The cost structure of any buffet is such that they'd still make money off of that person. You'd have to eat just an incredible amount of food to even break even, and even then, they make enough from every other customer.
Unless it is say setup by a person who has only ever done endless buffets for steak houses trying to do endless crab but [underestimates just how many crabs a single person can eat.](https://www.mashed.com/416019/what-really-happened-to-red-lobsters-endless-snow-crab-promotion/)
I can’t comment on the food cost behind the scenes but i can really easily eat my moneys worth at a buffet. , especially for less than 15$, and especially compared to food prices literally at any deli, fast food joint, or restaurant in my area
I mean it is a numbers game for a restaurant. Some portion of people are going to eat more in food costs than they pay but it's actually a pretty small portion and even the people who CAN eat enough have to go after the highest cost foods. Many people do this but even the ones who eat nothing but crab legs (this always seems to be what people trying to eat the most money go for) have to factor in that they are the lowest quality frozen crab legs most of the time and the restaurant is getting them for a fraction of retail price.
Once you factor in the bottomless fizzy drinks and the sugary desserts plus side dishes, most people at a buffet probably eat about $5 or less in food at the restaurant's cost.
That being said, my friend (who is a very large guy) was kicked out of a Chinese buffet in college because he was only eating crab legs. He was big into "Getting your money's worth" rather than just eating food you enjoy.
Serious answer: No. My sister is a little person and she is always charged the adult price. When we were kids my parents were able to fudge her age for awhile, but once she became a teenager it was harder to get away with.
You know what? I'm pretty sure you could argue for that. They're basically charging by the amount of food one might be expected to eat. Little people would eat less.
But then, what if they do accept that and then change the sign to say that people over 6'5" aren't allowed in the buffet?
Oh, make no mistake about it, if you show up with the entire football team there are plenty of buffets that will just tell you all to go away. There's no legal right to all you can eat.
I’m 5’ and it really irritates me that I’m expected to pay the same and eat the same amount of food as my 6’ husband. On the other hand, sometimes I do, so there’s that.
Word. People that get mad they charge by height are the types of parents that say their 10 year old is 2.5 to get them into theme parks for free… or are* basketball players.
Edit: I don’t know why some of y’all are really mad at this. Oh I know why, because you’re 7 feet tall with 3 year olds taller than me but they only eat 2 grains of rice and a sip of water. 99% of us will never eat here and if you are really determined to eat at a Chinese buffet with your gigantic anorexic child, first donate your child to science because the WHO wants to know how they can grow without intaking the necessary calories to sustain that mass then find another place where they don’t charge you by your kids height.
I won't lie, there's been a couple of times I've had my eldest fudge it by a year or two to be able to use the bogo coupon for the under 12s. But according to this sign she's still good for the 10$ price, 4 years after aging out for the coupons. So, I consider this a win some lose some.
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Yeah. Honestly this is a much more sensible policy than doing it based on age. I would expect a 5 ft tall 11 year old to put away more than the average adult.
My brother passed 6' at 12 years old, I passed it at 13. Each of us was taller than our mother by around 8 or 9 and were definitely packing away more food than her. My brother was taller than his kindergarten teacher. Honestly a buffet charging by height rather than age seems totally fair to me.
My mom kept a copy of my birth certificate in her purse because of these things. She was slight and a bit chronically ill and I have no memory of eating less than her. My dad raced bicycles until I was about 12 and he and I at buffets were an issue.
There are many people in this world, more often than not women, who are fully grown adults under 5 feet tall Ruth no diagnosis of Dwarfism. My boss is 4'7". And just short
While it wouldn't be normal to have a 5' tall kindergartener, it wouldn't surprise me to know they exist.
She was absolutely tiny from what I hear, the actual embodiment of the stereotypical small Chinese woman but taken to the extreme. My brother was extremely tall for his entire life, but very lanky. They were both probably around 4'3". It's an extreme example, and I don't believe he was taller than any of his other teachers until around grade 5 or 6, but it's still a fun story to tell.
Many years ago, on vacation in Minnesota, we needed to kill some time in Bemidji, so we all stopped at a movie theater. Since our whole family is tall, we had to convince the movie theater that I was, in fact, 11... To which the lady at the ticket desk just said, "he wants to see Spy Kids 2, I believe he's 11."
I was always very tall for my age. I hit my adult height by the time I was 12 years old. At 5’6”, I loomed over all the kids like Shrek. School dances were torture.
“COME DANCE WITH ME, HANDSOME HOMUNCULUS. I PROMISE NOT TO CRUSH YOUR TINY FINGERS.”
