... It's called ALL YOU CAN EAT.
Not all we THINK you SHOULD eat
If you're going to put a limit, then don't advertise your special as "All you can eat", or at least put finer print that says the limit.
If the restaurant can't afford the hungriest of patrons, then by all means, just CANCEL the "all you can eat" special.
EDIT: Since some are under the impression I didn't read the article; yes, I did. No, I'm not defending this guy. HOWEVER, the restaurant IS at fault for not practicing PROPER refusal of service.
Instead of refusing him from the get-go - which they had EVERY RIGHT TO DO since he'd been causing problems before - they didn't, welcomes him in, and LET him order the ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT.
With that, since he was welcomed and allowed to order what he wanted, they HAVE to see that service through - all he CAN eat, or rather all he wanted to.
Case in point: The restaurant did NOT practice their right to refusal PROPERLY, and thus are unfortunately the ones at fault here. Lesson learned, I should hope.
Was an All-You-Can-Eat Fish Fry Right to Cut This Guy Off?
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2012/05/17 13:00:00
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All Bill Wisth wanted was a couple of pieces of fried fish. Is that so much to ask? OK, so it was more like... over a dozen pieces. But hey, the sign said "all-you-can-eat"! The 6 foot 6 inch, 350 pound customer is accusing Chuck's Place in Thiensville, Wisconsin, of false advertising after a waitress refused to bring him a 13th piece of fish. (Although, they reportedly gave him eight more pieces to-go.)
Wisth told a local news station, "We asked for more fish and they refused to give us any more fish. I think that people have to stand up for consumers." And stand up he did. He called the police, then started picketing the restaurant. But apparently Wisth has been a problem in the past. A waitress there says they've dealt with him for years, and that he still hasn't paid off his tab. In their defense, Wisth added, "They do have like some of the best pizza in town." Do you think the all-you-can-eat restaurant was right to refuse this guy more fish?
Wisth told a local news station, "We asked for more fish and they refused to give us any more fish. I think that people have to stand up for consumers." And stand up he did. He called the police, then started picketing the restaurant. But apparently Wisth has been a problem in the past. A waitress there says they've dealt with him for years, and that he still hasn't paid off his tab. In their defense, Wisth added, "They do have like some of the best pizza in town." Do you think the all-you-can-eat restaurant was right to refuse this guy more fish?
Here's a picture called "the biggest hog I ever saw."
It may now be replaced with this picture:
And even so, they should have told him to settle up before they'd let him in for "all you can eat."
And if "all you can eat" has its limits, tell him on the front end.
If you prevent another customer from getting fish because you're hogging it all, you're preventing the restaurant from being able to live up to their agreement with the other customers.
Also...businesses reserve the right to refuse the business of any customer.
Though to be fair, they didn't put any stipulations on the deal. This is a very gray question for me, but I put "no" because they are supposed to honor these deals.
First, management should have billed it as "Our (Nearly*) All You Can Eat Special," then inserted clearly legible print saying "*Up to XX pieces of fish," or similar wording.
Restaurants (obviously) don't care about anyone's weight. He's just a danger to their bottom line...and he limits others' participation in the special.
After 12 pieces of fish, he was just being piggy.
When I read the story the first thing that came to mind was the guy in the restaurant in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.
Maybe they ought to rethink their all you can eat fish night, with the growing obesity problem in America it probably won't be the last time a large family eats into their profits:)
They should just ban him. If he hadn't paid off his tab they shouldn't have let him in the restaurant in the first place till he paid up.
Maybe the restaurant shouldn't advertise all you can eat when they have to deal with pigs that take the term to such an extreme. He should just have taken the eight more pieces they gave him to go.
in the future they should put a limit so its not false advertising but I'm betting the guy had a fit in the store and has been an all around pain in the ass
I have been to Asain buffets and watched them throw people out over this. BUT their reason was they were wasting the food. And they were. I saw plates of food just sitting there and them getting back up to get more.
Look, I don't care what the sign said. Abuse is abuse, throw him out. I wouldn't let this guy loose in the ocean for a minute.
So what they should have done is refund his money and shown him the door. People like that make life difficult for the rest of us by abusing the system to the extreme pushing the limits of customer care.
"Although, they reportedly gave him eight more pieces to-go."
I'm guessing there is more to this story than him wanting more fish.
Plus he does owe them money and has been problematic. I'm guessing he was behaving the same way this time too.
But on a side note, the China Buffet we go to cut my friend Dan off once, for the same reason. He's a BIG guy.
That being said, restaurants should do a bit more thinking before advertising "All You Can Eat" anything. Thanks to dishonest idiots like Bill Wisth, restaurants should include some caveat to "All You Can Eat*" (*up to 12 pieces) or some such. Its sad, but the world is a messed up and dishonest place.