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Atkins nitwits get booted from buffet

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No-Carb Dieters Booted From Buffet

(CBS/AP) A suburban Salt Lake City couple on the Atkins Diet have a beef with a local restaurant after being booted from the buffet for eating too much meat.

Isabelle Leota, 29, and her husband Sui Amaama, 26, both on the no-carb diet, were dining Tuesday at a Chuck-A-Rama in the Salt Lake City suburb of Taylorsville when the manager cut them off because they'd eaten too much roast beef.
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The manager had a cow, steered them to the door and threw them out with relish. So now they've got a beef with him. If they sue, he'll be in a pickle. I'd write more, but I mustard. I'll ketchup with this later.
 
Nothing cheesy about this story, just Shemp being a ham as usual.
 
What kind of stingy scumbag restaurant manager boots someone out because they have too much of one type of food at the buffet?

(sorry- no bad meat puns)
 
If you eat so much meat from a buffet that you actually reach the point where you have to be booted from the trough, are you really on a diet?
 
And -hate to harp on about this, but- don't a lot of American farmers rely on beef sales for their livelihoods? I thought the US had beef tariffs to protect them, with world-wide criticism. And now, this clown at Chuck-a-Rama is discouraging this couple from doing their patriotic duty by eating beef?

I'd say this manager is worse than stingy- he's a supporter of terrorism.
 
Mr Manifesto said:
And -hate to harp on about this, but- don't a lot of American farmers rely on beef sales for their livelihoods? I thought the US had beef tariffs to protect them, with world-wide criticism. And now, this clown at Chuck-a-Rama is discouraging this couple from doing their patriotic duty by eating beef?

I'd say this manager is worse than stingy- he's a supporter of terrorism.
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Yah he's probly one o' them goldamn Alkayda towelheads hisself! Call the Ashcroft boys! Yahoooooooooo!!!
 
Mr Manifesto said:
And -hate to harp on about this, but- don't a lot of American farmers rely on beef sales for their livelihoods? I thought the US had beef tariffs to protect them, with world-wide criticism. And now, this clown at Chuck-a-Rama is discouraging this couple from doing their patriotic duty by eating beef?

I'd say this manager is worse than stingy- he's a supporter of terrorism.
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Or it could just be that he watches too much Oprah.
 
I keep wondering just HOW MUCH you have to eat to get booted out of the ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET in a restaurant called CHUCK-O-RAMA.

I think this guy might have missed the point about what a "diet" actually is...
 
Skeptic said:
I keep wondering just HOW MUCH you have to eat to get booted out of the ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET in a restaurant called CHUCK-O-RAMA.
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I think the manager defended his actions by saying it's a buffet restaurant, not all you can eat. (I always just assumed they were all you can eat but I guess they can draw the line)
 
The general manager was carving the meat, and became concerned about having enough for other patrons, Johanson said. So when Amaama went up for his 12th slice, the manager asked Amaama to stop.
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They ate so much that there wasn't enough for other people. After 11 slices...? That's not "all you can eat", that's having a serious gluttony-problem!!

The restaurant's roast beef is cooked overnight and takes between 12 and 14 hours to cook, Johanson said. Depending on the location, a Chuck-A-Rama may have only one to five roasts each day.
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But the restaurant reserves the right to talk to patrons if they abuse the buffet
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Fair enough.
 
HarryKeogh said:


I think the manager defended his actions by saying it's a buffet restaurant, not all you can eat. (I always just assumed they were all you can eat but I guess they can draw the line)
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As noted above, I just assumed the restaurant has a "we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" policy, as most stores do.
 
Well I'd have a bone to pick with that meathead manager if he tried to chuck me out of the Chuck o Rama. :p
 
pgwenthold said:


As noted above, I just assumed the restaurant has a "we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" policy, as most stores do.
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Not quite the same though is it?

He didn't refuse them service (as evidenced by the fact they still had to pay), it is basically a disagreement over whether it is a limited offer (although on a help yourself basis) and an unlimited offer (eat as much as you can/want). If it is the former, then the restaurant is correct.

If the latter, then I don't think the "but we won't have anything left for other customers" defence works - you have entered into a contract and the impact it will have on the restaurants other cuctomers is the restaurants problem, not the customers.
 
Jaggy Bunnet said:


Not quite the same though is it?
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I think it is. At some point, they are cutting off service. I would interpret "We reserve the right to refuse service" to mean "We reserve the right to refuse any more service"

They can cut off the service any time they want, basically. And yes, the customer would still be responsible to pay for what they received.
 
I think it depends on what else they ate. If ALL they were eating was roast beef, and if the slices were small, then maybe they weren't gluttons.

This brings up another, but similar, issue. The supermarket I frequent has a salad bar. They sell salad at $3.69/lb. There are several items on the salad bar that, when sold in other parts of the store, cost more than $3.69/lb. If I went to the salad bar and loaded several containers with such items, would the management have a right to ask me to pay the higher price, or, because they were on the salad bar, these items are officially "salad"?
 
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