Don’t advertise “all you can eat”? Either fat people can’t read and think it says, eat all you can, or they are just GLUTTONS. You fat people got yourselves to the oaf position you are in and your too damn lazy to try to lose weight. Yet your willing to expend energy on dumb blog sites like these and waste your ambition on campaigns to accept your rolls and unsightly looks.

I DO give props to those who work at losing weight.. It takes time though and perseverance. Most people these days want instant gratification. thats NOT how everything works even though our system today caters to that attitude. I give 25% blame to society for fat people. The rest of the 75% is on THEM.

Apparently the fatter you get, the quicker your IQ drops. So so sad.

I MUST reiterate this though, BUFFET IS NOT HEALTHY TO BEGIN WITH. Doesn’t take a rocket scientist, GLUTTONS!!!!

( and fat people go ahead and make yourselves feel better by replying with angry blogs, your just lowering IQ that much more when you do :) )

People really do take advantage of the buffet, and most of the culprits I’ve seen are older people who go with their senior or church groups. Not only do they eat a lot while they’re there, they also get several carry out boxes as well. I guess they are getting to go so they can stretch their meals out for a few days or a week. If you’re on a tight budget, I can see why they do that though.

I know buffets that have changed the phrase from “all you can eat” to “all you care to eat.” Maybe all buffets should do that, or as someone else said, make more expensive foods an extra charge.

What really appalls me here is that the guys actually seem to have no shame whatsoever over what they were doing. I mean, the article has a quote from the person involved saying that they would deplete the seafood and that the cooks only grudgingly made more? WTF? There is no shame there- and the restaurant isn’t under any obligation that I know of to refill that particular section of the buffet if they’ve already used up what they planned for for a particular day.

Now, that’s just for that particular case. I know most restaurants (all u can eat & non) do have notices posted- not huge in your face ones, but usually somewhere behind the cash register- stating that they reserve the right to, well, ask you to leave. You run into that at a buffet, you run into that at a restaurant that is busy for lunch. They don’t want you sitting around nursing your free refills for too long, especially if they need seats or something like that.

I think if a restaurant says “all you can eat” they should mean it, but I also think that they have a right to defend themselves if people don’t have the common decency to not take insane advantage of that.

Also, the buffets with the “expensive” foods drive me buggy, especially if it is something like crab legs (seems to be a popular one)- because I swear, everyone there is after that ONE THING and it’s like fighting hyenas to get the stuff when it finally gets refilled.

Hopefully I haven’t rambled on too much on this.

It really doesn’t apply in this case, but as an aside, I will always make fun of poor grammar, regardless of gender, race, creed or sexual orientation. I’m very equal opportunity that way.

That said, it sounds like the men were knowingly abusing the restaurant’s offer (and had been for some time — the article mentioned them visiting up to three times per week) and got pissed when the place called them on it. That doesn’t justify the wait staff being rude to them, but the men’s behavior went well beyond obnoxious, regardless of their size.

I guess my point is that we need to separate the fat acceptance element from the “people being assholes” element. I honestly think that the restaurant *would* notice if a thin person came in three times per week and at five plates of seafood at a crack, for example. (See above regarding advertising, however.) Yes, the wait person made the horrible fat remark, and that’s wrong. But the guys were being jerks (starting a fight over the bill, being demanding) and that’s wrong too.

Yeah I get it, some comedian did it as stand-up, and I don’t know your headline is from that comedy routine or what, but this strikes me as one of those unneccessary jabs that’s also a bit hypocritical. Hey, you can’t make fun of fat people, but you can make fun of Chinese people’s grammar! Isn’t the point of your post that discrimination sucks? Should go both ways.

Chuffed…I think you made me wet my pants a little from laughing so hard.

Also, I agree, best headline ever.

Ideally I’d like restaurants to have the right to run things how they please (and to go out of business when the negative publicity they engender by being pricks works its magic) but the fact is that under the laws we actually have, they aren’t allowed to discriminate against people of color, the disabled, women, etc. There is NO excuse whatsoever for discriminating any group. What’s next, throwing out women who breastfeed? Oh, wait. But seriously, I’d like to see some real protesting about things like this – this fat-hatred and phobia is getting way out of hand, and it’s scary. And I know what the usual excuses are, “But being black or Hispanic isn’t a choice, and being fat is, therefore discrimination is OK.” No on both counts. No, no, hell no. At any rate, THEY advertised “all you can eat” and that’s their tough crapola if they think it’s hurting them financially to deliver just that. If they want caveats to the “all-you-can-eat” policy, then they need to CLEARLY advertise the caveats and enforce them at the door before they let people in. They’ll soon find people turn away in droves when they do.

One last thing, my husband and I went to Sizzler once (ugh, and never again considering how horrible the food was) because we had coupons. One was for all-you-could-eat fried shrimp. So they delivered a tea-saucer sized plate of tiny fried shrimp with the meal, and it was slightly piled in the middle. I was like “Ok, we’ll certainly be getting more,” and when we asked for the second plate the waitress was visibly annoyed. She brought us a second plate, with about half the amount on the same sized plate. When we asked for another, she actually harrumphed aloud, and threw down another small plate with just a smattering of shrimp on one side of it. Well, I didn’t even bother complaining since most of the food was so crappy I didn’t want coupons or something, but if we’d been tempted to go back, we wouldn’t have anyway. All-you-can-eat is just not always what they really mean. We could have eaten a decent-sized platter of those things, most likely, but they had no intention of really letting you eat what you could. Jerks.