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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You can’t tell from a picture. Unless you can see the notes from his physician all you are doing is disparaging the fellow.
Go to any church on a weekend when they have a potluck. Regardless of whether they are Adventist (which means vegetarian) or any other Christian denomination, you'll find a lot of gluttony going on.
They're right. They were. But IIRC as a private business they have every right to do so. OTOH, once having been permitted to enter the business and start eating at the buffet the restaurant had no right to charge them more than the advertised price. But if they want to ban them from eating there overall, that's too bad for them.
But they are equally within their rights to complain and picket and write letters to the editor and attempt to persuade people that this form of discrimination is wrong.
Watch out. There is a good chance you are about to get flamed.
I was caned here for pointing out that "I'm too fat to comfortably walk around the park" is too low a bar to give someone one of those annoying scooters at Disneyworld.
If you are so fat you cannot walk four or five miles in a eight hour period by yourself, stay at the hotel and order room service.
if they say "all you can eat"....then thats that....but I go to those places and people are stuffing food on their plates and they never eat it all, it just gets trashed and then they take a new plate up, and this is repeated several times...
maybe its time for those places to limit customers in some way....say three trips thru the line and thats it......
Man walks up to cashier to pay for the dessert, $2.50.
Cashier: "Did you eat a second one?"
Man: "No, one was all I could eat."
Cashier: "That'll be five dollars."
There is a place in my town that will offer to-go ‘seconds’ but they bill you $4.50 a pound.
I have a relative with ALS and I KNOW there are people that are in desperate need of dissability.
all of this is IMHO.....
go to the Indian casino and take a look at the "dissabled" parking....not a parking "slot" to be had.....and then you see some truely impaired and dissabled people parking way back in the lot....disgusting....
dissability should not be sore knees or back...it shouldn't be anxiety attacks...it shouldn't be alcoholism...it shouldn't be obesity.....it shouldn't be anything that our past generations put up with as normal aches and pains and aggravations or anything that personal changes could eleviate....bad backs and knees for one can be greatly improved by losing weight...and I say that as an honestly not thin person.
We got embarrassed four-ways-to-Sunday when we took some friends to an All You Can Eat Brunch in Florida’s Panhandle.
The menu included cooked shrimp with the shell on. The guy’s wife exclaimed “I LOVE shrimp” and proceeded to load up (HEAPED) her plate SEVEN times. She even told her husband to get a plate for her and he refused, also out of embarrassment..
Next thing you know, the guys replenishing the food bar stopped putting out the shrimp. It’s not that there weren’t other choices, including a made-to-order omelette bar, but this gal just embarrassed all of us.
I left a bigger tip than usual.
I am betting that for ten that eat very reasonable there is maybe one that gets the money's worth. The restaurant gets more than their profit at a well managed buffet. Maybe the buffet is one of the poorly managed buffets that is barely scraping along and is getting bit on the butt. Those buffets are the ones that are food borne outbreak candidates because they cut corners.
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As a little joke, I sing "Yield Not To Temptation" as I load up my plate -- it usually gets a laugh.
Why did he put up with that abuse? I would have walked out, and said: who needs to eat dog food anyway? Yes, asians especially the Chinese and Koreans that I have run-ins with do have a nasty lack of manners, borders on insufferable rudeness. I do not find this behavior charming or funny, and when they need to dish out with me I will give it right back to them. I complained about this rudeness to my Husband, who is American of Chinese Descent and he grows silent, wonder why?????/Just Asking - seoul62......
They should require that you have health insurance before eating at one of those places.
For Mother's Day several years back, I took my family out to lunch at an all-you-can-eat buffet. By about 3am the next morning I had the worst sickness in my entire life and it lasted for several days (i won't go into the gorey details).
Needless to say, after the Emergency Room trip and my portion of the copay; I'll never eat at one of those places again.
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.
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The simpson’s corollary to the 6 degrees of separation rule.
No, she wasn't.
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