All you can eat and waste

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I have been spending too much lately, and my most recent splurge was yesterday when I went out to eat with my friend, we went to an all you can eat pasta buffett. Here's how it worked at this restaurant. You could enjoy the salad bar and then go through the pasta line. You tell the cook what you want, vegetables and meat wise an he would cook that in front of you, to be ready in a few minutes time. For example I choose shrimp, chicken, asparagus, mushroom, garlic, onion, black olive, but there were many more items to choose from. After your meat and vegetables were cooked - the chef would blend in pasta sauce (5 to choose from) and noodles. You could go up once, or unlimited times, your choice. It's a huge plate of pasta, but I decided to go back for seconds. I didn't make it done with my second plate so I asked for a carry out container to which the waitress said she couldn't give me as it was all you can eat. I personally don't understand. I could've gone up to get many more plates of pasta than the 2 I took, for all the same cost to me. It makes no difference to the business if they have to throw my seconds in their trash or let me carry it out. I suppose the rule is to stop people from taking seconds (or thirds, fourths, fifths, etc) *just* to take home. But waste bothers me and it reminds me of cutting off your nose to spite your face, as I saw someone else left a huge bowl of pasta too. Photo: Mine