Am I a CF to go to the takeaway and ask for a discount?

I would tell them that you love the sauce so much and that you want to buy a bigger proportion and then suggest the idea that they start selling bottles of their sauce. Now they’ve got a new income stream and you are their first customer!

I absolutely LOVE the pieces of tandoori chicken aswell from our local Indian- don't get me wrong I love all the rices & sauces, popadoms & nann breads yum 🤤 but I love the tandori chicken & I would actually love it with a salad- I absolutely don't think your being unreasonable at all? It just shows them how much you love their food? Do they know u well? I'd not have a problem asking for a large tub of the sauce- would it keep a while though? I'm sure they wouldn't be offended by you asking- go for it & good luck 🥰🥰

Why do you need so much of the sauce that it’s £100+ worth? Are you planning to eat it every single day?

@KM123456 OP clarified yesterday that she just meant buying a bigger pot, like a family size one rather than lots of separate tiny pots.

The language she used about discounts confused things a bit, but she did come back to clear that up.

Not buying more. The way I read the post is she wanted to get more product but pay less because it was just "tomato based" implying it didn't cost that much to make, and didn't require much effort. No one is stopping her from buying more at the established price. I applaud that. But I think she wants a deal (nothing wrong with that) and in order to justify that she is devaluing the cost of making the sauce. I have an issue with that.

Are you sure? Have you asked them?

Nowhere where I live would do this for a customer - fine if they sell it but they wouldn't do anything for a customer to order

I do, lots of people do. My sister says it is pretty common - she's worked for two local chinese takeaways, kebab shop and several pizza places, now works for a pizza/kebab shop.

I get pizza dough from there (you have to turn up as they're making the dough at around 5pm, we always offer to pay, he never ever takes money for it though!) - people buy big batches of their bbq pizza sauce too.

The previous kebab shop would sell various pots of their home made sauces. An indian takeaway I use sells me a big pot of their base curry sauce to freeze.

It is not remotely absurd, their thinking is better to sell me something or keep me a faithful customer than.. not!

I worked in a Chinese takeaway as a teenager and people would do this sort of thing all the time. The menu only had tubs of sweet and sour, curry or gravy on the menu for the sauces but if someone came in to ask if they could do a sauce from a specific meal they’d happily do that for them.

And those definitely weren’t the weirdest requests. People would ask for deliveries of nothing but dozens of cans of juice, we had one woman who would request a banana alongside her meal, people would phone up and ask if the delivery drivers could bring cigarettes or milk from the shop beside us with their takeaway delivery. And that’s before all the different requests for adding or removing things from specific dishes.

If the sauce really is that good it’s entirely possible they’ve already had someone asking for a big tub of it already.

It’s a small leb place, just pay what they want, you are on a diet so I assume not spending as much as usual in your favourite place.

you asked a question, lots have given you alternatives, but you still want your discount.

😂😂😂😂

I can’t heart this as on the app

If you ask very nicely it's possible they'd give you the recipe.

Or ask what it would cost to buy the sauce alone in bulk. Would it keep though?

Drowned in a giant vat of Lebanese tomato sauce, clearly.

Don’t know. Shes vanished

@Clape what was the recipe you made ?

I reckon it could be this:
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/ezme

I'd keep trying the recipe I think.

Just ask for extra pots of sauce
They will either charge or give for free if you are a regular customer

I wouldn't ask for a discount id ask how much it would cost for a larger amount and I definitely wouldn't ask if there were other customers in the shop, if someone has 6 family members they. Could say well she's getting more for her money so can I have 6 portions for the price of 4. It works all ways. If you spend a lot of money there anyway why would they want to lose money by selling for less?

This is just a nonsense. Like who goes into their local takeaway asking for huge tubs of a sauce they like. Completely absurd.

Agree

I don't know anything about the detail of Lebanese food, but thought of paprika from what the OP said and that sounds like a good recipe to make a delicious sauce so definitely worth the OP trying that one.

I do wonder what was wrong with what the OP has tried to make herself so far to make it 'foul'.

This is what I want to know

£4 for a pot of sauce really isn’t that bad. Think of it like a weekly Costa

but not sure why @Clape needs £100 worth or 25 pots of it

I have never known a takeaway that is open for haggling- if a sauce is £4 for a small pot there will be a reason. You could ask if they will sell you a much larger quantity for a reduced amount, but I don't rate your chances.

You posted a picture of a (similar?) sauce, the caption says it's shatta. Shatta is the word in the Arabic world for hot-sauce. I make my own (with homegrown peppers) using the recipe of the famous Palestine cook Sami Tamimi, collegue of Ottolenghi. It's easy to find and easy to make