Tiny Little Things That Cause You Irrational Rage

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[UncleBen]

Greedy gits that partake of a set price eat as much as you like Sunday curry on the Lane, AND then ask for a doggy bag!

[Huguenot]

Haha! That would make me furious too!

[the-e-dealer]

Or throw the food away! Or re-use it? Dont you have to pay to have it taken away as waste? I suppose if they do it with intent then that could be annoying.

[Huguenot]

Since you'd only need to get as much as you immediately require at an 'as much as you can eat', the only reason for having stuff left on your plate would be 'intent'.

[the-e-dealer]

If I take my son to an all you can eat say the mirash and he dwvodes not to eat his mean would it be ok with you if we took it home or is he a greedy bastard.

[Huguenot]

If he's not going to eat it then it should not be on his plate. Putting stuff on your plate you can't eat is just willfully depriving the restaurateur of their livelihood.

It's not greedy if he doesn't eat it; it's just downright insulting, morally bankrupt.

Read the dog in the manger: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dog_in_the_Manger

It's 'as much as you can eat' not 'as much as you can take home'.

[the-e-dealer]

Even though we have paid for a plate of food you wouldn't allow him to take it home. HeguGit you take the biscuit- well you dont you would leave it!

[StraferJack]

In theory you have paid for an all you can eat so you could clear out the whole restaurant - you'd be quite the **** if you did tho

Scaling back from that scenario and thinking "well i won't finish this but I can get another meal or two out of it" times another 10 customers doing the same? probably affecting not just that restaurater but others in the area too

pay your ?6.95, eat as much as you can and leave - that's the sprit of the thing. If people abuse it resutaurants will stop doing it

[csaddleton]

You wouldn't take pizza out of the hut if you had been for an all you can eat.

[Huguenot]

You haven't paid for a plate of food t-e-d, you've paid for as much as you can eat.

If you put more on your plate than you could eat, you're simply trying to rip off the system - so your tone of outrage is completely unreasonable, the swindler here is you not me!

[the-e-dealer]

So if you go in an all you can eat cafe and pay say 5.95 but cant eat anything do you get a refund?

[Huguenot]

No, you pay ?5.95. 'Nothing' was all you could eat, and you ate it.

[the-e-dealer]

Blimey you don't run that Hotel on the Coast do you ? Faulty towels?

[Huguenot]

If you don't want to eat anything you shouldn't be going into 'all you can eat' buffets blocking the seats for other customers and refusing to pay.

What, exactly, is difficult to understand about this?

[the-e-dealer]

Heganaut has clearly NEVER taken a child to a restaurant. Not sure to be sad for him or glad for children everywhere!

[StraferJack]

Huguenot may or may not have but I have many a time

If I was going to take them to an all you can eat I would listen to what they SAIDF they wanted and given them a small sample - if they wanted more I would go back and get more.

baby steps, Ted. baby steps

If they didn't eat more than twice I just wouldn't take them again and tell them why

[the-e-dealer]

And when they have a tiny bit say yes you get a plateful and they dont want it?

[StraferJack]

baby steps means I wouldn't go from "taste" to "plateful"

but if they went back for more and didn't eat it, regardless of size, then if it happened more thhan once, then as I say "I just wouldn't take them again and tell them why"

but taking the food away wouldn't be my main concern

[Huguenot]

Ah, I didn't realize you were talking about small children - but I guess if you want a good deal from a fixed price 'all you can eat' buffet, you don't take a small child?

You know that they're not going to eat their money's worth.

It's not the nature of the deal. You still can't take it home.

No pointing getting outraged about it.

[the-e-dealer]

Thing is with children Is they do do annoying things. If you acted the way you suggest "You are are never going there again" By the time they are 12 you wouldn't be able to go anywhere or do anything. You have to be patient and persist. Anyway this is on the wrong thread.

[Ted Max]

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[UncleBen]

Breast feeding kids on public transport and in any public place. Do not accept 'but it's the most natural thing to do' arguement as other natural bodily functions are done in private.

[Alan Medic]

I think feeding a baby is somewhat different to having a pee or a poo in public.