Wanting to save some money and avoid wasting food sounds great, but maybe do it while preserving your manners.
Restaurants have become so expensive that it is usual to see people taking home the remaining food on their plates. This is great not only money-wise, but it also avoids throwing away perfectly good food. This is now so common that most restaurants have applied an extra cost to taking the remainings home. It’s a pretty inexpensive fee, so that they can place it in a plastic recipient and a brown bag. Even though the cost is usually no more than $5, there have been some critics, as the customer has already paid for the food, and this act is simply taking home that same food.
In this Reddit story, the customer decided she didn’t want to pay for the extra bagging to take home her food, also known as a doggy bag. So, she took a Tupperware with her to the restaurant, and when she ate all she could, she saved the rest to take home. This attitude was not reprimanded by the restaurant workers, but it was by her friend. At first, she just looked at her weirdly, but then she said that was really embarrassing and basically that she had no business doing that. The woman tested the same attitude with another friend, and he completely encouraged her, so now she is pretty lost on whether this is correct or not.
In my opinion, this constitutes two kinds of people, the ones that are really conscious of their own presence and are easily embarrassed. And the people who simply don’t care if what they are doing is acceptable or not, they just do it. This seems to be a problem in both parts. You shouldn’t be living your life thinking what the people that surround you –and that you don’t even know– think about you. But also, you shouldn’t embarrass your friends with poor manners and attitudes that you know are not great to do in public spaces. In the end, all this could be resolved with conversation and compromise.
Author: Kayitsi.com
