I agree. I just had to chuckle at what she said to him. I pictured this little Asian gal telling him this.I understand what you are saying but it's still not her place to be rude. I'm sure she has her flaws, too...![]()
I agree. I just had to chuckle at what she said to him. I pictured this little Asian gal telling him this.
A chinese restaurant in a Returned Services Club in my old town was dobbed in by a waiter for scraping left over food back into fresh food and mixing it up:sick: THEN the owner was tol d to get out and THEN he tried to strangle the waiter.I wonder what the restaurant does with the left over food that no one eats? are they wasting it? saving it for another day? giving it to the dogs? :crazy:
Ever notice there is a vet's office in the same strip center as every Chinese restaurant??? :waitasec:
LOL yes, or a Super Cuts or an H & R Block. At least where I live.
If someone can edit my title please put a "y" at the end of heart! Thank you! I hate mis-spelling things.
OK guys, this is kinda like Bible reading lady kick off the bus....everybody weigh (no pun intended) in!
My opinion: A buffet is a buffet. Unless there is something in writing stating you will be asked to pay more if you eat the high dollar items, you shouldn't have to pay more.
I am glad the manager gave them a complimentary meal, but I do feel it was kind of discriminatory to ask them not to come back.
HOUMA, La. — A 6-foot-3, 265-pound man says a restaurant overcharged him for his trips to the buffet line, then banned him and a relative because they're hearty eaters.
A spokesman for the restaurant denies the claim.
Ricky Labit, a disabled offshore worker, said he had been a regular for eight months at the Manchuria Restaurant in Houma, eating there as often as three times a week.
On his most recent visit, he said, a waitress gave him and his wife's cousin, 44-year-old Michael Borrelli, a bill for $46.40, roughly double the buffet price for two adults.
"She says, 'Y'all fat, and y'all eat too much,"' Labit said.
Labit and Borrelli said they felt discriminated against because of their size. "I was stunned, that somebody would say something like that. I ain't that fat, I only weigh 277," Borrelli said, adding that a waitress told him he looked like he had a "baby in the belly."
Houma accountant Thomas Campo said the men were charged an extra $10 each on Dec. 21 because they made a habit of dining exclusively on the more expensive seafood dishes, including crab legs and frog legs.
more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,319688,00.html
Why not?? If that is what I like and its all you can eat??
I see nothing wrong with it and the persons weight has little to do with it except that heavier people get noticed when they are eating.
We have a Brazillian Steak house buffet here.. 41$ per person ... I certainly do not feel at all bad that I eat more of the Shrimp and Fillet Mignon over the salad and soup...
Nor do I feel bad about trying something and not liking it so I don't eat it.
I thought that the waitress was being kind with the words that she used.If he looks that bad in clothes, can you imagine what he looks like right after he gets out of the shower??
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I wonder what the restaurant does with the left over food that no one eats? are they wasting it? saving it for another day? giving it to the dogs? :crazy:
i have been to those, they are expensive but good. actually, one of those resturants used to be my 6 year olds favorite!! she had expensive taste!! but we went a lot because it was soooooooo good!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MMMMMMM!!There is a BIG difference between $50 a person at a Churrascaria and a $10 or $12 per person Chinese Buffet.
We have several of the Brazilian Churrascaria's here and my favorite restaurant of all is Texas De Brazil - we go on every special occasion - and yes, it's expensive - at least $50 per person but is all you can eat. And all the items served are expensive - mostly beef but also some fine lamb, pork and chicken - all delivered to your table right off the grill on a skewer - all you can eat - with sides. The salad bar is a DREAM also. I am tiny and I starve all day so I can eat a LOT when we go and get my $$$ worth - but it is so good I would go anyway...it's worth the $$ to me.
At $50 a person and based on the fact that your are brought and served each piece of meat they don't really have many customers with the "all you can eat" syndrome - there is only so much cooked meat on each large piece on the serving skewer before it has to go back to the grill or it's empty and most people are sampling each item so not a big HUNK of any one thing. I am sure they have many BIG eaters but you do not see folks wasting a lot of food or piling their plate full of anything there. They will keep bring food until you say "stop" so there are no limits at all (and the plates are HUGE) but people seem to restrain themselves from the piled 8" high "layers" of food or multiple plates approach they might feel OK to use at some other less expensive "serve yourself" all-you-can-eat restaurants.
I like to eat good food too but I don't go and take every last piece of anything even if I LOVE IT. I assume there will be more provided ... if I really must have more I can go get a refill once there is more served.
I HAVE seen people stand at the buffet (circling like starving hyenas) and wait on something and then take all (or almost all) of it only leave half of it on their plate when they leave It isn't the size or weight of these people that offend, it's their rudeness and the WASTE of good food that others might have wanted that make me angry. I understand not liking something but to take an entire TRAY of a food is just rude and obnoxious - it isn't a contest. An THEN when people take ALL of something and THEN don't eat most of it (unless it's inedible) seems unexcusably wasteful and exceedingly disrespectful to everyone in the place (including the owner), IMO. It's so crass - "I am taking all of this so no-one else can have any - oh and I am so important and special I can just throw what you all wanted away" - Ughhh!
An entire buffet serving steam tray of anything would be what, a regular size serving for 8 people minimum? I bet most people here couldn't eat ONE steam try of food - much less go back and refill twice..or 3 or 4 times
My Opinion
That is so wrong! SHame on you!Ever notice there is a vet's office in the same strip center as every Chinese restaurant??? :waitasec:
When I go to an all you can eat buffet, and it isn't often, I eat until I'm full and I can sure put the food away and I'm not over weight. There are times I waste food because I don't always care for the taste of some of these foods. I won't know it until I taste it. I don't pile my plate high the first time, I take samples then go back for more if I like it.
Is this going to be like the airlines where you can charge an overweight person for 2 seats? should an all you can eat buffet charge an overweight person more?
Boo hoo! seriously, don't the people who complained have more importnt issues in their lives? i cannot believe their attitude. they have to find elsewhere to eat. somewhere which will welcome them. i'm intolerant over such mamby pamby whining, end of.![]()
Thank you for being a thin person without predudice! I cannot believe all the people on this thread who are bashing fat people. Maybe I am just sensitive, but I don't think so. I am truly appalled by some folks on here who are showing their true c'olors. To me, a 6 foot plus person who is only 160 pounds is just as odd as a fat person. IMO.