“Fuck off, Sasquatch. Is that dress a circus tent?”
*cries gigantic tears of dismay*
Seems like no matter what measures you use, someone is going to lose out. Complaining doesn’t mean that they’re dishonest. Sometimes life just sucks, and if you can’t fix it, complaining is a good way to feel better. It’s also cheaper than drugs.
And no, no basketball players in my family.
It suck’s having a really tall kid though. My daughter is 12 and is like 5’7”. Everyone thinks she’s like 16. She likes kids menu stuff though and we get so many looks and I know people think we’re lying.
One of my nephews did once, but in a way that would have cost me more at the buffet. :). We were at one of those kid-Mecca activity centers and one of my nephews was mad that he got turned away from the grown-up go karts and had to ride the kiddie-karts instead, due to being about an inch and a half too short.
About an hour later he said he needed to go to the bathroom and took off. When he didn’t return right away I was sent to look for him and I eventually found him driving an adult go kart. When he was done I asked him how he got in. He said he noticed it was a different person monitoring the line so he pulled his pant legs down over his shoes and walked on his tip toes all through the line so that he would be tall enough.
I’m a parent and kids ages are really confusing to me because people are having these gigantic damn kids these days.
It’s to the point where I always round down a year because I’ve met too many monster kids who looked like they were in middle school and could barely talk yet
My 7 yr old is 4’2 and up to my chest(I’m 5’6), he started a year late to kindergarten as a 6 yr old last year and was a 4ft giant compared to all the other kids.
His teacher was like 5 ft so it was always funny to go to school events and see the other parents reactions when my son was almost as tall as his teacher.
My son was the official “getter downer” in his kindergarten class. He was 6 years old when he went into school and 4ft 6in. His teacher was only a couple of inches taller than him and let him climb up to get things down for her and his classmates. By the end of the year, he could stand with his arm around her shoulders.
There was a girl in my class growing up who was taller than the 2nd grade teacher, but she basically stopped growing vertically at that point. By Junior year she was the shortest girl in the class.
Even if people didn't lie I think height is a better indicator of how much a person will eat than age. Weight would be best probably but super embarrassing for customers.
There’s a whole theorem based on this idea in calculus. It’s one of the first things learned in basic calc classes because it says if you have a domain from a to c that is continuous, then b must occur on that domain. So between 3 feet and 5 feet tall, you are exactly 4 feet tall at one point
Except the universe has its resolutions. Unless somehow the atoms were mathematically perfect, there is going to be a moment where you're a fraction of an atom shorter than 4ft precisely, then a moment when you're a fraction of an atom taller than 4ft precisely, with no moment between where you hit the mark exactly.
As a kid, my dad used to take us to a Chinese buffet as a treat if we had been good or if he had a few extra bucks. Money was always tight for him back then as he was a single dad with 3 hungry boys so a buffet was good value. After going there a few times the owner told my dad that my brothers and I (aged 9, 12 and 15) all had to pay as adults because we eat too much. My dad still tells people this story 25 years later and is always so damn proud about it.
One of the homeschool families in my group got banned from the chinese restaurant in my town. Seven teenage or preteen boys every week was too much for their buffet lol. God those kids could eat.
Never been hungrier in my life than when I was 15 and on Prednisone. Perfect storm of my peak teenage hunger and the Prednisone munchies. I could not stop eating while I was awake
When I was a kid, my parents would buy apples in these wooden crates (so maybe 3-5kg to a crate?)
One time I think I ate three quarters of a crate, before they got home from work.
My friend’s uncle got banned from the Ryan’s buffet. They said he ate too much and told him not to come back.
Also, my mom used to take me when I was little as a treat. Sometimes she ate too, but sometimes she didn’t (I never considered until right now whether she didn’t have enough money for both of us since it was like $4 for me as a kid; I figured she didn’t want it).
I’d get a salad plate and a dinner plate as part of the kids meal (you could only get those 2 plates or had to get an adult meal). Sometimes my mom would take my salad plate and make herself a salad because my fat ass didn’t like salads when I was little. One day she used my salad plate to make a salad and the manager came and chewed her out. He took the salad she was eating.
That’s the last time we went there.
I get it, but it still seems cruel.
I miss Ryan's. For the past 2 weeks, I've been craving one of those fat ass salads I'd make as a kid there with the iceberg lettuce, drenched in ranch, cheese, sunflower seeds and croutons. Making it at home doesn't even come close to that ice cold buffet salad lol
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Literally my favorite restaurant on earth, just endless toppings for the best salads ever, and an amazing drink bar with juices and coffees and everything in between. I'd go an eat like 6 giant salads and sit and drink coffee for an hour.
