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Mocha Bear
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La. men claim buffet eatery banned them
#7830909 - 01/04/08 07:21 AM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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HOUMA, La. - A 265-pound man says a restaurant overcharged him for his trips to the buffet, then banned him and a relative because of how much they consumed during their visits.
Ricky Labit, a 6-foot-3 disabled offshore worker, said he had been a regular at the Manchuria Restaurant, eating there as often as three times a week. But on his most recent visit, he said a waitress gave him and his wife's cousin, 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.
Accountant Thomas Campo, who spoke for the restaurant because the owner's English is limited, 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.
"We have a lot of big people there," Campo said. "We don't discriminate."
The argument over the bill grew heated, and police were called. The police report states that the disagreement was settled when the restaurant said the bill was a mistake and, to appease Labit, the meal was complimentary.
Labit said he insisted on paying but was told not to come back. He complained that when seafood on the buffet line runs out, the restaurant only grudgingly cooks more. Campo said the proprietress tries to reduce waste of quality food.

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AlteredAgain
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Re: La. men claim buffet eatery banned them [Re: Mocha Bear]
#7830925 - 01/04/08 07:27 AM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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some people just live to eat.
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kidaihuan
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Re: La. men claim buffet eatery banned them [Re: AlteredAgain]
#7830928 - 01/04/08 07:30 AM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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Quote:
AlteredAgain said:
some people just live to eat.
I wonder how he got declared disabled.
Because he snacked on all the donuts at work and got obese?
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WhiskeyClone
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Re: La. men claim buffet eatery banned them [Re: Mocha Bear]
#7830953 - 01/04/08 07:41 AM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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tclsc03 said:
they made a habit of dining exclusively on the more expensive seafood dishes, including crab legs and frog legs.
Assholes.
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Irradiated_Feces
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Re: La. men claim buffet eatery banned them [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#7830973 - 01/04/08 07:53 AM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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Everytime I used to goto the casino for all night poker missions we went for buffet breakfast in the morning and there was always this big fat guy dining alone just scarfing it all down. He looked like a zombie like the glutton from se7en. It was disturbing to see.
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Maverick
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Re: La. men claim buffet eatery banned them [Re: Mocha Bear]
#7831264 - 01/04/08 09:25 AM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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tclsc03 said:
"I ain't that fat, I only weigh 277," Borrelli said.
O_o
Fatass. No wonder america is so fat "Oh wah they called me fat, I'm not fat *eats more*."
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kidaihuan
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Re: La. men claim buffet eatery banned them [Re: Maverick]
#7832902 - 01/04/08 06:01 PM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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People don't know they're fat anymore because it is illegal to tell them.
America is one fucked up place.
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WhiskeyClone
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Re: La. men claim buffet eatery banned them [Re: kidaihuan]
#7834912 - 01/05/08 10:18 AM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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Illegal?
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danlennon3
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Re: La. men claim buffet eatery banned them [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#7834964 - 01/05/08 10:33 AM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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its annoying when you see them bringing out new crab legs and by the time you get there, the entire tray is on some guys plate.
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Irdamage
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Re: La. men claim buffet eatery banned them [Re: Mocha Bear]
#7834970 - 01/05/08 10:34 AM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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tclsc03 said: "She says, 'Y'all fat, and y'all eat too much,'" Labit said.
So would my hip-hop doctor. Again...only in America. So much pain in my head now that all I wish to do is kill this fatass, and kill the owner of the diner. One for being too fat and greedy and the other for being too foreign to own something in an English speaking country.
My god I am a hateful person today.
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Vanguard


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Re: La. men claim buffet eatery banned them [Re: Irdamage]
#7836495 - 01/05/08 05:07 PM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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Now that sounds like a solution. I wish more people thought like that.
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Jadian
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Re: La. men claim buffet eatery banned them [Re: Mocha Bear]
#7836516 - 01/05/08 05:14 PM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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There should be size limits for buffets. It's not fair to cost businesses that much just to make yourself unhealthy. I think there should be lots of restrictions on obese people to encourage them to become healthier and not cost so much to society, but that's "discrimination"
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LayYouIn
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Re: La. men claim buffet eatery banned them [Re: Mocha Bear]
#7836548 - 01/05/08 05:24 PM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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Quote:
tclsc03 said: "I was stunned, that somebody would say something like that. I ain't that fat, I only weigh 277," Borrelli said.

i never really liked buffets that much.
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Re: La. men claim buffet eatery banned them [Re: Mocha Bear]
#7836754 - 01/05/08 06:16 PM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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Quote:
tclsc03 said:
"She says, 'Y'all fat, and y'all eat too much,'" Labit said.
That woman should be given an award.
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Jadian
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Re: La. men claim buffet eatery banned them [Re: Tangerines]
#7837009 - 01/05/08 07:31 PM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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Quote:
Tangerines said:
Quote:
tclsc03 said:
"She says, 'Y'all fat, and y'all eat too much,'" Labit said.
That woman should be given an award.
Or there should just be one of them at every buffet restaurant. Can you imagine just having a loud black lady at every buffet line yelling at all the fat people not to eat so much?
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Re: La. men claim buffet eatery banned them [Re: Jadian]
#7837399 - 01/05/08 09:48 PM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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277 isn't fat? Bitch, please.
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THE KRAT BARON
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Re: La. men claim buffet eatery banned them [Re: Mocha Bear]
#7838142 - 01/06/08 02:55 AM (16 years, 26 days ago) |
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Personally I couldn't care less about the guys unhealthy lifestyle choices. If the restaurant advertises an all you can eat buffet and charge people for it then they should damn well live up to it or take it off their menu. Advertising all you can eat food and then cutting people off is a ridiculous pretense.
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Re: La. men claim buffet eatery banned them [Re: THE KRAT BARON]
#7838162 - 01/06/08 03:20 AM (16 years, 26 days ago) |
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Its simple, stop calling it an 'all you can eat' buffet and call it a 'gratuitous buffet of shitty food that will cease once our cost is higher than your admission fee, fattass' buffet
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koppie
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Re: La. men claim buffet eatery banned them [Re: Crasher]
#7838197 - 01/06/08 04:11 AM (16 years, 26 days ago) |
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Just make the entrance very narrow.
Problem solved.
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Oracle Of Delphi
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Re: La. men claim buffet eatery banned them [Re: koppie]
#7838821 - 01/06/08 10:51 AM (16 years, 26 days ago) |
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"3 prawns are hardly a galaxy!"
Edited by Oracle Of Delphi (01/06/08 10:52 AM)
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