All You Can Eat Dispute

This story reminds me of the joke about a customer who was upset that a waitress cut him off the buffet after two plates. "That's ALL you can eat for ten dollars!" she said. But this is a real story out of Thiensville, Wisconsin, where a man says all-you-can-eat doesn't mean just until the restaurant runs out of food.
At 6'6" and 350 lbs, Bill Wisth admits he's a big guy who can pack it away more than most.  And he wants one restaurant to make all-you-can-eat, all he can eat too.

"It's false advertising," said Wisth to TODAY'S TMJ4.

Wisth has a beef with the all-you-can-eat fish fry at Chuck's Place.  He was there Friday when the restaurant cut him off after he ate a dozen pieces.

"Well, we asked for more fish and they refused to give us any more fish," recalled Wisth.

The restaurant says it was running out of fish and patience; arguing Bill has been a problem customer before.  They sent him on his way with another eight pieces, but that still wasn't enough.

He was so fired up, he called the police.  "I think that people have to stand up for consumers," said Wisth.

And he wasn't done.  He came back two days later with a picket sign.

Wisth says he plans to protest at the restaurant every Sunday. A restaurant employee says Whisth still owes for food he's already eaten. Link -via HuffPo

You are all missing the point. The THE SIGN SAID, ALL YOU CAN EAT. They should be sued for false advertising, but instead,they have morons like some of you agreeing with them.
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What an ignorant dolt this fellow is. I agree with a prior post that links negative worldwide sentiments regarding Americans in general with the fact that the morbidly overweight, undereducated, prejudicial half-wits are overtly publicized by media outlets as the "voice" of the common man, when in reality the rest of America despises their lowbrow antics as much as the next civilized country.
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A couple things got missed in the reporting of this story - the man had no money when he went to the restaurant and ordered the dinner anyway. The man ordered one dinner, but then passed the fish around with a friend who did not order anything. If you go to the Wisconsin Circuit Court Access on Google and plug in this man's name you will discover page after page of unpaid property taxes, foreclosures, civil suits -- that fish man does not seem to actually pay for anything in life!! They need to boot his size 64 waist to the curb!!
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This guy is a buffoon - albeit a clever one. The restaurant should refuse him future service, especially if he doesn't even pay his bill. I doubt they will lose much (worthwhile) business over his protests. Good riddance.
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I visited a local restaurant recently that had all you can eat tacos. After serving the first plate of 4 small tacos the waitress came back and told us they were out of taco meat so they were no longer serving tacos. We paid our bill and left vowing never to return.
This restaurant also had all you can eat fish that they weigh down with grease or oil so it is really heavy and weighs down in your stomach. After 6 pieces you feel like you've eaten 18 pieces of regular fried fish.

I'm surprised more 'all you can eat' restaurant do not incorporate this strategy.
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I've always wondered about all you can eat places. It obviously must attract people who care about quantity, not quality. I suppose they are hoping they will fill up on fries and bread and not the fish, but still, in my opinion, they are asking for something like this.
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Watched the video this morning on CNN. The restaurant had given him an open tab which he has not paid to try and appease him from a prior incident. The owners need to learn refuse him service and make him pay his bill.
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All you can eat means exactly what it says. They can refuse to serve him altogether, that's their right, but once he's started to eat they've essentially entered into a contract - they've agreed to feed him 'all you can eat'.

You could argue that they were running low on supplies and perhaps he should have been the better man and accepted that other customers would also be affected by the shortage, but that's bad planning on the restaurant's part - the signs says they are open for 11 hours, and if the place is busy that's a lot of fish, so one 'big eater' wasn't to blame for the shortage, even if you assume he packed in enough to feed 4 or 6 'normal' all-you-can-eaters.

Fish is a tricky one for these kinds of offers - it doesn't sit heavily in your stomach so most people can eat more of it than, say, all-you-can-eat steak, which take much longer to digest.
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if it says "all you can eat" then it should be so. Meanwhile they are making money on people like me who go with their families but eat very little. So I don't feel bad for them. Depending on the customer, sometimes you will make money, sometimes not.
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