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>By the time we left there was probably 8 lbs of rice on the tray… can’t believe they weren’t kicked out. Why should they be? It's likely that the restaurant s
by jjulius 3y ago
>By the time we left there was probably 8 lbs of rice on the tray… can’t believe they weren’t kicked out.
Why should they be? It's likely that the restaurant still charged them for the full price of the plates that were removed from the belt, regardless of whether or not they ate everything that was on said plate.
If they're otherwise quiet, respectful and paying customers, what about picking apart their food warrants kicking them out? As another user suggested, what happens if you don't eat the crust at a pizza joint?
Edit: Since I'm getting a lot of similar replies here, I'll point out that OP has since clarified that the conveyor belt sushi joint that they went to, contrary to how they are usually run, did in fact charge a "flat fee" for access to the sushi train. Hence my confusion - this is a deviation from the norm.
Edit 2: Kinda interesting watching the up/downvote progression in this thread. My initial post, despite being incorrect, was decently upvoted. Now that I've clarified that I was wrong and tried to correct myself, I'm getting downvoted. Neat!
- ender341341 3y agoit sounds like it was an all you can eat place, the few one I go to has signs up saying if you don't eat what you take you may be charged an extra plate (I've never seen them actually enforce it, I assume it's more for people who go make a giant bowl and then eat almost none of it).
- jjulius 3y agoConveyor-belt sushi does not charge the same way a traditional "all you can eat" buffet restaurant charges. See my comment here[0]. [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38562309 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38562309
- pseg134 3y ago[dead]
- lukev 3y agoThis one does/did.
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- user_named 3y agoWRONG.
- andrelaszlo 3y agoBears! Beets! Battlestar Galactica!
- paulddraper 3y ago> the restaurant still charged them for the full price of the plate At all-you-can-eat buffets, customers are charged a flat rate, not per plate. Obviously this breaks down if people are taking plates of food and chucking them in the trash. EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro2_bQkaG5U&t=84s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro2_bQkaG5U&t=84s
- burnished 3y agoNo this anecdote is about conveyor belt sushi, which in my experience is pay by the color coded plate
- lukev 3y agoNo, in this case, it was a flat rate up front. Basically 100% a buffet except the table moves to you (which, to the point of the original article, waiting for your preferred sushi to come around probably slows down consumption and improves the economics) Obviously if people want to buy food and waste it that's on them. But this was a pretty clear abuse of the restaurant's business model as well.
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- jjulius 3y agoOP specifically specifies that this was a "conveyor-belt sushi" restaurant. Those are only "all you can eat" in the sense that you're welcome to pull as many plates as you'd like off of the belt, but each plate is usually priced at one of a few different levels, and you will be charged for the total value of the plates you removed from the belt. Eg, if yellow plates are $1, blue plates are $2, and orange plates are $3, and you pulled two orange plates, a blue plate and a yellow plate, your total would come out to $9 even if you didn't clear your plates.
- lukev 3y agoThat's not how this place works, and clearly it would have been less offensive behavior if it was.
- lukev 3y agoThis place charged a flat fee at the door, then everything inside is all-you-can-eat.
- jjulius 3y agoInteresting, I've never seen that at a conveyor-belt sushi joint before. That's not how they traditionally operate.
- bigstrat2003 3y agoThere's a conveyor belt hot pot by me which does it both ways. You choose whether everyone at the table will do the normal method where they count up your plates and price based on the color, or pay a flat rate for however much you wish to eat. In the case of the latter, they reserve the right to tack on a fee if you're wasting food.
- Tade0 3y agoMost all-you-can-eat places I've been to have rules against food waste.
- Dylan16807 3y ago> Edit 2: Kinda interesting watching the up/downvote progression in this thread. My initial post, despite being incorrect, was decently upvoted. Now that I've clarified that I was wrong and tried to correct myself, I'm getting downvoted. Neat! Because people didn't know you were wrong before, and it's usually good to make factually incorrect comments be gray.