[nuconvert]

"asked to leave after he went up to the buffet at the Chuck-A-Rama in suburban Taylorsville for his 12th slice of roast beef."

Whoa

[GeronL]

Try Furrs all you can eat.

[sharktrager]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A couple on a low-carb diet were kicked out of a buffet restaurant after the manager said they'd eaten too much roast beef.
Sui Amaama, who along with his wife have been on the Atkins Diet for two weeks, was asked to leave after he went up to the buffet at the Chuck-A-Rama in suburban Taylorsville for his 12th slice of roast beef.

"It's so embarrassing actually," said Isabelle Leota, Amaama's wife. "We went in to have dinner, we were under the impression Chuck-A-Rama was an all-you-can-eat establishment."

Not so, said Jack Johanson, the restaurant chain's district manager.

"We've never claimed to be an all-you-can-eat establishment," said Johanson. "Our understanding is a buffet is just a style of eating."

The general manager who was carving the meat Tuesday became concerned about having enough for other patrons and asked Amaama to stop, Johanson said.

Offended, the couple asked for a refund. The manager refused and called police when they would not leave.

The couple said they have eaten at Chuck-A-Rama's $8.99 buffet at least twice a week, but did not plan to return.

[GretchenM]

The manager is acting like an idiot.

Two people simply could not clean out a buffet for the whole night.

There was a middle ground here and Mr. Beef missed it, greatly to the detriment of his business.

His restaurant should be named Overreactions R Us.
His next book, "How To Drive away Your Customer Base in One Easy Lesson."

[traumer]

HA !
Atkins Alert....

[A CA Guy]

The buffets here in CA are filled with people cows who are eating themselves to death.

Even too much meat isn't a real diet.

[Xenalyte]

You been here four hour! You go now!

[paul in cape]

[SunnyUsa]

The couple said they have eaten at Chuck-A-Rama's $8.99 buffet at least twice a week, but did not plan to return.

for $8.99 they certainly got their $$$'s worth if he was up to his 12th slice of roast beef. Couldn't have been a really high quality beef at those prices.

[White Eagle]

Sui Amaama, who along with his wife...

OK, I'll get both comments into one post, and get it over with.

"It's not easy being a body named Sui!!"

With a name like Sui, shouldn't he be on a pork diet, not beef?

OK, I feel better now.

[NonValueAdded]

12th slice ... gee, I wonder why they were on the Atkins diet? Why don't they just stop eating so much? Now they are probably heading over to the trough at the court house. </obvious>

[FreedomCalls]

They should have tried for the "Big Texan" challenge in Amarillo! It's 72 oz of Texas' finest sirloin. It's free if you can finish it.

[ladyinred]

ROTFL!

You can't make this stuff up folks!

Or just stuffed period or something, stuffing, stuffed, you get the idea!

[FreedomCalls]

[Bronzewound]

Reminds me of Flip Wilson's routine about running a lemonade stand with the slogan "All You Can Drink for A Dime!

Then, when the customer requested a second glass, Flip would say, "You had one glass, right? Well, that's all you can drink for a dime!"

[tubebender]

Don't invite this couple to your BBQ this weekend...

[Hatteras]

Well, Thank you but, I am the reason The Golden Corral went to charging by weight on the carry-out buffet. They used to give you a 9" square styrofoam lunch tray box thingy, a 5" square plastic salad box and a plastic ice cream bowl with a lid and you could pay your $5.99 for the lunchtime buffet and go fill up. Heh, heh, heh... I could eat roasted chicken, wings, ribs, roast beef, etc... for a week on that $5.99.

[Myrddin]

My wife and I have been on Atkins since last November. My wife has dropped 40 pounds. I've dropped 31. We went to Golden Corral last week. It is an all you can eat buffet too. The place is loaded with elephant and hippo sized customers. We picked out chicken, pot roast, a single burger patty, some tuna salad and a small green salad from the bar. Ice tea (unsweetened) to drink. One small plate was just fine. No trips to the dessert bar. It is possible to patronize those kinds of places, eat well and not be a totally disgusting pig.

Our local Mongolian barbecue operates the same way. Even with an "all you can eat" policy, I always stop at one plate. It's economical, tasty and I'm losing weight. I head to my basement to lift weights 3 nights a week. My wife hits the treadmill for 45 minutes. We're turning fat into lean muscle. We've had no cases of sickness even when people around us had flu and colds. Atkins seems to be good for the immune system too.

The lady who runs the Mongolian barbecue has our routine figured out. No rice. No soup. No fried eggroll. My preferred drink lands at the table while I put 4 tomato slices, 4 broccoli sprigs, onions and mushrooms in the bottom of the bowl. The veggies are topped with slices of chicken, pork and beef. A run down the sauce line adds fresh chopped garlic, 2 scoops of garlic oil, 1 scoop of sesame oil, 1 scoop of Mongolian sauce, 1 scoop of Japeno sauce and 5 tablespoons of extra hot chili sauce. She does the "stir fry" while I make a salad of iceberg lettuce, grated cheddar cheese, a scoop of Bleu Cheese dressing, a sprinkle of bacon bits and sunflower seeds. The bottom line is $7.40.

[jagrmeister]

How unfortunate. If buffets aren't all you can eat, the proprietors have a responsibility to indicate so. Asking people to leave is embarassing for the patrons. I would be very insulted if this happened to me. Shame on the establishment for doing this.

[RonHolzwarth]

How about the good old fashioned way?

I mean, the Roman way?

1) Stuff yourself.

2) Use the Vomitorium.

3) Repeat 1) and 2) until the place closes!

[Smartass]

Sick PETA on um.