Taking food from a hotel breakfast buffet- cheeky??

I don't know what hotels you go to but everyone iv been to have massive amounts of food whether you go at the start or the end

@Differentstarts " Have you ever been the food is ridiculously expensive everyone was taking breakfast for lunch but their was loads so nobody would of been left hungry and it would of saved on food wastage so win win."

I have very little skin in the game so I can't profess to care overly if you take some food from the buffet for use later, but unless you got there close to closing time - unlikely as young DCs and visiting Disney - then it's a bit tenuous to say you're doing the hotel a favour by preventing food waste.

When we went to Disney we couldn't afford 3 meals a day for four people what we could afford was an evening meal and breakfast was paid before we went if taking a few extra crossiants that we have actually paid for meant we could have 5 days in Disney that's what where going to do. Have you ever been the food is ridiculously expensive everyone was taking breakfast for lunch but their was loads so nobody would of been left hungry and it would of saved on food wastage so win win.

I confess. When I was staying in a very nice hotel in Menorca I used to sneak extra tomato so I could feed the tortoises who roamed free in the grounds.

I'm 2 with a little bit of 3. I could never be friends with a 4

Exactly that

If someone is struggling financially to the extent that they can't feed themselves why would they be booking holidays in hotels in the first place?

If I’ve only paid for breakfast (like B&B) then no I wouldn’t take more than a piece of fruit but at All Inclusives or a recent cruise when we’ve paid for food literally all day then yes I might take snacks for the room / cabin later on. I don’t feel like it’s cheeky as there is food available all day. I just enjoy time on my balcony.

I think the food can only be left out for a 4 hour window in catering

If all people have to worry about is someone taking a bit of cheese and deli meat in a bread bun (most of which would normally be thrown if not taken as it's not pre packaged), and a bit of fruit, then I feel sorry for you.
Yes most places let staff have some leftovers, but the people paying for their breakfast have just as much right to take a few leftovers, esp as very few people eat enough at a buffet to cover what they're actually charged.
I ate for free at the hotels I worked in, but it wasn't a right I had, and we'd go in near the end of service (breakfast and dinner) so that the paying guests got priority.

What a snob. Get over yourself. Maybe some people are struggling financially?

Chill out. It's just a few crumpets and choc au pains 🤣

Tight and scruffy

You really believe that those who think it's wrong to take food away actually do it?

"but if lots of people take extra with them then they will start having to increase the amount they make (the person taking extra isn’t waiting till the end to see what is left), pushing up the prices for everyone and potentially creating more waste."

But the reality is that there is and always have been three types of people:

1. Those who have their breakfast and would never, ever think of even taking an apple
2. People who wouldn't normally take from the breakfast buffet, but occasionally take the odd thing or make up filled rolls because of traveling circumstances
3. Those who believe the breakfast buffet is responsible for fulfilling their daily calorific needs and cheerfully make up lunch boxes full of sandwiches and snacks, and possibly some tea bags and those cute little individual jam jars that never get used when taken.

Oh and a fourth which may be a strange mumsnet only thing:

4. People who like to use every opportunity, however tenuous to show their superiority to others through only eating three grapes at midday, or maybe two at breakfast time but then that fills them up for the whole day so they don't need to eat at lunch.

How do you know that it goes in the bin and that someone else is going to come along and want it later or that the staff don’t get to have/take home the leftovers or that it isn’t given to the homeless. You don’t know the situation when you take it. If they factor every normal person taking a pastry with them then they will need to cater for a lot more pastries which would increase the price of the breakfast.

My MIL insisted on doing this on holiday. She had my young niece/nephew in her care and kept saying we didn't need to buy lunch. Cue raging preschoolers by 4pm as they needed more than a damp pastry for lunch. It's tacky and penny pinching, and pushes up the cost for everyone else!

No, probably not many. But one experience is enough for me. 😂

Washing it in the sink is the normal thing to do onviously, but there are so many not normal people out there it’s scarred me for life. 😂

but if lots of people take extra with them then they will start having to increase the amount they make (the person taking extra isn’t waiting till the end to see what is left), pushing up the prices for everyone and potentially creating more waste.

I agree. 😂 I am sorry about that, but I thought it sort of fitted in this thread.

The prosecco thief man must be pissed by lunch. 😂

I can’t get over the charming and looking European bit though. It’s comedy gold, and I really hope it wasn’t made up.

I was actually poking fun at the folk saying they didn't eat as they weren't as large rather than anyone else, I'm a yoyo weight person myself.

Its just the variety of reasons the thread is coming across like a Monty Python sketch, especially the husband who stole the prosecco but that's ok cos he's charming and looks European

It's all just tickled my funny bone this morning so thanks all.

And now we've spawned a conversation on washing your underwear in hotel kettles, that deserves its own thread🤪

Omg right I can see why and you've put me off for life😀

I actually saw someone bring Tupperware once. It was an all inclusive in the Caribbean, the woman had several Tupperware containers she’d brought in her luggge for this purpose.

She said they take it back and have a second dinner about midnight after their night out. They filled up from the dinner buffet. Four or five containers worth. Staff never stopped them.

however it’s a bit different to making up sandwiches and leaving with them as you’re a bit tight.