This site puts a 3 oz. Porterhouse steak at 291 calories and 23.4 grams of fat, so let’s see… 70 ounces rings in at around 6789 calories and 546 grams of fat. (Not to mention the sides and cheesecake.)
Yes, that would definitely be something to see.
Some weird sentiments in this thread. “All you can eat” is a challenge? OK, so maybe you eat 22 bucks worth of food and pay 11. Good for you. Now you have a couple pounds of deep-fried discomfort settling in your gut. You really showed them.
Personally, I’d be embarrassed to eat more than I really wanted for that meal. The buffet is nice, you get to try a few different things. Get some more if you still feel hungry. But to force down another plate just to be sure I was getting a deal? No thanks. Not for me.
I’ve watched the waitresses at the Chinese buffet. If you saw the look on their faces when they cleared away your fifth plate, you might not feel so good about your accomplishment.
What I like about going to a buffet is going at off hours and taking my time. I bring a good book and idle away 2 hours. Yes, I eat too much but I don’t gorge myself to bursting either. I also only do that maybe once a month. My only other “AYCA” splurge is a Sushi place that has AYCE sushi for lunch.
It never occurred to me until this thread that a full person would eat food he didn’t want just to make the buffet price a better value.
Generally, all you can eat is the standard for buffets around here. I only really go to the Indian buffet anymore, since it’s the only one that’s any good (the others are “Old Country Buffet” type places, steakhouses, or the Asian buffets that suck so much… AYCE sushi, ha! Not here). The place I go to has shifted through many owners, and one of them put up a sign briefly that limited to 2 trips. It’s gone now, but the owners still seem to be the same.
The etiquette seems to be, take a plate, maybe two. Three is pushing it. Anything past that would be pretty unreasonable. I can eat but not so much at once! I’ve gone in very hungry and two plates is about all I can muster, and I am not slim by any means. I usually get a plate, then go back for a few nibbles of the stuff that was particularly good.
Back when I was in college, it was more the norm to go to a buffet and cram it down. The amount a college-age boy can put down when trying is nothing short of amazing, but I’ve never seen anyone get over 5 plates of food. I mean, damn.
I think it’s wrong to clean out a entire bin of food when there are other customers - the sign doesn’t say “all that you and you alone can eat”. Personally, I don’t see the sense of it - I like buffets because they have a variety of food so it seems foolish to me for somebody to eat five pounds of a single item. And I really can’t see why anyone would want to eat so much food that it’s painful. But if you don’t mind people around you comparing you to Homer Simpson or Mr Creosote, you have a legal right to eat as much food as you can until you can no longer move or death ensues.
I don’t go to All You Can Eat places because normal portions ARE all I can eat. If you are going to offer it, you should know that your clientele are fat pigs, suck it up and deal with it.
What is it that Dogbert said?
“It’s all you CAN eat, not all you DO eat”
When I was in college, we were fond of an AYCE Mongolian Barbecue place. (It used to be located much closer to the college, but just as I started school there, it moved about ten miles away, which was probably in its own best interest.) This is much better than the average buffet…you fill your plate with fresh ingredients (the meat is frozen for food safety reasons) and take it up to the cooks who cook it right in front of you. It cost about $10 at the time, so the idea was to eat as little as possible throughout the day so that you could get your money’s worth. No one ever told us not to eat so much, or looked at us in particular disgust.
70oz of beef? That’s half a week’s meat for a family of four! :eek:
Actually, Old Country Buffet is one of my favorite places in the world - before I got with Mr2U I’d take the child to it almost every weekend - for breakfast you couldn’t beat it.
I haven’t been back to one though for maybe 10 years. I tried it once for lunch - eh - not so good. But breakfast - yum - it’s all about the AYCE breakfast!!