Restaurant Charges for To-Go Box?!

Hammer (0:00)

Where are we at with this? A woman in North Carolina went to some sports bar and she got a pizza.

She got an order and said, hey, can I get a to go box? Because I want to take the rest of this home. I can't finish this. I'd like to get it to go box.

Allison (0:15)

Who's who's not done that in their lives?

Hammer (0:18)

They charged her a six dollar service fee for the to go box. Now.

They charged her six bucks for it. She posted the photo online. Now, she ordered a Cajun Alfredo pasta. So it was a pasta dish. Said she couldn't finish it. And then they brought her a to go box and added six bucks to her bill.

Now, tell me if this makes it any better. The restaurant clapped back on social media. They said that they offer half price pasta only for dine in guests. And I guess that's what this woman got. And if people order dine in, but then you want to take it home, they're going to charge you the real price for it. So an additional six bucks was not necessarily a charge for the to go container. It was kind of like going to a buffet. You can't get buffet food to go.

Allison (1:14)

Is that the kind of publicity you really want for six dollars, Hammer? Six dollars, and we're talking about it here in Indiana? I don't know. I think that makes you look foolish.

Hammer (1:28)

Allison, you kind of had a crinkled up face there. Yeah, I don't like that at all. She dined in, so she did what they asked. She dined in. She just had extra, so she was taking it home with her. But I remember working at Pizza Hut in college, and we had the lunch buffet and the dinner buffet some nights.

And if you sat down and got the buffet, you can get as much pizza as you want, but you can't load up a to-go container of it. You weren't allowed to do that. Yeah, but that's a buffet. She just ordered an entree at a sit-down restaurant. But at a special price, though. Like, it was half price, happy hour. No, I'm with Nigel.

Allison (1:59)

Over $6.

Hammer (2:00)

That's crazy.