Does the class of restaurant influence whether or not you request one?
2007-11-06 22:15:42 · 17 answers · asked by Yellowstonedogs 7 in Dining Out ➔ Other - Dining Out
It's perfectly fine to ask for a container to place your leftovers from your meal to take home with you. I've seen people at upscale restaurants ask to have their food wrapped. It's your food that you paid for, so if you have something on your plate left over that you want to take home, then the restaurant should happily comply with your wishes for a doggie bag. If the restaurant isn't accomodating, then they are not interested in pleasing their customers.
2007-11-06 23:58:08 · answer #1 · answered by 🐭 cat™ 🐭 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
So long as the food was good and I paid for you're damn right I'm gonna request a "doggie bag", regardless of how upscale the place is. The only way it's uncomfortable is if someone else pays the tab, and they don't do the same like "the boss".
2007-11-07 07:35:56 · answer #2 · answered by Limestoner62 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think in US even at 5 star restaurants it is accepted since laws forbid anyone else from eating it and it would otherwise be wasteful. In SF, fancy restaurants spend quite a lot on packaging the doggy bag with the name of the restaurant on it
2007-11-07 02:41:39 · answer #3 · answered by barthebear 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When you go to dine out the place you go is looking to make you as happy as possible. Let them bring you the "doggy bag" and generally allow them to wrap it up. Then remember to tip your waiter for doing a nice job for you. It's all part of the experience. Enjoy it.
2016-05-28 06:08:40 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you paid for the food, take it home. the only time its not okay to ask for a doggy bag is when its an all you can eat like the olive garden's never ending pasta bowl. dont order another bowl just to take home. that looks cheap. but if you order and pay for meal that you don't finish you have every right to take it home.
2007-11-06 22:42:44 · answer #5 · answered by meggybucks1 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Even the most expensive places will wrap any leftovers for you. As a matter of fact, the fancy places will often wrap the items in very fancy ways such as a foil swan or duck. You have already paid for the food items and if there is more than you can eat or care to eat in one seating it is perfectly permissible to ask to have it wrapped to go home. In fast food type places you of course already have your wrap to take leftovers home.
2007-11-07 13:41:27 · answer #6 · answered by lady JG 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
At some of the nicest places I've been to they automatically ask if I'd like my food packaged up to take home. They even do it for you and put it in a very nice cloth tote bag for you to keep. Jeff Ruby's resturants in cincinnati in case you're wondering.
2007-11-07 01:33:28 · answer #7 · answered by Jennifer 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If you have ever eaten at the Cheesecake Factory, you will take home a doggie bag. The food is delicious and the servings are enormous!!! And, oh, that cheesecake......
2007-11-07 04:55:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Where ever you are it's always best to say " Excuse me, I'd like to take the rest home" The waiter or waitress will say sure I'll get you a box or whatever they give to people to take it home in. Then comment on how great the meal was when they brought it.
2007-11-07 02:30:19 · answer #9 · answered by just bored 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No sir eee. The better the standard of food. Just makes me want to take home more of it.lol
You bought it it is yours. The only tacky thing would be to go to an all you can eat resturant and try to take the food home.
That is bad. Infact that is pitiful.
2007-11-06 22:25:33 · answer #10 · answered by Linda S 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