Some upscale restaurants provide very nice boxes for doggy bags. Others create aluminum foil swans and other sculpture for the leftovers that proudly sit on the table until one is ready to leave.

I've been pleased to see the wine doggy bag laws that are being adopted by many states. Basically, the idea is that you have a right to take home the remainder of a bottle of wine from a restaurant meal, with the establishmnet providing a special sealed bag for it that can be taken in a car without violating open container laws. The goal is to discourage people from drinking up that wine that they've already purchased and then driving after having a bit too much.