Taking food from a hotel breakfast buffet- cheeky??

The last hotel we stayed in had nice ham and cheese on the buffet and staff happily made a sandwich for some people going hiking.

It is so not a just the Brits thing though.

Sometimes the bar is set very low

LOL!!!
We do this. I will keep doing it. And staff have never looked at us with disgust. They could not care less.

Well, I'm only going from what parkrun500club has posted, and there's no mention of seconds.

It's table service rather than a buffet.

Breakfast isn't factored in to the cost of the room! It's factored in to the cost of breakfast ffs! Hotels in Spain have signs up telling Thieving Piggies not to take food out of the restaurant but you still see Brits wrapping stuff up and poking it in handbags right under the signs. It's disgusting and embarrassing and the staff look at them with contempt.

Presumably you could go back for more though

Stops people taking 12 slices of bacon and 8 sausages and then either leaving them or taking them with them in tupperware (or at least makes it harder)

Well, if you could get bread and fillings, surely you could get some crisps and fruit from the same place?

But, it's breakfast, not elevensies.

It's breakfast, not lunch. So it's not on (although I have sometimes taken a piece of fruit for elevensies).

When the dc were small we’d take a snack for them from the buffet because it was hard to get them to eat enough at breakfast. However, we also had a strict don’t just grab everything because it’s there rule - only take what you are going to eat. You can always get more if you finish it and you are still hungry.

We were staying at a hotel recently and one of the kids needed a packed lunch every day that week. We didn't have a fridge in the room so bought bread and sandwich toppings that didn't need to be refrigerated to make sandwiches, but then topped up the packed lunch with pastries and fruit from the breakfast buffet. I didn't feel great about it but also couldn't figure out how else to get the child to where he needed to be on time and with a packed lunch 🙈

We're clearly terrible human beings though because my DH gets airport lounge access while the rest of us don't, so every time we fly somewhere we send him and one child in to get snacks for all of us for the flight 😅

I’d happily take some fruit and a couple of pastries. Not sure I’d have the guts to pack a full lunch, but good on the people who do! The cost is factored in to the room price so I don’t think there’s any harm caused.

I thought the whole idea of a buffet was that guests could serve themselves. Although it stops guests from taking more than what they need, it's a bit of false advertising. The hotel needs to be upfront about what type of meal is provided with the cost.

Ha I’m in a hotel this morning and have just watched a couple try to surreptitiously butter a very soft roll with some very hard butter under the table. A crumb tsunami ensued and they Ended up with a very ropey looking lunch. Kept me entertained and distracted From the two toddlers running the length of the breakfast room for 20 minutes while their mom looked at her phone.

Just come back to this thread because coincidentally I saw this post on Instagram this morning:

I have spent the last 6 nights staying at the [name] Hotel in [town in Wales]...Only real let down was breakfast to be honest. Set up as buffet, but staff have to get it for you and you’re only allowed one of the each item

Some of you will approve of this approach!

https://grc.studentorg.berkeley.edu/the-unsustainability-of-buffet-food-waste/
Nearly half of the food at buffets is wasted, and this contributes to the yearly 108 billion pounds of food wasted in the United States.

I went on a holiday AI with my family member who has type 1 diabetes. Every morning they took an extra roll and a wrapped cheese or a banana. I couldn't see any issue with this. The lunch places didn't open til 12.30 and the snack helps them maintain their blood sugar. They would have a chocolate bar and dextrose tablets for a glycaemic emergency but the bread and fruit or cheese would be a much better option for maintain blood sugar stability.

You wouldn't know he had a health condition by looking at him and might just think he was a CF

Wow @Æthelred Do you think making a comment like that somehow makes you sound classy? Because it really doesn’t. Quite the opposite in fact.

What a nasty comment!

Anyway, I own my home outright and still take the odd pastry from a hotel buffet.

Disgusting post ethelred

Despite the size of my belly I don’t eat a lot but I enjoy nice places to eat near me

i'd love to go to the fancy restaurants near me and pay for my tea but then expect them to pay for my supper cos I want to take their food and eat it later

the PP who said they’d saved £20 for lunch by stealing from the hotel was just ridiculous

When away with my husband, we'd always take food away as he couldn't eat early in the day; as far as we were concerned, it was food we'd paid for. So maybe a bacon roll an piece of fruit. I always feel sick in the morning, so eat very little, so again feel that it's ok to take the equivalent of uneaten breakfast to have later in the day. If we'd had a big breakfast at breakfast time, we would not have taken anything for later.

That sounds really lovely.