New York restaurant to charge customers for wasted food...

Your mother may have told you to clean your plate. Well, now one local restaurant is taking that a step further. 

They're charging customers for food they don't finish. 

At Hayashi Ya Japanese restaurant on the Upper West Side it's all you can eat for $26.95, unless your eyes are bigger than your stomach and then -- like the sign says -- it will cost you extra. 

When asked if he had ever been hit with a 3 percent charge for packing some stuff up and taking it home, Gene Nadelson of Sheepshead Bay laughed. 

"No, we are trying to finish everything here," Nadelson said. More...

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