Has anyone expeienced this in a Restuarant

Question

My wife and had had a meal in the Carvery at Peacehaven Sussex. As usual we placed some leftovers in a bag to take home for our dog. A waitress saw us and told us that we could not take the food out of the restuarant unless we filledf in a form first. The form required our address and other confidential details.

Answer 1

Wot  this restaurant does is maybe recycle food or maybe they sell the leftovers to a canine food company..is sad they do that to left overs after all you pay for the meal you deserve to get the leftovers!!!Free the leftovers!!!

Answer 2

Never did that bafore.

thats ur food so you hav youre right over it

i think thats ridicules

tak the dog with u next time

Answer 3

hope you never left a tip ......  

Answer 4

That is just silly. I hope you continued to walk to your car with your food?

I mean Jesus!! what are they going to do? use force to stop you, or call the police because you took your food home. LOLOLOL

KISS MY A** would have been the last thing they heard from me. ;)

Answer 5

What an idiot

Answer 6

Never have I had that experience. What, are they planning on tracking these left overs or something, making sure you  eat them.   I would talk ask the manager what gives next time.  Even just out of curiousity of why.

Answer 7

Never heard of that before.

They cannot stop you taking the rest of your meal home as it belongs to you once purchased,  they don't have to supply a container though.

Answer 8

No it has not happened to me, but I know pubs and resturants can be funny about taking leftovers home. I always put leftovers discretly in a little bag to take home for my dogs. It is such a treat for them. Let somebody try and stop me!!

Answer 9

You bought it... its your food. Lots of people do that for their dogs etc, and I have never ever heard about a form needed filling out.

I bet its another scheme to sell your details onto a third party company. Just what you don't need!

Answer 10

ridicules!.  

Answer 11

never heard of this if you have paid for the meal then you should be entitled to take the left overs home i always do it

Answer 12

Strictly speaking, food sold in a restaurant is to be consumed within the premises. Once they leave the premises, they have no control over how it is stored or for how long. As been pointed out, should you suffer any ill-effects from the contents of the doggy-bag, you might sue the restaurant. Their insurance must have made this a condition for insuring them against such occurrences. You are not the first one to be asked.  

Answer 13

No thats ridiculous! The food is yours if you bought it and it's in your right to take it home with you...

I do it all the time for my dog also :)

Answer 14

They must have wanted it to put back on other customers plates.  

Answer 15

Wow never happened me. We always bring food home. Sometimes the staff will even wrap it up for us.

Answer 16

that is truly bizarre.

well, i guess shouldn't take food home from there anymore.

or maybe you should ask the manager WHY you needed to fill out that form.

Answer 17

smile you were on candid camera.absolute cheek.

Answer 18

next time take the dog along

Answer 19

Peacehaven is England's equivalent of the Truman Show.  

Odd things happen.

Answer 20

As a restaurant owner i'm with Angloujelly on this one!!

Answer 21

nope...i hope you didn't do it...depending on the sonfidential info they could've trying to scam you. i would've put false info...not like their gunna track you down

Answer 22

Nope sounds like a pretty unusual this for the waiter to do to a guest.

Answer 23

I would assume that they have no right to demand those details from you. You paid for the food, therefore, you own that food and they have no right to tell you you can't take YOUR food home with you without giving them personal details. I'd contact trading standards if I were you.

Answer 24

Personally have always considered a doggy  bag such bad form - tacky.

Technically I would say the restaurant is within it rights, after all I assume they did not have a takeaway menu and you were paying for a meal in their premises - not to load your plate and take it home. From the restaurants viewpoint they have to consider health & safety ( I know very boring) they have no guarantee the food taken is for a dog, no doubt the form includes a disclaimer. All told they are playing by the rules - buy dogfood.

Answer 25

I could understand if they were a world famous restaurant, with a world famous secret recipe that they were guarding heavily... a carvery in Sussex?  They certainly know how to drive customers away!

Answer 26

What a bloody jobsworth. How petty and up her own **** was she...

Answer 27

This happened to me once in the Harvester - I came over feeling very ill and needed to go home.  I hadn't even taken a bite of my bite of my meal so asked the waitress for a container to take it home in - she said that they was not allowed to do that for health & safety reasons but she wouldn't stop me from wrapping it in napkins to take home - I left it.

I do understand why they do not want to allow it, but then I watched a program on them a couple of weeks ago about poor standards of hygiene - double standards

Answer 28

Might have been a disclaimer so you don't sue them in the event you eat the food and get ill.

Answer 29

If you had already paid for the food, it's your food and she has no right to stop you.

The main exceptions to doggy bags tend to be at places like Chinese buffets where you pay a fixed price for "all you can eat".

Answer 30

yes this is quite the norm if the  reasaurant has good hygiene practice.  it basically covers them if you get ill.

Answer 31

sorry... I'm on the restaurant with this one! Having worked in a restaurant I know how 'tight' some customers can be! How does the restaurant actually know that you were gonna take that food for you dog.... that's an excuse we've never heard before, like! I mean, presumably the food was meat or fish etc which has to be kept in controlled temperatures at all times, wether hot or cold, so what if you gave it to your kids say, and they fell ill..... you sound like one of those folk who would be straight round to the restaurant the next morning.... get a life, and if you must have a mutt.... then feed it proper dogfood... Tight, see what I mean!