Family Kicked Out of Buffet Restaurant
 

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If what the restaurant says is true, then they had the right to kick them out, especially if they did it on repeated occasions.

Do you guys think they [the restaurant] were too harsh in evicting them out, or were their punishments justified?

Well, I can understand where the guys in the buffet are coming from, considering my background. However, I do think they should have refunded the meal, at least for the time where they were kicked out. Although, isn't the point of going to buffet to eat as much as you want? Then why do people take stuff that they won't be able to eat just to thrown away? I wonder sometimes.

Well, if they were as bad as they say, then I can understand. Not finishing everything on your plate is one thing, taking a full plate a food and barely eating any of it is just wasteful. I think if you're going to eat someplace, you do have to be considerate of others that are dining, whether that be by not talking loudly on your cellphone next to people having a conversation or not taking a large amount of food when you have no plans to eat it. If they don't know what they want, they could just take a plate with one of each thing and try each out, no sense taking 3 or 4 pieces of something and then even finishing one of them.

Then again, I hate to think of how much food these restaurants throw out at the end of each day anyway...

I wish more Restaraunts did this. Shit, what I REALLY wish is that restaraunts wouldn't have to do this because parents would teach their kids responsibility and maturity. Of course said parents would have to have those qualities themselves to teach them.

That's bullshit. BULLSHIT. Buffets are all you can eat for a reason: they're usually not as good as one stop food. Who can blame anyone when they don't like it? And as mentioned before, the point is to eat all you can and not only that, that you can taste whatever you want without worrying that you'll get stuck with food you don't wanna eat. If the case is that you don't like it, too bad; switch it out. Buffets know what they're going into; I bet this happens all the time. Maybe they like the egg roll, but they can't eat all of it. Some people can just take little bits of anything at a time. Does that really mean they can't take an egg roll because they know they won't finish it? Fuck, buffets suck.

Props to the restaurant workers. Wasting food like that is rude and stupid.

If what that article said is true and not over-exaggerated, then I believe that the family deserved it. Trying something and and not liking it is one thing, but taking one bite out of something and throwing out the whole plate makes no sense. The family could have taken one egg roll, for example, instead of 4, if they didn't feel like eating it all.

If they had seen her doing it multiple times it might have been an idea for the staff to explain to her that they didn't want to have her wasting food beforehand as opposed to waiting for her to spend money and THEN kick her out after she repeat offends.

I'd like to see pictures of this family. It might shed a little light on the issue. :P

On the other hand, I believe it was also the restaurant's responsibility to clearly post its policy on wasted food. The family had no way of knowing what they were doing was rude or impolite. At one Chinese restaurant I went to, there was a sign that said, "Take all you want, but eat all you take." Like the article says, buffets are all you can eat, not all you can waste.

There's a reseraunt in downtown toronto on church street that me and my gf went to for a sushi buffet - the deal was if there was anything left on your plate you had to pay for it, that's perhaps a little more fair then getting kicked out - but still, don't waste fucking food, there's less fortunate people out there.

I really understand can understand why they got kicked out.

I worked as a busboy in a Chinese restaurant. They had an all you can eat buffet featuring Crablegs. Going around and picking up plates only to see nibbled on food was very pleasent. I had to throw away so much food because people were simply nibbling off of so much and then tossing it aside. Especially the children. Seeing how much food was wasted just sickened me (that and the fact that I actually was picking up people's table waste).

I remember there use to be Crableg shortages at the resturant. A lot of people were getting mad because they could get the Crablegs (which was basically the only reason some of them came, especially the blacks). While going around picking up plates, I got to a table that had a whole bucket full of crablegs yet they only nibbled on 2 and left. So, basically, the people who actually needed the crablegs couldn't get it because of the wasteful people before them.

I've noticed at the restuarant that the majority of wasteful eaters were caucassion families.

Paying for what's left on the plate is highly intriguing! That's some good incentive.

I think that woman, from how it looks, might as well have taken the food straight from the tray and put it in the washroom garbage if she was being that wasteful. That's pretty sad to blame it on kids. If the kids are wasteful, then at least teach them not to be, and stomach the leftovers yourself!

I would be just a *hint* merciful, but not by much. If this happened 3 or so times, I would warn her, and then boot her the hell out if it happened again. It's really inconsiderate, and not to be overly critical, but I seriously can't fathom why she didn't think of people who aren't so lucky to be able to go to a buffet.

Americans are so fucking wasteful! My children were taught to eat what's on their plate...ESPECIALLY if they served themselves. :You know children" my ass. It's about time somebody took some action against picky, wasteful retards like these people. If the restaurant owners are really Chinese, they probably had about as much as they could take of us wasteful, spoiled Americans and just snapped.

Also, I like how this article proves my point that restaurant workers really do notice their guests and will start to get pissed off at repeat customers who are too demanding/don't tip/don't know how to conduct themselves in public.

I dunno, seems like that would encourage overeating instead...not everyone can estimate exactly how much they're going to eat. Then again, maybe it's not as much of an issue with something that comes in small portions like sushi.

There's a Japanese restaurant that I go to that charges extra for any sushi left uneaten. They're rather strict with the sushi, but not with any of the other dishes.

I've always been taught to eat everything on my plate, but I'm still not surprised that people can waste that much food.

That reminds me of the sushi buffet that I ate at yesterday, now that I think of it. The policy is that you can take your leftovers home, when you're full, but you have to pay extra for them. That's mostly to prevent you from ordering the whole menu and then taking it home for only 12.99+tax.

I think they stop coming to you when you order too much, or are perceived as wasteful, in order to deter you from decreasing their supply. :o

Well, just take a little of something and try it. If you like it and if you're still hungry, go take some more. If not, try something else.

They deserved it. Its a shame to see people waste so much food. I mean, one single bite? Come on.

Seriously though, who knows if the manager's being stingy and his idea of wasting is leaving a small pile of rice and some meat on a bone? If this policy was implemented everywhere, there'd be no reason to eat at buffets anymore. I'd rather pay for one really good dish than a bunch of subpar entrees.

This policy is pretty much everywhere. Every chinese buffet I've went to has signs up saying not to waste food. Also, it says they would take for egg rolls and some crab dish and then eat one bite of an egg roll. You can't tell me that taking 4 egg rolls, eating on bite out of one and throwing the rest away isn't wasteful. That is not being stingy on the managers part.

I hate it all to hell when I see people grab a ton of food, or order a ton of fast food, and then just leave 3/4ths of it and say "Oh I'm full now" like that.

People need to learn to manage their food consumption just as much as they need to learn how to manage their time. If you want to eat a little, order a little. If you want to eat a lot, order a lot and fucking eat it.

I side with the managers here as well. Paying for the food then throwing away 80% of it is not only disrespectful to the people that made the food, it's wasteful as fuck and you wonder how much people take food for granted. Imagine all the people that would kill to have even a little of what you've just tossed away.

Respect++ to any establishment that follows this.

It's one thing to taste something and not like it and another thing taking a crapload of food and throwing it all away. I agree with what the restaurant did.

This has got to be one of the stupidest things I've heard in a while. First off, they deserved to not get their money back, not because they wasted food, but because they were stupid enough to spend the money just to eat barely anything in the first place. Why even go to the buffet if you know you don't like anything there to begin with (and you know they knew, since they had been there multiple times)? These people are truly idiots.