White Rain
Active Member
- Joined
- Jan 3, 2007
- Messages
- 4,831
- Reaction score
- 69
If someone can edit my title please put a "y" at the end of heart! Thank you! I hate mis-spelling things.
OK guys, this is kinda like Bible reading lady kick off the bus....everybody weigh (no pun intended) in!
My opinion: A buffet is a buffet. Unless there is something in writing stating you will be asked to pay more if you eat the high dollar items, you shouldn't have to pay more.
I am glad the manager gave them a complimentary meal, but I do feel it was kind of discriminatory to ask them not to come back.
HOUMA, La. — A 6-foot-3, 265-pound man says a restaurant overcharged him for his trips to the buffet line, then banned him and a relative because they're hearty eaters.
A spokesman for the restaurant denies the claim.
Ricky Labit, a disabled offshore worker, said he had been a regular for eight months at the Manchuria Restaurant in Houma, eating there as often as three times a week.
On his most recent visit, he said, a waitress gave him and his wife's cousin, 44-year-old Michael Borrelli, a bill for $46.40, roughly double the buffet price for two adults.
"She says, 'Y'all fat, and y'all eat too much,"' Labit said.
Labit and Borrelli said they felt discriminated against because of their size. "I was stunned, that somebody would say something like that. I ain't that fat, I only weigh 277," Borrelli said, adding that a waitress told him he looked like he had a "baby in the belly."
Houma accountant Thomas Campo said the men were charged an extra $10 each on Dec. 21 because they made a habit of dining exclusively on the more expensive seafood dishes, including crab legs and frog legs.
more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,319688,00.html
OK guys, this is kinda like Bible reading lady kick off the bus....everybody weigh (no pun intended) in!
My opinion: A buffet is a buffet. Unless there is something in writing stating you will be asked to pay more if you eat the high dollar items, you shouldn't have to pay more.
I am glad the manager gave them a complimentary meal, but I do feel it was kind of discriminatory to ask them not to come back.
HOUMA, La. — A 6-foot-3, 265-pound man says a restaurant overcharged him for his trips to the buffet line, then banned him and a relative because they're hearty eaters.
A spokesman for the restaurant denies the claim.
Ricky Labit, a disabled offshore worker, said he had been a regular for eight months at the Manchuria Restaurant in Houma, eating there as often as three times a week.
On his most recent visit, he said, a waitress gave him and his wife's cousin, 44-year-old Michael Borrelli, a bill for $46.40, roughly double the buffet price for two adults.
"She says, 'Y'all fat, and y'all eat too much,"' Labit said.
Labit and Borrelli said they felt discriminated against because of their size. "I was stunned, that somebody would say something like that. I ain't that fat, I only weigh 277," Borrelli said, adding that a waitress told him he looked like he had a "baby in the belly."
Houma accountant Thomas Campo said the men were charged an extra $10 each on Dec. 21 because they made a habit of dining exclusively on the more expensive seafood dishes, including crab legs and frog legs.
more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,319688,00.html
