When I was a starving college student at the U of A, there was a Chinese buffet down the street from where I lived. We would go there around closing time and they would let us take home as much leftovers as we wanted.
When I was in high school, I worked at a gas station after school until we closed at 10PM. There was a chinese buffet place within walking distance. The owner would feed us for free if he could get a tank of gas for free. We worked it our with the owner of the gas station. I ate Chinese food 4 nights a week.