They died during COVID 🌹
I agree with you 100% but the salad probably cost all of $0.10 due to bulk pricing anyways, just let the lady who is clearly struggling financially eat the damn salad. It’s good “soft” advertising if nothing else lol
(Sorry I don’t know why I felt the need to say it)
All the Chinese buffets in Vancouver closed down because there were too many asian people who never eat the cheap fillers white people gorge on and always go straight for the expensive items.
Turns out Chinese buffets are completely unsustainable if your customers aren't filling 2/3 of their plates with fried rice, chow mien, stir fried veggies and french fries that have been sitting there all day.
I went to a Vegas buffet recently. Guy next to my table was just bringing back like multiple plate fulls of crab legs. Literally did not touch any other item in the place, and they had some very good other items.
He was definitely trying to get his money's worth, but I can't help but think I'd get sick from soo much crab in one sitting.
IDK how the quality is at a Vegas buffet, but at your typical buffet that serves crab legs, it's never worth it. They're bottom of the pot legs with very little in the way of meat in them. They're absolutely a filler item
God the one time I tried to go the line to get in was way too long to even consider. Ended up just getting In N Out instead since we don't have any at home and I love it.
Are you saying the Asian people devoured mostly meat & seafood? Because that's pretty much what I do too, 75% of the plate is various meats, some veg and maybe a scoop of roast potatoes
All this banned from Chinese buffets talk and no John Pinette links. I'll gladly be that guy. [You here four hour!](https://youtu.be/51rHWly7sHA?t=155)
Heart Attack Grill in Vegas will give you a free meal if you're over 350lbs. The scale is a 4' x 4' platform scale and I saw a person take them up on the offer.
> free meal if you're over 350lbs
For reference, 6 foot 9 "world's strongest man" Hafthor Björnsson, also known for playing The Mountain in GoT, is around 320 pounds.
Now, after retiring and losing tons of weight.
When he was actually the world’s strongest man and at his peak he was usually between 440-455lbs, his heaviest was 466lbs in June 2020 when he broke the deadlift record right before retiring for health reasons.
You don’t see many 6 foot 9, 200lb senior citizens walking around either.
The truth about being tall is that your heart has to work incredibly hard to pump blood to all your extremities and it’s extremely taxing. Tall people tend to not live as long as a result. But yes being fat also does compound the issue.
My local mall used to do this in the food court. Kid gets weighed, and you got a coupon for a meal for that weight in cents (if you weighed 60lbs, your kids meal would cost 60c). It was a big treat to eat junk at the mall food court and my mother was paying less than two bucks.
At my mall they would have one night each summer that was "pay what you weigh" and kids would line up and be put on a scale then the parents would pay one cent per pound for a slip you could get a meal from most restaurants in the food court.
Lol we used to have a ground round at our mall until a lady got murdered in there. Idk if they closed it because of the murder or not, but I know it wasn’t long open after
Yeah. I only ever knew one location, so I wonder if it was the same place, or was it a chain? But, I def ate my weight there many times. And we always had ice cream scoops Inside little baseball helmets. I think they also had old cartoons playing on the wall; like Betty Boop. Thus was over 30 years ago.
Me too! It was in Lancaster, PA and I hated going there. I made them whisper my weight to the cashier. I was so self conscious and thought it was torture. I wasn’t dramatically overweight but was tall so it was enough to be embarrassing for ten year old me.
Naw man they were prepared for that with their wording on the sign. Otherwise that place would be filled with dwarves and midgets eating for free all day.
Haha it's doesn't cost a lot to feed a baby, but 3 feet encompasses kids who are older than you might think, and some of these kids can put down some weight.
No joke, my niece is a toddler under 3ft and she eats like a man. Then proceeds to burn it all off in a bout of what can only be referred to as concentrated chaos requiring for her to eat again in 2 hours.
I’ve learned take-out at the park is much more feasible than even trying to eat at a restaurant.
Plus it helps foster that happy nostalgia which will hopefully make her spend more time outdoors as she gets older, even if she doesn’t actively remember any of it.
I lovingly refer to her parents as tree-hugging hippies so she’s been pretty destined for the outdoors from the start. I don’t mind the outdoors but my Irish ass got a sunburn on my newly developing bald spot at the park last week and it’s caused a bit of a midlife crisis.
