[ASTalumna06]

Question... Is this restaurant all-you-can-eat? Because I'm not seeing anything that says so. If not, then I paid for my meal (according to the prices the restaurant deemed was both profitable and fair), and if I don't eat it all.. oh well! I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've completely finished a meal while out to eat. I simply can't eat a lot in one sitting. However, I'll take half of my meal to go and feel like eating it again 10 minutes after I get home!

For restaurants that ARE all-you-can-eat, there should definitely be a time limit.

There's an all-you-can-eat restaurant in Rhode Island called The Nordic Lodge. It's $80 (including tax, tip and non-alcoholic beverages), and there are lower prices for kids. The menu includes everything from lobster, to filet mignon, to king crab legs, to prime rib... and everything you can think of in between. It's actually a really good price considering all of the things you can choose from. And I'm sure they make a lot of money off of some people, and lose a lot on others.

I was listening to talk radio one day, and on this show, The Phantom Gourmet, they had the owner of the Nordic Lodge talking about the restaurant. He was mentioning all these ways that people would try to get around paying the $80... and laughing about it. The restaurant has a 2 hour time limit, and he was saying how people would go in at lunch time and eat a meal, then come back at dinner and expect to eat again without paying a second time.

Apparently he even had one person say, "But earlier, I was only here for an hour... I paid for two!"