Are you embarrassed to ask for leftovers in restaurants?
By Greenery8
@grenery8 (2695)
Croatia (Hrvatska)
April 26, 2024 4:07pm CST
In some restaurants,in your country,anywhere? 
I was once with a person who was so embarrassed to ask for leftovers of her own dinner. She finally did, maybe because i encouraged her but i didn't get it why.
Yes, i feel here or in early times, asking for leftovers was unimaginable and mainly because no restaurant staff asked you that so it was like unwritten rule to ate it there and to leave. By more growing restaurants of foreign cuisine, not sure if they offered me this option or my mum dared to ask but it was not a big deal after that. i mean, we visited restautants now and then.
Also, i think it's not a poor people thing, it shouldn't be. 
I was once with a person who was so embarrassed to ask for leftovers of her own dinner. She finally did, maybe because i encouraged her but i didn't get it why.
Yes, i feel here or in early times, asking for leftovers was unimaginable and mainly because no restaurant staff asked you that so it was like unwritten rule to ate it there and to leave. By more growing restaurants of foreign cuisine, not sure if they offered me this option or my mum dared to ask but it was not a big deal after that. i mean, we visited restautants now and then.
Also, i think it's not a poor people thing, it shouldn't be. 8 people like this
7 responses
@marguicha (215993)
• Chile
26 Apr
I always ask for what food I don´t eat at restaurants. In fact this has become such a common practice that we call it asking for a "Doggy bag" in spite that my language is not English. There is a law in my country that if we leave food in our plate, they cannot give it to someone else, no matter how poor because of health reasons. The restaurant has to throw away the remains. I ask for the rest of my dish because I do as I would do at home: eat my leftovers instead of throwing it to a garbage can.
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@marguicha (215993)
• Chile
28 Apr
@grenery8 Exactly. And sometimes they serve so much that I have food for 2 days.
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@grenery8 (2695)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
29 Apr
@marguicha you are right about that. i got so much rice that i couldn't waste it
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@MarieCoyle (29089)
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26 Apr
Here in the US, pretty much everyone I know brings home food if they can't finish it. It costs way too much to leave it sit there.
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@MarieCoyle (29089)
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26 Apr
@jstory07
So many restaurants serve ridiculously large portions anyway, way more than we need to consume. When I go out with my daughter sometimes, we often share a dinner and each eat a salad with it. We always have more than enough to eat.
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@Shivram59 (32095)
• India
27 Apr
@greenery8 I have never experienced it.Usually I like to have hot;freshly cooked food.
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@xstitcher (30450)
• Petaluma, California
1 May
It's not a "poor people thing." I've taken home food from restaurants that I didn't eat hundreds of times.
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