To think it's very bad form

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DH went to collect the curry tonight. When he got in I asked him how much it was in the end and he told me. I said it sounded cheaper than usual and he said he'd asked for a discount.

I was a bit confused and asked him why he'd asked for a discount. He just said if you don't ask you don't get. So I said that the price is the price, and how I thought it was very poor form to ask for a discount for no reason. They were gracious enough not to make a scene and granted him a 10% discount. They're a great restaurant with beautiful food (no reason whatsoever to need discounts) and we're regular customers. I feel a bit mortified and cross at DH. AIBU or is he?

I don't think it's a big deal at all. Not something I'd do myself because I'm painfully awkward and it takes some confidence. But your husband is a grown man, he can assess for himself what is and isn't socially acceptable in any given situation. Equally the person serving him would have been a grown adult, capable of saying no sod off you chancer. They didn't.

Restaurants in particular throw discounts around willy nilly anyway, it's different from other forms of goods/services as the cost per item is really low. As someone up thread said, businesses survive through continued custom - you've demonstrated loyalty and as a reward they've flexed themselves to meet a lighthearted, if a little cheeky, request on one occasion.

It's really not the social suicide some have suggested. Absolutely do not go back in to pay the measly £2 difference, that's really weird!

Shy bairns get nowt.

NapQueen I always ask how much it comes to regardless. Takeaways do put their prices up from time to time, and so I said to DH out of interest, "how much did it come to in the end?" It's normally about £24 because we order similar if not the same meals every time. So if he said £25 for example I'd know the prices had gone up. We've only got a paper menu that could outdated for all we know.

My SIL asks the butcher, baker and candlestick maker for a discount! She is a highly paid professional but is so bloody tight. She proudly told me that she asks for discounts everywhere she goes. It irritates me as I know she earns a great deal more than the people she asks a discount from, yet comes across as meek and badly off. If only they knew she jets off for numerous holidays and eats at the most expensive restaurants in the city.

They'll probably have given him a discount to keep a regular but your portion sizes are likely to decrease in future. And as others have said special sauces may be added for free.
Don't piss off a good takeaway, they'll have the last laugh.

And bad form of your DH to not ask for discount when ordering. Bit chicken to do it on collection.

I, too, am agog at the people here who've said that they always ask for a discount. I'd be ashamed to beg for money off.

I do occasionally get extras given to me, or discounts, but they are offered, not asked for - like when I was ordering 10 pizzas to be delivered to a volunteer lunch I was involved in, and they offered me a hefty discount straight away. The local cafe frequently undercharges me for samosas, because he knows they are for my DS, who is his best samosa customer, but not always, and I would never expect to be undercharged as of right.

Just for the record I've worked in several food places and had some truly awful customers I nor anyone I know have ever spat or put any other form of foreign body in to someone's food. I used to give discounts to people who asked if they owned or worked for a business where a discount could be reciprocated

I find it really vile, this spitting in food thing.

This is because I know someone who actually used to do it. But into coffee. If a customer annoyed her in any way, (just by breathing sometimes), she was the one who got the coffee and regularly used to spit into it. I can only hope she has the same down to her. Regularly. I don't talk to her anymore and obviously wouldn't be accepting any drink or food from her if the occasion arose

I wouldn't be asking for a takeaway discount but would check I got the discount offered for collecting the takeaway. Want curry NOW

It is cheeky to say the least. Asking for a discount if there is part of the meal you don't want, maybe.

For me, unless he would ask for a discount in Harrods or Selfridges, he is being a miser and yes, it is very bad form.

Archery where did you get the idea that anyone was begging? I must have missed that.

I think he's great, why not. They could of said no. I know it's not mumsnet but good not to always conform. I also run my own business and do discount to nice people and interesting work. Raise the price for nasty people! I also negotiate for discounts, sometime soon it works and sometimes it doesn't. No problem.