/link is hot like a warming pan

You been here four hour. You go now!

Eat vegetable!

I think buffets should weigh people when they come in, then weigh them on the way out, and charge a price per quarter pound gained. There would also be weigh-ins and weigh-outs at the bathrooms, so nobody could drop ballast before leaving. It would revolutionize the industry, and make for some grand entertainment as well.

Something smells fishy about raising prices while eating at a sushi bar.

Pocket Ninja:
I think buffets should weigh people when they come in, then weigh them on the way out, and charge a price per quarter pound gained. There would also be weigh-ins and weigh-outs at the bathrooms, so nobody could drop ballast before leaving.

You kind of stole Douglas Adams' joke...

Oh man let me suspend the SHOCK that this is an asian buffet. I've had to pay for the toilet paper I've used in some of the places.

Well to be fair their supply of food is going down while the demand remains steady. This is just the free market at work.

/voting?

Pocket Ninja: I think buffets should weigh people when they come in, then weigh them on the way out, and charge a price per quarter pound gained. There would also be weigh-ins and weigh-outs at the bathrooms, so nobody could drop ballast before leaving. It would revolutionize the industry, and make for some grand entertainment as well.

I see what you did there...

Did anyone read the article? It was a misleading sign. Businesses do it all the time. Don't like it? Do go back. If you were smart enough to see what was going on before you went in, you wouldn't have a problem. I hope the dumbass tag is for the people who complained.

reminds me of

reminds me of

And that is why I don't like buffets.

Apparently I am not smart enough to proofread my entry before clicking add comment.

I hate restaurants that charge different prices for the same thing just based on the time of day or day of the week.

/That's my entire contribution to this thread.
//Although I may add more after 5pm
///hey, voting goodness!

They alleged staff changed prices to Saturday rates during Friday lunch, but the restaurant said they counted Friday as part of the weekend and changed the menu on Thursdays.

My head asplode.

10 bucks is fine for a chinese buffet. If you aren't eating 10 bucks worth, you shouldn't go to a buffet in the first place imo!

NathanielTaggart: Did anyone read the article? It was a misleading sign. Businesses do it all the time. Don't like it? Do go back. If you were smart enough to see what was going on before you went in, you wouldn't have a problem. I hope the dumbass tag is for the people who complained.

??
The article seems to indicate that it wasn't a normal price change for the time of day - they posted new prices over the sign while people were already eating and didn't even inform customers who asked. I didn't realize customers were supposed to be psychic.

Satan's Superfluous Nipple: I hate restaurants that charge different prices for the same thing just based on the time of day or day of the week.

/That's my entire contribution to this thread.
//Although I may add more after 5pm
///hey, voting goodness!

Or age of the person. I've seen 8 year olds pile plate after plate up from the buffet and waste 80% of it, and they get charged half-price or less. I don't tend to stuff myself at buffets because I have something or the other wrong with my entrails. Pressure/pain below the left ribcage. Anyway, I eat like a bird at buffets unless they've got good ice cream. I get charged full price. And the old people with me...10% less for managing to live to 55? WTF?

/rant off
//ow
///vejb

At least it's not Zimbabwe.

/subby for President

No Such Agency: Pocket Ninja:
I think buffets should weigh people when they come in, then weigh them on the way out, and charge a price per quarter pound gained. There would also be weigh-ins and weigh-outs at the bathrooms, so nobody could drop ballast before leaving.

You kind of stole Douglas Adams' joke...

Still, not a bad idea.
I once took some karate students, including a 15-year old male, to a Sizzler featuring an all-you-can eat shrimp plate. After his third plate of shrimp, those employees were beginning to look awfully worried.

I've seen plenty of shenanigans in the restaurant industry - particularly in tourist areas where the owners know the business is one-time-only and not repeat customers.

Some friends and I once went into a bar for there "$4.00 margaritas", and the table ordered plenty. Got the bill for a whole bunch of $8 drinks. The huh? Went outside before saying anything just to be sure I'd read the sign right. $4 margaritas. I complained, and the waitress said "oh but you guys ordered *strawberry* margaritas. It wasn't as if the sign had advertised well drinks and we made them calls. The sign just said margaritas, not a particular flavor.

I don't complain a whole lot, but a double tab was a bit much.

we griped...and...they capitulated. Charged us for our $4 drinks. We left happy, though a bit saddened. They were good drinks, but we won't be back. Not going to see what they pull next.

NewportBarGuy: You been here four hour. You go now!

Eat vegetable!

I don't do well in lines.

/geting out of the line.

Before RTFA: "Lemme guess, large family (more than 6 members biatching), Chinese Buffet Restaurant, probably not in the US."

After RTFA: "WOW! Whaddaya know? I actually got 3 for 3 today!"

/Of course, after reading any of these articles, who didn't guess 3 for 3?
//Christ, I'm such a dork.

They are lucky this wasn't in America. A few patrons would have said "Okay, raise the price. I'm going back for more."

The restaurant would have had no inventory left. Nothing. Napkins would have been consumed out of spite.

I prefer the buffets that charge you before you eat, and will add things to the bill should you order more.

That said, I figure you're paying ten bucks for food that would cost your lazy ass three bucks a head to prepare yourself, you'd better have four plates worth. If you can't eat that much, don't go. (Unless you're with a large group where no two people are going to agree on one place, then you're paying for convenience.)

TheShavingofOccam123: Napkins would have been consumed out of spite.

That's often the most fiber you'll get at a buffet.

Smackledorfer: 10 bucks is fine for a chinese buffet. If you aren't eating 10 bucks worth, you shouldn't go to a buffet in the first place imo!

