Have you ever been charged double or banned for eating too much?

No, it's never happened to me but if it ever did I'd leave and never go back! I'm like you, I never go back for seconds and my first helpings aren't all that heaping. I've known people who it wouldn't surprise me if they did get asked to leave or charged extra but it IS all you can eat so I don't see how they really can say anything unless there's some kind of disclaimer posted somewhere. You know how it is these days, I can see someone suing for pain and suffering and asking for millions for defamation of character or public humiliation. Annie

LOL, im pretty tall for my age but skinny, whenever i go to all you can eat buffets, i eat way more than my family for some reason ( guess i have a big stomach?). ive eaten in all diferent kinds of buffets but i NEVER got charged double, been kicked out, or even had any problems with the employees. maybe in canada, people's hearts r 2 sizes larger? :D

I have never heard of anyone being charged double or kicked out of any "all you can eat" buffet before. Several buffets I have seen do print a (usually hard to find) notice of some limit of food - like, don't arrive when we open and stay and eat until we close. I can't imagine how much food anyone has to eat before this happens, because all the buffets I have gone to in my life sure filled me up to no end before I was done. And I can eat quite a bit when I want to, so - do you have any information on how much this couple ate? If I found the same story you did, the Asian restaurant in question denies the claim that the man (6 foot 3 inches, 265 pounds - this is very heavy in my book) and his relative were banned from the restaurant.

oh my now I have heard it all. I have never in all my times of going to a buffet seen or heard of any of this the double charging and being band. Wow I guess they should have posted how much one person is allowed to have and what is considered all you can eat. If this would have happened to me or any one I was with I think I would have threaten to sue them and probably have my lawyer come out just for the fun of frustrating the owner ... Ok seriously I would say my peace at the time and never go back ... I feel that they restraunt should refund the customer for one meal and then make the proper posting .. You shouldn't say all you can eat if it's really not all you can eat.

This actually happens a lot these days. Almost every buffet in the area I live in ha changed their signs from ALL YOU CAN EAT to ALL YOU CARE TO EAT. However I have always felt that if you are posting a sign saying someone is allowed to eat all the food they can for $8.95 then you should be prepared for the people who can eat their weight in crab legs. I think the restaurant owners overreact to people like this. There are people like me and you who get full on the salad bar and never touch the other stuff, our lack of eating more than compensates for the four or five people like the couple in your discussion who come through there a day. But seriously the first time the guy changed me double because of what I was eating I never would have gone back and I would have made a huge scene upon leaving that time. I would have walked over to other peoples tables and told them to limit their crab leg intake to a dozen because boss man had a counter on everyone and if you went over your limit you were going to get charged more. He would have lost more than my business that day, I assure you.

I could see if that person bought one buffet meal and then shared it with another patron, but if you can sit down and eat 9 plates of food, more power to you, especially if it's Oriental food. The amount of salt and MSG in that food would cause any normal person to bloat up like a whale from water retention after eating that much food. I know our local Chinese restaurant doesn't mind if you eat plate after plate after plate of food, but they do watch to make sure you didn't buy one meal and are splitting it with a friend at the same table. If you buy takeout, the box has to close properly or it's $3 more.

I've never been double charged before or kicked out. I get full pretty quick so I usually never even eat what it's worth anyway. Like you said if they want to put a limit to how much someone can eat off their buffet then they need to post it. All you can eat buffet's are ALL you can eat and some people can eat a lot more than other's can. LOL

I have already answered to a discussion on this topic, I think the restaurent should not have offered buffet them. Anybody who takes Buffet can take whatever amount they want. Most of the people gorge on expensive items at buffet. It is just humilitaion.

Hmmm, you know me. I would have told them very politely that their policy was misleading and it was not appropriate to decide after the fact that certain diners were not as welcome to the buffet as others. I would have gone on to say that it would only be fair for me to warn the other diners of this duplicitous policy, and proceeded to go around to each table and do so. Not to mention telling all my friends the same thing. :) I haven't ever had this happen to me, nor have I seen it done in front of me or known anyone who claimed this had happened to them. I think I would actually enjoy the drama, personally, it would be kind of fun! :P

HI,chick!I have heard the similar stroy and I have encountered somebody who did the same thing in a buffet. I have never done it.I think being banned for eating too much is a humiliation.But I have met some people they all believed they should eat as much as possible in buffet for they spent money on all the dishes and if they ate less,they thought they were wasting the money.

time for a response for f*ck sake! i have charged double for obvious reasons.