Food & Drink: In the Bag

FOOD & DRINK

More and more, the food in U.S. restaurants seems to be going to the dogs —going there in paper sacks called Bowser Bags and Bow-Wow Bags.

Of course, Bowser may never get within smelling range of his fancy dinner, but diners-out have grown so in sistent on taking home the leftovers on their plates that restaurant supply houses now sell millions of special greaseproof containers for this purpose each year. "The demand is growing so great," says a flack for elegant Ernie's in San Francisco, "that we are now in the process of having a foil-lined box...

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