If a hotel staff asks me for buffet food, can there be consequences if I bring him food?
Last year I went to a resort in Mexico and the towel boy asked me to please bring him some food from the buffet. He told me he didn't eat breakfast and is not allowed to get food from the buffet.
I felt weird and trapped because he was the towel boy. If I said no, it would be weird to see him again for new towels. So I went to get him some food. But I felt really weird and didn't know how to react.
What kind of trouble can I get into if I keep doing this?
Best Answer
Here are the actions I might take in your shoes. In descending order of preference, and to avoid bad consequences, they are:
- Have food for the boy (purchased from the outside) when he visits your cabin.
- Have money for the boy when he visits your cabin.
- Some buffetts will allow you to take away partially eaten food. If so, I would "take one bite" out of something, and give away the rest (other than the food near the "bite" to the boy.
- Some buffetts will impose a surcharge for "wasted" food. In that case, pay the surcharge and give the "leftovers" to the boy.
- Some buffetts will impose a surcharge for a "sharing" plate.
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