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In reply to the discussion: 350-pound man calls police after all-you-can-eat restaurant cuts him off [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)stuffing your gut.
It means you can fill your plate a couple or three times.
Yes, it has EVERYTHING to do with other customers. That is part of what has gone wrong in this country. No consideration or even acknowledgement of others. It's a business. There will be many customers. The business will have prepared a finite amount of food. One person cannot sit there for hours and eat it ALL. That is NOT what "all you can eat" means.
Maybe restaurants should start cutting people with problems off, like bars too, when a customer has had too much to drink. Maybe restaurants should start refusing to serve people with food addictions more than three servings of fattening foods, because they've had too much to eat and are out of control.
You guys apparently don't frequent "all you can eat' salad bars. There is often a limit to the number of times you can go back to fill 'er up. "All you can eat" means you can pile your plate up once or twice. The end. Period. It does NOT mean you can pile your plate up with ALL the chicken in the salad bar, and keep going back to gobble up all the replenished chicken, leaving none for anyone else.
I guess the man with the food addiction thought "all you can eat" means literally all you can stuff in your gut over an extended period of time. That is not what it means.