'Hearty Eater' Says Buffet Banned Him

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http://www.dailycomet.com said:
HOUMA, La. — 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."

Houma accountant Thomas Campo said the men were charged an extra $10 each on Dec. 21 because they made a habit of dining exclusively on the more expensive seafood dishes, including crab legs and frog legs.

"We have a lot of big people there," said Campo, who spoke for owner Li Shang, whose English is limited. "We don't discriminate."

Labit denied ever being told he would be asked to pay more than the standard adult price.

The argument grew heated, and police were called.

The police report states, "The incident was settled when the management advised that the bill was a mistake and, to appease Ricky, the meal was complimentary."

Labit said he insisted on paying but was told not to come back. He complained that when seafood on the buffet line runs out, the restaurant only grudgingly cooks more.

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."
 

GrimJack

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LOL - I've been kicked out for eating too much. Well, our whole party got kicked out because my buddy was still eating.

It was one of those steak and all you can eat prawns deals. My buddy, who's a big guy, 6'1" and about 3 bills, was just over 200 prawns and he started to get loud, complaining that they weren't bringing them fast enough or in big enough quantities. I think the straw that broke the camel's back was his claim that unless they started to speed up the service, we were going to be there all night, because he was digesting them faster than they would bring them.

The manager, this little asian dude, storms over and shouts "You get OUT. You eat like Killer Whale!"

My buddy eating the prawns was all set to fight, but there were ~8 of us there, and most of them had a pretty big bar bill, so when the manager tells us no charge, we dragged prawn boy out of there pretty much kicking and screaming.

I think they posted a picture of us in the back with a big sign - Warning, NO SERVICE. :D
 

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GrimJack said:
LOL - I've been kicked out for eating too much. Well, our whole party got kicked out because my buddy was still eating.

It was one of those steak and all you can eat prawns deals. My buddy, who's a big guy, 6'1" and about 3 bills, was just over 200 prawns and he started to get loud, complaining that they weren't bringing them fast enough or in big enough quantities. I think the straw that broke the camel's back was his claim that unless they started to speed up the service, we were going to be there all night, because he was digesting them faster than they would bring them.

The manager, this little asian dude, storms over and shouts "You get OUT. You eat like Killer Whale!"

My buddy eating the prawns was all set to fight, but there were ~8 of us there, and most of them had a pretty big bar bill, so when the manager tells us no charge, we dragged prawn boy out of there pretty much kicking and screaming.

I think they posted a picture of us in the back with a big sign - Warning, NO SERVICE. :D

I mean seriously, isn't that what a buffet is all about? Eating all you can eat for a certain price?
 

Zach

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Apparently that lady has missed the point of an all-you-can-eat buffet is. You can go in and eat as much as you can of whatever you want.

There was this fabulous buffet in Reading, PA. They had an amazing sushi bar, short order chefs and tons and tons of chinese food and whatever else you can imagine. I think the lunch buffet with a drink was maybe 7 bucks. I don't care if it was a money laundering front or what, that place was awesome.
 

Zach

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WTF is a prawn, a crawfish?

Edit: Just got on wikipedia, never realized there was a species so close to shrimp.
 

Setheroo

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AF1JZ said:
I just went to a Chinese Buffet this evening. Yuuuummmy!!!
Chinese Buffet's are amazing. Most have wonderful hours, and are usually open on most all American holidays... which makes them just that much better... considering you can eat at one at almost anytime.

Plus.. you can usually find a good looking foreign waitress. Who cares if they speak English or not? lol.
 

csr ma71

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Yep, you know how Asian managers are about customers who try to disrupt their place of business and make other customers feel uncomfortable, always trying to be in someone's grill.


GrimJack said:
LOL - I've been kicked out for eating too much. Well, our whole party got kicked out because my buddy was still eating.

It was one of those steak and all you can eat prawns deals. My buddy, who's a big guy, 6'1" and about 3 bills, was just over 200 prawns and he started to get loud, complaining that they weren't bringing them fast enough or in big enough quantities. I think the straw that broke the camel's back was his claim that unless they started to speed up the service, we were going to be there all night, because he was digesting them faster than they would bring them.

The manager, this little asian dude, storms over and shouts "You get OUT. You eat like Killer Whale!"

My buddy eating the prawns was all set to fight, but there were ~8 of us there, and most of them had a pretty big bar bill, so when the manager tells us no charge, we dragged prawn boy out of there pretty much kicking and screaming.

I think they posted a picture of us in the back with a big sign - Warning, NO SERVICE. :D
 

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Heh - not as fun as won-Kei's in chinatown off wardour street....the whole 'theme' of the place is you go there to be insulted. Seriously, they'll take away your food in the middle of eating and yell 'you fat bastar! you fuck off nao!' or 'you eat too slow, people waiting, piss off!'

Serously, i LOL at the people that go in there expecting a regular meal :D
 

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Kai said:
Heh - not as fun as won-Kei's in chinatown off wardour street....the whole 'theme' of the place is you go there to be insulted. Seriously, they'll take away your food in the middle of eating and yell 'you fat bastar! you fuck off nao!' or 'you eat too slow, people waiting, piss off!'

Serously, i LOL at the people that go in there expecting a regular meal :D
We've got a breakfast place up here like that. All the waiters act like they are gay, they make fun of you, make you get your own coffee, etc. And they act like they are doing you a favor, too: "You want coffee? Haven't you been here before? It's right over there, get it yourself. I don't want to hear another thing from you until you are ready to order."
 

SupraMario

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LOL, my cousin is 6' 6" 300 something pounds, we took him to a all you could eat steak place, 3 hours of him eating steak. He bet some dudes record so they didn't charge us, and his picture is on the wall now.

Kai said:
Heh - not as fun as won-Kei's in chinatown off wardour street....the whole 'theme' of the place is you go there to be insulted. Seriously, they'll take away your food in the middle of eating and yell 'you fat bastar! you fuck off nao!' or 'you eat too slow, people waiting, piss off!'

Serously, i LOL at the people that go in there expecting a regular meal

I wanna take my cousin there now, I wanna see some buck 20, Asian guy try and pull food away from him, I think the phrase, "trying to take a steak from a tiger" is pretty accurate.
 

Shytheed Dumas

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I used to have a customer who was the biggest eater I ever knew. As a vender we always treat for dinner & drinks and he would plow through his plate and start asking everybody else if he could finish theirs as soon as there was any sign at all that they were done.

There was this place in Texarkana that sold a 42 or 46 oz ribeye - free if you eat the whole gristley thing in one sitting. He did it. :barf:

Grim - Your story = :biglaugh: