Agree with Salty here. You have given them two openings. With very few exceptions, it is not appropriate to pay acute attention to what another person has decided to eat or not eat. One exception is a parent with their own young child. Another is wait staff. However, your attention should never extend to forcing the…

Being rich is being able to have unsound financial practices. No one needs to have a beach house, and its never financially smart, but many have them because they can.

Once the server asked me if I wanted dessert and I said no thank you, I’m full. The server nodded and replied, “I’m not surprised, you sure ate a lot of food!”

You don’t know any such thing. Some people who were poor growing up swear they will never eat certain things again, including leftovers.

It is absolutely fine for the vast majority of dogs, and how most dogs were fed until Big Pet Pamper Factory started lobbying otherwise. You shouldn’t overload them with a lot of fat, calories or things toxic to them, but most pet food (even the fancy stuff) is fairly low grade protein/carbs, so why wouldn’t you give…

Linked this further down but this is all men on the thread: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/leftovers-on-a-first-date

If you wonder whether you should ask a stranger a question, consider this:

Who are you to judge who’s wasteful?

Any Chua is our enemy, let’s not forget that.

I, personally, would feel weird about taking leftovers from a meal someone else paid for, but I’m going to be laughing for a long time at the douche canoe who didn’t realize that the leftover box that she put in the way of him making a move was done intentionally. Someone clearly thought that paying for dinner…

Clearly, you have little to no exposure to business travel.

Unless you are eating food that functions well as takeout, like pasta, Chinese, Thai, pizza, etc., very little restaurant food works well as leftovers without repurposing it, which means then having to prepare a whole new dish the next day. I’ll take the leftover steak if I know that I have the time and ingredients to…

Chua should be in the Grifter Hall of Fame. She successfully turned yellow-peril levels of stereotyping into a lucrative book. She’s passed the grifting gift down to her daughter:

There are of course the ridiculous assholes who are there to talk and make an appearance, but for some reason won’t just get a drink and a small app or something, but think it’s appropriate to make a show of ordering a full entree, take one or two bites, then have it taken away while they blah-blah away, and then…

As long as we’re on the topic of what to say and what not to say as a server, please don’t look at my empty plate and say “Wow, SOMEONE was hungry!” or “I can tell you didn’t like it [wink]”.

If it’s the food, I’ll tell you. If it’s me, I’ll just smile politely and not elaborate while emphasizing that I’m good, please just take it away. (Happens occasionally when you’re a picky eater and a dish doesn’t turn out to what you thought it would be and you just can’t get down with it.)

Sometimes people just didn’t like what they ordered. Not to say it was improperly prepared or that there was anything wrong with it, but maybe they took a chance and ordered something new that they ended up not liking and would rather not eat. And yes, you can offer to “make it right” and get them something new, but…

It can be medical. When I was doing chemotherapy between sessions I would start to feel better and want to eat, but the reality of food in front of me could make me queasy. I’d just ask for a box and the servers and my friends were always understanding.

I sometimes have multiple dinners a night, so I can only sample a plate. I wish every restaurant had tapa size portions of entrees so you could just try a few things on the menu. Until then, I’ll keep ordering the full entrees and just nibble each one. 

Skipped everything after the headline to suggest no one ever ask if “we left room for desert.”