'Hearty' eater says buffet banned him

[SWTXBelle]

I really only eat at buffets at Disney - where I am their profit margin. I just can't (and won't) eat all that much.

[Lil' Hannah]

Originally Posted by honeychile

Finally, he stormed over and yelled, "Four hours! You go NOW!"

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

LOL... Isn't that a Richard Pryor skit?

It's a John Pinette bit. Chinese Buffet

[KSig RC]

Originally Posted by Lil' Hannah

It's a John Pinette bit. Chinese Buffet

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Whoops! How totally humiliating . . . for the guys in the restaurant . . .

[DaemonSeid]

"He didn't eat til he got full, he ate til he got tired" - Robin Harris





and for any rap heads from the 80's how about the song All You Can Eat by the Fat Boyz?

[UGAalum94]

The only thing that bothers me about the restaurant's behavior is that they didn't tell the guys first. If they had been regular customers they were aware of price of the buffet; it doesn't seem right to change the cost of the food after the fact when they gave them the bill. If nothing else, it seems like false advertising.

If the owner want to set any limits, I think it's fine as long as they post them.

[Rudey]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Whoops! How totally humiliating . . . for the guys in the restaurant . . .

Are you somehow suggesting that it isn't a coincidence that someone that is a repeat liar picked the exact same time and the exact same stereotypical comment as a comedian and passed it off as a true story?

-Rudey

[Kevlar281]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

and for any rap heads from the 80's how about the song All You Can Eat by the Fat Boyz?

It's my favorite scene in Krush Groove. I posted a youtube link to it on page one of this thread.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by Lil' Hannah

It's a John Pinette bit. Chinese Buffet

If you'd like the phone numbers of the men this happened to, I'll gladly PM them to you. Unless, of course, they lied to me about it. BTW, the incident happened at least fifteen years ago; the John Pinette bit was in 2006. Maybe, just maybe, his writer was there, or he heard about it, too?

[BobbyTheDon]

Originally Posted by honeychile

If you'd like the phone numbers of the men this happened to, I'll gladly PM them to you. Unless, of course, they lied to me about it. BTW, the incident happened at least fifteen years ago; the John Pinette bit was in 2006. Maybe, just maybe, his writer was there, or he heard about it, too?

I would like their phone numbers because I want them to verify this story. However, I don't think that they will appreciate you offering to give their private information out to strangers just to prove a story that you made up.

However, judging by your history of lies and scandals, it is not surprising for people to conclude that this is another made up story.

Don't worry though. You've still got the Steelers!

[SWTXBelle]

[Lil' Hannah]

Originally Posted by honeychile

If you'd like the phone numbers of the men this happened to, I'll gladly PM them to you. Unless, of course, they lied to me about it. BTW, the incident happened at least fifteen years ago; the John Pinette bit was in 2006. Maybe, just maybe, his writer was there, or he heard about it, too?

I remember him doing it in the mid-90's...in fact his 1998 CD is called Show Me the Buffet. Maybe your friends went to the same exact buffet in Boston!?

[jmagnus]

My dad was on the swim team in high school. I guess they always used to go to this place "Old Country Buffet". Apparently the Rockford East Highschool Swim Team is not allowed in there to this day...at least thats what he tells me. I won't go to buffets. I went to some asian one and was sick for 2 days....haven't been to one since.

[Marie]

Taken from another MB:

"There is no objective way to police which food selections people take from a buffet. It is up to the proprietors to come up with a pricing structure that results in a reasonable profit most of the time - with a buffet, you will win some and lose some, but if it is priced correctly, it will be profitable overall. There are no rules that say a patron must select a variety of different foods - if an item is included in the "all you can eat" buffet, then there is nothing to stop a patron from filling up on just that, unless there some sort of control mechanism.

For example, I've been to a buffet where most of the food was "all you can eat"; however, patrons were given a ticket that entitled them to a serving of certain high-priced items. For example, prime rib was served by a carver and the patron had to present the ticket they were given when they paid. Additional servings of prime rib would require the purchase of another ticket (for a nominal fee of $4.00 or something like that). That allowed the proprietor of the restaurant to control losses due to excess consumption of the most expensive items (but this procedure also added the overhead of having a full-time carver to dish out the servings). Unless the restaurant has something like this in place, there is no fair, objective way to try to charge a patron extra fees because they ate too much of any one thing.

Again, there is no objective way for restaurant staff to measure and regulate the amount of food left on a patron's plate. It's actually not uncommon for me to take normal portions, but somehow get very full half-way through a meal and have a lot of food left. I WISH somebody would try to make me pay an extra 20% for that. I mean, if someone is just piling up plate after plate with mountains of food they clearly have no intention of eating, that is behavior that can be challenged (just as restaurant staff can and do stop people's kids from playing in the food at the buffet) - but for the most part, all-you-can-eat places need to BUDGET for the "eyes bigger than your stomach" phenomenon and price accordingly. It's not rocket science to analyze average costs and average consumption and find a price that yields a reasonable profit most of the time. It is certainly not acceptable for restaurant staff to try to do an "eyeball guesstimate" on whether or not I ate enough of my food to avoid a surcharge.

It sounds like this place is poorly managed and they want to use their own personal judgement to determine how much is too much. Which will result in heated arguments every time (and that's leaving aside whether or not the waitress called them fat or not)."

[PeppyGPhiB]

Anyone been to the Moonlight Barbeque in Owensboro, Kentucky? That place was insane!

[33girl]

From the sounds of it, the 20% charge is for BLATANT waste - children throwing food and things like that, not the lady who takes a little too much Egg Foo Young and can't eat it all.

It's a private business, and the owners have the right to run it as they see fit.