It is actual 10 British pounds which makes it a little over $14.

I have never had a problem with Buffets in Texas, mind you around here alot of places have a 90% mexican clientel. Its strange because the spice of choice suddenly becomes Jalepenos (cheap, mex approved).

A good lunch buffet in most places will run $6-8 bucks per person, but a couple of them run $10-12 with a price that changes every few hours, hell one of em even makes you pay up front for every person. Yea that ones a madhouse, 98% mexican clientel.

Who can afford restaurants these days?

UNC_Samurai: TheShavingofOccam123: Napkins would have been consumed out of spite.

That's often the most fiber you'll get at a buffet.

Pfffft...not really. The way Hubby eats, he doesn't need fiber! Those szechuan peppers and hot sauce (with the chicken on the bottle) go right through him!

And then he biatches at me because I want Krispy Kreme three hours later. That's where I get MY fiber, or at least that's what I tell myself.

/Mmmm...chocolate iced creme filled...nom nom nom...

As a health inspector I would discourage each and every one of you to avoid feeding troughs of any kind, but especially the Chinese variety.

Hehe... i've eaten there, got a great chocolate fondu fountain that you shove your masrhmellows and fruit on a stick onto... MMMmmm

Oh, and don't leave anything on your plate at that buffet... they will charge you a fee because its waste.

I am not kidding.

1 Go to Hometowm Buffet
2 Pay lunch price
3 Stay for dinner
4 fill wifes purse
5 eat the next day too

That's why you go where you pay first, then eat.

A hero has risen to solve this crisis...

... and guess what?





HE LOVES PANCAKES!!!

fat boy: 1 Go to Hometowm Buffet
2 Pay lunch price
3 Stay for dinner
4 fill wifes purse
5 eat the next day too

With a screen name like that I am sure you can eat the entire day, and still have room for dessert!
/Don't eat me!

I love Chinese buffets.

It's not good Chinese food.

But I like being able to get a little of everything.

Actually, I think it would be a big money-booster for a buffet with good selection. Think of it: $7.95 for two trips to the buffet (which covers a salad and a main course), $4.95 for each trip thereafter. We would have to work out what a "trip" was, and probably have buffet monitors, but it would be profitable.

/Voting on normal articles sucks. Vote for me if you agree!

Food_eater likes the seafood buffet at the Rio.

That's all.

This city/town seems to be a hotbed of British fun. Another headline on the page says:

TEENAGE pregnancy is rising 12 times faster in Bournemouth than the national average, shocking new figures have revealed.

What a fun place!

AAAAARRRR!

They're relentless eatin' machines!

DaShredda: I love Chinese buffets.

It's not good Chinese food.

But I like being able to get a little of everything.

I'm more about the mongolian grills.

If you're classless enough to eat at buffets, you get everything you deserve.

/diners are hot.

dahmers love zombie: Satan's Superfluous Nipple: I hate restaurants that charge different prices for the same thing just based on the time of day or day of the week.

/That's my entire contribution to this thread.
//Although I may add more after 5pm
///hey, voting goodness!

Or age of the person. I've seen 8 year olds pile plate after plate up from the buffet and waste 80% of it, and they get charged half-price or less. I don't tend to stuff myself at buffets because I have something or the other wrong with my entrails. Pressure/pain below the left ribcage. Anyway, I eat like a bird at buffets unless they've got good ice cream. I get charged full price. And the old people with me...10% less for managing to live to 55? WTF?

/rant off
//ow
///vejb

Birds eat, like half their body weight in food every day. So if you 'eat like a bird' and weigh 180, that means you eat 90 pounds of food every day.

DaShredda: I love Chinese buffets.

It's not good Chinese food.

But I like being able to get a little of everything.

Like a little salmonella, a little e-coli and a little of whatever the person ahead of you coughed into the egg foo yung?

We have a pretty decent Chinese buffet in town. They have a better than average variety, lots of seafood and crab legs at night. People watching is half of going there. There is always at least one fat guy in sweats trying to put the entire steam tray of crab legs on his plate. My favorite was the ignorant trailer trash that asked the very obviously asian guy working the mongolian grill if he was a Mexican illegal alien.

When I was in college, there was a place in nearby town that offered all you can eat prime rib. By our calculations, between the four of us we finished off 192 oz of beef. Good times.

/the place went out of business later that year, for some weird reason

Just about every buffet I've ever been to had you pay first ... then I read TFA ... Chinese ... makes sense now.

I had a buddy once that would be harassed by the local Chinese owner because he attacked buffet by taking a huge plate of one thing, then if he didn't like it, just setting it aside. So, I guess, the owner had a point.

/full now but will want to write another post in an hour

Gyrfalcon: Still, not a bad idea.
I once took some karate students, including a 15-year old male, to a Sizzler featuring an all-you-can eat shrimp plate. After his third plate of shrimp, those employees were beginning to look awfully worried.

My GF used to work at Crimson Crustacean, and they have a wonderful season called endlees shrimp sensation (or whateverr)

One gentleman, orded the shrimp (16 oz to start, comes w 2 oz drawn butter) every additional order of shrimp is 8oz w 2 oz butter. He Ordered 31 additional shrimp plates with an extra butter per order. And ate them all. 16.5 lbs shrimp. 4lbs butter.


Sarcastica75: /diners are hot.

The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No."

"The Cozy" up near Camp David charged a coworker for 2 buffets.

The logic? The price changed from lunch $ to Dinner $ while he was eating, therefore his second trip was a new meal.