Doggy Bag Dilemma

Is saving leftovers ever a bad idea?

I once went to New Orleans for a wedding. A guy on Bourbon street asked me for a couple of bucks to get some whisky. I said How do I know you won’t spend this on gumbo? I will offer doggie bag unless its like Peter Luger or...

When I was a chld, my mom would always bring home a doggie bag, but it usually just had the rest of her meat in it; sometimes a potatoe she’d fry up the next morning. I’d start nibbling on the meat by about 2 a.m. and...

In a number of states when you see the bottle in a wine doggy bag, it is considered a closed container. It’s great to know you can enjoy the balance of your wine at home.

look from the server. Yes, I agree “wasting food is a sin” but I have to confess that I do sometimes commit such sin when I travel oversea. First, it is not easy to bring doggie bag to the hotel room where there is no...

There was a recent online WSJ article about taking leftover food home from restaurants and it contrasted the different attitudes between American and Euros. I’m curious, amongst chowhounds ... do you doggie bag? I almost...

://www.bookofjoe.com/2004/09/waiter_id_like_.html Halfway down at the above link, it says: "However, just because it’s legal to doggie-bag that Chianti, doesn’t mean every restaurant automatically allows it. It’s...

likely to have leftovers. Others? What’s in YOUR doggie bag?

Let’s say you are traveling and you have a great lunch but it is huge and you have leftovers and for logistical reasons you won’t be going to your car for a number of hours. Can you ask the restaurant to hold your...

this happened to us today too, a customer called to say that they got all the doggie bags from last night except for her penne vodka (half eaten). She made the biggest fuss about it. I have just sold my restaurant so the new...

They are legal – but the law doesn’t help much until restaurants get the super special bags. So, for now finish that second bottle!

leader used to entice people to order drinks — a high margin item. The "no doggy bag" or “take out” rule prevents abuse by customers. That said, would you frown on someone who grabbed a stack of napkins, and...

Bring Your Own Plastic Container

The greenest takeout packaging.

Ordering Off the Kids' Menu

Can grown-ups get little burgers?

Stop, Thief!

Is it acceptable to eat off other people’s plates?