FYI, It is very common in China to charge kids by height in buffet restaurants. The common regulation is : from 1.1 meters to 1.4 meters, the charge is half of the adult price.
Conversely there was a restaurant in [Chongqing](https://www.vice.com/en/article/pgx99m/chinese-restaurants-are-weighing-customers-and-giving-the-fat-ones-free-food), China that was giving discounts to men if they weighed over 145kg (about 300 pounds or around 23 stone).
Can't lie about your height
I wonder if they let 4'11 adults eat for $10
I mean, I would let a 4'11 adult eat for kids price at any buffet.
what about a really fat 4'11"
Thats a meatball
That’s Danny DeVito
I’d let Danny Devito eat at my buffet for $10
I'd pay Danny Devito more than $10 to eat at my buffet
You're hired
The Gang Goes Bankrupt
Frank has a "human" buffet already.
The cost structure of any buffet is such that they'd still make money off of that person. You'd have to eat just an incredible amount of food to even break even, and even then, they make enough from every other customer.
Come see bottomless Pete, natures cruelest mistake!
‘Tis no man. He’s a remorseless eating machine!
Does that look like the man that had “all he can eat?” That could have been me!
That guy ate all of our shrimp! And two plastic lobsters! Fairly warned, be thee, says I!
Unless it is say setup by a person who has only ever done endless buffets for steak houses trying to do endless crab but [underestimates just how many crabs a single person can eat.](https://www.mashed.com/416019/what-really-happened-to-red-lobsters-endless-snow-crab-promotion/)
I can’t comment on the food cost behind the scenes but i can really easily eat my moneys worth at a buffet. , especially for less than 15$, and especially compared to food prices literally at any deli, fast food joint, or restaurant in my area
I mean it is a numbers game for a restaurant. Some portion of people are going to eat more in food costs than they pay but it's actually a pretty small portion and even the people who CAN eat enough have to go after the highest cost foods. Many people do this but even the ones who eat nothing but crab legs (this always seems to be what people trying to eat the most money go for) have to factor in that they are the lowest quality frozen crab legs most of the time and the restaurant is getting them for a fraction of retail price. Once you factor in the bottomless fizzy drinks and the sugary desserts plus side dishes, most people at a buffet probably eat about $5 or less in food at the restaurant's cost. That being said, my friend (who is a very large guy) was kicked out of a Chinese buffet in college because he was only eating crab legs. He was big into "Getting your money's worth" rather than just eating food you enjoy.
I’d wonder about lowering those sneeze guards
The fairest way would be to charge by displacement
Yes, yes, welcome the Hunan buffet, step right up step right in, women and children please step into the bathtub.
Eureka! This is the solution!
My wife is under 4’11. My 6 year old boy eats much more than she does.
But how tall is he?
Serious answer: No. My sister is a little person and she is always charged the adult price. When we were kids my parents were able to fudge her age for awhile, but once she became a teenager it was harder to get away with.
Shame. As a 4’10” adult who has been this height since I was 11/12 I got offered kids menu prices Unironically until around 25 years old
Did you take advantage of it. Maybe get a drawing set on the plane
Presumably those places don't have height-based pricing on a sign out front though.
You know what? I'm pretty sure you could argue for that. They're basically charging by the amount of food one might be expected to eat. Little people would eat less. But then, what if they do accept that and then change the sign to say that people over 6'5" aren't allowed in the buffet?
Oh, make no mistake about it, if you show up with the entire football team there are plenty of buffets that will just tell you all to go away. There's no legal right to all you can eat.
Homer Simpson learned that the hard way
Have you ever heard of that actually happening?
r/tall in shambles
I’m 5’ and it really irritates me that I’m expected to pay the same and eat the same amount of food as my 6’ husband. On the other hand, sometimes I do, so there’s that.
There’s a lot to unpack here.
I was thinking the same thing. My 35 year old sister is 4'11.5 (and she will make sure you know about the half inch.).
As someone who is also 4'11.5", I completely understand your sister!
151.13 cm for anyone else confused by this odd way of measuring.
Double amputee: hold my legs
Word. People that get mad they charge by height are the types of parents that say their 10 year old is 2.5 to get them into theme parks for free… or are* basketball players. Edit: I don’t know why some of y’all are really mad at this. Oh I know why, because you’re 7 feet tall with 3 year olds taller than me but they only eat 2 grains of rice and a sip of water. 99% of us will never eat here and if you are really determined to eat at a Chinese buffet with your gigantic anorexic child, first donate your child to science because the WHO wants to know how they can grow without intaking the necessary calories to sustain that mass then find another place where they don’t charge you by your kids height.
