In order to combat food wastage, an all-you-can-eat Kylin Buffet in South Shields, UK, is turning into an all-you-have-to-eat restaurant:
A Chinese restaurant offering an all-you-can-eat buffet is charging customers £20 in 'wastage' if they leave food on their plates.
Managers at the Kylin Buffet in Ocean Road, South Shields, have put up a notice urging diners to eat up all their food - or face the penalty charge.
The policy has outraged one mother who was told she had to pay the £20 after her and her son Sam, 10, and niece Toni, six, left two onion rings, a piece of prawn toast, and a spring roll on their plates.
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I understand that they want to prevent waste, but I am always afraid to try something new for fear of paying for it if I don't want to finish eating it.
This was a great way of reducing waste and helping charities without it being seen as extra profit for the restaurant.
It's perhaps less common in the US where food is cheaper and super-sized portions are normal so the wastage not so much of an issue.
But like others have said, what if you get something that doesn't taste good.
Went to a Chinese buffet the other weekend and I got a couple of items that just weren't very good so I didn't eat them and wasn't about to force myself to do it.
I have a friend who would always embarrass me when we would go to a buffet. She and her family wasted a LOT of food. I said things in the past, but I eventually gave up. I haven't been to a buffet with her in a long time.