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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So here's my guess on the OP:
The waiter offered the plate to another person as OP's table or a neighboring table.  That person rejected it, but grabbed a handful of the food before the waiter took it away.  (OP is asking etiquette question #1 about someone else's behavior).  As OP was watching this unfold, realized that the plate was his/hers.  Watched waiter take the plate back to the kitchen, then come deliver it to OP, still missing the bite that the first diner snagged (etiquette question #2 is about his/her own reaction at that point).

If that's the situation:
1. No, if I'm rejecting a plate I won't eat off of it.  I'm not paying for it, I don't get it.
2. Someone at my table, like DH?  Ok.  Some random diner, two tables over, had their fingers in my plate?  Yuck, no.  [/quote]

That's terrible! Where did this happen? I would speak to a manager about #2 and leave. Not eat anything there after that (because of spiteful servers too at that point). As for #1, you can't do anything about other people's manners, but my goodness, that takes the cake. The waiter should have left it at the table of that greedy diner and charged them for it.[/quote]

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