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rayb


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All you can eat buffet bans fat people.
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http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/02/1199524-hearty-eater-says-buffet-banned-him

I'm outraged.

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You been here 4 hour, you go now.

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Maybe they should have a scale in front, and charge so many cents per pound (of the person). That's a good solution, right?

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Oooh, yeah. Chicks love that. thumbsup.gif

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Date night!

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Why not weigh people on the way in, and again on the way out, and charge them per pound of food consumed?

BTW - the definition of buffet is not "all you can eat".

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The potential for laxative abuse is sickening.

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Is this a Chinese buffet... cuz seriously, you will get hungry again in like 10 minutes if you just sit there and visit a while.

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Click and you'd know, Coco.

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You could type three little letters... y e s ... or even two... n o ...

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Click it or Ticket. police.gif

-- Edited by hiccups at 23:52, 2008-01-02

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C'mon Coco. Click it... click it! You'll probably laugh at some of the quotes, and it'll be socially acceptable to laugh, because it's about fat people, and fat people (like mormons) can be mocked in public.

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Manchuria restaurant? Houma? Oh, I get it... you guys don't know if it's Chinese or not, either. Sounds Chinese-ish to me. The guys probably just stuck around too long yakking and got hungry again.

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I think that is outrageous. If restaurants are going to have a "buffet style" then don't complain about how many times people help themselves to said buffet.

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-- Edited by alabamabelle at 22:57, 2008-01-04

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We had one of these "Chinese all you can eat buffets" near us, and for a "cover-charge" based on age (for children and flat rate for adult (based on day of week), you could go back as many times as you wanted. If you wanted to take anything home, it was extra. The first couple times we went, the quality was great, the selection was tremendous, and it seemed to be worth the expense.

Then, things changed.

Quality and selection took a nose dive. Price increased. It was not a good value, nor was it even a place the family asked to go to anymore. They would rather have the limited quantity of the chinese take-away we patronize.

About 6 - 8 months ago, the buffet closed. The sign in the window says that they are remodeling and the management appreciates customers' patience and that they will be open again soon. Yet, not a thing has occurred. Rumor has it that they were shut down by the health department... seems that they were caught recycling the food that was not eaten as one dish into another... in other words, if the tray of Mongolian Beef wasn't eaten up, after sitting out in the steam bath table serving area for x amount of time, it probably got recycled into some sort of breaded concoction or put in the dumplings or became part of the fried rice... instead of being disposed of as waste. Guess that is one way to lower expense...

Yeah... glad we elected to stop patronizing it long before it closed.





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Or maybe they were scraping YOUR uneaten Mongolian Beef back into the big pot after you left...

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I found this footage of the guy on Youtube.  Maybe the restuarant was justified in their decision after all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlK62rjQWLk

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I remember a Simpson's episode about this. It was a Seafood place and Homer went to court to force them to feed him. "Does this look like a man who has had "all you can eat?"". Then the jury was moved by how hungry Homer looked. The Captain (in charge of the seafood restaurant) came up with an idea of letting onlookers pay to watch Homer's voracious appetite to offset the costs of feeding him all he could eat. Great episode.

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A "cat-dog" buffet near where I work has a sign saying you will be charged extra for leaving food on your plate. Yeah, right, like someone will pay that.

Another cat-dog buffet, my wife and I were eating, and they would start taking away your plate before you had even finished eating for you to leave.

Kind of like Apu at the Kwik E Mart, please buy something and leave!

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Organist wrote:

I remember a Simpson's episode about this. It was a Seafood place and Homer went to court to force them to feed him. "Does this look like a man who has had "all you can eat?".

Yep.  Poor Marge had to testify.  "We drove around for 4 hours looking for another all-you-can-eat fish place.  Then we went fishing."





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