/Will never be able to eat there.

See, this is how all buffets should charge. You step on the scales before, you eat, you step on the scales after. Your charge would be based on the total change. And no bathroom trips allowed between weigh-ins.

mcwebe0: /Will never be able to eat there.

Every time I see that picture, I throw up in my mouth, a little.

Skail: mcwebe0: /Will never be able to eat there.

Every time I see that picture, I throw up in my mouth, a little.

Glad I could help you start off your day right.

"I might save a few pounds on it but think about the feelings that the child has, being weighed in front of all the other people who are staring at them and if they're at all self-conscious they will be extremely upset.

They should just stop being fat.

Well this would definitely bring down the cost of living in the West as apposed to the South. ;)

didn;t read the article but i can guarantee that this is a chinaman's restaraunt. at least if it was canada it would be anyway

Big deal. Ground Round used to do this for kids meals. I don't remember anyone causing a fuss over it.

Heck, they still might. All the ones where I used to live closed ages ago.

blessthe40oz: "I might save a few pounds on it but think about the feelings that the child has, being weighed in front of all the other people who are staring at them and if they're at all self-conscious they will be extremely upset.

They should just stop being fat.

Seriously. Unless you're Samoan, have thyroid issues* or are a sumo wrestler, stop making farking excuses.

* Actually diagnosed by a proper M.D., not checking symptoms online like "Putting on weight easily"

Get thy ass to the gym, fatty. 99% of the people there will respect you for it, and will happily beat sense into that douchey 1%. Everyone hates the roid-raging meatheads.

Pocket Ninja, you just blew my mind.

Pocket/Panda '08
- Because you shouldn't be able to eat all the crab legs you want for $6.95!

i'm driving my life away: didn;t read the article but i can guarantee that this is a chinaman's restaraunt. at least if it was canada it would be anyway


Don't be such a twat. Of course it's a honkey restaurant, white kids would eat dog food if it came with a free toy.

As a "reformed fatty" I say, f*ck off, dumbass restaurant. Seriously.

Fat people know they are fat. You aren't springing anything new on them. They have mirrors in their homes, and they work. Shame does not get people to lose weight. It's hard to say what does, but I can tell you for a fact shame does not. It just makes them stay away from your restaurant. Which is what these bozos deserve.

I worked my way through college in a place that had a kids promotion on Tuesdays called Penny a Pound. Yep, they weighed the kids under 12, and if they ordered off the kids menu, they paid a penny per pound. So if your kid weighed 51 lbs, you paid 51 cents. No kids ever had a problem getting weighed.

Gawd I hated those nights.

They'd go broke in Chicago.

GungFu: i'm driving my life away: didn;t read the article but i can guarantee that this is a chinaman's restaraunt. at least if it was canada it would be anyway


Don't be such a twat. Of course it's a honkey restaurant, white kids would eat dog food if it came with a free toy.

And they will almost certainly get dog food in a Chinese restaurant.

Kids have no excuse to be as fat as they are. I remember all the crap I ate as a kid (candy, etc) and I never got fat, because when you are young, and at all active, you don't lapse into obesity.


I hope to god this crap stops. Kids are sickeningly fat.

Frying Dutchman?

/DNRTFA

Leopard: Big deal. Ground Round used to do this for kids meals. I don't remember anyone causing a fuss over it.

Heck, they still might. All the ones where I used to live closed ages ago.

All the Ground Rounds closed around here as well.
/Nostalgia.

Bored Horde: blessthe40oz: "I might save a few pounds on it but think about the feelings that the child has, being weighed in front of all the other people who are staring at them and if they're at all self-conscious they will be extremely upset.

They should just stop being fat.

Seriously. Unless you're Samoan, have thyroid issues* or are a sumo wrestler, stop making farking excuses.

* Actually diagnosed by a proper M.D., not checking symptoms online like "Putting on weight easily"

Get thy ass to the gym, fatty. 99% of the people there will respect you for it, and will happily beat sense into that douchey 1%. Everyone hates the roid-raging meatheads.

I understand what you are saying. But, you also have to consider that once you get passed a certain point (let's say 100lbs over weight), the health issues you encounter make the loss-struggle 80% harder.

/Knows. Is a former fatty.
/Had lap-band.

ciocia: Fat people know they are fat. You aren't springing anything new on them. They have mirrors in their homes, and they work. Shame does not get people to lose weight. It's hard to say what does, but I can tell you for a fact shame does not. It just makes them stay away from your restaurant. Which is what these bozos deserve.

Take the business owner's perspective. He can go off the assumption that most people will gorge themselves with 2 plates of food, and "big boned" people will gorge themselves on 4+ plates of food. Then he has to figure out what his price point will be to keep turning a profit, and has to determine if his competitors are above or below that.

