I’ve been to Chuck-a-Rama on many occasions myself, and it’s always been AYCE. They do have a sign at the exit stating that you’re not allowed to take any food off of the premises, but that’s it.
I was talking about Taisho in Davie in Broward County, actually. I don’t know exactly WHERE I was in Davie because friends took me, and I live further south, in South Miami. But there’s another Taisho in Coral Gables I know of, so it could be the same “chain” you went to in Boca.
Yeah, it is Taisho. I didn’t know it was a chain!
1) A “no carb” diet is a fatal one. Carbohydrates are essential to survival.
Would you READ THE BOOK before you pop off with ignorant statements like that one? Please?
If it was AYCE, the restaurant should just suck it up, or maybe offer them some free drinks, in the hope that the gas would fill them up. EXCEPT if they were inconveniencing other customers (example: I went to an AYCE pizza and pasta buffet the other day and there were a couple of lads who were taking five or six slices of the same pizza each, on every visit, leaving none for the customers behind them in the line).
waterj2 - good point - seems that some people interpret the whole Atkins/Low carb thing as “honey, it says we have to eat a metric fucktonne of meat” - it is a sign of the apocalypse, I’m sure.
If you could snarf a “Peep”, I would have after reading that. Pure brilliance.
Please tell me that someone submitted “hypnotic meat trance” as a band name.
In my experience, buffet roast beef slices are about as thick as a page of cheap copier paper.
Either way I don’t see enough information here to really know who was in the wrong.
Roughly 60-70% of any given piece of sushi is rice. The rest is shrimp, crab, eel, fish, whatever. Rice is cheap and filling. The seafood isn’t nearly so cheap or filling. What the sushi buffets are trying to discourage is people taking items and eating just the comparatively expensive goodies on top of the rice and leaving the rice.
The restaurants’ position (and IMO, it’s a valid one) is that a piece of sushi includes the rice, and to not eat the rice and take more than would if you were eating the entire item is cheating. A rough corrollary would be going to an AYCE spaghetti dinner and taking plate after plate and eating just the meatballs and leaving the spaghetti.
There was a KFC buffet in my college town that maintained a blacklist. My ex-boyfriend and his roomate were on it. A lot of college students would get stoned and go clean them out of chicken. The two of them got on it after consuming 15 breasts and a dozen drumsticks of fried chicken in one sitting. They weren’t asked to leave, but when done were asked never to come back-- and were refused service at the buffet from then on.
I think that “All you can eat” means “within reason, no Sumo wrestlers!” In EVERY buffet that I’ve ever been to, there’s never just roast beef for the entree, there’s usually other main dishes. Things like meatloaf, enchiladas, fried chicken, some sort of fish, stuff like that. I don’t think that buffets plan on people eating much more that double the amount of a normal meal. While I’ve never been to a Chuck-A-Rama, every buffet that I’ve ever been to has always served me more than 4 ounces of roast beef per serving, unless I specifically ask for a very small slice.
Here’s another article which explains:
Given this additional information, I don’t think that the manager was really as out of line as the original story makes him appear. To me, it looks like this couple was abusing the restaurant’s buffet. I also don’t think that they are really on the Atkins diet. I think they just like roast beef, and wanted to fill up on only roast beef.
I don’t really have a problem with stuffing yourself with the premium goods at a buffet. I don’t usually go to buffets anymore since my metabolism slowed in my mid twenties, but I will still go to Brazilian Churrascarias, and sushi buffets.
At the churrascarias, I avoid the salad bar and and the cheaper cuts of meat that I normally eat at home for the better cuts of meat that they have. I still remember the time I went to one with a friend of mine and we proceeded to stay there for about 90 minutes just eating. he had just started Atkins, and we ate until the point of collapsing into a meat coma.
Can’t you just get sashimi at those? The one I used to go to would offer sashimi.
From a story in today’s (Salt Lake) Deseret News
The company held a press conference yesterday to “apologize” to the couple, but the couple did not show up at the press conference or the scheduled meeting. However, it still sounds like more of a non-apology to me.