This "all you can eat" buffet has a unique system for discounts

High School me would have made them regret this system. I was skinny as hell but could consume VAST QUANTITIES

11 year old me, too. I grew 6" in about 4 months but I only weighed about 60lbs when I was done because I was super tiny to start. My mom said our food bill roughly doubled that summer because I was eating about 4 servings at every meal. Could've fit my scrawny ass in that 100% off section probably and then gone ham on a buffet.
- When I was 14, I grew 10" that year. At the end of the year I was 6'0 tall and weighed 145lbs.
  We did a Calorie counting unit in PE that year in school. I was eating on average 6,000 calories per day across 8 meals.
- Ham on a buffet, you say?
Me in college. About 5'11", 135lbs, all tone all the time from climbing and biking several hours every day. I spent a lot of time just trying to eat enough food to keep up
- 7 plates in I would have made a masscre of the general Tso's chicken. It doesn't matter where anyone comes from... They all serve it at the buffet
Exactly this. My ex-wife was 5’2”, 94 pounds with clothes on. She got us banned from our favorite Chinese buffet restaurant. Her diet was "anything not nailed down." Lots of good reasons why she's an ex, but I do miss how she could pack away food.
This is my brother now, in his mid 20s. His metabolism is out of control. I'm pretty jealous.
Yup, I was 6'3 145lb and I ate 2x 1lb burgers once.
Then I got to 23yo and my metabolism came to a shrieking halt.
- Don't qualify, too tall, can't fit under sign.
Yeah, fat almost 40 year old me can never do ann all you can eat. If I did one it would be a full plate one or two plates. Teens/20’s me would marauder the all you can eat I was also doing 2-3 sports at a time but still. Thin young people are gonna eat more than us old fat fucks. I remember doing it at Golden Coral and Ponderosaas a kid
- I said this above, but there's a reason for that. Thin people can eat more in a single meal than fat people because their stomach can expand more due to having less fat to push against.
I wasn’t but similar thing: while I’ve put in a lot of pounds as I get older, I eat much less than younger me. I don’t think this gate would have the desired effect
Although I’m more annoyed at the height discrimination.

Too tall. NO DISCOUNT FOR YOU!

COME BACK, SHORTER!
Wheelchair? No discount for You.

I like how this kind of implies that they want you at the 20-30% discount mark. Too fat? Stop eating. Too skinny? Please, gorge yourself on the house!

At 20-30% off you are paying only 70-80% markup. The 10% off guy is getting 90% markup. No restaurant would create something like this if they weren't marking up the menu to start with.
You don't think about how much extra you are paying because you are too busy thinking about the discount you got squeezing yourself through a sign.
- This was my first thought after seeing this.
Thank god.
I almost had the urge to write down for our fellow americans: It is not always about the money.
Almost. Aaand I think i couls have used hussle here.

I've always felt it should be only fair if airlines gave a combined body weight + baggage weight allowance instead of only bags.

imagine if tickets were priced by the lb/kilograms
- I can just see the travel tips article telling you to go donate blood and take diuretics before you get weighed for your ticket
- Like this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoa_Air#Pay_by_weight

so kids eat 50% off and babies are free?

- Try them with rice.
- haha, I see what you did there mate.
- You know "the old reddit switcheroo" was one of my first times spending hours on that site. It's the little things like this that entertain me.
- "Babies taste best."
It's always free to eat the babies.
- I don't know where you are from It costs money to get good baby where I am.
- Yeah, it's like with pigeons.
I feel like growing teenagers are a massive exploit here.
As sad as it is to say, I've seen lots of kids who would only be able to go through the 20, maybe 30 :(

I dunno. I'm 75kg and could out eat a truck driver in a pie eating contest.

I totally read that as you could eat out a truck driver
- Be sure and tell em Large Marge sent ya.
- I read it as "could eat a truck driver".
- I'm sure they could.
Thin people can actually eat more in a single meal than fat people because their stomach is of equal size, but fat people's stomach has to push against a fat layer that thin people don't have- or at least have a lot less of. It's why thin people are generally better at winning eating contests.
https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2003-11/why-do-thin-guys-always-seem-win-eating-contests/
- Cool article, thanks for the link. I always wondered about that (as a skinny tall guy who can eat a lot in a single sitting).
  I always thought height was also a factor because the stomach can stretch horizontally as well as vertically, but apparently not.
- That just illustrates the difference that is an all you can eat business and a single event contest
  Restaurants need repeat customers. Ignoring exclusions for special considerations or circumstances, if you are fat, eating larger portions of food than you need to when you eat is likely why you are fat.
  Calories in calories out
  Most people arent active enough to not get fat while eating large portions of food
- Idk man, I have some obese relatives and they eat so much at a single meal that it makes me nauseous just observing it. They may have fat pushing against their stomachs, but I'm pretty sure their stomachs are stretched out to the max.
135kg here, pretty sure I could fit through the 30%. I guarantee the 20%. More worried about having to duck.

Not sure if this is a good idea, watching the big eaters on You Tube they all seem to be fairly fit. See Matt Stoney, Leah Shutkever, Joel Haver, Mom v Food, Beard meats food, Raina Huang, Max v Food and Katina Eats Kilos.

The only 'larger' eater would be Katina's SO Randy Santel, and I think he's slimmer than the guy in the photo; although probably taller!

Joel Haver, the comedy skit dude?
- I think he meant Joel Hanson. Him and beard both wear size medium t-shirts and will ruin your profitability for the day in one meal. If you treat them with respect though you'll get it back and more through free advertising.
  Quick edit to add, heavy guys can never outeat the skinny pros. You get a fat belt that won't let your stomach stretch. It's very real.
Nicholas Perry is also still going strong, with eating, subscribers and views. One of the big eaters for sure.
Though i have to admit, i haven't even seen a second of any of his video. I've just fallen in lots of rabbit holes about him online.

I think I could get a 30% discount.

I wanna see the 2D person who can get the 100% discount, though.

They probably SHOULD be eating all they can
There are totally people that skinny, but it's unhealthy, which is why they're giving away the food to them for free
- They still have to get through the gap though, right? Might be a bit hard if you're that malnourished. Could you even stand up? 🤔
À few girls I've known could give it a shot
- I wanna see them live specifically because they are cartoons lol
I'm pretty sure I could get the 100%, 50% guaranteed. Stickman don't got anything on me.
I think I genuinely can fit through that. If someone can guess the width of the gap from the image I can confirm.
Kids

Kinda unfair for some woman I'd imagine.

Yeah, everytime I see this all I can think is that even when I was a skinny teenager I was a 32E. I wouldn't have fit in any of those.
- Skill issue, come at it at an angle and then rotate through.
- Just stand with one boob on each side of the measuring stick.

I could probably get the 50% discount

I'm 6'0 250 lbs, I'd force myself through that 100% discount
- 5'9, 100 pounds, i think i could get the discount
- I'm like half an inch shorter than you and the same weight. We could share clothes! I hope you like joggers and tshirts.

I will break that thing trying to get through the 100%

Well, that's not embarrassing at all . . .

I'd do alright but this does not seem like a welcoming restaurant. I know it's supposed to be funny but seeing this would make me avoid this place.

Personally from my experience Really skinny people can eat a shit ton and have a hard time putting on weight making them need to eat more

Surgery keeps you from eating too much. It's still a ton of work and effort, I wouldn't consider it a cheat.
- It's not a cheat, it's an investment. 😎
- How come some people can do multiple cosmetics surgeries like nothing? Meanwhile, I had to drag my ass out for those simple covid shots.

That dude looks pretty big to be getting a discount. Maybe that's just so everyone feels good about the system.