We all like to eat...especially these people
Just Business As Usual.
Been working in a Chinese buffet for 6 years, here’s my top: Kid putting chocolate pudding in his plate, licked the big spoon used for pouring it (the one used by everybody), and put it back in the pudding…I saw him and had to change everything. Guy about 18 years old at the ice cream counter, didn’t have time to react and puked in the ice cream cans and on the floor. Looked at it, said nothing, and just walked away back to his table. Drunk dudes coming it around 6PM, they ate full plates in like 20 minutes, and puked everything underneath their table. We had to move every client out of this big section (capacity of about 60 places) because the smell was so bad. I was the one that had to put a mask on to clean everything. Extremely fat guy brought a big bag of candies (kind of smarties), took it out of his pocket, put a sh*t ton of them on his desserts, and put the candy bag back in his pocket. I was his waiter and I think he told me about 4 times that we should have these candies in the buffet so he wouldn’t have to bring his own. Old lady putting a plate full of chicken wings in her purse (probably to bring back home or something)… no bags nothing, just bare chicken wings directly in there. A regular client asking me where was the coffee flavored cake (we have a rotation for desserts, so that cake wasn’t there that day). I told him and he asked me if I could get some for him in the back store. After he insisted like 3x, I finally gave up and grabbed a piece in the fridge and gave him. We charge for the drink but it’s all you can drink. We see plenty of people drinking about 10 full glasses of Pepsi and they complain when I bring the bill and we charge them 2 bucks and a half for it. Some even insisted to talk to my manager. We serve take-outs, and someone came to get his order. He looked at the buffet and asked me ”do you think I could grab something to eat real quick?” while smiling. We often get this asked as a joke, so naturally I play their game and answered ”yes of course!” The guy literally walked over there, took an entire egg from our salad bar, ate it in one bite, then came back to pay his take-out…I had no idea what to say, and he just left like that. (Source)
Don’t Mess With This Man’s Chocolate.
A few years back when Golden Corral first got the chocolate fountains, I went there and was going to try it out. As I was walking up to the fountain and I started to contemplate what I was going to have, a toddler takes his drink and just pours that motherf*cker into the fountain and ruins it. So anyways, the manager comes over and is going ballistic because they had just set it up for the day and now they would completely have to replace the chocolate. Shortly after, this man comes up and decides he wants some chocolate brownies, but he can’t as the machine is being purged in the back of the place, so what does he do? The guy just puts his tray down and leaves the restaurant, goes to the toddler’s family’s car and slashes their tires. He was never caught after that. That man was a different kind of devoted that the world needs. (Source)
Everyone Has Their Own Vice.
I was in Las Vegas with two co-workers and we went to the aWynn buffet, one co-worker is a vegan and the Wynn has a huge vegan section since Steve Wynn is a vegan. While we were eating, a couple came in and sat next to us. This was a skinny guy, fat girl couple, but not like normal skinny guy fat girl, like 120 lb guy 400lb+ girl, WAY outside the “normal” range. They went to the dessert section, not a table, it’s like a dessert room, and must have gotten one of all 50 desserts. They say there and he hand fed her all the dessert, he ate nothing, even though it cost him like $70 to get in, then they left. He hand-fed her probably 50 desserts before we were done eating. (Source)
First Come, First Serve.
Not an employee but when my family was on vacation in Florida we went to an all-you-can-eat pizza place. For dessert they had these really tasty sticky buns that were in big demand. So me and my dad are in line to get one and once they put them out some big guy at the front of the line literally just picked up the whole tray and walked back to his table. It was like 30 cinnamon buns, and nobody else was at his table. (Source)
Must Have Been Paula Dean’s Husband.
I worked at a brunch buffet. There was this one guy who got nothing but a plate of pancakes and a bowl of butter. We are talking about a cereal size bowl full of butter. He had a spoon in one hand and a fork in the other. He would take a piece of pancake and put it in his mouth and then take a hefty spoon full of butter and put it in his mouth. This was for 6 diner size pancake and every bite was a spoon full of butter. (Source)
Food And Hair Gel!
I’m not an employee, nor do I frequent buffets, but my senior lunch in high school was a trip to Golden Corral. As soon as I walk in, I see a large, obese woman hunched over a table close to the buffet, eating fried chicken, placing the near bare bones onto her plate, and stroking her hair back with chicken grease caked fingers. She had a few plates stacked on top of each other with the remnants of chicken bones poking out between the plates. (Source)
They Said Unlimited.
When I worked at Olive Garden someone had SIXTEEN (16) bowls of the never ending pasta. They threw up in the lobby. They also weren’t huge, before you ask. (Source)
A Vicious Cycle.
My friend ran a Golden Corral in Omaha and he told me this older, skinny guy ate like 5 plates and my friend kept noticing him running to the bathroom over the course of the 5 hours he was there. Eventually he followed him into the bathroom and heard him vomiting in a stall. He was bingeing and purging his meal over and over again. He was asked to leave while in the stall. The guy left so fast as he seemed very embarrassed. Left a gross mess on the ground and back of the toilet as well. (Source)
“Dude Came To Play.”
I don’t work there, but I was once a customer at a Golden Corral in Florida and a morbidly obese guy came in. He was as wide as the table at which he was sitting. He pulled out a bath towel and tucked it in like a napkin. This dude came to play. (Source)
When Two Hands Aren’t Enough.
Not an employee but at a golden coral once I saw a family come in. Mom, dad, one kid and one baby. The mom got a high chair on wheels for the kid, and then left the kid in a car seat at the table. She pushed the high chair to the buffet and proceeded to stack plates on it like her own personal table on wheels. She never put the kid in the high chair. (Source)
He’s A Growing Boy.
My little brother nearly got kicked out of a Ryan’s steakhouse. When he was 12 he had a crazy high metabolism and put away like 5 steaks from their buffet at once. Went to get a 6th one and the guy grilling them up forbid him from getting another one. Manager was called, my dad got pissed, brother got his 6th and 7th steak. Was a good night (Source)
Someone Call 9-1-1.
My wife’s friend used to go to a buffet as a special treat every once and awhile. He was kind of a cheap guy so he would really pack it in on those days. One time he ate so much he couldn’t stand up and needed to call an ambulance. (Source)
A Fart Attack.
Once witnessed a man eat 4 plates of food piled high (I’m talking southern food, so it was all fried foods) claim he was having a heart attack and clutch his chest, then let the biggest, most foul smelling fart I have ever experienced. After he laughed about it, he continued to go back and eat two more plates of entrees, and a plate of desserts. (Source)
It’s The Best Part!
Once at a Golden Corral a 400lb+ woman whom I’ve never met saw me cutting the fat and gristle off my steak from across the isle. She told me it was “the best part” and asked if she could have it. I was too stunned to do anything but give her my plate and she ate the fat. (Source)
Her Own Chopsticks.
Watched a lady get a to-go box and fill it up the top. The bottom of the styrofoam was about to collapse, and she subsequently dropped an egg roll on the ground. She then proceeded to pick it up with her toes (she was wearing flip flops) and place it into her box. (Source)