No-carb eating couple booted from buffet

[Twisterdog]

I am totally against the restaurant on this one.

It is really none of anyone's business what or how much people eat.

Everyone assumes and knows a buffet like Chuck-a-rama IS all you can eat. You can go back as many times as you want to ... you can eat 20 plate fulls of food is you want to. That is how a buffet works. And you pay full price, even if you eat $1.00 worth of lettuce, too. That is how buffets make their money.

If these people would have gone up to the buffet and gotten twelve serving of chicken, for example, no one would have noticed or said anything. They only said something because someone is standing there slicing the roast beef, and roast beef is probably one of the more expensive items on the menu.

And as for worrying about running out of roast beef, that is a complete lie. Several of my friends worked at a big buffet like this one while we were in college, and they go through enormous amounts of food. They probably serve five or six complete roasts per night at least, there is no possibly way twelve slices are going to matter. What if twelve people ate twelve slices instead? Of course they are going to keep more than enough food on hand!

I find it completely deplorable that the manager would say anythng to these people. Rude, insensitive and tasteless. And they lost their business, so also stupid. And this chain also probably lost the business of every person on the Atkins diet nationwide now, as well ... and there are probably millions of people on that diet right now. Not a smart business move at all.

I still can't fathom how people eat at a place called Chuck-A-Rama. Doesn't 'chuck' mean 'vomit' in America? It does here!

Well. "up-chuck" is slang for vomit here, but I'm not sure it's widely used. Chuck-a-rama gets it's name from a Chuck-Wagon, which is what the wagon where the food was prepared and served on a wagon train was called.