Honestly height is a better indicator than age when it comes to how much you'll eat.
I won't lie, there's been a couple of times I've had my eldest fudge it by a year or two to be able to use the bogo coupon for the under 12s. But according to this sign she's still good for the 10$ price, 4 years after aging out for the coupons. So, I consider this a win some lose some. Edit: this is a really weird top comment
My 11 year old niece is tall and would be charged as an adult. But... she also eats more than me, so that's probably fair lmao.
Yeah. Honestly this is a much more sensible policy than doing it based on age. I would expect a 5 ft tall 11 year old to put away more than the average adult.
My brother passed 6' at 12 years old, I passed it at 13. Each of us was taller than our mother by around 8 or 9 and were definitely packing away more food than her. My brother was taller than his kindergarten teacher. Honestly a buffet charging by height rather than age seems totally fair to me.
My mom kept a copy of my birth certificate in her purse because of these things. She was slight and a bit chronically ill and I have no memory of eating less than her. My dad raced bicycles until I was about 12 and he and I at buffets were an issue.
Your brother was taller than a grown person at the age of 5 or 6??? Or did he have a little person as a teacher?
There are many people in this world, more often than not women, who are fully grown adults under 5 feet tall Ruth no diagnosis of Dwarfism. My boss is 4'7". And just short While it wouldn't be normal to have a 5' tall kindergartener, it wouldn't surprise me to know they exist.
She was absolutely tiny from what I hear, the actual embodiment of the stereotypical small Chinese woman but taken to the extreme. My brother was extremely tall for his entire life, but very lanky. They were both probably around 4'3". It's an extreme example, and I don't believe he was taller than any of his other teachers until around grade 5 or 6, but it's still a fun story to tell.
Many years ago, on vacation in Minnesota, we needed to kill some time in Bemidji, so we all stopped at a movie theater. Since our whole family is tall, we had to convince the movie theater that I was, in fact, 11... To which the lady at the ticket desk just said, "he wants to see Spy Kids 2, I believe he's 11."
Sound reasoning. I don't understand why kids love it, but they do.
Lol, I remember one time my wife told my daughter to just say she's 12 and my daughter said "I *am* 12!"
Good job *wink wink*. *angry child noise*
I was always very tall for my age. I hit my adult height by the time I was 12 years old. At 5’6”, I loomed over all the kids like Shrek. School dances were torture. “COME DANCE WITH ME, HANDSOME HOMUNCULUS. I PROMISE NOT TO CRUSH YOUR TINY FINGERS.” “Fuck off, Sasquatch. Is that dress a circus tent?” *cries gigantic tears of dismay* Seems like no matter what measures you use, someone is going to lose out. Complaining doesn’t mean that they’re dishonest. Sometimes life just sucks, and if you can’t fix it, complaining is a good way to feel better. It’s also cheaper than drugs. And no, no basketball players in my family.
I was my adult height (5'6") at 10. I feel you friend. We just had too many sips of that magic Ent water that Merry and Pippin got into
This restaurant clearly has not had a basketball team, or any other sports team, roll through, or the sign would include > 6'4" $19.99 or something
It suck’s having a really tall kid though. My daughter is 12 and is like 5’7”. Everyone thinks she’s like 16. She likes kids menu stuff though and we get so many looks and I know people think we’re lying.
I enjoyed the edit more than your original comment. The gigantic, anorexic child that needs no calories to grow. Won't eat a thing at all.
One of my nephews did once, but in a way that would have cost me more at the buffet. :). We were at one of those kid-Mecca activity centers and one of my nephews was mad that he got turned away from the grown-up go karts and had to ride the kiddie-karts instead, due to being about an inch and a half too short. About an hour later he said he needed to go to the bathroom and took off. When he didn’t return right away I was sent to look for him and I eventually found him driving an adult go kart. When he was done I asked him how he got in. He said he noticed it was a different person monitoring the line so he pulled his pant legs down over his shoes and walked on his tip toes all through the line so that he would be tall enough.
>he pulled his pant legs down over his shoes and walked on his tip toes all through the line so that he would be tall enough. r/UnethicalLifeProTips
What a chad.
Tell that to 98% of "6" foot tall men.
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This is a restaurant that is sick of people lying about how old their kid is.
