Originally Posted by
Often1
It is none of the staff's business nor is it any of your business. Why does it matter to you whether the 10 people in front of you each took 1 of the item and there were 10 in the dish OR there is 1 person and he takes all 10?
The staff's business is to refill the empty dish and your business is to take what you want from that refilled dish.
If a dish is empty and staff are not moving to refill it, point that out to the staff.
There's a salad bar at one of the local grocery stores. It has many fine ingredients and almost always there is a container of bacon, the finest bacon I've ever had. My salad can be as much as 15-20% bacon and sometimes that means emptying the pan. Does that make me a hog? If there's a store employee nearby, I will alert them to the empty pans. If not, I do not go out of my way. I figure their job is to check regularly.