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

Mrhuth · 03-05-2018 10:07AM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

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.

Of course, sir.

grogi · 03-05-2018 10:12AM

Sam Quentin wrote: »

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

I tend to disagree.

We should use the resources we need - but should acquire them in an ethical way and not waste them afterwards. This equally applies to meat, fish, cloths and cobalt.

jester77 · 03-05-2018 10:13AM

Mrhuth wrote: »

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.

Or alternatively, cooking at home would save even more coin

Tell me how · 03-05-2018 10:23AM

45% of all food produced never even makes it to a plate. What we are doing is unsustainable.

It still would be a bit weird to do what the OP is suggesting though. The risk of someone passing on a disease either accidentally or (heaven forbid, intentionally) would make restaurant lawyers break out in a cold sweat at the thought of liability.

Be nice to see a marketing campaign promoting food efficiency and to not order something you're unlikely to eat. Restaurants could support this with "peckish" menu choices which ate smaller portions but then of course the whole price justification comes in to it.

Fann Linn · 03-05-2018 10:25AM

When I first worked at sea I was put into the restaurant on the ship to learn the trade. I worked alongside a waiter from Southport who had no qualms in eating the leftovers from customers plates as he was walking away from the table and heading for the galley.

I put in for a transfer to a different department on the day I saw him sucking on the bones of a lamb chop.
There are some mingers out there.

Mrhuth · 03-05-2018 10:27AM

Fann Linn wrote: »

When I first worked at sea I was put into the restaurant on the ship to learn the trade. I worked alongside a waiter from Southport who had no qualms in eating the leftovers from customers plates as he was walking away from the table and heading for the galley.

I put in for a transfer to a different department on the day I saw him sucking on the bones of a lamb chop.
There are some mingers out there.

Where do I apply?

NickNickleby · 03-05-2018 10:31AM

Fann Linn wrote: »

When I first worked at sea I was put into the restaurant on the ship to learn the trade. I worked alongside a waiter from Southport who had no qualms in eating the leftovers from customers plates as he was walking away from the table and heading for the galley.

I put in for a transfer to a different department on the day I saw him sucking on the bones of a lamb chop.
There are some mingers out there.

Mrhuth wrote: »

Where do I apply?

Hahaha, best post I've seen in quite a while, of course context is everything.

frag420 · 03-05-2018 10:38AM

Mrcaramelchoc wrote: »

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

Have you any respect for women at all? :pac:

seamus · 03-05-2018 10:43AM

While one can go on about "health and safety bs", when food has been sitting on a plate in front of someone, they've been breathing over it, coughing on it, shedding skin and hair over it, etc etc. So it's not the wisest of ideas to be taking food off some stranger's plate.

In terms of a restaurant, if they're giving you someone else's food then it means that you're going to buy less food. So why would they give it to you?

But along with the ongoing drive to force supermarkets to dispose of waste food properly, I do think restaurants likewise should be brought to task. Taking stuff home is not generally the done thing in Ireland, but I don't know why. We should be compelling restaurants to facilitate this and to make it clear to patrons that not only is it possible to get your stuff wrapped up to take away, but it's perfectly acceptable and encouraged.

Teyla Emmagan · 03-05-2018 10:47AM

I got salmonella once from eating someone else's leftovers (someone I knew). Imagine what you could catch from a randomer!!

Fann Linn · 03-05-2018 10:54AM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I got salmonella once from earring someone else's leftovers (someone I knew). Imagine what you could catch from a randomer!!

AIDS

grogi · 03-05-2018 10:58AM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I got salmonella once from earring someone else's leftovers (someone I knew).

Technically you might be right. But how did the bacteria get there?

Teyla Emmagan · 03-05-2018 11:03AM

grogi wrote:

Technically you might be right. But how did the bacteria get there?

From the digestive system of the other person I guess? Grosssss

Dial Hard · 03-05-2018 11:04AM

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.

Why didn't you just bring it home?

grogi · 03-05-2018 11:04AM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

From the digestive system of the other person I guess? Grosssss

Why would you eat the pooh ?!

Graces7 · 03-05-2018 12:14PM

seamus wrote: »

While one can go on about "health and safety bs", when food has been sitting on a plate in front of someone, they've been breathing over it, coughing on it, shedding skin and hair over it, etc etc. So it's not the wisest of ideas to be taking food off some stranger's plate.

Which is why I never buy bread, cakes etc that are on open unwrapped display in shops . )sorry;;slightly off thread..)

topper75 · 03-05-2018 12:27PM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I got salmonella once from eating someone else's leftovers (someone I knew). Imagine what you could catch from a randomer!!

I'm not a microbiologist, but I don't think people are carriers of salmonella as such. It more likely resulted from the storage/cooking.

Graces7 · 03-05-2018 12:52PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

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

AFAIK< this is still banned Eu wide after the foot and mouth outbreak?

CruelCoin · 03-05-2018 01:11PM

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.

Or in the case of that hot dog, from 15 different species.
Anyway, If you've paid for it, then i think you should be free to do with it as you will. Eat, waste or otherwise.

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

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