Posted on 06/03/2008 12:43:39 PM PDT by redstates4ever
HOUMA, La. (AP) - A 6-foot-3, 265-pound man says a restaurant overcharged him for his trips to the buffet line, then banned him and a relative because they're hearty eaters. A spokesman for the restaurant denies the claim.
Ricky Labit, a disabled offshore worker, said he had been a regular for eight months at the Manchuria Restaurant in Houma, eating there as often as three times a week.
On his most recent visit, he said, a waitress gave him and his wife's cousin, 44-year-old Michael Borrelli, a bill for $46.40, roughly double the buffet price for two adults.
"She says, 'Y'all fat, and y'all eat too much,'" Labit said.
Labit and Borrelli said they felt discriminated against because of their size. "I was stunned, that somebody would say something like that. I ain't that fat, I only weigh 277," Borrelli said, adding that a waitress told him he looked like he a had a "baby in the belly."
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Sign says “ all you can eat, not you can eat all”
Or in lingo that makes this obvious “I’ve had about enough of your kind here.”
Do they undercharge people who don’t eat much?
Well, yeah, at 6’3” and 277 pounds, he’s probably got a gut on him. But if he’s a “disabled offshore worker” like it says in the article, he used to do a lot of hard physical labor—those guys on oil rigs work HARD. More than likely he’s just a big good ol’ boy who loves his food and porked up a bit after he got disabled.
The staff at the restaurant was way out of line if this story is true.
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You been heeah fo one howaah. You eat mo vegetable less meat.
It is my personal theory that there is virtually NO situation which occurs in modern American life which has not been addressed, at least peripherally, in a Simpsons episiode.
I think it is fair for them to require that all food be eaten there (and there is a limit of “one box” on to go orders from the buffet, sometimes even with a requirement for multiple selections, not just a single dish).
I’ve seen notices that they will charge extra for “wasted” food.
Petite people will also load down a plate and “pick” at it leaving much on the plate.
...and then she tells him he looks like he has a "baby in your belly"....I'm glad I am not the only one who finds this thread funny.
Well, no, actually....
"Campo said the proprietress tries to reduce waste of quality food, he said."
"Food is for eating, not toys for your child," reads a sign posted on a wall in typewritten text. A handwritten addition reads "Or 20% added."
In other words, waif-like models and children have to pay extra, too, for "toying" with their food.
Is there a link to youtube or just the name of the episode?
Thanks,
It depends on how big an a— he was making of himself.
Is it me or does he not look so diabled?
It galls me when I see perfectly healthy people collecting “Mah disah-bility”
get of your fat lazy ass and get a real job
I think it was some corporate officer at Red Lobster who was in charge of some all you can eat promotion a few years ago and she miscalculated how much people could eat and therefore setting the profitable price point for the promotion. It made the newspapers when she was let go. When America was an industrial nation and we actually produced stuff, corporations spent a lot of time and money in time motion studies. I guess buffets and restaurants need to start researching how much a people can eat and how much it affects the business plan.
Malden Boy...I’M STAHVIN!
devout Christian does not exlude her from the sin of gluttony
As a Priest once told my son many years ago Pray for me always it is those of us that are really really good that can be really really bad.
“I ain’t that fat, I only weigh 277,”
yeah ok
If you knew the size of Houma you’d understand that that is the headline news in Houma :)
Asians are pretty blunt sometimes. LOL! That's why I <3 them so much! They are NOT PC!
As for the "baby in the belly" comment, at least in the Korean language, the same phrase "bae boo lie o" (rough transliteration) literally means "my stomach has expanded" and it's usually used to either refer to your stomach being full of food or your torso expanding for a pregnancy. When I was in Korea and going out to eat with Korean friends, I *always* made sure I made myself clear that I wasn't pregnant. LOL!
Well, they've been on the air for about 20 years.
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