Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Tag: condiments

‘Pocket-packing’ trend has customers taking advantage of freebies — to the extreme

With inflation hitting hard and making everyone watch their spending, a quirky new trend called "pocket-packing" is popping up at restaurants and fast-food spots. Diners are grabbing way more freebies than they need—like extra plastic utensils, straws, napkins, sugar packets, and ketchup packets—to stash for later. But this habit is starting to cost businesses big time.