Taking food from a hotel breakfast buffet- cheeky??

[Nannyogg134]

Was chatting with Brother and SIL about their upcoming holiday. They've got a long drive with 2 young DCs, so they've booked a chain hotel with free buffet breakfast part way along (to break up the drive.) DM said "Oh good, don't forget to make sandwiches for the drive later.".
This led to a whole family breakdown of what it is/isn't cheeky to do at a breakfast buffet 😂...

• DM would happily take tupperware with her and fill up because 'it's been paid for' (I don't think she does take tupperware, I think it was a figure of speech!)
• DH said he's too embarrassed to take anything more than a banana for later.
• DSIL confessed that she can't resist taking pots of jam

I just wondered what everyone thought- Is it unreasonable to take from the buffet breakfast for 'later'?

My mum does this on holiday. But then it's an all inclusive so she has paid I guess? But the snacks around the pool were a bit shit so she would make ham butties at breakfast and jam butties for the kids.

We've done it before when we've booked all inclusive & have known we'll not be back for lunch. We've taken fruit & pastries to have later. We've paid for meals & if we're not going to be there for one of the then, then in my opinion it's ok to take something for the missed meal as it's been paid for. I'd draw the line at taking a tupperware box though. 😲

This all reminds me of the RTO versus WFH argument a bit.

I can do my work either in the office, or at home (or anywhere with a laptop, internet connection and some privacy). But for some reason, some bosses want to decide that I must do my work with my bottom placed on a certain chair at a certain desk in a certain location.

And when it comes to hotel breakfasts, I've paid to eat breakfast and can eat as much as I like. But according to people on this thread, I have to have my bottom on a certain chair at a certain table in a certain location when I eat it!

(I know it's a bit of a silly comparison. But I thought I'd share it anyway)

Wow!

Still, so many companies take the mick out of customers, I can't get too upset about CFers the other way.

You call it snobbery and I call it having respect. I'm leaving it here as we're never going to agree!

Life's too short to worry about taking a crusty roll from a multimillion pound business if you have paid to have an eat as much you like breakfast.

You need to unclench.

To be fair I think an all inclusive is different from somewhere where you’ve only paid for breakfast.
the all inclusive would probably give you a packed lunch if you asked for it

I wouldn't take Tupperware! But I often take muffins and a pastry for DS on holiday as he never manages to get up in time for breakfast. He then eats them when he's ready.

I went to the Carvery at Christmas and a family on the next table were filling buckets, FUCKING actual buckets, with food. I love a good bubble and squeak but imagine all congealed leftovers in buckets 🤢

I've been to a few hotels abroad where this is actually forbidden with clear notices on all the tables that anything taken out of the breakfast room will have to be paid for (of course they've got to catch you in the act, but I imagine it does stop the worst of the CFery.
However, when DH was put up in a hotel in Munich for a month for work he said the waiting staff actively encourage him and his colleagues to make their packed lunches!

The problem is really, people eating a breakfast at the buffet, and then taking more food for later.

A few years ago I went on an HF holiday, and we were actively encouraged to take fruit, pastries and Kendal cake etc away with us from the breakfast buffet to keep us going during the day, it was a walking holiday so we needed to keep our intake regular, but we only paid for half board and basically were offered free lunch. Another nice memory was we would all be invited for a free pre dinner drink at the bar - it was in the Isle of Wight so not abroad.

I’ve stayed at a hotel where it must have been rife - there was actually a (pictorial) notice forbidding it.