IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME

Des Moines cracks down.

(Thanks to Drew Harchick)

Comments

[Sarah J]

That's almost as good as the Atkin's diet family being kicked out of Chuck o Rama for eating all the roast beef

[JT]

COOL! And FIRST!

[CoastRaven]

"An establishment can exclude people if they smoke or waste food,"
But how many people go to a buffet to smoke their food... isnt that usually done on a BBQ at home?

[JT]

Okay, but it's still cool.

[MOTW]

Doesn't sound like she was publically humiliated by the restaurant owners ... since she was the one who went to the media with the story.

[cheech]

hey, man, i still smoke my food.

[Dave R]

Oh, the horror! Banned from a Chinese food restaurant and not being able to celebrate Cinco de Mayo with egg rolls and rangoon!

[Chianca at Large]

I can understand the restaurateur's frustration. Do these people think alley cats grow on trees?

[mudstuffin]

I tells ya, I'm embarrassed for my people when I goes to wanna dem chinese buffet places and sees all dem enormous white people waddling up the buffet and loading up on the General Tso's and eggrolls and sittin on two chairs and you just know that each wanna dem lard asses has more on his plate at any one time than the waiter has eaten all week. What those chinese folk must think about us. It must be like a trip to the zoo for them folk. It's embarrassing I tells ya. Embarrassing.

[Schadeboy]

Where I live, being banned from one Chinese food buffet wouldn't be a big deal at all. We have about 20 and a half of them in a town of just over 40K.

[ScottMGS]

Bob Oberbillig, an adjunct professor at the Drake Legal Clinic,..."

Isn't "Oberbillig" German for overbilling? Great name for a lawyer. Talk about your truth-in-advertising!

[ScottMGS]

*oh. my. god. El's going to kill me!*

[Bismuth]

I think it means "upper cheap"

[Ellasmom]

Well I wholeheartedly support this restaurant. I grew up in a family of seven kids and we cleaned our plates. It still (a "few" years later) irks me to see people throw away perfectly good food. And I still clean my plate, maybe that's why my jeans still say size 10.

[ACE]

CRAP!

[O. the U(manity)]

An establishment can exclude people if they smoke or waste food ...

I thot you smoked food to preserve it ... such as jerky, ham, bacon ...

So, how is this wasting food?

[O. the U(manity)]

... and ...

Whut's a ragoon?

[Wavey]

That story reminds me of this .

[Layzeeboy]

This lady was on GMA this morning and they concealed her identity. The nerve of that restaurant to embarass her like that.

[Eleanor]

I love this sentence: Not all you can waste! ROFL x2!!!

Dragon House manager Kent Cao said his restaurant offers all you can eat buffet, not all you can waste.

Did I hear a lawyer joke????

[Bean]

"Dragon House manager Kent Cao said his restaurant offers all you can eat buffet, not all you can waste."

I vaguely recall a Dilbert Cartoon, years ago, when Scott Adams provided a counter-argument.

If the buffet is all you CAN eat, not all you DO eat, shouldn't the family have a case? Of course, the testing of the family's stomach capacity in court would be rather silly, but I, for one, think it would be marvelous entertainment.

[insomniac]

old joke alert:
A man sees a sign on a steakhouse saying "All you can eat for $10.00"

He thinks "I can eat a lot of steak for ten dollars." So he goes in.

After his first plate, he asks the waitress for another. She disappears into the back, and out comes a very large imposing gentleman who says, "That's all you can eat for ten dollars."

[MoFaux]

I said FRIED RICE, you Gleek Plick!

[Jacki]

I think it's great. The largest, most popular buffet in this area, which is teeming with "enormous white people waddling up the buffet and loading up on the General Tso's and eggrolls and sittin on two chairs", has very large signs posted on each end of the buffet tables stating: Take as much as you want but eat as much as you take.

There's another smaller place that charges $2.00 extra for uneaten full plates.

[Sondra]

A friend has stopped going to her favorite All You Can Eat Chinese Restaurant. Her three year old son ate more than she did, so on her last visit, they said he had to pay full price, rather than the kids price. They didn't take into account that she was vegetarian, and "only ate half a plate of the cheap stuff" while her son scarfed down a plate full of beef.

[ACE]

Hey..Can you get BEER at the Dragon House?
Just Asking...I mean...The ones WITHOUT'em Snakes in it.

[Kevin in Jacksonville]

"They told us we are not welcome there anymore," said Dershem, a repeat customer at the Dragon House buffet. "We waste too much food. But the buffet is all you can eat. And you know kids. They won't always eat everything and they want something else."

Your kids are spoiled brats lady.