Taking food from a hotel breakfast buffet- cheeky??

Haha I was always one for making sure the guests got their moneys worth and weren't screwed over, cos hotels and Tour OPs can be sneaky little shits. Until I moved upto Head Rep, I worked problematic properties so I could quote the compensation guidelines in my sleep, the other reps used to ring me before searching the 50 page booklet 🤣 if I felt particularly sorry for a family (about 50% of the time) I'd subtly try to guide them to tell me the words I needed to hear for my report so I could compensate them 😂

I was going to say the same thing-also a hotel in Austria. The waiting staff were actually pressing extra food on us, lest we go hungry!

I thought it was a great idea- there were a lot of bread rolls and pastries that wouldn't have been so nice the next day. This way they were still fresh.

For other hotels though, I'd imagine there's a certain amount of 'wastage' included in the pricing for buffet breakfasts. I don't expect they'll be giving the food away for free.

I always take food for lunch from breakfast buffets if I'm out for the day or on holiday as it saves money. If I'm going home afterwards I will take some jam and Nutella packs and other similar things I don't have at home but wouldn't want to buy a full jar off.

@CombatLingerie I’m not making excuses, and I’m not small, but I genuinely don’t feel hungry at breakfast time. Not hungry enough to eat an amount that’s worth anywhere close what I’ve paid for it. Hence taking some away if I want to.

So there's something for everyone I guess.

Not the point of the thread per se but why are most breakfasts buffets? I don't need ten plates worth of food..

I wouldn't get worked up about it but I'm not sure how fresh the sandwiches would be by lunch time.

This thread is hilarious! I don’t personally care if anyone snaffles food from the brekkky buffet. Good on them for owning it if they do. It’s the excuses for doing it that are making me laugh out loud oooh I am so small I can’t eat a whole breakfast, oooh I am vegetarian so it’s fair enough, oooh my husband only pinches their Prosecco while I am on the lav, oooh there’s no such thing as bread and cheese where we go on holiday. Also loved the PP who tried to take the Spanish pastry and was caught. Brilliant MN at its finest.

I was one at a hotel curb lounge in India and a large extended family booked in, I presume going to a family event at some point on their trip. They started filling up Tupperware from the club lounge and not just one of them, about 20 people! Most entertaining to watch!

I do sometimes take a sneaky banana or yoghurt but certainly wouldn't make a sandwich!

I bow to your superiority, I didn't realise this was a life or death morals thread

I saw a lad filling up his water bottle from the orange juice dispenser, which I thought was a bit cheeky.

Okay, that's fair.

If I see people doing this I will absolutely judge them for it. It's greedy, cheap and tacky.

I recently went on holiday overseas to a country in the East. The hotel buffets were incredible. So much choice and selection.

There was a family sitting at a table next to us who each had a full cooked breakfast along with coffee / tea & juice and other bits. Once they were done eating they came back with a large dinner plate piled high with pastries of all sorts. There must have been nearly 10 full sized pasties on the plate. They also had a huge plate full of freshly cut fruit, and then a waiter came and brought an omelette. He was attempting to put it down on the table when the woman at the table instructed the waiter to put the omelette back on the tray and also the plates full of pastries and fruit and asked for them to be sent up to their room.

The absolute cheek! I was gobsmacked. Never in my life have I been so shocked and disgusted by someone's behaviour like that. And before anyone suggests that maybe they couldn't afford food later in the day - this was at an expensive 5 start resort and I could tell by the way they were dressed that they were not short of money to buy lunch later on.

I definitely don't see anything wrong with doing it at an all-inclusive as they're feeding you all day anyway.

I’d eat loads and maybe take a banana, but that’s it.

I don't know if I would sit there and make a proper packed lunch but when we went Butlins we were half board and we did take some croissants and some fruit for our children to snack on later in the day.

I often take food from breakfast. We recently stayed in a medium budget chain hotel and breakfast was £15.50 per person. I’m not a big breakfast eater, but I wanted something , so I had to pay. Each day I had a coffee and some fruit salad. It seems unfair that people can pay the same amount and eat a full english, plus croissants, cereal, fruit, porridge etc. So I even up the score by taking a few bits away with me.

It's tacky.

I don't see an issue at all. Better than for it to be wasted which I imagine is still a lot.

I wouldn't go crazy or anything but fruit, bread etc is fine. Especially as people also eat different amounts at breakfast anyway.

Think you’ve misread the comment, not sure why you’re accusing her of stealing!!

You say that with such confidence when you’re so wrong 😂😂

I do it..

But I take what would reasonably be 'breakfast', that fits on a plate and a sideplate (cooked breakfast and a croissant or pastries and fruit) not a tupperware box + plates!

So I just calculate what I could eat for a big breakfast, in a way that means IF there are left overs, they will work for a snack/lunch.

Sooo last time, I think I had two sausages, two bacon and a tomato, mushrooms and toast, and two mini pain aux chocolate.

I ate bacon and tomato and the pain aux choc... I made a butty out of the mushrooms and sausage and had that for lunch later on.

I wouldn't have taken more than I could eat for certain, for a butty later on and if I had eaten the whole lot (feasible back then, not now), I wouldn't have gone back for more for a sneaky theify take out.

If im in a hotel and I have paid for breakfast, I am going to treat myself and have a pretty substantial breakfast. But taking MORE than you can eat, more than anyone would reasonably eat, in order to provide lunch is cheeky as.

The occasions I have done it were all when I was attending a conference at the hotel and knew the buffet lunch would not meet my needs (often all vegan and very high in carbs/pulses).

We did it in Iceland (everyone was doing it). Lunches were really expensive so the cheese and tomato rolls were a Godsend (I took Tupperware and sandwich bags!)
In the UK with work I quite often fancy a pastry for later, and just ask if they’ve got something to put it in (I was once even given an American style box!)

It’s called Tuppaware though

That might be what a ram's harness is called...
Does anyone buy actual Tupperware nowadays rather than supermarket Locknlock knock-offs?