• EnsignWashout
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    2 days ago

    This feels penny wise dollar stupid, by the restaurant.

    If I go into an all-you-can-eat restaurant, and a person like this guy isn’t there being treated like royalty for being a regular, I know the food, and the vibe, will suck, and I’m not coming back.

    The whole thing reeks of bad management, by an owner or manager who has no idea what line of business they’re in.

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      1 day ago

      It’s amazing how many businesses are operated like that. There was an old school arcade near me and it closed down a few years ago because it wasn’t making money, but that was largely their fault, it didn’t advertise itself properly, didn’t sell food or drinks (apparently to protect the machines, which I get, but also at the same time it’s also incredibly dumb) and was only open normal business hours rather than after schools and on weekends.

      It got to the point where I was starting to look at taking out a loan from the banks so I could buy the idiot out, because the basic idea was actually great. Then covid happened and that was the end of that.

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        didn’t sell food or drinks

        Wait, they tried to run on just the cost of the machines?!

        Wow is there a word for being business blind? That is like not selling smokes or scratch tickets at a gas station.

    • Fredselfish@sh.itjust.works
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      My best friend was asked to leave Ci Ci Pizza because "he had enough " when pointed out the All You Can Eat sign the franchise owner got angry. These fuckers don’t actually believe in all you can eat they just don’t realize how mucb average American eats.

      Also the guy was also a foreigner so kinda makes sense. I mean do they have all you can eat buffet anywhere else but America?

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        There is this cafe in my vicinity in Norway that does that. It was situated on the main highway going south from Oslo, but ended up a bit out of the way when the new modern multi lane road was built. They do decent food, nothing exceptional. Two or three main courses with associated sauces, selection of deserts, selection of steamed vegetables. You have to drive to get there and it seems well visited three few times I have been there tbr last five years.

        They do have a good reputation for catering. Think that’s what keeps them “real” proftlitable.

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        In Estonia we call it “rootsi laud” or “Swedish table”. You can just keep on going to refill your plate with anything you want. On average people pay for more than they eat so the few outliers like me stuffing tons of salmon on my plate don’t make the place bankrupt.

        I think hotel breakfasts do this in most of the world, but here we also have it on ships, where the food is actually good

        So no, it isn’t unique to the US.

      • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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        1 day ago

        I mean do they have all you can eat buffet anywhere else but America?

        HA!

        Wait are you serious? YES people all over the world love all you can eat, much like people tend to like eating.

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        I mean do they have all you can eat buffet anywhere else but America?

        They most certainly do have places that offer unlimited amounts of food for a fixed price, but not necessarily in the form of a Chinese buffet and often using a different name for it, in for example Belgium it would usually be called à volonté while in for example Switzerland it would usually be called à discrétion.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        1 day ago

        Pizza Hut in the UK has all you can eat. That’s the only place I’ve ever seen it done though, unless you count free drink refills at IKEA.

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      Sounds more like a lard ass that eats 20 times the amount that he has to just because he can.