Men and Women at Carry Outs

[gulfporter]

We eat half our meals at home and half at restaurants.  We also do carry-out once a week.   

 

And here's what we've noticed:  At the BBQ place in FL and at the rotis chicken stand near our Mexican home, when he goes, he comes home with more food than when I go for the same food.  The chicken and ribs are portioned out (we always get a whole bird and a whole rack), but at the MXN chicken place he literally gets twice the number of baby potatoes (swimming in chicken fat) than I get; and at the Florida BBQ place he gets twice the number of their homemade BBQ sauce containers (8 versus 4).  For all the years we've been going to these places, the counter staff has always been young women.  

 

In case you're wondering; I'm not a shrew and he's not a schmoozer.  We tip the same.  Anyone else ever notice this?     

[Orbit]

Interesting. Perhaps the servers have an unconscious idea that men want extra food/sauce. They might not even realize they're doing it.

[BeeZee]

This, what @Orbit suggested. I don’t do take out, but I observe people in my office, and the biggest man gets the most extra condiment packs thrown in with his order. 

[Darienne]

Ed is always the one to pick up the food truck orders.  He may be an old man, but he's darned good-looking and it never hurts.  And he's still a flirt all these years later.  

[kayb]

If you got it, flaunt it, I reckon.

 

[JeanneCake]

Do you call in the order or order and wait for it - perhaps if a guy places an order they automatically think 'big eater' and toss in more stuff? 

[Tri2Cook]

I haven't noticed getting more but when I went to the local Chinese restaurant and ordered Szechuan noodles extra spicy they were always much more spicy than when my wife went there and ordered them to bring home for me. I thought maybe it was the way we worded the order but she always said she told them the same thing I did... you can't make them too spicy*. 

*I realize that can be a dangerous challenge to issue but I know the local restaurants and what they work with so it was a safe thing to say in this case.