EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact
When it comes to the unspoken rules of hospitality, none are quite so polarising as the decision to eat a customer’s leftover food.
You see, if you’re a waitress that’s established a strong rapport with the chef – likely, as a result of allowing them to flirt with you – it’s possible to have food prepared for you at any given moment. That, or by establishing a symbiotic relationship, where you sneak in a jug of beer, and they supply the goods.
However, if you don’t have either of those options or the patience to wait until the chef has a moment to spare, there is one other choice – helping yourself to food left by a customer.
This level of desperation may be seen as quite disgusting by non hospo folk, but if you’ve been run off your feet for several hours, sometimes you have to do what’s needed to survive.
A predicament local woman Alisha Caddel found herself in last night.
As she’d surveyed the array of plates before her, Alisha quickly did the maths on what meal would be her safest bet.
She explains the process to our reporter Effie, who also has no problem eating discarded food.
“Chips are typically a safe bet”, says Alisha, “as are chicken wings and pizza slices.”
“Unless of course someone has placed the leftover bones on top of them, then it’s a no.”
“Pasta or half eaten cheeseburgers are also a no.”
“But if the cheeseburger has been cut in half with a knife, you may be alright.”
More to come.