Or, he can price based on weight. You can't claim discrimination when everyone gets put into his pricing formula. If you are so mortified about your weight, well, it might be time to start following that advice that your doctor has been desperately trying to get you to follow at last.

1 pound per stone?

Now if only my urologist would give me such a deal!!!

/got nuthin

ciocia: It just makes them stay away from your restaurant. Which is what these bozos deserve.

I'm sure that the restaurant will be upset if customers that eat enough for 4 people stop coming in.

Pocket Ninja [TotalFark] Quote 2008-08-24 09:48:04 AM
See, this is how all buffets should charge. You step on the scales before, you eat, you step on the scales after. Your charge would be based on the total change. And no bathroom trips allowed between weigh-ins.

They would have a big problem with all the sand on the floor.

(If you read any books about WWII prisoner of war escapes, one of the tricks to digging tunnels was to put the dirt in specially-constructed pockets that reached down to the ankles. The helpers would then stroll around the camp, letting dirt out and kicking it in with the other dirt, so that the guards wouldn't notice the dug-out dirt.)

Pocket Ninja: See, this is how all buffets should charge. You step on the scales before, you eat, you step on the scales after. Your charge would be based on the total change. And no bathroom trips allowed between weigh-ins.

"...any net imbalance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete whilst in the restaurant is surgically removed from your bodyweight when you leave: so every time you go to the lavatory there it is vitally important to get a receipt."

/slight rephrase

Swizzle Dick: GungFu: i'm driving my life away: didn;t read the article but i can guarantee that this is a chinaman's restaraunt. at least if it was canada it would be anyway


Don't be such a twat. Of course it's a honkey restaurant, white kids would eat dog food if it came with a free toy.

And they will almost certainly get dog food in a Chinese restaurant.


I've ate dog. It tastes like chicken; still better than McDonalds.

Bored Horde: ciocia: Fat people know they are fat. You aren't springing anything new on them. They have mirrors in their homes, and they work. Shame does not get people to lose weight. It's hard to say what does, but I can tell you for a fact shame does not. It just makes them stay away from your restaurant. Which is what these bozos deserve.

Take the business owner's perspective. He can go off the assumption that most people will gorge themselves with 2 plates of food, and "big boned" people will gorge themselves on 4+ plates of food. Then he has to figure out what his price point will be to keep turning a profit, and has to determine if his competitors are above or below that.

Or, he can price based on weight. You can't claim discrimination when everyone gets put into his pricing formula. If you are so mortified about your weight, well, it might be time to start following that advice that your doctor has been desperately trying to get you to follow at last.

OR, you could do what some college cafeterias do and weigh the plate(s) of food. Then you are charging people for what they use, not all the food they ate for their lifetimes.

embra1: I understand what you are saying. But, you also have to consider that once you get passed a certain point (let's say 100lbs over weight), the health issues you encounter make the loss-struggle 80% harder.

/Knows. Is a former fatty.
/Had lap-band.

I also get where you're coming from, but you start losing weight from that level of obesity by restricting yourself to a good diet and going for walks.

The other problem is people's idea that this is somehow a quick process. It takes 2+ months to fully heal something as trivial as a fractured bone, why do people think its going to be a quick process to lose 30 pounds? Feh, America.

Bored Horde: ciocia: Take the business owner's perspective. He can go off the assumption that most people will gorge themselves with 2 plates of food, and "big boned" people will gorge themselves on 4+ plates of food. Then he has to figure out what his price point will be to keep turning a profit, and has to determine if his competitors are above or below that.

Or, he can price based on weight. You can't claim discrimination when everyone gets put into his pricing formula. If you are so mortified about your weight, well, it might be time to start following that advice that your doctor has been desperately trying to get you to follow at last.

I have known skinny people who can pig out on 4+ plates of food and not gain a pound.

/hates those people.

GungFu: Swizzle Dick: GungFu: i'm driving my life away: didn;t read the article but i can guarantee that this is a chinaman's restaraunt. at least if it was canada it would be anyway


Don't be such a twat. Of course it's a honkey restaurant, white kids would eat dog food if it came with a free toy.

And they will almost certainly get dog food in a Chinese restaurant.


I've ate dog. It tastes like chicken; still better than McDonalds.

No. You ate dog because it was all that was available. You would have sucked a dick for a Big Mac.

BTW, TFA doesn't say anything about this being a buffet or an all-u-can-eat place

embra1: I have known skinny people who can pig out on 4+ plates of food and not gain a pound.

/hates those people.

I bet those people are really active.

I also bet those people are going to have a big shock when they hit middle age.

Swizzle Dick: GungFu: Swizzle Dick: GungFu: i'm driving my life away: didn;t read the article but i can guarantee that this is a chinaman's restaraunt. at least if it was canada it would be anyway


Don't be such a twat. Of course it's a honkey restaurant, white kids would eat dog food if it came with a free toy.

