsquarepants · 03-05-2018 10:06AM

If you consider an unwillingness to eat random strangers discarded food at 3 in the morning posh, then yea, I suppose I'm posh. :rolleyes:

Now, jeeves my man, fetch me some more foie gras and a snifter of brandy like a good chap would you, chop chop.

Asking to take someone's else's food at a restaurant

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