Large Louisiana men claim restaurant banned them for eating too much

[Catty1]

Laura - I don't know what the company would do with a crew member who drank too much alcohol, but an eating problem can be a really serious thing.

Can companies order an employee to get help for an eating disorder? I wonder...

I hope a way can be found to let the rest of the crew get their fair share...do they harrass the guys who eat too much?

What a pain for you...like alkies, they never get enough.

[Laura's Babies]

Catty, the company is into all this wellness stuff now and they have already saved lives with it in finding people ready to heave heart attacks, very diabetic and people with high blood pressure so high they were ready to blow a gasket.

The ones who eat like that are not popular out there, the guy who eats all the cookies get harrassed all the time about how much he eats but he don't care what they say, he is still going to eat! It does create a lot of resentment when they show up to eat and there is hardly anything left and he is sitting there with it all on his plate. I have already learned that no matter how much you cook, it is never enough with one of those types people and they usually only want meat and potatoes and nothing else.

It is my belief from a lifetime of observation, that eating habits are formed as a baby. I think maybe some are just born hungry and never feel satisfied. Once grown, they simply just can not controll it and it is like any other addiction, they will do ANYTHING and do not care about anyone else as long as they get what they want. I think it is a physical something in their brain that just don't work right, the hunger pangs never shut off and the fullness sensation is never there. It is not something they can control.

However, they should have sense enough to know they can not go to one of those all you can eat places and think they can clean out the food bar and it be acceptable. If they have to eat like that, go to several of those all you can eat places and eat several plates full, pay for it and go to another and do it that way. I had one nice young deckhand one time that was a large eater but he was smart! He would eat his plate full and just sit there and talk to whoever was eating through the whole meal time. He would sit there until everyone ate and left.... THEN, he would go get what was left and eat all he wanted. I was so impressed with that young man and his manners.

They can not control it but why not use common sense?

[joycenalex]

catty, an addict is an addict. different substances. the big book applies across all the addictions, in my opinion. that guys statement in the first post...." i aint that fat, i only weigh 277#"... gets a nod of recognition from me....i aint that drunk, i only had a six pack..... alcoholics can kill people with their cars, and that made bars, and the rise of the MADD movement stop serving inebriated, but food addicts can kill themselves with teeth. food is the only addiction that i can think of that you gotta deal with 3 times a day for the rest of your life.
laura, have you or the captian or HR for the company tried telling the problem guy to settle back abit and let the others eat too? i bet you have, but maybe written statements as part of company program about amounts of food to be bought at ship out, blah, blah ?

[sparks19]

While this isn't mentioned in the article....

there is a possibility the restaurant is also covering it's own behind... heck people are trying to sue fast food restaurants for making them overweight.... why not an all you can eat restaurant? if he cut them off I suppose he isn't liable Just a thought.

[Catty1]

joyce, I agree. I spent 12 years in a 12 step program for overeaters. I KNOW the mindset.....just blind eating. Blank mind.

With drinking, companies usually have to use the "get help or be fired" approach, and can even recommend places. I think this eating addiction has to be treated the same way. Both booze and food addictions (and others) cost companies money, as well as affecting crew morale.

I hope management will see this and bring the hammer down.

[Laura's Babies]

laura, have you or the captian or HR for the company tried telling the problem guy to settle back abit and let the others eat too? i bet you have, but maybe written statements as part of company program about amounts of food to be bought at ship out, blah, blah ?

The only thing the company addresses it the amount of the budget allowed per person. $15 a day, per man. What the men fail to realize it what the cost of food IS! The mark up out there is staggering but they have to go get the food, box it up, keep it cold/frozen and bring it out there to us so the mark up is very understandable.One, 2 week supply is a easy $2000 and you have to cook enough to feed EVERYBODY, EVERY meal, rather they eat or not because they might eat. One guy may only eat one meal a day so he thinks he is entitled to eat as much as he wants that one meal. The attitude of some of them is "the more you eat, the more you make". They also fail to realize, the boat stores do not package up their meats in a varity of sizes. You have the choice of pork chops, 8 to a pack or 12 to a pack. Roasts are all close around 5# and you can't order a 8# roast for the guy who wants to eat 3 pounds of it by himself. I have to keep reminding them we ONLY have so much freezer space and that is all... so we have a limitted budget and limitted freezer space. I can not order $4000 worth of groceries even if the company allowed it! It is like they don't know how to see and think or figure things out for themselves.