So when people grab handfuls of packets that they never use, they're really eating into the profit margin. It's not surprising that many Chinese takeout places are becoming stingy with condiment packets.
Our favorite Chinese takeout always included (per meal) 2 soy sauce packets, a duck sauce packet and a hot mustard packet. They recently stopped including the hot mustard. The unused stuff usually went into a door tray in our fridge...along with other restaurant’s packets. Must’ve been a hundred. We recently dumped the whole thing.