Originally Posted by
prncess674
Why? I do it all the time. Seems wasteful to just throw the food away. I am not going to take food off someone else's plate to take home but so much of the time I am served huge portions and couldn't possibly eat it all. I won't do it on a sales call, but when taking out my client team members they never seem to mind.
I recommend that you don't do this in Europe, particularly the UK - you would be seen to be cheap. It's one thing doing it with friends, but I would never do it with a client nor my team.