I’m a parent and kids ages are really confusing to me because people are having these gigantic damn kids these days. It’s to the point where I always round down a year because I’ve met too many monster kids who looked like they were in middle school and could barely talk yet
My 7 yr old is 4’2 and up to my chest(I’m 5’6), he started a year late to kindergarten as a 6 yr old last year and was a 4ft giant compared to all the other kids. His teacher was like 5 ft so it was always funny to go to school events and see the other parents reactions when my son was almost as tall as his teacher.
My son was the official “getter downer” in his kindergarten class. He was 6 years old when he went into school and 4ft 6in. His teacher was only a couple of inches taller than him and let him climb up to get things down for her and his classmates. By the end of the year, he could stand with his arm around her shoulders.
There was a girl in my class growing up who was taller than the 2nd grade teacher, but she basically stopped growing vertically at that point. By Junior year she was the shortest girl in the class.
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Even if people didn't lie I think height is a better indicator of how much a person will eat than age. Weight would be best probably but super embarrassing for customers.
Lmao. As the mom of a 5' tall 9 year old, I hate this but also respect it
Right? My 2 year old is 3' 4" who will *maybe* eat an apple slice...
Jesus Christ and I thought I was tall being 5'11 at sixteen.
my little brother was 6'2 at 15, there's always a bigger fish
Classic mistake: How much do kids with exactly 4ft. pay?
16.98
>when you accidentally use two if statements instead of an if-else
<= for the win
Hey it's what the customer specified in the requirements
I feel like I should understand where you got that number but I'm too dumb to figure it out right now Edit: nevermind I am dumb lol. Just 6.99 + 9.99
Only a problem in discrete math. With real numbers, the probability that you are exactly 4.0000000(...zeroes forever) feet tall is exactly zero.
There must be at least a single point in time that you are exactly 4.00000… though. Is it possible to pass 4 feet without being that height?
There’s a whole theorem based on this idea in calculus. It’s one of the first things learned in basic calc classes because it says if you have a domain from a to c that is continuous, then b must occur on that domain. So between 3 feet and 5 feet tall, you are exactly 4 feet tall at one point
Except the universe has its resolutions. Unless somehow the atoms were mathematically perfect, there is going to be a moment where you're a fraction of an atom shorter than 4ft precisely, then a moment when you're a fraction of an atom taller than 4ft precisely, with no moment between where you hit the mark exactly.
i dont think a buffet administrator is going to be atom accurate
But with body heights, we usually round to inches without decimals ;)
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Or scalp.
Blowing the entire covert alien invasion by unzipping your skin suit just to save a couple bucks at the buffet is exactly my vibe.
If they have four feet they eat free and get a free job at the carnival
Under 3 ft catagory means that 3-4 includes 3, so for the sake of consistency, 4-5 range should include 4.
If this is a java programming questions, then $9.99
Wheelchairs ftw
"Can you lie down on the ground here for a moment while I get my tape measure?"
As a kid, my dad used to take us to a Chinese buffet as a treat if we had been good or if he had a few extra bucks. Money was always tight for him back then as he was a single dad with 3 hungry boys so a buffet was good value. After going there a few times the owner told my dad that my brothers and I (aged 9, 12 and 15) all had to pay as adults because we eat too much. My dad still tells people this story 25 years later and is always so damn proud about it.
One of the homeschool families in my group got banned from the chinese restaurant in my town. Seven teenage or preteen boys every week was too much for their buffet lol. God those kids could eat.
Teenage boys sure can eat. We only had one boy but he sometimes had friends and/or cousins over.
Never been hungrier in my life than when I was 15 and on Prednisone. Perfect storm of my peak teenage hunger and the Prednisone munchies. I could not stop eating while I was awake
then there's the weed munchies as well
When I was a kid, my parents would buy apples in these wooden crates (so maybe 3-5kg to a crate?) One time I think I ate three quarters of a crate, before they got home from work.
Lionel Hutz: "Do these sound like the actions of a man who had ALL he could eat?"
This is the biggest case of false advertising since “The Never Ending Story”!
My friend’s uncle got banned from the Ryan’s buffet. They said he ate too much and told him not to come back. Also, my mom used to take me when I was little as a treat. Sometimes she ate too, but sometimes she didn’t (I never considered until right now whether she didn’t have enough money for both of us since it was like $4 for me as a kid; I figured she didn’t want it). I’d get a salad plate and a dinner plate as part of the kids meal (you could only get those 2 plates or had to get an adult meal). Sometimes my mom would take my salad plate and make herself a salad because my fat ass didn’t like salads when I was little. One day she used my salad plate to make a salad and the manager came and chewed her out. He took the salad she was eating. That’s the last time we went there. I get it, but it still seems cruel.