And they will almost certainly get dog food in a Chinese restaurant.


I've ate dog. It tastes like chicken; still better than McDonalds.

No. You ate dog because it was all that was available. You would have sucked a dick for a Big Mac.

...and the dick would have been tastier.

I have known skinny people who can pig out on 4+ plates of food and not gain a pound.

Yeah, because we move our asses on a semi-regular basis.

It's trivial to not be fat. Eat reasonable meals and exercise. There's no excuse.

Bored Horde:
I also get where you're coming from, but you start losing weight from that level of obesity by restricting yourself to a good diet and going for walks.

The other problem is people's idea that this is somehow a quick process. It takes 2+ months to fully heal something as trivial as a fractured bone, why do people think its going to be a quick process to lose 30 pounds? Feh, America.

AMEN! It's taken me 2 years to lose 112lbs. It's not fast. It's time-consuming and annoying. I know a chick who complains about her weight everyday, yet - ate a snickers bar in front of me while I ate nothing but a slim-fast on my pre-op diet. "God, I need to lose weight.." all she talked about.

Put the farkin' snickers DOWN.

Bored Horde: embra1: I have known skinny people who can pig out on 4+ plates of food and not gain a pound.

/hates those people.

I bet those people are really active.

I also bet those people are going to have a big shock when they hit middle age.

Yeah. My brother was one of those. He was a real smart-ass when I was fat. Now he has to watch his weight, just like me :D

schezar: It's trivial to not be fat. Eat reasonable meals and exercise. There's no excuse.

Fatties have 1001 excuses why they are fat, and the truth is that they just don't do anything physically active.

why you bring farkin seal?

TimonC346: Kids have no excuse to be as fat as they are. I remember all the crap I ate as a kid (candy, etc) and I never got fat, because when you are young, and at all active, you don't lapse into obesity.


I hope to god this crap stops. Kids are sickeningly fat.

That's because your parents probably just kicke dyour ass outside, as opposed to buying you a 360/PS3/Wii/laptop that allows you to hole up in your room all day in the dark, gaining weight and losing pigmentation.

schezar: I have known skinny people who can pig out on 4+ plates of food and not gain a pound.

Yeah, because we move our asses on a semi-regular basis.

It's trivial to not be fat. Eat reasonable meals and exercise. There's no excuse.


triv·i·al
Pronunciation:
\ˈtri-vē-əl\
Function:
adjective
Etymology:
Latin trivialis found everywhere, commonplace, from trivium crossroads, from tri- + via way

/Srsly, you're using the word incorrectly

blessthe40oz:
Fatties have 1001 excuses why they are fat, and the truth is that they just don't do anything physically active.

I agree. You also have to consider that most people never see themselves how others see them. Honestly, scales told me one thing - but I never saw myself that big.

Me, btw

A restaurant can charge what ever to whom ever they wish. If you don't like the prices then don't dine there.

i'm driving my life away: didn;t read the article but i can guarantee that this is a chinaman's restaraunt. at least if it was canada it would be anyway

What the fark are you talking about? The chinaman is not the issue here, IDMLA. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand. Across this line, you do not... Also, IDMLA, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.

peon36: TimonC346: Kids have no excuse to be as fat as they are. I remember all the crap I ate as a kid (candy, etc) and I never got fat, because when you are young, and at all active, you don't lapse into obesity.


I hope to god this crap stops. Kids are sickeningly fat.

That's because your parents probably just kicke dyour kicked your ass outside, as opposed to buying you a 360/PS3/Wii/laptop that allows you to hole up in your room all day in the dark, gaining weight and losing pigmentation.

FTFM

mcwebe0

BEEFCAKE!

cksewell: A restaurant can charge what ever to whom ever they wish. If you don't like the prices then don't dine there.

Yea, if you charge people based on weight. They probably won't eat there.

it's not like they're talking about weighing *everybody* - it's a kids meal. The food court at the mall does it once a week. If the kid doesn't want to be weighed, the full kid's meal price is charged

methinks the National Obesity Forum needs to get over themselves

Leopard and MNguy:

Oh yes. My brothers and I used to go to the Ground Round in La Crosse, Wisconsin, every Sunday afternoon with our dad.

Big-screen football. Free baskets of shell-on peanuts. You were supposed to throw the peanut shells on the floor...

Good times.

I wish my government had control over how much I eat. Please, we need controlled.

/I can eat 50 rangoons

"But I want fried chicken!!!"

i'm driving my life away: didn;t read the article but i can guarantee that this is a chinaman's restaraunt. at least if it was canada it would be anyway

RTFA. It's a 5-star hotel in Yorkshire. Privileged snowflakes should learn early, "you can never be too thin or too rich."