Pair Claims Buffet Restaurant Banned Them For Hearty Eating

[PaperDoll]

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:

 

[nanandjim]

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.

 

[PaperDoll]

I agree. I just had to chuckle at what she said to him. I pictured this little Asian gal telling him this.

:blowkiss:

 

[FlowerChild]

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

 

[Grogmonster]

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:

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.

 

[Jules]

Ever notice there is a vet's office in the same strip center as every Chinese restaurant??? :waitasec:

 

[Paladin]

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.

 

[Jules]

LOL yes, or a Super Cuts or an H & R Block. At least where I live.

LOL... makes me nervous eating at a Chinese restaurant that is next to a vet's office. I stick with veggie dishes.

 

[SeekingJana]

Maybe the Chinese restaurant needs to close its buffet.. I don't think they understand the concept as it exists here in the USA.

With that said, if they are first generation immigrees to the USA, then they have a much different perspective about eating than we who were born here do.
For example, a couple who are close friends with us were just kicked out of the Chinese baby adoption program. The reason? She is 5'6'' and weighs ?? She's not fat, but she's not thin either. She said that by the time she lost the weight they wanted her to weigh, she would be too old to adopt from China.
It gave me a whole new perspective on this discussion as it relates to the perception of weight and health, and maybe a difference in cultural communication and values.

I remember the first Christmas of a family who opened a Chinese restaurant in my hometown. They were so sweet. They had 2 very young children at the time and so they put up a tree and were decorating it. They put all the ornaments on the side of the tree facing the customers.
The tree was so heavy it was about to fall over.
I love that family and felt like a part of them for many years.. Let's try to see these restaurant owner's viewpoint as well as the men who wanted some more crab legs.
I know I have eaten crab legs til my fingers bled from cracking them open.. but it was at a bona fide seafood restaurant with an almost endless supply of fresh seafood. That makes a big difference.

 

[Floh]

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

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.

 

[Floh]

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 certainly don't feel you should feel bad at a cost of $41. good price for good sounding food.

 

[Floh]

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??

Oh dear — why did you have to do that to me! :hand:

 

[Mygirlsadie]

Ewww in reality we probably don't want to know what happens to the left overs!

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:

 

[pedinurse]

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

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!!

 

[pedinurse]

Ever notice there is a vet's office in the same strip center as every Chinese restaurant??? :waitasec:

That is so wrong! SHame on you!

 

[gardenmom]

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?

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.

 

[IndyLaw]

It seems to me that if the owner of the buffet wanted to refuse service to these men, it would have been more appropriate to do so at the beginning of their visit. If they visited 3x/week, the owners certainly had identified what they perceived to be a problem prior to this visit.

I personally love crab legs, and if they're on a buffet, you can bet I'm going to eat as many of them as I want to. I mean I can eat rice and lettuce at home! I eat them with only lemon juice - no butter - so they're low fat. I'm not overweight, but I can eat a lot of them.

The owners have the right to determine the parameters of their business, i.e. menu, pricing, refusing service. They don't have the right to present customers with a check double the posted price without any warning. I wouldn't pay it and would shout the place down if it happened to me.

I think it's stupid for the owners of this place to create a public relations nightmare with this situation. Certainly they make $$ on those who don't eat very much, so it's the same principle when they have some patrons who eat more than the value paid. If you're going to offer a buffet, you can't pick and choose who should pay more.

 

[mic730]

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.

Somehow I believe most of us have more in our lives to complain about. But I also believe most of us would not want to be humilated and presented with a bill more than the stated price no matter what our other life issues might be.
I do have some sympathy for these patrons.

 

[txsvicki]

I imagine the women employees were tiny compared to these oafs and had to try and diffuse the situation. It's really rude of these guys to go to a buffet and expect to be able to eat huge gobs of one expensive item and then to go and whine about it afterwards trying to ruin the business. The other patrons deserve to get servings and it's just common sense. Surely the word Buffet means to eat off the buffet, a reasonable amount and variety, and not just all you can eat expensive crab legs. They've probably done it before and will now move on to another restaurant.

 

[reportertype]

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.

Not to mention, if they guys are even a bit muscular, their BMIs are going to show that they're fatter than they truly are, which is why BMI isn't the best indicator of weight for everyone.