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All You Can Eat...

by TLTheLiberator
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Has anyone put an all you can eat place out of business??


Here's my story...


In circa 1971 ( summer break ) when I was the tender age of circa 14, a large department store in my hometown had an all you can eat fried shrimp offer in their lunch counter area.

It was only $2.99!

Myself and a couple friends decided to have a contest on who could eat the most fried shrimp.

After about 10 plates of 7 shrimp each, the store manager came by and tried to make us stop.

We knew our rights and...

We appealed to the people in the store, because the signs said...


"Fried Shrimp:
All You Can Eat
Only $2.99"


... and we were not done yet. ( not remotely )



After rallying support from fellow shoppers, ( all over the first floor of the store )...

...the manager relented and delivery of the shrimp resumed.

After another 5 or 6 plates of shrimp I was declared the winner.

We stumbled out of the store and...

...we caught the bus home and one of us hurled on the way home all over the back seat of the bus.

I also felt horrible for at least the rest of the day.

Less than two weeks later, the large department store closed for good.

To this day - we claim credit.

TL
  • Profile picture of the author Bill Farnham
    Me and a buddy did that at a Howard Johnson's "All the Fish You Can Eat for $1.19" back in the late '60s.

    Each plate had 2 fillets, coleslaw, and a biscuit.

    I had nine plates, my buddy had ten.

    We got the same treatment from the management until they finally said they ran out of fish.

    We had also run out of stomach space, so we paid the $2.38, and left.

    That was probably the most uncomfortable car ride home I ever experienced. And since we were on a road trip we were still over 100 miles from home.

    Youth. What a concept...:p

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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    Totally unrelated but the topic reminded me of this, one day I had to sit and listen to my boss explain how "All you care to eat" was a much stronger selling point than "all you can eat".
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  • Profile picture of the author Kurt
    After about 20 years of living in Las Vegas (where the all you can eat buffet was invented), I finally learned that a person really shouldn't eat all they can eat.
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    • Profile picture of the author ThomM
      I took down a small dinner in Fl. back in the 70's with an all you can eat pancake breakfast.
      After the 5th plate the cook came out to watch and told the waitress to watch me, he thought I was giving them to my 2 buddies.
      After the 7th plate he came out and took the all you can eat pancakes sign out of the window.
      After the 8th plate my buddies made me stop so we could go to work.
      Back in the old days I had a bottomless pit for a stomach.
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  • Profile picture of the author André Silverspoon
    All you can eat----hmmmm.....just wonder the difference between ---Eat all you can...is there a difference at all? I believe the sayings...more of everything is not good. But we can do anything we want, just be responsible of the consequences.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Originally Posted by Kurt View Post

      After about 20 years of living in Las Vegas (where the all you can eat buffet was invented), I finally learned that a person really shouldn't eat all they can eat.
      Yup, it took me longer than it should have to realize that "all you can eat" was a marketing ploy, not a challenge...

      In high school, we had a group of around six guys (depending on who had to work, etc.) who would pick out a place with an AYCE offer, then see if we could make them give up.

      We never actually shut a place down, but a couple of the managers threatened to post our pictures by the register and refuse to sell us the buffet option...
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Red Lobster once put a stop to my crab leg binge. They had this lame commercial on TV - "I ate 4", "I ate 7" - yeah right everyone is full after four crab legs, get real.

    A friend and I went in and totaled out about 9 heaped plates of them and finally were told that we'd eaten all you could. We were full so didn't really bust any bones over it but did make sure they knew to save us a table if they decided to put lobster on the AYCE menu. I never saw that one but know for a fact I could have caused corporate damage.
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