Can seafood all-you-can eat buffet ask customers to leave because they eat too much?
Jan 17, 2016, 5:27 pm
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Jan 17, 2016, 5:28 pm
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Jan 17, 2016, 5:45 pm
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I work at a TGI Friday's and twice during our endless appetizer promotion we had customers eat until they threw up. They were asked to leave at that point but thankfully they were so embarrassed they went willingly.
Jan 17, 2016, 5:50 pm
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Jan 18, 2016, 8:08 am
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I like a buffet for the variety and Mrs BamaVol somewhat agrees. However, she is a lightweight eater - more in tune with small plates than heaping plates. She rarely goes back to the buffet for seconds. In truth, we both find AYCE gross because inevitably there is a table full of crass and greedy folk seated behind us. It makes me ill to even watch someone stuff themselves with my peripheral vision.
If I were designing an AYCE buffet, I would place the bathrooms in the lobby outside the dining room. The sign would say All You Can Eat Per Visit. Anyone leaving to use the bathroom would be charged a re-entry fee. It would be interesting to see how many people would wet or soil themselves rather than pay for a second seating. And you know some would.
If I were designing an AYCE buffet, I would place the bathrooms in the lobby outside the dining room. The sign would say All You Can Eat Per Visit. Anyone leaving to use the bathroom would be charged a re-entry fee. It would be interesting to see how many people would wet or soil themselves rather than pay for a second seating. And you know some would.
Jan 18, 2016, 10:04 am
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If I were designing an AYCE buffet, I would place the bathrooms in the lobby outside the dining room. The sign would say All You Can Eat Per Visit. Anyone leaving to use the bathroom would be charged a re-entry fee. It would be interesting to see how many people would wet or soil themselves rather than pay for a second seating. And you know some would.
Jan 18, 2016, 10:35 am
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The very worst is when morbidly obese parents waddle in their equally obese children and they all proceed to shovel large volumes of food into their faces. It's revolting.
Jan 18, 2016, 12:00 pm
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I've personally witnesses a couple of skinny ladies at a pricey AYCE buffet($40)
who went to the restroom to throw up.... then came back and ate a ton more
food... then repeated it again...
I didn't want to say anything because they were at my table(girlfriends of my co-workers)
Jan 18, 2016, 8:17 pm
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Been at a few buffets for 4 plus hours because we were just hanging out. Late afternoon, not very many people in the restaurant except us. We kept going to the ice cream bar and drink bar but most of us stopped eating within the first hour or so.
The time limit is just a way to control stupidity.
Jan 18, 2016, 8:44 pm
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I like buffets for the variety. I can see the food before I choose it, sample many different things, and go back for additional helpings of whatever's good.
I'd be a liar if I didn't acknowledge the AYCE nature, too, of course. I'm a big guy, and I when I walk into a buffet restaurant I've generally brought my A-game appetite. I always get my money's worth out of a buffet.
That said, there are a few things I don't do. For one, I don't eat until I'm sick. ...Okay, I used to do that occasionally when I was younger, but as I matured I recognized that being sick sucks.
Two, I don't heap my plates full with mounds and mounds of food. I mean, what's the point? Few buffets limit the number of plates you're allowed to have. Even with a big appetite I am full after 3-4 modestly portioned plates of food. I don't need to pile up stuff 6 inches deep on a single plate like some kind of hoarder. Besides, if I did all the tastes and textures would run together, half the stuff would be cold by the time I got to it. Keep it light, keep it fresh, only double down after finding out what's best.
I'd be a liar if I didn't acknowledge the AYCE nature, too, of course. I'm a big guy, and I when I walk into a buffet restaurant I've generally brought my A-game appetite. I always get my money's worth out of a buffet.
That said, there are a few things I don't do. For one, I don't eat until I'm sick. ...Okay, I used to do that occasionally when I was younger, but as I matured I recognized that being sick sucks.
Two, I don't heap my plates full with mounds and mounds of food. I mean, what's the point? Few buffets limit the number of plates you're allowed to have. Even with a big appetite I am full after 3-4 modestly portioned plates of food. I don't need to pile up stuff 6 inches deep on a single plate like some kind of hoarder. Besides, if I did all the tastes and textures would run together, half the stuff would be cold by the time I got to it. Keep it light, keep it fresh, only double down after finding out what's best.
Jan 18, 2016, 9:46 pm
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Jan 19, 2016, 6:14 am
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Jan 19, 2016, 7:39 am
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some Nevada legal brothels have free buffets in the lobby/bar area. there are no signs indicating "all you can eat" or a time limit... well.. it's not like the female workers there are offering "all you can #$%* night" (which may be extremely difficult to get my money's worth)
Jan 19, 2016, 8:27 am
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"seafood buffet" are the two most terrifying words in the english language.
although certain locations of todai weren't so bad (you had to be careful though). if you paid attention, you could tell the difference between decent seafood and the junk. of course, the staff knew too, and kept a close eye on anyone who took the good stuff. they also controlled it by limiting the amount they would put out.
i think they also threatened to charge you extra if you left rice on your plate, but i never saw it actually happen.
although certain locations of todai weren't so bad (you had to be careful though). if you paid attention, you could tell the difference between decent seafood and the junk. of course, the staff knew too, and kept a close eye on anyone who took the good stuff. they also controlled it by limiting the amount they would put out.
i think they also threatened to charge you extra if you left rice on your plate, but i never saw it actually happen.