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Is it proper to discard your own tableware papergoods (plates, forks, etc.) after eating in a pizza shop or is it expected that the restaurant will clean off your table?
Is it proper to discard your own tableware papergoods (plates, forks, etc.) after eating in a pizza shop or is it expected that the restaurant will clean off your table?
My general rule is this:
If the restaurant has waiter service, then I let the waiters do it. If it’s “fast food,” I always clean up after myself, whether it’s “proper” or not.
The Wolf
Wolf is a mentch anyome so inclined to follow in his ways does well. if you dont clean up where theres no waiter either your a slob or selfish or stuck up or a combo
Often, when wishing to clear off my table at a non-waitered eatery, I find nowhere to place the tray or the trash.
When you buy food to eat-in at a pizza parlor or wherever, part of the mark-up in the price for the food you pay is for the service. Which, by the way, is why most eat-in food establishments, including those without waiters, have hired cleaning help to clear off the tables.
So while it is certainly very nice for the customer to clean up after himself, it is certainly not expected that he do so considering that he paid for the service from the restaurant.
In fast food places I usually clean up after myself. I feel bad for the poor Mexican kid…In restaurants its normal that the waiter cleans up. I dont know why, but it just feels wird to be cleaning your own table in a Restaurant.
It depends on how good the food was.
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