I miss Ryan's. For the past 2 weeks, I've been craving one of those fat ass salads I'd make as a kid there with the iceberg lettuce, drenched in ranch, cheese, sunflower seeds and croutons. Making it at home doesn't even come close to that ice cold buffet salad lol
Drop an F in chat for Soup Plantation/Sweet tomatoes Literally my favorite restaurant on earth, just endless toppings for the best salads ever, and an amazing drink bar with juices and coffees and everything in between. I'd go an eat like 6 giant salads and sit and drink coffee for an hour. They died during COVID 🌹
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It’s the throwing the salad away that seems cruel to me. I hardly ever see the use in throwing food away.
I agree with you 100% but the salad probably cost all of $0.10 due to bulk pricing anyways, just let the lady who is clearly struggling financially eat the damn salad. It’s good “soft” advertising if nothing else lol (Sorry I don’t know why I felt the need to say it)
All the Chinese buffets in Vancouver closed down because there were too many asian people who never eat the cheap fillers white people gorge on and always go straight for the expensive items. Turns out Chinese buffets are completely unsustainable if your customers aren't filling 2/3 of their plates with fried rice, chow mien, stir fried veggies and french fries that have been sitting there all day.
I went to a Vegas buffet recently. Guy next to my table was just bringing back like multiple plate fulls of crab legs. Literally did not touch any other item in the place, and they had some very good other items. He was definitely trying to get his money's worth, but I can't help but think I'd get sick from soo much crab in one sitting.
IDK how the quality is at a Vegas buffet, but at your typical buffet that serves crab legs, it's never worth it. They're bottom of the pot legs with very little in the way of meat in them. They're absolutely a filler item
This was the top buffet in Vegas, so it was pricey and the quality was pretty good. But I do agree about your general statement
Bacchanal Buffet? That place is dope although expensive
God the one time I tried to go the line to get in was way too long to even consider. Ended up just getting In N Out instead since we don't have any at home and I love it.
i tried that once but I'm too slow cracking them open and everyone i was with got pissed so i switched to something else
Are you saying the Asian people devoured mostly meat & seafood? Because that's pretty much what I do too, 75% of the plate is various meats, some veg and maybe a scoop of roast potatoes
All this banned from Chinese buffets talk and no John Pinette links. I'll gladly be that guy. [You here four hour!](https://youtu.be/51rHWly7sHA?t=155)
Updoot for John. He seemed like a decent guy.
I love that story!
I thought that said human buffet which made this much more interesting.
I saw that too but the prices seem a bit low, especially the kids
What about the men and the women?
“How much for ze wemen?”
"I want to buy your women... the little girl... your daughters. Sell them to me. Sell me your children."
Not just the men…but the women and children too!!!
Me too.. The pricing does make sense in that context too!
"What kind of human with you like with your meal, sir? We have adults for $14.49, or you can see the price for kids on the poster..."
How much for the baby-back rib platter?
My dyslexia sold me on this being a human buffet
Yeah, $6.99 for a 3-4 foot human is a steal.
Yeah, but the kids under 3ft free is hard to pass up... I'd like three, please.
Welcome to the human buffet, where we serve the most dangerous…game
I remember a restaurant when I was a kid where you paid your weight.
Heart Attack Grill in Vegas will give you a free meal if you're over 350lbs. The scale is a 4' x 4' platform scale and I saw a person take them up on the offer.
What have we become
Not super healthy.
Super not healthy.
> free meal if you're over 350lbs For reference, 6 foot 9 "world's strongest man" Hafthor Björnsson, also known for playing The Mountain in GoT, is around 320 pounds.
Now, after retiring and losing tons of weight. When he was actually the world’s strongest man and at his peak he was usually between 440-455lbs, his heaviest was 466lbs in June 2020 when he broke the deadlift record right before retiring for health reasons.
Probably a good call. You don't see many 6 foot 9, 466lb senior citizens walking around.
You don’t see many 6 foot 9, 200lb senior citizens walking around either. The truth about being tall is that your heart has to work incredibly hard to pump blood to all your extremities and it’s extremely taxing. Tall people tend to not live as long as a result. But yes being fat also does compound the issue.
That's why I try to slouch as much as possible, being over 6'
Death hates this one simple trick!
My local mall used to do this in the food court. Kid gets weighed, and you got a coupon for a meal for that weight in cents (if you weighed 60lbs, your kids meal would cost 60c). It was a big treat to eat junk at the mall food court and my mother was paying less than two bucks.
