I went with my Vietnamese colleague to an all you can eat sushi place in Savannah after we spent two weeks doing hurricane response when I was still in the Coast Guard. This dude ate 32 rolls of sushi, and the old lady running the place loved him. At a certain point, I think she just wanted to see how many it would take before he tapped out. I think I ate ten or twelve rolls, and just sat there in awe while the dude just kept shoveling food into his mouth. To be fair, we'd been working 20 hour days for two weeks and the ship was running out of food before we pulled into port.

Later on, found out that same dude cheated on his wife, then found out his wife was pregnant, they tried to work it out, she had a miscarriage, and he filed for divorce two weeks later. Fun times

All you can reasonably eat within a given time limit does roll off the tongue

This is quoting a famous stand up comedy routine by John Pinnette:

https://youtu.be/aLkTuWdKrqY?si=W6b8bXI4IgvSSjiW

Restaurant owner probably

John Pinette reference

I get what you're saying OP, but 'all you can eat' doesn't mean eat, digest for a few hours and go eat more...

There was an attempt to make a funny post by a person who doesn't know this is a direct quote from a comedian.

Do these seem like the actions of a man who had "ALL HE COULD EAT?"

seriously though just put a 1 hour limit on it

When I was a kid 84 yrs ago, me and my friend would go to Sizzler for all-you-can-eat. We'd stay about 4 hrs, we would try to eat as much as we could and try to drop a deuce to eat more lol.

...and I just realized that's like bullemia of the ass.

It's all you can eat in 4 hours restaurant

All you can eat for one meal, they can’t have you sitting there for 8 hours when you’re only going to be eating at most 2 of those 8. You’re taking up space that could be used by other guests if you’re just setting up camp in the restaurant

Alright, who tried to squat in this restaurant after paying for the buffet?

what did you do after you left the all you can eat buffet?

We pretty much went straight home.

Mrs Simpson, may I remind you that you are under oath.

We drove around for 4 hours looking for another all you can eat seafood buffet

"You can't make me stop. The sign says 'All you can eat for 16.99."

"Yes sir. 4 plates is all you can eat for $16.99.

Image Transcription:

A photo of a restaurant window with the text decal reading: Chinese Restaurant All you can eat buffet Not mean all day buffet You no come stay 4 hour You eat - you go home

[I am a human, if I’ve made a mistake please let me know. Please consider providing alt-text for ease of use. Thank you. 💜]

This is funny but not a great way to express it as a business. Why not simplify and clarify, like: "all you can eat* buffet. * limited to one meal in one hour" perhaps add "no loitering" but maybe not needed

Imagine if you will...

A society so morally bankrupt....

That a sign like this is necessary.

😂

Used to do this when I was a teenager. Group of friends would shuffle into the china buffet around 2, then stay for 4 hours or so, so you can get two meals for the price of one.

we'd sit in the smoking section, smoke cigarettes and fuck around. We made up our own language with something like 50 words, all reenacted to a degree. to say "butterfly" you had to act out a caterpillar being slowly dissolved in it's own cocoon juices before emerging minutes later as a butterfly. it was a wonderful time.

we only ever sat there for hours when nobody else was there, though. if the place was crowded we'd eat and go so as not to be jerks

All you can eat 1 hour