Honestly, I don’t believe its fair to say “all you can eat” unless its true. Otherwise, you should put some type of detailed limit.

But attempts must have been made and probably continue.

  • JJROKCZ
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    172 years ago

    All you can eat for one meal, they can’t have you sitting there for 8 hours when you’re only going to be eating at most 2 of those 8. You’re taking up space that could be used by other guests if you’re just setting up camp in the restaurant

    • @[email protected]
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      102 years ago

      Most buffet restaurants get around this by closing for one hour between lunch and dinner, and/or a maximum time limit.

      • JJROKCZ
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        32 years ago

        One of the restaurants at my work does an all you can eat crab during some parts of the year. Really it’s all you can eat for 90 minutes, they even put a timer on your table lol

        • KrisNDOPM
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          12 years ago

          Whoa, too bad you don’t get a reward for finishing early like “Company Can Cozies if you finish 2 Platters of crab in 15 mimutes.” . I’d bet even for that the office would make it a competition.

  • @[email protected]
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    312 years ago

    I get what you’re saying OP, but ‘all you can eat’ doesn’t mean eat, digest for a few hours and go eat more…

    • KrisNDOPM
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      32 years ago

      Personally, raised with 5 other siblings, I don’t normally hold back so I’d be waddling out in 45 minutes flat questioning my life decisions for the following 18hrs.

      But I do know people who would try to take full advantage and try to time it for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

  • @[email protected]
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    42 years ago

    4 hours seem excessive. But I would not eat at a place that had me watch the wristwatch while I’m eating. I come to a restaurant to relax, socialize and eat well. Anyways, eating slowly would make me eat less, I think. Gives time for the full feeling to set in. I can normally throw in a lot of food if I do it fairly quickly.

    • KrisNDOPM
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      22 years ago

      I don’t know why your getting down voted…it’s pretty legit.

  • dinckel
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    52 years ago

    There have definitely been instances where I’ve stayed at a Chinese buffet for almost 3 hours, and they didn’t really care. I got my food, sat down to eat and relax, and we didn’t bother each other

  • @[email protected]
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    702 years ago

    I went with my Vietnamese colleague to an all you can eat sushi place in Savannah after we spent two weeks doing hurricane response when I was still in the Coast Guard. This dude ate 32 rolls of sushi, and the old lady running the place loved him. At a certain point, I think she just wanted to see how many it would take before he tapped out. I think I ate ten or twelve rolls, and just sat there in awe while the dude just kept shoveling food into his mouth. To be fair, we’d been working 20 hour days for two weeks and the ship was running out of food before we pulled into port.

    Later on, found out that same dude cheated on his wife, then found out his wife was pregnant, they tried to work it out, she had a miscarriage, and he filed for divorce two weeks later. Fun times

    • @[email protected]
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      62 years ago

      Imagine four guys that workout a lot, trying to gain mass after a cut, going to an all you can eat sushi place…

      The waitress was just laughing her ass off when passing by our table and seeing another order slip, we filled the table four times before we felt we had enough…

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        Oh I can imagine. Two young military officers coming off a few weeks at sea working 20+ hour days led to this story. We went back with more people the next day, and I thought we were gonna clear the place out

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        Honestly the rolls they were serving were at least double the size of most other places I’ve gone. Might’ve had something to do with the major hurricane that just rolled through tho

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      When you say roll, do you mean the entire cylinder of sushi?

      Or do you mean the bite sized circle of one sushi entree?

      I can’t imagine a person scarfing 30 cylinder entrees of sushi unless they’re a competitive eater or something. That’s nuts.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 years ago

        I’m wondering the same. 32 pieces of sushi is easy, I’ve done that many times in my life. 32 full rolls? Jesus. I think I’ve done 5 or 6 max.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 years ago

        Full roll, not just individual pieces. Most places I’ve been to have 4-7 pieces in a roll, this place had 10 or 12

    • Aviandelight
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      152 years ago

      I had a sushi binge once back in college. I went to eat lunch with my friends at the local Vietnamese place and we definitely overate. I was supposed to meet with my frat sponsor later that night and was worried that I might not get dinner before 9pm. Turns out my sponsor had planned to surprise me by taking me out to a fairly upscale sushi place for dinner since he knew I loved it. We get to the restaurant and he orders “the boat” which contains like 50+ pieces of sushi (for just the two of us). When the food came out I was worried I wouldn’t be able to eat but turns out I can make extra space for sushi. I demolished that boat and ate more than my sponsor. He was legit impressed when I finally admitted that I had eaten a big lunch before hand.

      • z500
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        22 years ago

        That second third was pretty good too, but it dropped off pretty quickly from there.

  • @[email protected]
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    102 years ago

    “You can’t make me stop. The sign says 'All you can eat for 16.99.”

    "Yes sir. 4 plates is all you can eat for $16.99.

    • KrisNDOPM
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      12 years ago

      Each plate you get a semi-perm tattoo on your hand to keep track.

  • @[email protected]
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    312 years ago

    There was an attempt to make a funny post by a person who doesn’t know this is a direct quote from a comedian.

    • KrisNDOPM
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      Could you cite the direct quote? Curious because I typed it up myself based on my own thought. The photo is more like a meme now.

      • 1ird
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        182 years ago

        John Pinette is who you’re looking for.

          • 1ird
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            42 years ago

            Sorry I couldn’t get you a link. I was in a hurry when I replied.

  • TomMasz
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    22 years ago

    My school has labeled the main cafeteria “All You Care to Eat”, which I still think has a loophole.

  • @[email protected]
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    82 years ago

    what did you do after you left the all you can eat buffet?

    We pretty much went straight home.

    Mrs Simpson, may I remind you that you are under oath.

    We drove around for 4 hours looking for another all you can eat seafood buffet

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    Imagine if you will…

    A society so morally bankrupt…

    That a sign like this is necessary.

    😂

    • Richard
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      12 years ago

      Do you want to suggest that all Chinese people are morally bankrupt?!?

      • @[email protected]
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        122 years ago

        I don’t think Chinese clients are the issue when it comes to abusing all you can eat places…

      • @[email protected]
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        52 years ago

        I think they’re referring to people who set up camp at a table or two at these all you can eat buffets.

        They typically sit at a larger area (normally next to the television), and are usually accompanied by children or infants.

        They stay for hours on end and will occasionally get up to grab more food.

        I don’t see how anyone can do that to themselves. Imagine sitting at a restaurant all day watching daytime television and eating food, my ass is hurting just thinking about it.

        I love a good buffet and can put one out of business with the amount I eat at one, but I can’t see myself being at a table or in a booth for more than an hour.