So by default dylan sounds and looks like a piece of shit? I'm telling.

Some people are addicted to heroin, some people are addicted to fish.

I gotta side with McFatass on this one. If a restaurant is advertising "all you can eat", they damn well better be prepared to supply their customers with all they can eat. I don't see any ambiguity with that statement.

As far as him being a "problem" customer...I'm pretty sure a business has the right to refuse service to someone who has previously caused problems for them.

Yup, if you can't afford an all you can eat menu then don't have one.

Tell the dude you no longer want his business and tell him not to come back, call the cops and give him the order to stay away... Problem solved as long as he does not burn down the place later that night.

I agree. He's a fat douchebag, and I'd serve him some ill-prepared fugu if I were them, but he's right. Unless there's a stipulation, which some places do have (like the expensive seafood buffet I go to, which tells you right up front there's a 2-hour time limit in the restaurant) then he has the right to eat until he blows up.

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I always liked the one where they were in the "pick your own cow to kill" steakhouse and Homer got into the steak-eating contest. As they were about to start, Marge had to yell out, "Homer! Stop filling up on bread!"

Legally, it does indeed seem like an "all you can eat" contract is difficult to break. It's right there on the sign.

However, if he wants to be a legal beagle about that promise, there's nothing on the sign that promises the rate of service. Perhaps it's one shrimp per hour. And it says nothing about the means of delivery. Perhaps it's served inside a locked safe. And it says nothing at all about the type of seafood. Perhaps it's plankton.

LMAO

I could live life just fine & never eat sea/river/pond/lake food ever again
he can have mine

don't worry. In about 10 years, we'll all be paying for his unlimited bypass surgeries.

I'm not a lawyer, but I'd think there are rules about "exclusion of detail". In other words, given the facts on hand (i.e. what's promised, "all you can eat"), you have to apply logic only to those facts and can't extrapolate or assume or trick. If it says "all you can eat", and that's it, then it's reasonable to assume they, a restaurant, mean a.) the food in the restaurant and b.) that the food is both edible and usual in terms of quantity, service, delivery, etc.,. (Similar to how, in the reverse manner of protecting the store's rights against customers, a sign that says "no shoes, no shirt, no service" does not mean you can walk into a place with shoes, a shirt, and no pants or underwear on, and insist on service because they didn't specifically state "pants and underwear must be worn").

When it comes to buffets and "all you can eat", they all run that risk of having a severe fatty show up and pig out. But it's assumed that it all evens out in the wash, and for every fatty who pigs out you have someone who doesn't eat as much. Now, if this guy is a professional glutton, and he comes there routinely, then they probably should be smart enough to add some riders to the contract (as in my forementioned "two-hour time limit" or "only one plate at a time" or something). Otherwise, they have to feed him what he wants.

Also the guy has an obligation to pay, if he had an open tab that's reason right there to stop service until he makes good.

They better be unlimited!

Believe it or not, it's good advertisement for the place. I'll bet it draws more customers.