to take food from the hotel breakfast for lunch?

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would you do it?

Haven't read whole thread but after many years in the hotel industry I will say it does seem to be common practice.
The thing is... if things don't get eaten then it gets thrown out. It honestly never bothered me.
IMO it's no worse than someone filling a plate full up of food that they don't finish.

Its cheap and makes the people who do it look very cheap and tacky

Geoff Boycott was spotted doing this in the Caribbean while at his BBC-supplied hotel. But he is a Yorkshireman.

Maybe it depends if your parents did it? Maybe then you think it's ok...

Which I don't think it is.. I hate seeing people do this, makes me cringe. Just buy lunch - stop stealing!

I do it, last day of holiday in preparation for the long long drive home. It means we don´t have to stop so much en route and have some reasonably decent food to eat. If I was aked to pay for it, I would. I do it openly!

I once kept a banana we'd picked up for DS to have with his weetabix and didn't eat [shock}.

The idea of pilfering half the buffet and keeping in in a handbag fills me with fear. A food poisoning disaster waiting to happen methinks.

My MIL, God rest her, would attempt to bring home anything that wasn't nailed down. Not that she needed it. Must be a generational thing. She always had a tupperware box in her handbag filled with sauce sachets, sugar, milk portions, salt & pepper, napkins, wipes, sewing kits, shampoo etc .

She'd also aquire glasses, ashtrays, dressing gowns, salt & pepper shakers none of which she needed. She wasn't exactly strapped for cash.

Here's me having a guilt trip of a banana.....

I sometimes take a bit of fruit. Why is it 'stealing' when it's already paid for? I don't get it. Frankly, most people I see in hotel breakfast rooms shovel loads of food in. I don't, so even with my bit of fruit for the road am probably consuming far less.

And I really hate waste so if it's true the leftovers get thrown out, I shall be tempted to scoop up a load of pastries now as well.

I've taken things like babybel or fruit but wouldn't go as far as to actually make sandwiches

Oh and when I was pregnant I also took a couple of herbal teabags to have in the room later

well maybe it's just me... but I also think eating grapes in the supermarket is stealing..

I think eating grapes in the supermarket is stealing too. It's completely different! I have PAID for breakfast. Which includes as much as I want at the buffet. If I then only eat a croissant and have a cup of tea, while all around me are taking two croissants, a bun, juice, fruit and cereal, I think I have actually also paid for a piece of fruit and am quite within my rights to take it with me.

I´m also horrified at the idea if eating grapes in the supermarket, though have no hesitation over the breakfast takeawy ; ) Very inconsistent to some of you, but makes sense to me!

tinierclanger - a piece of fruit is not too bad but making rolls, taking several things like pastries (that are far more than you could have eaten) is not nice...

I still wouldn't take anything myself tho.

Ok, that's where I would draw the invisible line too. More than you could reasonably eat is not ok. Although it still is if they'd throw it out aftewards anyway.

I would feel far too much like a skank to be able to do it.

Eating grapes in the supermarket is one of my pet hates! Now that really is a generation thing - my mum and ladies of a certain age seem to think it's fine to pop a grape or two into their mouths - presumably to test for sweetness. Apart from the fact that i wouldn't eat an unwashed grape, why do they think this is OK??!!!!

And re the breakfast - I might walk out with a piece of fruit to eat later, but wouldn't take stuff for lunch.

does it make it any better if the grapes are from a pre-priced pack, so the weight of them doesn't make any difference?

how many people sample their cheddar every week before they buy it

used to make jam and cheese rolls up from buffet for lunch - yummy.
Like the hotel lady said, it would only get thrown away it is def not stealing - you all need to chill!