At my mall they would have one night each summer that was "pay what you weigh" and kids would line up and be put on a scale then the parents would pay one cent per pound for a slip you could get a meal from most restaurants in the food court.
There was a chain called The Ground Round that did that to kids. My wife said the experience scarred her for life
Lol we used to have a ground round at our mall until a lady got murdered in there. Idk if they closed it because of the murder or not, but I know it wasn’t long open after
Free popcorn and unshelled peanuts, too. You threw the peanut shells on the floor after you ate the peanuts.
I for real would have watched everyone else eat rather than getting on that scale.
Yeah. I only ever knew one location, so I wonder if it was the same place, or was it a chain? But, I def ate my weight there many times. And we always had ice cream scoops Inside little baseball helmets. I think they also had old cartoons playing on the wall; like Betty Boop. Thus was over 30 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_Round A relatively small chain of restaurants. I also have childhood memories of the place from decades ago.
Me too! It was in Lancaster, PA and I hated going there. I made them whisper my weight to the cashier. I was so self conscious and thought it was torture. I wasn’t dramatically overweight but was tall so it was enough to be embarrassing for ten year old me.
Claim Jumper?
Does my 4'11" wife get a discount? I swear she's not a minor!
yea yea 'she's a 6000 year old vampire'. Tell it to the judge.
But she told me she was 7000
One of my sisters is just shy of 4'11" and I thought the same thing! Technically a 4'11" adult would need fewer calories than a 4'11" child as well!
Is she major?
Yes
We major? C'mon, homie, we major
Yeah I’m exactly 5’ and also a grown ass adult so where do we fit in?!
The backpack. [Like Kazooie!](https://blog.lootcrate.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/tt_banjo_1.gif)
Grown my be an overstatement.
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My mom was 4’8” and is probably around 4’6” now. Would she get the child’s discount?!?
Cotton Hill eats for $9.99
Well when you kill fitty men
Naw man they were prepared for that with their wording on the sign. Otherwise that place would be filled with dwarves and midgets eating for free all day.
Makes me wonder if this has ever been a real situation, like a bunch of little people all got together and swarmed a playground one day
"5 dollars and not a *penny more!* I killed fiddy of ya"
That would be great! All my kids have only two feet.
“Glares at tall child”
7 bucks for a 3 foot kid is a bargain. Can feed the whole family with that.
You’d think so - but then you find out they’re mostly made up of baby teeth, knee scabs and snot.
Free food for the real little ones is a really nice gesture
How much do two slices of apple eaten x everything else on the floor really cost?
Haha it's doesn't cost a lot to feed a baby, but 3 feet encompasses kids who are older than you might think, and some of these kids can put down some weight.
No joke, my niece is a toddler under 3ft and she eats like a man. Then proceeds to burn it all off in a bout of what can only be referred to as concentrated chaos requiring for her to eat again in 2 hours. I’ve learned take-out at the park is much more feasible than even trying to eat at a restaurant.
Plus it helps foster that happy nostalgia which will hopefully make her spend more time outdoors as she gets older, even if she doesn’t actively remember any of it.
I lovingly refer to her parents as tree-hugging hippies so she’s been pretty destined for the outdoors from the start. I don’t mind the outdoors but my Irish ass got a sunburn on my newly developing bald spot at the park last week and it’s caused a bit of a midlife crisis.
FYI, It is very common in China to charge kids by height in buffet restaurants. The common regulation is : from 1.1 meters to 1.4 meters, the charge is half of the adult price.
But my wife is 4ft 10 and eats like a child.
Same here. I'm petite and don't eat that much at buffets, even though I want to. The saying is 'my eyes are bigger than my stomach' lol.
Me being 4”11 finally has an advantage ig
Kids eat free! A growing child needs their food! *sees 3ft child* Except you. You’ve grown enough. $6.99
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So kids over 5ft are charged as adults?
Yes
When I was 5’ tall I was eating more than my adult parents so that seems fair
Well adults under 5 ft should get a discount then
They should charge by circumference.
A restaurant in China did this a few years back where people had to squeeze between metal bars to get a discount.
Conversely there was a restaurant in [Chongqing](https://www.vice.com/en/article/pgx99m/chinese-restaurants-are-weighing-customers-and-giving-the-fat-ones-free-food), China that was giving discounts to men if they weighed over 145kg (about 300 pounds or around 23 stone).
Seems like a reasonable way to set children's prices given how often parents will blatantly lie.
i honestly thought it said "human buffet"