I'm not sure that taking food or drinks from a lounge is regarded as theft... It's there to be taken and each customer has paid for it, in one way or another...

I usually take a bag (poke!) of crisps and some shortbread/cookies, and also some mint tea bags if it's a Domestic/ET flight. Thanks BA.

Even if there is a notice advising passengers that the food and beverages are offered for consumption in the lounge and should not be removed?

Indeed ^

It makes Lounge stock management a bit tricky ...where p = expected pax, t = expected level of 'take-away' and g = the number of Golds who found the Lounge had just run out of what they wanted ;)

Why confused? LTN is the forum's dependable moral compass: when she points out that taking food-stuffs from the lounge is demeaning, I agree with her. She's nailed it - it isn't a fine legal point: it's simply tacky.

That I indulge in such larcenous behaviour is to my shame: but a packet of shortbreads used to be a rare comfort in a lonely hotel room far from home.

56cm x 45cm x 25cms worth. ;)

One could say that those who use the F lounge for a get together to drink as much Champagne as possible is also tacky. :D

It's a bit like all-you-can-eat lunch deals at fast food places. You get a few people who will eat a week's worth of food in one sitting and make the rest of the patrons cringe, just because a few believe "they've paid for it".

No, they've paid to consume a reasonable amount of food and drink.

It's not so much the food which is the problem, it's more the plates and glasses which the Lounge staff object to you walking off with....;)

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+1.

Anyone who gets on their high horse about someone taking a bottle of water or bag of biscuits whilst happily trolleying into a load of expensive booze and (significant less expensive) lounge food is only kidding themselves.

Outrageous behaviour! They should take the whole bottle, discard the pourer thing on the top and seal with a white wine cork taken from the bar area. If they use a red wine cork it taints the JW and you have to throw it away.

No, no no! No point in taking the glasses, crockery or cutlery as they do not have BA on them. Nick them from the aircraft as they (nearly all) have the logo or British Airways on them.

All of it?

If not all then how much of it?

I'm firmly in the 'theft is theft' camp.

Actually as long as you remain within the provisions of the Air Navigation Order, there is no limit on how much champagne you can drink in a lounge.

While they await their ex-EU departure having deprived the carrier of hundreds of Pounds of revenue by dishonestly purporting to be returning to the original start point?