How All You Can Eat Restaurants Make Money

With a few tricks, these restaurants still manage to turn a profit — despite offering endless food.

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[lmuhoja]

Their worst nightmare is a group of 300lbs bodybuilders coming in post workout after leg day...

[chyannyang]

no one:


asian moms: DONT EAT TOO MUCH RICE! EAT THE EXPeNSIVe CRaB!

[ruven]

Children = 8$
Adult = 13$
Mat stonie = 100$

[stsz]

Chinese buffet owner's worst nightmare: a family of samoans

[iPervy]

Only thing I hate about buffets.. The people who fill up their plates and leave eating not even half of it haha.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

I was once thrown out of a Pizza Hut on an all-you-can-eat night... for eating too much. A friend and I used to go every week and make a game of figuring out strategies for packing in more and more pizza each time. Normally they'd come around the tables and hand out slices as people needed them, but the people at this particular Pizza Hut got so tired of coming back to our table again and again and again and again, for hours, that when we came in they recognized us and they would serve us whole pizzas at a time.

That was until one night when a manager finally had enough. We'd just beaten our old record, with my friend eating six whole pizzas and me eating seven, and were asking for our next pizzas. The manager came over and in a loud voice so everyone in the restaurant could hear, tried to shame us, saying, "DON'T YOU THINK YOU'VE HAD ENOUGH?" We looked at each other and said no. So he just threw us out.

Proof that "all you can eat" isn't actually all you can eat. There are limits.

[ietzplay]

i don't give a $hit if its smaller plates, bigger cups, or even cheap, im still eating it

[rayaeparker]

My brother is constantly hungry but very skinny - they don't believe he's a threat to their business until they see him go back for his tenth plate.

[cybersoufiane]

if you're not going to a buffet to eat crab legs, roasted beef, shrimp or other expensive protein you're doing it wrong.

[dextor]

I once asked a girl out. I was short of money. She likes to eat a lot.
That's when butfet Restaurent comes in handy. I saved money, girl was satisfied and I could ask her out again.

[minib]

My mum used to starve me for a day before goin, to a buffet

[marcd.]

What I’ve learned from my mom when it comes to “all you can eat buffets”. Skip carbs as much as you can, go for the more expensive proteins (like crab) and avoid drinking anything. If you need a drink, hot/warm water will do, and drink sparingly.

[xRobinBoyWonderX]

Whenever i go to a buffet, I start out with some country food like fried chicken, cornbread, macaroni, mixed veggies and mashed potatoes. For my second plate I get Italian food like, pasta, pizza, salad and breadsticksThen after that I get seafood like breaded shrimp, crab legs and rice and more salad. Then for desert I get a loaded sundae, Apple pie with icecrem on top, and some cheesecake. I wash all of this down with water because I'm on a diet.

[ch-vevo]

I got all you could eat pancakes, costed 7.99. I thought it was a good deal. I ate 8 pancakes and then realized I paid $1 for each pancake.

[DocDoesGamingYT]

Sorry to say this, but if every customer was like me, these wouldn't last half a year

[cestgum]

Mom: Say your 8
Kid: but mom im ten
SMACK
Cashier: hello. How old are you?
Kid: crying saying im 8

*edit* I just came back to this comment a week ago and the amount of likes ive gotten is pretty cool. Thank you all who liked

[ApkHeaven]

so much good food is going to waste this way.

[a_literal_brick]

I like the clips of Garfield casually displaying his cosmic powers

[flakeyfilms]

My teacher has told a story of when back in his teen days with his friends, they would always go to all you can eat restaurant and eat as much as they can. No matter how full they were, they just kept doing it. After 5-8 meals, the manager finally told them to leave.

[Symbolicliving]

I always load my plate with the most expensive food available, and leave the cheap stuff alone.