Can seafood all-you-can eat buffet ask customers to leave because they eat too much?
on my local evening news earlier, they did a story about two men who were
asked to leave after they "ate too much" at a Chinese seafood all-you-can-eat
buffet restaurant. They apparently sat down when the restaurant opened at
5:30pm and continued eating until 8pm, at which time, the restaurant owner/
manager asked them to stop and leave. When they refused, the waitresses
and the manager started using bad language to insult them.(about their weight
which was just south of 250 pounds)
I'm no lawyer, but can restaurants actually do this? The definition of all-you-
can-eat is all-you-can-eat, right? On the other hand, I feel a little pain for
the restaurant owners. Those two guys reported at 17 and 22 1-pound lobsters
each, plus tons of sushi, steamed snow crabs, fried oysters, and of course other
Chinese dishes.
The seafood buffet was $32 per person. I checked out the restaurant's own
website and it clearly stated "ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT" with no disclaimer or fine
print.
In the end, cops showed up and the two guys paid their bills and left. I'm not
really sure if they left willingly or they just had enough.
Any lawyers out there who can tell me who was in the wrong in that incident?
On the other hand, I wonder if it was staged. The news report showed the
buffet and it looked great.. in fact, I think I'll take my family there for dinner
sometime next week. The negative publicity actually works in their favor if
I actually end up going there, no?