RE: letter / Bringing own food to restaurant

[Guest guest]

- Thank you. I was thinking the same thing. This thread

originally started with a letter written in anger because a

restaurant said they would heat up a child's food but not again. I

would hope a restaurant would allow me to bring food in but I would

never " expect " them to warm it up for me. I take food already warmed

up in a lunch bag that would keep it warm. I cannot imagine a

restaurant not allowing outside food but if they did I would just not

go to that location. That type of attitude would be a manager's

action, not a corporate action. I would not want to take it out on

the corporation as a whole. I also do not believe someone should go

to a restaurant with food from somewhere else that is obvious (McD's

fries at Burger King). I often go to McD's drive through before we

go to another fast food place to sit as a family. I keep the fries

box inside a lunch bag and only pull out the fries, not the box. I

feel that is being respectful to the place I am at.

P.S. I don't think I could ever trust a restaurant to heat up my

son's food anyway. You run into the risk of cross-contamination

(crumbs in the toaster, same utinsels etc).

>

> Hi, everyone,

> I think we can catch more flies with honey (GFCF, of course)

than

> with vinegar (of whatever variety).

> Many of you are younger than me (43)--I remember when I was a

> college student and restaurants first started letting parents bring

food

> in from other restaurants if their kids wouldn't eat Chinese, etc.

To

> me, that will always be a privilege extended by a restaurant that

agrees

> to do it, not a right that I should demand.

> So-o-o, I would say post a list of restaurants that *do* let

you

> bring in outside food, and express gratitude to them that they do

that,

> rather than berating the other ones. Just my .02 worth, M.