Can I take food out of the restaurants?

[Pduaime]

Will the restaurants wrap up food for me to take back to my room?  I'm thinking mainly like a dessert that I'm not hungry for right away.  Not like a doggie bag of my uneaten meal.     

 

Also,   can I request a to-go container at the buffet or order a take-out meal at the sports bar?  

[Kalum]

Sports bar....no you cannot

Every other restaurant...desert yes, never had a problem 

 

Buffet...dont think they have containers 

[mapleleaves]

every morning on the Epic 2 weeks ago,  I saw several people walking out of the buffet with plates of food.   It appeared that they took a plate from the buffet line, took what they wanted, then walked back to their room to eat. 

[worktocruise610]

I would always  go to the buffet in the morning grab some stuff for my DH & bring it back to the cabin. Never had a problem, saw officers on the way was never told no.

[BirdTravels]

1 hour ago, Pduaime said:

Will the restaurants wrap up food for me to take back to my room?  I'm thinking mainly like a dessert that I'm not hungry for right away.  Not like a doggie bag of my uneaten meal.     

 

Also,   can I request a to-go container at the buffet or order a take-out meal at the sports bar?  

Yes you can take out food. No, they won’t wrap food. They will put it on a plate with a cover. 
 

at the buffet, you can take a regular plate and take it to your room. When you are done eating, leave the plate on your desk and your room steward will clear it for you. Do not put it in the hall for people to trip over/step in. 

 

[Sand and Seas]

1 hour ago, worktocruise610 said:

I would always  go to the buffet in the morning grab some stuff for my DH & bring it back to the cabin. Never had a problem, saw officers on the way was never told no.

Yes, my DH goes to buffet and loads one plate with bagels, cream cheese and bacon.  Then he throws a 2nd plate over the top to carry it back to the room.  I use 2nd plate for my bagel breakfast.  Don't forget to grab the utensils wrapped in a cloth napkin.  And as Bird Travels has noted, do not throw those dishes in the hallway.   Just stack them on your counter and the room steward clears them.

 

We usually ask for dessert 'to go' from Cagney's or other specialties.  They have sometimes offered to deliver to our room for us and other times they add a plate cover and hand it to us.   Since we eat earlier in the evening and then go to a show or the casino, it's nice to eat dessert in our room later.

[brookie848]

We've gotten dessert to go many times.

 

The only time we've had food wrapped was at La Cucina -- they wrapped our leftover pizza and we happily snacked on it the next day.

[Gershep]

A couple of weeks ago on the Escape I saw people leaving the specialty restaurants with "to go" plastic covered plates with food in them. I had never seen that. Usually they would just let you take dessert or deliver it to your cabin.  A couple of years ago my son wasn't feeling well at breakfast and he went to walk out with a yogurt and they told him they would have to deliver it to his cabin.

[LaCal]

Day one we get some things from room service and keep the tray for the rest of the week 

 

Makes going down to the Buffet and getting food etc much easier and bring it back up the cabin to have on our balcony 

[newmexicoNita]

There is not problem with taking left overs back to your cabin or fixing a plate in the buffet and taking it back. As others have said, not they are not going to wrap it for you like a take out restaurant. I think our daughter who will be cruising with us next week plans on bringing a handful of baggies with her for left overs to snack on when having her afternoon cocktail on the balcony. I don't think taking an entire meal back to the cabin is the best idea in the world but I also don't want to see food wasted. The problem we have had, in the past is: we take food back and we still end up tossing it. 

[kayjaypea42]

Last time I was on the Escape, I was suffering a terrible headache during dinner and couldn't eat right then.  I needed to pop some Excedrin and lay down, but I would've been bummed to have missed out on Lamb chops.  They brought me a full meal to my cabin and I ate it when I felt better.  Still so good, even if by the time I was ready, it was a bit cold.

[jaja]

I sometimes bring back a few snack items (fruit, pastries,etc)  from the buffet. I always pack some small plastic bags to store them.  Only once did I ask to bring my dessert from a specialty restaurant, and they said they would (had to)  send it to my cabin (which they did) .

[SouthLyonCruiser]

The only thing that I would like to add about taking food to your room is that you should, as a courtesy to your steward, take your plates back with you to the buffet area. These steward have more than enough to do without having to 'bus' your room. 

[FreestyleNovice]

45 minutes ago, SouthLyonCruiser said:

The only thing that I would like to add about taking food to your room is that you should, as a courtesy to your steward, take your plates back with you to the buffet area. These steward have more than enough to do without having to 'bus' your room. 

 

Roomservice plates are also collected by the room steward, probably end up on a designated dish wash cart in the crew corridors before being collected or brought to dish wash stations by someone or one room steward etc.

 

Returning the plate/tray to the buffet (I assume, by placing it on a table there for the wait staff) will result in another table to be cleaned, another "occupied" table for those looking for seating. And extra workload on those at the buffet.

 

I think leaving it in your room seems best? Never thought about it before posting this by the way.